STANDARDISATION OF WAGONS. DETERMINATION OF HEAT TRANSFER THROUGH ROOFS AND WALLS OF THE TYPE 1 COVERED VANS

On behalf of the ORE B 12 Specialists Committee, four covered goods wagons of type 1 were subjected to thermal tests at the Vienna-Arsenal Testing Station (WKS). The object of these tests was to determine the thermal behaviour of covered goods wagons at different designs of sidewall, endwall and roof coverings.

• 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: 1964-10

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: 34 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Box cars; Electric insulating materials; Frost; Heat transfer; Humidity; Insulating materials; Protective coatings; Standardization
• Old TRIS Terms: Question b12; Thermal behavior
• Subject Areas: Hydraulics and Hydrology; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00053118
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: International Union of Railways
• Report/Paper Numbers: B12/RP 10/E Intrm Rpt.
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 8 1994 12:00AM