INTERACTION BETWEEN VEHICLES AND TRACK. A COMPARISON OF THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL VEHICLE BEHAVIOUR USING A 2-AXLED SPECIAL VEHICLE

The investigation described in ORE report C 116/RP 2 has been carried out by British Railways on behalf of ORE. Its purpose is to compare theoretical predictions of vehicle behaviour with experimental measurements of the same quantities, under conditions of stationary random excitation by the track roughness. The vehicle used is British Railways' experimental 2-axled freight vehicle HSFV5 (slightly modified). This was selected as being the simplest suitable vehicle and, to simplify the calculations, the characteristics of its suspension system had been linearised.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Restrictions on the use of this document are contained in the explanatory material.
• Corporate Authors:

  International Union of Railways

  Office of Research and Experiments
  Utrecht,   Netherlands 
• Publication Date: 1972-10

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 43 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Technology; Train track dynamics; Two axle cars
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Old TRIS Terms: Question c116
• Subject Areas: Railroads; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00050690
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Rail International
• Report/Paper Numbers: C116/RP 2/E
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 15 1976 12:00AM