A comparative study on impact force prediction on a railway track-like structure

Structural Health Monitoring

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 355-376

  Lee, Min Leong ^a   Chiu, W K ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Impact reconstruction; Inverse analysis; Rail track response

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747403840     PISSN: 14759217     EISSN: 17413168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1475921705057976     Document Type: Article

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