Symbolic methods for modelling rail vehicle systems

International Journal of Vehicle Design

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 487-517

  Shah, M ^a   Thirumalai, M ^a   Cui, K ^a   McGirt, P ^a   Haque, I ^a  

^a AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

Equations of motion; MAPLE; MATLAB; Modelling; Rail vehicles

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EQUATIONS OF MOTION; INTEGRATION; MACHINABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

SOFTWARE PACKAGE MAPLE; SOFTWARE PACKAGE MATLAB;

LOCOMOTIVES;

EID: 0030643178     PISSN: 01433369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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