@article{ref1,
title="On reliability and sensitivity methods for vehicle systems under stochastic crosswind loads",
journal="Vehicle system dynamics",
year="2010",
author="Wetzel, Christian and Proppe, Carsten",
volume="48",
number="1",
pages="79-95",
abstract="This paper deals with the probabilistic investigation of the crosswind stability of ground vehicles with a strong focus on railway vehicle dynamics. The turbulent crosswind excitation is reduced to an artificial gust model, which is based on the so-called constrained simulation concept and where the gust amplitude, the gust duration and the aerodynamic coefficients of the vehicle are considered as random variables. The railway vehicle is simulated as a nonlinear multi-body vehicle model. Because of the random variables, a probabilistic analysis of the system has to be performed, including a reliability analysis to compute the overturning probability and including a sensitivity analysis concerning the random variables and the parameters of the probability density functions of the random variables.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0042-3114",
doi="10.1080/00423110903183917",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00423110903183917"
}