Rail geometry and Euler angles

Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 264-268

  Rathod, Cheta ^a   Shabana, Ahmed A ^a  

^a 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; RAILROAD TRACKS; TORSIONAL STRESS;

EULER ANGLES; FRENET FRAME; RAIL GEOMETRY; RAILROAD VEHICLE DYNAMICS;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 33846226675     PISSN: 15551423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2198878     Document Type: Article

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