Description of methods for the eigenvalue analysis of railroad vehicles including track flexibility

Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Escalona, Jose L ^a   Chamorro, Rosario ^a   Recuero, Antonio M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREE OF NON-LINEARITY; DIFFERENTIAL ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS; EIGEN-VALUE; EIGENVALUE ANALYSIS; MULTI-BODY MODELS; RAILROAD VEHICLES; RIDE QUALITY; STABILITY ANALYSIS; STEADY MOTION; VEHICLE DYNAMICS;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; RAILROADS; VEHICLES;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

EID: 84866093270     PISSN: 15551415     EISSN: 15551423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4006729     Document Type: Article

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