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The authors gratefully acknowledge support from the Innovation Fund Denmark through the project “INTELLISWITCH—Intelligent Quality Assessment of Railway Switches and Crossings” (Grant no 4109-00003B). Dorte Juul Jensen, Xiaodan Zhang and Yubin Zhang further wish to acknowledge support from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 788567-M4D).

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Zhang, X., Zhang, Y., Rasmussen, C.J., Lange, M.T., Juul Jensen, D. (2021). Analysis of  Sleeper Screw Failures. In: Galeazzi, R., Kjartansson Danielsen, H., Kjær Ersbøll, B., Juul Jensen, D., Santos, I. (eds) Intelligent Quality Assessment of Railway Switches and Crossings. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62472-9_6

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