TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Track geometry evaluation method based on vehicle response prediction
JO  - Vehicle system dynamics
A1  - Luber, Bernd
A1  - Haigermoser, Andreas
A1  - Grabner, Gerald
SP  - 157
EP  - 173
VL  - 48
IS  - Suppl 1
N2  - Testing of the running characteristics of railway vehicles requires well-defined boundary conditions like track geometry quality. Test sections with the same track geometry quality must lead to the same dynamic vehicle response (VR) forces. The state-of-the-art methods do not fulfil this important requirement for a track quality definition. Our proposed method for track geometry assessment considers the vehicle/track interaction. 'Representative' transfer functions are used for the prediction of the vehicle reaction. Therefore, the results show a significant enhancement of the correlation between the track assessment quantities and the VR forces.<p /> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0042-3114
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00423111003692914
ID  - ref1
ER  -