Rail Commuter Vehicle Curving Performance

Details

• Creators:
  Kristoff, Susan
• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Research and Development
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Curved Rail Curved Track Curving Performance Derailments Experiments Passenger Trains Railroad Commuter Service Railroads Testing Wheel-rail Force Measurement System
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT/FRA/ORD-02/01
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  New York (New York)
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Railroad Administration
• Abstract:
  This report presents results of a program to design and install a wayside wheel-rail force measurement system. The test site is capable of developing a set of measurements of lateral and vertical forces exerted between the wheel and the rail at carefully chosen locations of all wheels on a single car at two different times using strain gauge sensors and a custom data acquisition system. The measurement site is located on a high curvature number 6- turnout in Grand Central Terminal, New York City. Precisely placed weldable strain gauges are applied to the rails to measure vertical and lateral wheel loads. The wheel-rail induced forces send a signal to the wayside instrumentation, which is then conditioned, acquired, and stored. To identify the vehicle, a pair of video cameras records the image of each car's numberplate. The system can be controlled remotely and results can be retrieved via modem. (43 p.)
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  Federal Railroad Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5779544792dd9cb152b0bd6acc3f70942c1144e9ea01250248e345caec0e8075e74bd58824a5852c389e5ed95274a06da443c17a08b85147dc019c36bf8263ee
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/33987/dot_33987_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.34 MB ]