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Idealized steering for hauling locomotives

Last updated on 19 September 2014 12:13

Most of the passive and active steering developments of traction bogies have been directed towards high speed rail or light rail and commuter rail applications. Previous studies ignored coupler forces and often assumed the wheel rail profiles have ample conicity for the curving task. There is little work directed towards...

Author(s): Simson S A;Cole C

Organisation(s): Centre for Railway Engineering, Central Queensland University, Queensland, Australia ;

2007

Australia

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