Structural Integrity and Passenger Safety
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Author(s): C. A. Brebbia (Ed.)
ISBN: 1 85312 784 1
Format: hardback
177pp
Price: £108.00, $178.00
Review Date: 23 May 2000
Review: Safety on railways is of increasing concern as velocities have risen with the latest generation of high-speed trains. This book covers important applications in the broad area of safety studies, with contributions from experts from Japan, Sweden, Germany, France, Poland and the Czech Republic. The eight chapters cover: stainless steel car bodies; the high-speed Transrapid-type Maglev trains; use of a capacity model for railway networks; quality assurance in track and rolling stock; passenger and equipment safety; Czech railway real-time train position monitoring; and boundary element analysis of stress for cracks in wheels.