Application of alternative criteria and procedures to passenger railcars.

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Application of alternative criteria and procedures to passenger railcars.

2015-05-01
By United States. Federal Railroad Administration

English

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United States. Federal Railroad Administration
Subject/TRT Terms:

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Evaluation Passenger Cars Railroad Accidents Railroad Safety Test Procedures Validation
Publication/ Report Number:

RR 15-12
Resource Type:

Brief
Geographical Coverage:

United States
Corporate Publisher:

United States. Federal Railroad Administration
Abstract:

Occupied volume integrity (OVI) refers to a

passenger railcar’s ability to preserve space for

passengers and crew during an accident. The

Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) Office

of Research and Development (R&D) is

sponsoring research investigating OVI. The

results of a series of tests have been published

in an FRA Report [1]. This research forms the

basis for establishing alternative OVI evaluation

procedures. The alternative procedures permit

an analysis to be validated with data from an

elastic test. The validated analysis may then be

used to extrapolate the behavior of the subject

car under destructive load conditions, without

conducting companion destructive testing.
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PDF
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US Transportation Collection Federal Railroad Administration
Main Document Checksum:

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urn:sha256:3440e2ffba73dca8312371efade824512ff24334da9e30f31ef4cf2f2c5762d6
Download URL:

https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/28979/dot_28979_DS1.pdf
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[PDF-346.54 KB]