• DocumentCode
    2433376
  • Title

    Crashworthiness testing of rail passenger cars

  • Author

    Brickle, Barrie V.

  • Author_Institution
    Transp. Technol. Center Inc., Pueblo, CO, USA
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    2000
  • Firstpage
    167
  • Lastpage
    170
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Railroad Conference, 2000. Proceedings of the 2000 ASME/IEEE Joint
  • Conference_Location
    Newark, NJ
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-6328-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/RRCON.2000.869997
  • Filename
    869997
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2433376