The Mat4Rail and PIVOT projects take their first steps towards standardisation of composites and dissimilar joints for use in Carbody

The Horizon 2020 project Mat4Rail, financed within the Joint Undertaking Shift2Rail, has celebrated this February its first meeting of the Advisory Council on issues of standardisation. Held in the emblematic location of the Spanish Railway Foundation, in Madrid, co-organized between Talgo and CIDETEC, the Committee has counted with the participation of members of PIVOT complementary project of Mat4Rail in the call of members of S2R, members of Mat4Rail as well as external advisors of CEN.

In particular, PIVOT's project was represented by the work package leaders Eduardo de la Guerra from Talgo, Carlos Eraso from Aernnova, and Thierry Mointagné from Faiveley/Wabtec. Mat4Rail was represented by the project coordinator, Elena Jubete from CIDETEC, Markus Brede from the University of Bremen, Roland from IMADresden and Johan Sandström, from RISE. As for external consultants, both projects counted on the feedback of Geoff Matter-Chairman of the CEN TC 256 SC 2 Rolling Stock products, as well as Andreas Gross-from Fraunhofer IFAM responsible for the working Group 52 "Adhesive bonding in Railway" in the TC256.

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