The vibration behavior of railway track at high frequencies under multiple preloads and wheel interactions

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 3 PART I, 2000, Pages 1046-1053

  Wu, T X ^a,b   Thompson, D J ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MACHINE; MECHANICS; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAILWAY; RIGIDITY; VIBRATION; WEIGHT;

EID: 0033813491     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1288408     Document Type: Article

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