A velocity transformation method for the nonlinear dynamic simulation of railroad vehicle systems

Nonlinear Dynamics

Volumn 51, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 289-307

  Sinokrot, Tariq ^a   Nakhaeinejad, Mohsen ^a   Shabana, Ahmed A ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute Cartesian coordinates; Multibody system dynamics; Railroad vehicle dynamics; Trajectory coordinates; Velocity transformation

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CARTESIAN COORDINATES; RAILROAD VEHICLE DYNAMICS; TRAJECTORY COORDINATES; VELOCITY TRANSFORMATION;

RAILROAD CARS;

EID: 35448964384     PISSN: 0924090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11071-007-9211-8     Document Type: Article

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