On a New Route to Chaos in Railway Dynamics

Nonlinear Dynamics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 117-129

  Nordstrøm Jensen, Carsten ^a,b   True, Hans ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NONE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Chaos; Period doubling bifurcations; Quasiperiodicity; Railway dynamics

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CHAOS THEORY; DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CHAOTIC ATTRACTORS; QUASIPERIODICITY;

BOGIES (RAILROAD ROLLING STOCK);

EID: 0031153226     PISSN: 0924090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008224625406     Document Type: Article

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