Railway vehicles with generic bogies capable of perfect steering

Vehicle System Dynamics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 389-412

  Wickens, A H ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXLES; DYNAMICS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; SPEED; STABILITY; STEERING; STIFFNESS MATRIX; VEHICLE SUSPENSIONS;

ELASTIC STIFFNESS MATRIX; GENERIC UNSYMMETRIC BOGIES; PASSIVE SUSPENSION ELEMENTS;

BOGIES (RAILROAD ROLLING STOCK);

EID: 0030165963     PISSN: 00423114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00423119608968973     Document Type: Article

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