Impat loads due to wheel flats and shells

Vehicle System Dynamics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-22

  Dukkipati, Rao V ^a   Dong, Renguang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEARING PADS; DYNAMIC LOADS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMPACT TESTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STIFFNESS; STRAIN; VEHICLE WHEELS;

WHEEL FLATS;

RAILROAD TRACKS;

EID: 0032805121     PISSN: 00423114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/vesd.31.1.1.2097     Document Type: Article

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