Resistance of railway vehicles to roll-over in strong across winds
Andrzej Flaga
Wind Engineering Laboratory of the Cracow University of Technology (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1759-4872
Abstract
In the paper, the problem of resistance of railway vehicles to roll-over in gales was presented and analysed. Basic formulae describing this problem together with the authorial methodology of determination of the intrinsic roll-over wind velocity for a vehicle were derived and analysed.
Keywords:
railway vehicles, roll-over, strong windReferences
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Andrzej FlagaWind Engineering Laboratory of the Cracow University of Technology Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1759-4872
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