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Creators:
Muhlanger, Michelle ; Tyrell, David ; Llana, Patricia ;
Muhlanger, Michelle ; Tyrell, David ; Llana, Patricia ; Less -
Corporate Creators:
John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.) ;
Subject/TRT Terms:
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Dynamic Testing
Highway-railroad Grade Crossings
Railroad Accidents
Railroad Cars
Collisions
Dynamic Tests
Impact Tests
Railroad Grade Crossings

Publication/ Report Number:
JRC2009-63035 ;
Resource Type:
Proceedings ;
Corporate Publisher:
American Society of Mechanical Engineers ;
NTL Classification:
NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Rail Safety ; NTL-RAIL TRANSPORTATION-Rail Safety ; NTL-RAIL TRANSPORTATION-Railroad Highway Grade Crossings ;
Abstract:
To support the development of a proposed rule [1], a fullscale dynamic test and two full-scale quasi-static tests have been performed on the posts of a state-of-the-art (SOA) end frame. These tests were designed to evaluate the dynamic and quasi-static methods for demonstrating energy absorption of the collision and corner posts. The tests focused on the collision and corner posts individually because of their critical positions in protecting the operator and passengers in a collision where only the superstructure, not the underframe, is loaded. There are many examples of collisions where only the superstructure is loaded.
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