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Locomotive Crash Energy Management Coupling Tests Evaluation and Vehicle-to-Vehicle Test Preparation
Publikováno v:
2019 Joint Rail Conference.
Research to develop new technologies for increasing the safety of passengers and crew in rail equipment is being directed by the Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA’s) Office of Research, Development, and Technology. Crash energy management (C
Autor:
Richard Stringfellow, Suresh Sriramulu
Development of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) has recently become a high national priority because of their potential to enable significantly reduced petroleum consumption by the domestic transportation sector in the relatively near term. L
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::aea32b9ef855193d751ec0b2d0f4b40f
https://doi.org/10.2172/1124078
https://doi.org/10.2172/1124078
Publikováno v:
2013 Joint Rail Conference.
The Office of Research and Development of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and the Volpe Center are continuing to evaluate new technologies for increasing the safety of passengers and operators in rail equipment. In recognition of the import
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Batteries for Sustainability ISBN: 9781461457909
Safety of lithium-ion batteries is a critical topic that has not received adequate attention in the past, largely due to the fact that data regarding safety failures have been severely restricted. As a result, there are numerous misunderstandings in
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5791-6_9
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5791-6_9
Publikováno v:
ASME 2010 Rail Transportation Division Fall Technical Conference.
Investigations of passenger train accidents have revealed serious safety hazards associated with the thin, rigid tops of workstation tables, which are common fixtures aboard rail cars. Thoracic and abdominal injuries caused by occupant impact with wo
Publikováno v:
2009 Joint Rail Conference.
New standards have been proposed to increase the strength requirements for cab car end structures and impose further requirements on their ability to absorb energy during a grade-crossing collision [1, 2]. To aid in the development of these new stand
Publikováno v:
ASME 2008 Rail Transportation Division Fall Technical Conference.
The Volpe Center and the Federal Railroad Administration are engaged in active research aimed at improving rail vehicle crashworthiness. One component of this research is focused on improving the performance of passenger train cab cars during collisi
Publikováno v:
IEEE/ASME/ASCE 2008 Joint Rail Conference.
In support of the Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) Railroad Equipment Safety Program, tests have been conducted on prototype commuter rail passenger seats which have been designed for improved occupant protection during commuter train accide
Publikováno v:
Rail Transportation.
A Crash Energy Management (CEM) cab car crush zone design has been developed for retrofit onto an existing Budd M1 cab car. This design is to be used in the upcoming full-scale train-to-train test of a CEM consist impacting a standing freight consist
Publikováno v:
Crashworthiness, Occupant Protection and Biomechanics in Transportation Systems.
The operator and passengers in cab cars are particularly vulnerable to collisions with objects or with other trains because of their proximity to the point of collision. We present one part of a larger study in which we examined several strategies fo