The behaviour of a 3-axle locomotive bogie on sharp curves - A comparison of theory and experiment (TM-VTI-011)

The non-linear steady state curving theory of Elkins and Gostling has been validated for a 4-wheel vehicle, for a vehicle with conventional 2-axle bogies and for 4-axle vehicles with cross-braced bogies. Although a model able to predict the curving behaviour of 3-axle bogies has been available for several years, the...