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Full-scale locomotive dynamic crash testing and correlations : C-39 type locomotive colliding with a loaded hopper car (test 7) : final report / [Kash Kasturi ; revised by Gopal Samavedam].
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Locomotives--United States--Design and construction.
- Locomotives.
- Locomotives--Crashworthiness--United States.
- Locomotives--United States--Safety measures.
- Railroad accidents--United States.
- Railroad accidents.
- Locomotives--Crashworthiness.
- Locomotives--Design and construction.
- Locomotives--Safety measures.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 26 pages) : color illustrations, color charts
- Other Title:
- C-39 type locomotive colliding with a loaded hopper car (test 7)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Office of Railroad Policy and Development, [2011]
- Summary:
- This report presents the results of a locomotive and three loaded hopper car consist traveling at 29 miles per hour colliding with a stationary consist of 35 loaded hopper cars. The details of test instrumentation, LS-DYNA finite element simulation, conducting of the test, and correlations between the simulation results and test data are presented. The test was fully instrumented and included high-speed video of the collision event. The test resulted in the override of the locomotive over the hopper car consist.
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed on Oct. 9, 2012).
- "September 2011."
- "Performing organization, Foster-Miller, Inc."--Report documentation page.
- "DOT/FRA/ORD-11/16. III."
- Includes bibliographical reference (page 25) . 3
- OCLC:
- 760089433
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