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Technical Reports
Overview - FAST Lubrication Study
Keywords: rail longitudinal force; rail fatigue; rail-wheel flange
Abstract: From October 1983 to November 1984, a lubrication study funded -by the Federal Railroad Administration was conducted by the Association of American Railroads at the Facility for...
Technical Reports
Safety Margin Testing of a 70-Ton Boxcar with Shifted Plywood Lading: Summary Results
Keywords: Boxcar Vibration Testing, Boxcar Dynamics, Lading Dynamics, Freight Car Truck Data
Abstract: Tests were performed at the Transportation Test Center, Pueblo, Colorado, in a joint Association of American Railroads (AAR) and Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) effort in...
Technical Reports
Safety Margin Testing of a 70-Ton Boxcar with Shifting Plywood Lading: Test Results Data
Keywords: Boxcar Vibration Testing, Boxcar Dynamics, Lading Dynamics, Freight Car Truck Data
Abstract: Tests were performed at the Transportation Test Center, Pueblo, Colorado, in a joint Association of American Railroads (AAR) and Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) effort in...
Technical Reports
Temperatures, Pressures, and Liquid Levels of Tank Cars Engulfed in Fires : Volume 1, Results of Parametric Analyses
Keywords: tank cars; hazardous materials; tank car isulation; safety relief valves
Abstract: An analytical procedure has been developed for calculating the effects of fire on a railroad tank car containing a hazardous material. The procedure was developed so that the...
Technical Reports
Wheelclimb Derailment Processes and Derailment Criteria
Keywords: scale model testing, wheelset dynamics
Abstract: The most widely accepted criterion for wheelclimb derailment defines an upper limit for safe operation on wheel/rail contact forces on the climbing wheel, with the limit varying...