Floating ladder track response to a steadily moving load

Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 1823-1841

  Hosking, Roger J ^a   Milinazzo, Fausto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI BRUNEI DARUSSALAM   (Brunei Darussalam)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bernoulli Euler beam; Floating ladder track; Fourier transform solution; Moving load; Periodic elastic supports

Indexed keywords

EULER EQUATIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; RAILROAD TRAFFIC CONTROL; RAILROADS;

FLOATING LADDER TRACK; FORCED DEFLEXION; MOVING LOAD; PERIODIC DISCRETE ELASTIC SUPPORTS;

STRUCTURAL LOADS;

EID: 34548442817     PISSN: 01704214     EISSN: 10991476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mma.871     Document Type: Conference Paper

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