A Structural Survey of Classes of Vehicles for Crashworthiness

Details

• Creators:
  Widmayer, Edward
• Corporate Creators:
  Boeing Company
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Collisions Railroad Cars Railroads--Cars--Design Railroads--Safety Measures Railroad Safety
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT-TSC-FRA-79-13 ; FRA/ORD-79-13
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Final report; June 1974-Dec. 1977.
• Corporate Publisher:
  Transportation Systems Center
• Abstract:
  This document reviews three phases of a study conducted to evaluate and improve the crashworthiness of passenger carrying vehicles in intercity service. Phase I surveyed the accident data over a period 1966 to 1973 and identified those areas responsible for the mS3jority of accidents involving human injury (both operating personnel and fare-paying passengers). An analysis was also conducted on the structural integrity of a commuter car -identified as the single largest source of injuries in the subject time frame. Phase II extended the structural survey to the caboose and the locomotive cab. Phase III developed a potential design for crash survivable locomotive cab and included both static and dynamic analyses of the crash scenarios. The design is predicated about the provision of a "Survivable Volume".
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DOT-TSC-856
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4571c4c35b27d5e70c5e435a519dfb3a2d09ccbf0dcadfe5f3081a41b1ff302d8b4be6853d296c5082ed1316ecc0251fcdf5715f0760f56f08eb6b160097939a
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/23094/dot_23094_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.51 MB ]