A study of the lateral stability of railroad vehicles using a nonlinear constrained multibody formulation

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Rail Transportation Division (Publication) RTD

Volumn 21, Issue , 2001, Pages 35-47

  Valtorta, Davide ^a   Zaazaa, Khaled E ^a   Shabana, Ahmed A ^a   Sany, Jalil R ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^b Center for Automated Mechanics CAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LATERAL STABILITY; WHEEL ORIENTATION;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; BOGIES (RAILROAD ROLLING STOCK); COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIMENSIONAL STABILITY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; KINEMATICS; LOCOMOTIVES; LYAPUNOV METHODS; PASSENGER CARS; RAILROAD TRACKS; STIFFNESS; VEHICLE SUSPENSIONS;

RAILROAD CARS;

EID: 0346318416     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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