TCRP Report 71 Volume 7:

Track-Related Research, Volume 7: Guidelines for Guard/Restraining Rail Installation

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Size: 36 pages, 8.5 x 11

Publication Year:2010

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Xinggao Shu; Nicholas Wilson; Transportation Research Board
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TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 71, Volume 7: Guidelines for Guard/Restraining Rail Installation explores two guard rail installation philosophies and the effects of vehicle types, wheel flange angle, wheel/rail friction coefficient, curve radius, cant deficiency, and track perturbation ...
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Front Matter	i-ix
Summary	1-2	(skim)
1.2 Philosophy II	3-4	(skim)
Chapter 2 - Literature Review	5-5	(skim)
3.1 Transit Rail Cars (Type 1)	6-7	(skim)
3.2 Light Rail Vehicles (Type 1)	8-11	(skim)
4.2 Transit Rail Cars	12-18	(skim)
4.3 Light Rail Vehicles	19-21	(skim)
4.4 Summary of Flange Climb Derailment Simulations	22-23	(skim)
Chapter 5 - Conclusions	24-25	(skim)
References	26-26	(skim)
Abbreviations used without definitions in TRB publications	27-27	(skim)

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TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 71, Volume 7: Guidelines for Guard/Restraining Rail Installation explores two guard rail installation philosophies and the effects of vehicle types, wheel flange angle, wheel/rail friction coefficient, curve radius, cant deficiency, and track perturbation on flange climb derailments.

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