Computation of the initial equilibrium of railway overheads based on the catenary equation

Engineering Structures

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1387-1394

  Lopez Garcia, O ^a   Carnicero, A ^a   Torres, V ^b  

^a ICAI School of Engineering   (Spain)

^b MERCEDES BENZ AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Catenary; Initial equilibrium; Railway overhead

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

CATENARY EQUATION; CATENARY-PANTOGRAPH INTERACTION DYNAMICS; RAILWAY OVERHEADS;

RAILROAD PLANT AND STRUCTURES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RAILROAD PLANT AND STRUCTURES;

DYNAMIC RESPONSE; NUMERICAL METHOD; RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

EID: 33745049189     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2006.01.007     Document Type: Article

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