The 2008 RTSA Young Railway Engineer Dr Sakdirat Kaewunruen has just received a top PhD thesis award from the National Research Council of Thailand. He received the first prize for the Engineering and Industrial Research category. A fellow University of Wollongong (UOW) Mathematics Ph D student Dr Duangkamon Baowan was awarded the first prize for the Natural Science and Mathematics category.
Dr Kaewunruen is a joint winner of the Distinguished PhD Thesis award in the Engineering and Industrial Research category awarded together with a student from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Mr. Graham Tew has been awarded the RTSA Individual Award for 2009 in recognition of his outstanding contribution, initially to the work of the BHP-Melbourne Research Laboratories, and latterly to the Institute of Railway Technology at Monash University.
The 2009 Annual General Meeting of the Railway Technical Society of Australasia will be held on Tuesday 17 November 2009 between 1.00pm - 1.30pm at the AusRail Plus Conference
(Adelaide Convention Centre, North Terrace, Adelaide SA).
P. J. ‘Pat’ Hannaberry O.B.E. was Commissioner of the former Commonwealth Railways from 1948 to 1960. He held the position during the transformation of the operations of the Trans Australia Railway through dieselisation.
Pat Hannaberry’s collection of books, numbering approximately 65, is being offered for sale by tender by his nephew’s family.
Thesis: Experimental Investigation: Horizontal Split Web Failures in Flash-Butt Welded Rails
Place of study: Monash University, Clayton, Victoria
The thesis presents a detailed account of the research, theory, finite element and experimental techniques used to design and implement an experimental procedure for fatigue testing flash-butt welded rails in the horizontal split web mode.
