Tank Car Reliability Design and Analysis
This report presents the results of the Federal Railroad Administration project DTFR DV-00-G-60019 (Tank Car Reliability Design and Analysis), carried out in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The overall objective of the project was to propose and develop new and improved rational procedures for assessing the structural integrity of stub sill tank cars, in order to provide higher levels of assurance against the occurrence of structural failure of a car that could lead to an accident. This research specifically focuses on procedures for establishing safe inspection intervals to detect the presence of fatigue cracks in the stub sill assembly before they grow to critical size.
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Corporate Authors:
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
205 North Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL United States 61801-2352Federal Railroad Administration
Office of Research and Development, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Authors:
- Pecknold, David
- Sehitoglu, Huseyin
- Barkan, Christopher P L
- Kibey, Sandeep
- Lee, One-Chul
- Publication Date: 2007-3
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 100p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Cracking; Engineering tolerance; Finite element method; Quality assurance; Railroad crashes; Railroad safety; Tank cars
- Identifier Terms: U.S. Federal Railroad Administration
- Uncontrolled Terms: Structural failures; Structural integrity
- Subject Areas: Railroads; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01051558
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: DOT/FRA/ORD-07/05
- Files: TRIS, USDOT
- Created Date: Jun 18 2007 11:15AM