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Analysis of Load Transfer Law of Short Pile-Net Composite Foundation for High-Speed Railway

open access: yesShock and Vibration, 2022
Although pile-net composite foundation has been widely used in the construction of high-speed railway, load transfer characteristics of its structural system during the filling of roadbed are seldom studied, so field studies are conducted in the Gan-Long
Shiyou Li   +3 more
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Estimation of coefficient of friction between flange and rail utilizing vehicle dynamics simulation (Investigation based on roller-rig test with different lubrication condition)

open access: yesNihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshu, 2021
The coefficient of friction (COF) between the outer rail and the leading-outside wheel flange of a railway bogie running on sharp curved track is an important parameter for the progress of wheel/rail wear and running safety.
Yohei MICHITSUJI   +9 more
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Elastic mechanical property hybridization of configuration-varying TPMS with geometric continuity

open access: yesMaterials & Design, 2022
Hybrid design is an effective approach to construct functional mechanical metamaterials. In this study, a periodic hybrid method for the TPMS (triply periodic minimal surface) structures is proposed, maintaining the original surface connectivity and ...
Tianyu Gao   +4 more
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Reported prevalence of health conditions that affect drivers

open access: yesCogent Medicine, 2017
Drivers’ health and fitness are essential factors in order to predict performance outcomes and to promote road safety. It is a demonstrated fact that drivers with (physical and mental) health impairments or illnesses have more probabilities of being ...
Francisco Alonso   +3 more
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Psychosocial Work Factors, Job Stress and Strain at the Wheel: Validation of the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ) in Professional Drivers

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
IntroductionPsychosocial work environment has been related to many negative health outcomes in different workforces. However, evidence in this regard is still limited in the case of transport workers, and most of the tools used in research, often ...
Sergio A. Useche   +3 more
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Experimental and numerical research on wind characteristics affected by actual mountain ridges and windbreaks: a case study of the Lanzhou-Xinjiang high-speed railway

open access: yesEngineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, 2020
To reduce the impact of a mountain ridge on the crosswind flow field of a specific section of the Lanzhou-Xinjiang high-speed railway, a portion of the mountain ridge was removed to increase the distance from the windbreak.
Zhengwei Chen   +5 more
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Citizens’ Perceptions in Relation to Transport Systems and Infrastructures: A Nationwide Study in the Dominican Republic

open access: yesInfrastructures, 2021
One of the challenges currently faced by emerging countries is to get their citizens to decide to use sustainable transport for their regular trips, in order to reduce the current vehicular pollution rates.
Francisco Alonso   +3 more
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Blockchain enabled zero trust based authentication scheme for railway communication networks

open access: yesJournal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications, 2023
With the introduction of emerging technologies such as cloud computing, the railway communication network has the characteristics of complex structure and blurred boundaries, which leads to a series of security threats including information leakage and ...
Yuan Feng   +5 more
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Analysis of marine conflicts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The traffic conflict technique (TCT) is a powerful technique applied in road traffic safety assessment as a surrogate of the traditional accident data analysis. It has subdued the conceptual and implemental weaknesses of the accident statistics. Although
Begoña Martinez de Tejada   +7 more
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Crashworthiness analysis and structural optimization of shrink tube under interference condition

open access: yesEngineering Science and Technology, an International Journal, 2023
This paper aims to study the crashworthiness of shrink tubes for rail vehicles under axial impact loading. A theoretical model of shrink tube for platform force prediction under interference fit conditions was proposed. The trolley crash test was used to
Ping Xu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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