Track/Train Dynamics and Design : Advanced Techniques /: Advanced Techniques. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Gerald J. Moyar, Walter D. Pilkey, Barbara F. Pilkey.
• Editors: Moyar, Gerald J; Pilkey, Walter D; Pilkey, Barbara F
• Contents: Preface; ; Contributors; ; I The State-of-the-Art of Rail Analytical Techniques and Cost/Benefit Issues; ; Overview of Development of Advanced Analytical Techniques; ; Resource Management; ; Advanced Technology Cost/Benefits - A Panel Discussion; ; Evaluating and Utilizing Computer Service Firms for Railroad Engineering Applications; ; Computational Structural Mechanics in the Rail Industry; ; II General Structures; ; Body Centerplate Fatigue Cracking; ; Application of NASTRAN Finite Element Analysis to a Locomotive Carbody Structure; ; Analytical and Experimental Determination of Internal Deformations in Railroad Roller Bearings; ; Finite Element Analysis of a Depressed Well Car; ; III Flatcar Structural Analysis; ; Flatcar Modeling Technique and Results; ; Test and Analysis of the Dynamic Characteristics of a Flat Car; ; A Simple Beam Analysis of the Flat Car Structure; ; IV Dynamics, Fatigue and Fracture; ; Freight Car Environment Characterization for Fatigue Life Analysis; ; Mathematical Models for Track/Train Dynamics; ; Hybrid Computation - an Advanced Computational Tool for Simulating the Nonlinear Dynamic Response of Railroad Vehicles; ; Real-Time Modeling of Switch Yard Impacts; ; The Application of the Boundary-Integral Equation Method to the Solution of Railroad Engineering Stress Analysis and Fracture Mechanics Problems; ; V Wheel/Rail Stress & Wear; ; Nonlinear Analysis of Rail Track Structures; ; A Finite Element Model for Track Buckling; ; Analysis and Prediction of Wheel and Rail Wear during Freight Car Curving; ; Mechanisms and Qualitative Analysis of Wear in Steel Wheel and Rail; ; The Elastic Finite Element Analysis of a CH-36 Railcar under Mechanical and Thermal Loads; ; Application of Finite Element Analysis to the Study of Railroad Wheel Failure Phenomena; ; VI Modeling & Bolster ANALYSIS; ; Application of Advanced Stress Analysis Techniques in Freight Car Components Design; ; Finite Element Analysis and Test Correlation of a Box Car Body Bolster; ; Second Generation Stress Analysis Technology for the Railroad Industry; ; Index;
• Publisher Details: Pergamon
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (482 pages)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483147475; 1483147479
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