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May
1994
Technical Reports
Side Bearing Clearance Testing Research
Subject
Evaluation
Keywords: VTU, On-Track Testing, Side Bearing Clearance, Jump Response, Roll Response
Abstract: An investigation of the effects of variations in side bearing clearance on the vehicle dynamics of loaded freight cars with relatively high centers of gravity was conducted. Data...
Report Number
FRA/ORD/94-11
Office
RRD
1
Dec
1993
Technical Reports
Fire Safety of Passenger Trains: A Review of U.S. and Foreign Approaches
Subject
Safety Advisories,
Safety Regulatory Analysis,
Safety Performance Measures
Keywords: Fire safety, Passenger trains, Passenger rail, Railroad safety, Safety, High speed ground transportation, High speed rail, Large scale fire tests, Small scale fire tests, Fire test methods
Abstract: While the historical record has been very good and few serious passsenger train fires have occurred, minor incidents could develop into potentially life-threatening events. Fire...
Report Number
DOT/FRA/ORD-93/23
Office
RRD
30
Nov
1993
Technical Reports
Safety of High Speed Ground Transportation Systems: Work Breakdown Structure
Subject
Safety Advisories,
Safety Regulatory Analysis,
Safety Performance Measures
Keywords: Systems management, Systems engineering, Systems elements, subsystems, System safety, Magnetic levitation, maglev, High speed rail, Maglev safety, High speed guided ground transportation, Work breakdown structure
Abstract: This report provides a systems approach to the assessment of high-speed guided ground transportation (HSGGT) safety needs and presents one potential methodology by combining a...
Report Number
DOT/FRA/ORD-94/03
Office
RRD
1
Oct
1993
Other Reports
A Physically Based Method of Enhancement of Experimental Data-Concepts, Formulation, and Application to Identification of Residual Stresses
Subject
Evaluation
Keywords: Experimental Data, Mathematical Model, Theoretical Model
Abstract: This paper presents the formulation for a new approach to enhancing experimental data. Using simultaneously all the information available for the problem being studied, i.e,...
Report Number
DOT-VNTSC-RR319-SS-93-1
Office
RRD
1
Oct
1993
Other Reports
One-Dimensional Problem of a Thick-Walled Cylinder Subjected to Internal Pressure and Combined Load Analysis of Plastic and Residual Strains
Subject
Evaluation
Keywords: Stress, Strains, Data Analysis
Abstract: [From the Introduction] This report presents plastic and residual strains corresponding to residual stresses obtained for two one-dimensional test problems using a thick-walled...
Report Number
DOT-VNTSC-RR319-SS-93-2
Office
RRD