Longer and heavier trains mean larger in-train forces and more complicated force patterns.
Practical experience indicates that the development of fatigue failure of coupling systems in …

Braking dynamics plays an essential role in ensuring the comfort and running safety of
trains. Due to the complexity of the phenomena involved and the presence of dry friction …

Impacts, friction, and normal contact forces occur in the railway vehicles couplers. This paper
presents a novel nonsmooth model of the train collision; until now, only penalized models …

An efficient and straightforward algorithm for the integration of the constrained systems is
developed in the present work. Some of the fundamental issues of contact dynamics are …

In this paper the authors develop a simulation program for analyzing the dynamic behavior
of friction ring buffers that equip railway vehicles, based on their hysteretic characteristics …

The paper investigates the influence of different braking systems on the braking process of
railway passenger vehicles, considered individual, as well as in train composition. The study …

This paper describes a computer aided approach to the study of the longitudinal dynamics of
a braked train. The numerical simulation of the phenomena takes into account the delay …

This paper focuses on a simulation program for evaluating the longitudinal dynamic forces
operating upon the traction, collision and coupling devices during the train braking process …

This thesis developed a parallel multiobjective optimisation methodology to enable fast
optimisations of draft gear designs for heavy haul trains. Improvements were achieved in the …

The study of longitudinal dynamics of trains during braking has and will continue to be an
important subject, capable of generating numerous research themes and discussions on …