Control of wheel/rail rolling noise at the source

Heavy Vehicle Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-21

  Remington, Paul J ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; RAILROAD TRACKS; RAILS; STIFFNESS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VEHICLE WHEELS;

CONTACT STIFFNESS; RAIL JOINTS; ROLLING NOISE; WHEEL FLATS;

RAILROAD ROLLING STOCK;

EID: 0033901893     PISSN: 13517848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijhvs.2000.004517     Document Type: Article

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