MEASUREMENT OF LATERAL STRENGTH OF RAILWAY TRACK BY "LATERAL STRENGTH TESTING CAR" (1ST REPORT) MECHANISM OF TESTING CAR

The "Lateral Strength Testing Car" represents a two-axle bogie car additionally attached with a one-axle testing truck which carries a mechanism, which applies a vertical and a lateral load to the center axle, a mechanism which lifts the said testing truck above the rails and an oscillograph for recording the vertical and lateral loads. The car answers the questions: How much lateral load can the track withstand? and under what conditions and in what process a derailment of a car takes place? Procedures for measuring these quantities are provided.

• Availability:
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• Corporate Authors:

  JAPANESE NATIONAL RAILWAYS

  TOKYO,   Japan 
• Authors:
  • TANAHASHI, H
• Publication Date: 1963-6

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: p. 46-48
• Serial:
  • Railway Technical Research Institute, Quarterly Reports
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Railway Technical Research Institute/Tetsudo Gijutsu Kenkyujo
  • ISSN: 0033-9008
  • Serial URL: http://www.rtri.or.jp/eng/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Derailments; Dynamics; Equipment tests; Inspection; Inspection cars; Loads; Maintenance of way; Railroad rails; Railroad tracks; Technology; Train track dynamics; Vehicle design; Wheels
• Uncontrolled Terms: Lateral loads; Vertical loads
• Geographic Terms: Japan
• Old TRIS Terms: Test equipment; Track maintenance equipment
• Subject Areas: Design; Railroads; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00039982
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 8 1994 12:00AM