Queen's University at Kingston

$12,500.00 CAD

≈ 2 months of average Canadian pay
Department
National Research Council Canada
Program
Collaborative Science, Technology and Innovation Program – Ideation Fund
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2018-2019
Agreement period
March 15, 2019 – March 31, 2020
Reference
nrc-cnrc:172-2018-2019-Q4-00031

Published purpose

"Better stress management will reduce incidences of broken rail (#1 cause of rail accidents in Canada). Fibre optic sensing is a game changing solution to study rail stress behavior in-situ. This project proposes to deploy this technology at a rail site to test its suitability and gather critical data".

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