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Free flight at rail joints (IM-APT-340)

Last updated on 24 July 2014 4:10
After impact at a rail joint a wheelset may leave the rails in free flight if the amplitude of oscillation on the rail is greater than the pre-compression due to static axle load Mg - see Fig. 1.
Author(s): Boocock D.
Organisation(s): British Rail Research ;
1968
United Kingdom
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