Rail-car impact tests with steel coil: Car crush

Proceedings of the IEEE/ASME Joint Railroad Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 63-72

  Martinez, Eloy ^a   Tyrell, David ^a   Zolock, John ^a  

^a VOLPE NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION MEASUREMENT; ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRASHWORTHINESS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMPACT TESTING; RAILROAD ACCIDENTS; RAILROAD CAR EQUIPMENT; STANDARDS; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS); FORECASTING; FREIGHT CARS; MATERIALS; MODEL AUTOMOBILES; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

CAR CRUSH; RAIL PASSENGER EQUIPMENT; RAIL-CAR IMPACT TESTS; STEEL COIL; AMERICAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATIONS; COLLISION DYNAMICS; FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION; FINITE-ELEMENT MODELS; INDUSTRY PRACTICES; RECOMMENDED PRACTICE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ACCELERATIONS; TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY;

RAILROAD CARS; ACCIDENTS;

EID: 0038265116     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/rtd2003-1656     Document Type: Conference Paper

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