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Non-Destructive Impact Between Railroad Cars: Experimental and Analytical Study.


PB263187

Publication Date 1977
Personal Author Peters, D. A.; Yin, S. K.
Page Count 66
Abstract A computer simulation of the dynamics of rail car impacts is compared with experimental data obtained from full scale switchyard impacts. The compared cases involve impacts between a standing light hopper car and a moving, fully loaded tank car at speeds ranging from 2 mph to 8 mph. The monitored dynamic responses include vertical car motions, draft gear travel, longitudinal coupler forces, car body accelerations, and vertical bolster loads.
Keywords
  • Railroad cars
  • Collision research
  • Dynamic tests
  • Computerized simulation
  • Impact tests
  • Tank cars
  • Hopper cars
  • Dynamic response
  • Acceleration
  • Couplings
  • Loads(Forces)
  • Gears
  • Railroad terminals
  • Switching systems
  • Puncture resistance
  • Accident prevention
Source Agency
  • Federal Railroad Administration
NTIS Subject Category
  • 85D - Transportation Safety
  • 85I - Railroad Transportation
Corporate Authors Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO. School of Engineering and Applied Science.; Federal Railroad Administration, Washington, D.C. Office of Research and
Document Type Technical Report
Title Note Technical rept.
NTIS Issue Number 197709
Contract Number
  • DOT-OS-40106-2
Non-Destructive Impact Between Railroad Cars: Experimental and Analytical Study.
Non-Destructive Impact Between Railroad Cars: Experimental and Analytical Study.
PB263187

  • Railroad cars
  • Collision research
  • Dynamic tests
  • Computerized simulation
  • Impact tests
  • Tank cars
  • Hopper cars
  • Dynamic response
  • Acceleration
  • Couplings
  • Loads(Forces)
  • Gears
  • Railroad terminals
  • Switching systems
  • Puncture resistance
  • Accident prevention
  • Federal Railroad Administration
  • 85D - Transportation Safety
  • 85I - Railroad Transportation
  • DOT-OS-40106-2
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