Railway vehicle derailment and prevention

Handbook of Railway Vehicle Dynamics

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 209-238

  Wu, Huimin ^a   Wilson, Nicholas ^a  

^a TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY CENTER INC   (United States)

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