Frontal collision of trains onto obliquely stuck road trucks at level crossings: derailment mechanisms and simulation - Ling L, Dhanasekar M, Thambiratnam DP.

Road trucks stuck obliquely across rail tracks in level crossings and collided by trains are common occurrences; such scenarios are used in the assessment of crashworthiness of locomotives. With the ongoing increase in mass of the road trucks, these incide...

Source: SafetyLit - April 25, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news