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1
May
1978
Technical Reports
Coupling System Design Optimization - a Survey and Assessment of Automatic Coupling Concepts for Rail Freight Cars, Volume I: Executive Summary
Subject
Evaluation,
Railroad System Issues
Keywords: Rail Vehicle Coupling, Surface Transportation, Mass Transit, Literature Search, Patent Search
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to provide an independent identification, classification, and analysis of significant freight car coupling systems concepts offering potential for...
Report Number
FRA-ORD-78-11, I
Office
RRD
1
May
1978
Technical Reports
Coupling System Design Optimization - A Survey and Assessment of Automatic Coupling Concepts for Rail Freight Cars
Subject
Evaluation,
Railroad System Issues
Keywords: Rail Vehicle Coupling, Surface Transportation, Mass Transit, Literature Search, Patent Search
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to provide an independent identification, classification, and analysis of significant freight car coupling system concepts offering potential for...
Report Number
FRA-ORD-78-11, II
Office
RRD
1
Mar
1978
Technical Reports
An Investigation of Techniques for Validation of Railcar Dynamic Analyses
Subject
Rail and Infrastructure Integrity
Keywords: Rail vehicle dynamics, Validation techniques
Abstract: A linear model of the vertical dynamics of a railcar was validated by the application of spectral techniques to experimental data. Track input spectra were computed from test...
Report Number
FRA/ORD-78/19
Office
RPD-11
1
Mar
1978
Technical Reports
Improved Passenger Equipment Evaluation Program: Technology Review - Wheels, Axles, Couplers
Subject
Evaluation
Keywords: Rail Vehicle, Railcar Wheels, Railcar Axles, Railcar Couplers
Abstract: The status of two foreign rail technologies is analyzed in this report. The two technologies are Wheels and Automatic Couplers. The wheel development program for the French TGV...
Report Number
ARE/ORD-79/45
Office
RRD
1
Feb
1978
Technical Reports
Freight Car Truck Design Optimization: Vol. IV - Critique of Frequency Domain Model - Solution Techniques
Subject
Evaluation
Keywords: Mathematical Model, Structural Dynamics, Railcar
Abstract: The Truck Design Optimization Program (TDOP), Phase I, Frequency Domain Model (FDM) is reviewed. The review of this railcar structural dynamics program is divided into three...
Report Number
FRA/ORD-78/12.IV
Office
RRD