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THURSDAY, APRIL 14 Technical Sessions

6-3 10-2
RAIL ACCIDENT ANALYSIS APPROACHES VTI - SESSION 2
Palmetto II 8:00am - 9:45am Carolina F-G 8:00am - 9:45am

Session Organizer: Greg Placencia, University of Southern California, Session Organizer: Graydon F. Booth, Sharma & Associates, Inc.,
Alhambra, CA, United States Countryside, IL, United States
Text Mining Analysis of Railroad Accident Investigation Reports Session Co-Organizer: Anand Prabhakaran, Sharma & Associates, Inc.,
Countryside, IL, United States
Technical Publication. JRC2016-5757
Three-Point Contact Study of a Wheelset and Rails
Trefor Williams, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway,
NJ, United States, John Betak, Collaborative Solutions, LLC, Albuquerque, Technical Publication. JRC2016-5722
NM, United States, Bridgette Findley, Rutgers, The State University of
New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, United States Behrooz Fallahi, NIU, DeKalb, IL, United States, Chao Pan, Northern
Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, United States

Reviewing the Use of Proactive Data Analysis in Developing Rail Safety
Culture Movement of Railroad Ties: Simulation and Field Validation
Technical Publication. JRC2016-5799 Student Technical Publication. JRC2016-5770

Greg Placencia, University of Southern California, Alhambra, CA, United Yin Gao, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, United
States States, Hai Huang, Penn State Altoona, Altoona, PA, United States,
Shushu Liu, Shelley Stoffels, Penn State University, State College, PA,
United States

A Preliminary Methodology for Broken Rail Caused Freight Train
Derailment Risk Analysis
High Speed Rail Short Bridge-Track-Train Interaction Based on the
Student Technical Publication. JRC2016-5742 Decoupled Equations of Motion in the Finite Element Domain

Tal Ben-Gera, Jiabo He, Xiang Liu, Rutgers, The State University of New Student Technical Publication. JRC2016-5785
Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, United States
Said Nour, Mohsen Issa, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL,
United States
Case Studies of PTC-Preventable Accidents

Technical Publication. JRC2016-5838 Vibration Analysis of a Coupled Multibody Dynamic Model of a Contact
Mechanics Roller Rig
Dave Schlesinger, Parsons, Pomona, CA, United States
Technical Publication. JRC2016-5813

Sajjad Meymand, Mehdi Taheri, Milad Hosseinipour, Virginia Tech,
Risk Analysis of Freight Train Collisions in the United States, 2000 to 2014 Blacksburg, VA, United States, Mehdi Ahmadian, VA Poly Inst & State
Univ, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Student Technical Publication. JRC2016-5738
Yanlei Wang, Shuang Xu, Xiang Liu, Rutgers, The State University of New
Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, United States Rail Surface Measurement and Multi-scale Modeling of Wheel-Rail
Contact

Technical Publication. JRC2016-5826
TRACK 10 VEHICLE TRACK INTERACTION
Track Organizer: Anand Prabhakaran, Sharma & Associates, Inc., Mohammad Mehdi Alemi, Saied Taheri, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA,
Countryside, IL, United States United States, Mehdi Ahmadian, VA Poly Inst & State Univ, Blacksburg,
VA, United States
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Track Co-Organizer: Jeff Gordon, Federal Railroad Administration,
Cambridge, MA, United States