Damage Assessment of Railroad Tank Cars Involved in Accidents: Phase I, Literature Search and Evaluation

Details

• Creators:
  Davis, Jeffrey ; Conlon, Peter C. ; Pieratt, K. Scott
• Corporate Creators:
  Transportation Technology Center, Inc.
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Research and Development
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Derailments
  • Guidelines
  • Hazardous materials
  • Literature reviews
  • Railroad crashes
  • Tank cars
  • Railroads
  • Safety and Human Factors
  • Vehicles and Equipment
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT/FRA/ORD-06/12
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• TRIS Online Accession Number:
  01051554
• Edition:
  Final Report
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Federal Railroad Administration
• Abstract:
  Transportation Technology Center, Inc., a subsidiary of the Association of American Railroads, is conducting a research project titled, "Damage Assessment of Tank Cars Involved in Accidents". Phase I of the project evaluated the validity of guidelines currently used to assess the severity of damage to pressure tank cars caused by derailments. A search of the technical literature was performed and subsequently evaluated to identify which of the guidelines can be validated and which require additional modeling and validation in the Phase II effort. This report and accompanying appendix present the results of the literature search and evaluation and make recommendations for the Phase II research.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DTFR 53-93-C-00001, Task Order 115
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/40228/dot_40228_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.46 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection ; Federal Railroad Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:60b29b64b3670ec8498bab8a375ba5998fb7480d441060c189dc6218fac4fbc4