Title :
Crashworthiness testing of rail passenger cars
Author :
Brickle, Barrie V.
Author_Institution :
Transp. Technol. Center Inc., Pueblo, CO, USA
Abstract :
This paper describes a test facility at the Federal Railroad Administration´s Transportation Technology Center (TTC), Pueblo, Colorado, USA, that is being used to carry out full scale impact tests on rail passenger cars
Keywords :
impact (mechanical); railways; safety; test facilities; vehicles; Federal Railroad Administration; USA; crashworthiness testing; full-scale impact tests; rail passenger cars; test facility; Computer crashes; Concrete; Earth; Force measurement; Rail transportation; Road transportation; Steel; Test facilities; US Department of Transportation; Vehicle crash testing;
Conference_Titel :
Railroad Conference, 2000. Proceedings of the 2000 ASME/IEEE Joint
Conference_Location :
Newark, NJ
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6328-0
DOI :
10.1109/RRCON.2000.869997
