NUCARS Modeling of a Freight Locomotive with Steerable Trucks

The rail dynamics modeling package NUCARS has been used extensively to model freight cars. We have found that it can also be used effectively to model freight locomotives. This thesis discusses the development of a NUCARS model to represent a six-axle freight locomotive equipped with steerable tr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: DeLorenzo, Michael
Other Authors: Mechanical Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36664
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-402515359721531/