Analysis of colliding vehicle interactions for the passenger rail train-to-train impact test

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

Volumn 27, Issue , 2004, Pages 11-18

  Stringfellow, Richard ^a   Rancatore, Robert ^a   Llana, Patricia ^a   Mayville, Ronald ^b  

^a TIAX LLC   (United States)

^b RA Mayville and Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLIDING COUPLERS; COLLISION FORCES; COLLISION TESTING; CRUSH ANALYSIS; TRAILING VEHICLES;

ACCELEROMETERS; ACCIDENT PREVENTION; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; IMPACT TESTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAILROAD ACCIDENTS;

PASSENGER CARS;

EID: 2942665936     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/RTD2004-66037     Document Type: Conference Paper

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