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Rail power cables to be studied for failure

Technology

Rik Thomas
26 August 2011
 

A new research project at City University London will, the researchers claim, help develop an early warning system to detect defects in railway line overhead power cables before they escalate and cause major failures – a problem known as ‘dewirement’. City University’s Professors Ken Grattan and Tong Sun have received £102,000 in funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) collaboration fund to develop a prototype sensor system with...

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