Nadal's formula and high speed rail derailments

Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Shabana, Ahmed A ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM; CO-ORDINATE TRANSFORMATION; CONTACT POINTS; DERAILMENT CRITERIA; EXTERNAL FORCE; FRICTION FORCE; GEOMETRIC APPROACHES; GYROSCOPIC MOMENTS; HIGH SPEED RAIL; KINETIC APPROACH; KINETIC MODELS; LATERAL FORCE; RAILROAD VEHICLES; RESULTANT FORCES; SINGLE DEGREE OF FREEDOMS; VERTICAL FORCE; WHEEL CLIMB; WHEELSETS;

ANGLE OF ATTACK; FRICTION; GEOMETRY; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; RISK PERCEPTION; TRIBOLOGY; WHEELS;

DERAILMENTS;

EID: 84866061814     PISSN: 15551415     EISSN: 15551423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4006730     Document Type: Article

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