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Development of a Lateral Damper to Improve the Running Safety of Railway Vehicles during an Earthquake

Last updated on 26 April 2012 2:26

This paper describes the development of a lateral damper designed to improve the running safety of railway vehicles during seismic activity. The developed damper was tested experimentally using a full-scale vehicle model consisting of one bogie and a half carbody on our own large shaking test facility. Results confirmed that...

Author(s): Kohei Iida;Mitsugi Suzuki;Takefumi Miyamoto;Yukio Nishiyama;Daichi Nakajima;Yasushi Kajitani

Organisation(s): Railway Technical Research Institute ;

2012

Japan

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