Motorail car windscreen failures - an investigation of aerodynamic transient pressures and temperatures (TM-AERO-005)

Numerous windscreens have failed on cars transported by Motorail trains scheduled to run at speeds up to 40 m/s. It has been suggested that some of the failures might be due to thermal shocks and/or air pressure transients. This report presents results of transient pressure and temperature measurements on a...