Previous work has led to the development of a crash energy management (CEM) system designed to distribute crush throughout unoccupied areas of a passenger train in a collision event. This CEM system is comprised of crush zones at the front and rear ends of passenger railcars. With a consist made up of CEM-equipped cars, the structural crush due to a collision can be distributed along the length of the train, crushing only unoccupied areas and improving the trains crashworthy speed as compared with a conventional train in a similar collision. This paper examines the effectiveness of one particular CEM system design for passenger rail cars. The operating parameters of the individual components of the CEM system are varied, and this paper analyzes the effects of these variations on the behavior of the consist during a collision. The intention is to determine what modifications to the components, if any, could improve the crashworthiness of passenger railcars beyond the baseline CEM design without introducing new hazards to passengers.


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    Titel :

    Performance Efficiency of a Crash Energy Management System


    Beteiligte:
    M. Carolan (Autor:in) / D. Tyrell (Autor:in) / A. B. Perlman (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2007


    Format / Umfang :

    11 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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