Definition of a new co-ordinate system for future railway vehicle curving studies (IM-DA-216)

In 1969, a paper entitled "The Steady State Motion of Railway Vehicles on Curved Track", by D. Boocock, was published in the Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science (Vol. 11, No. 6, 1969). In this paper, equations were derived for the steady state displacements of vehicle components. However the co-ordinate system...