A new approach to the analysis and presentation of vertical track geometry quality and rail roughness

Wear

Volumn 265, Issue 9-10, 2008, Pages 1488-1496

  Berggren, Eric G ^a   Li, Martin X D ^a   Spännar, Jan ^a  

^a SWEDISH TRANSPORT ADMINISTRATION   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dynamic train track interaction; Rail roughness; Track geometry quality

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DYNAMIC MODELS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; FLOW INTERACTIONS; GEOMETRY; INSPECTION; RAILROAD CARS; RAILROAD TRACKS; STANDARDS; THEOREM PROVING; VEHICLE WHEELS; VEHICLES; WHEELS;

COMPUTATIONAL SCHEMES; CONDITION ASSESSMENT (CA); CONTENT ANALYSIS; FILTER FUNCTIONS; FREQUENCY-DOMAIN (FD); INSPECTION METHODS; MONITOR (CO); NEW APPROACHES; NUMERICA L RESULTS; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; RAIL ROUGHNESS; SHORT DEFECTS; SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION (SI); TIME DOMAIN (OCT); TRACK GEOMETRY; TRAIN-TRACK INTERACTION; VEHICLE TYPES; WHEEL-RAIL CONTACTS; WHEEL-RAIL FORCES; WHEEL/RAIL INTERACTIONS; WIDE-RANGE;

RAILS;

EID: 48049097062     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2008.01.029     Document Type: Article

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