Retrofit and Full-Scale Testing of a State-of-the-Art End Structure on a Budd M1 Cab Car

Details

• Creators:
  Stringfellow, Richard
• Corporate Creators:
  TIAX LLC
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Research and Development ; John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Crashworthiness
  • Dynamic tests
  • Finite element method
  • Impacts
  • Railroad cars
  • Collisions
  • End structure
  • Retrofit
  • Quasi-static testing
  • Finite element analysis
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT/FRA/ORD-21/23
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Final Report July 2007 – July 2009
• Contracting Officer:
  Michelle Muhlanger (Volpe)
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Research and Development
• Abstract:
  This report describes the results of a program to modify the existing state-of-the-art end structure design for a Budd Pioneer cab car so it can be installed on a Budd M1 car and used to test the performance of end frames built to meet current APTA and proposed Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) structural requirements. The research was performed as part of the Equipment Safety Research Program sponsored by the FRA Office of Research, Development, and Technology.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DTRS57-04-D-30008
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/57308/dot_57308_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.65 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Railroad Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:1dfef7fdb374534539a9d4da1d16899826e514154f4537eb50ea266f07f73a44