Design optimization of rail vehicles with passive and active suspensions: A combined approach using genetic algorithms and multibody dynamics

Vehicle System Dynamics

Volumn 37, Issue SUPPL., 2003, Pages 397-408

  He, Yuping ^a   McPhee, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CURVES (ROAD); DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DYNAMICS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LINEARIZATION; MACHINE DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; VEHICLE SUSPENSIONS;

LATERAL STABILITY;

RAILROAD CARS;

EID: 0037277054     PISSN: 00423114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00423114.2002.11666249     Document Type: Article

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