DETERMINATION OF CAR BODY CENTER PLATE FATIGUE DESIGN CRITERIA BY FULL-SCALE CAR TESTING

Fatigue design criteria are established based on full-scale car tests conducted on a 100-ton Southern Railway Hopper car. Stress levels on body center plate and its attachments to the car were determined for static car loading by means of jacking, for standing car dynamic loading under a full roll mode received on AAR rock and roll environmental prepared track testing. Correlation of determined stress loadings leads to three proposed axioms for design criteria.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Contributed by the Rail Transportation Division of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers for presentation at the ASME-IEEE Joint Railroad Conference, Pittsburgh, Pa., April 3-4, 1974
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Mechanical Engineers

  Two Park Avenue
  New York, NY  United States  10016-5990
• Authors:
  • Epps Martin, A
  • Smith, L W
• Publication Date: 1974-1

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures;
• Pagination: 9 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Fatigue (Physiological condition); Freight cars; Structural plates; Train track dynamics
• Old TRIS Terms: Center plates
• Subject Areas: Railroads; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00054007
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Report/Paper Numbers: ASME-#74-RT-8
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 3 1976 12:00AM