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Investigation of locomotive multibody modelling issues and results assessment based on the locomotive model acceptance procedure

Last updated on 08 August 2014 3:09

The acceptable dynamic behaviour of railway locomotives is governed by different standards in different parts of the world. Some standards allow the use of multibody simulation tools (such as VAMPIRE, NUCARS, GENSYS and SIMPACK) in place of physical testing, but generally not for all locomotive tests within each standard. Virtual...

Author(s): Spiryagin M;George A;Quan Sun Y;Cole C;McSweeney T;Simson S

Organisation(s): Central Queensland University, Centre for Railway Engineering, Australia ; The CRC for Rail Innovation, Australia ; Bradken Resources, New Lambton, Australia ;

2013

Australia

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