Queen's University at Kingston
$12,500.00 CAD
≈ 2 months of average Canadian pay
- Department
- National Research Council Canada
- 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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