Dynamics and Monitoring of Railway Vehicle Systems [Hardcover]

1.?Fundamentals of railway vehicle and track.? 2.?Modelling the fundamental dynamics of railway vehicles.? 3.?Application of vehicle simulation to railway safety.? 4.?Condition monitoring and condition-based maintenance (CBM).? 5.?Application examples

This book provides cutting edge research into railway vehicle dynamics and the condition monitoring of railway vehicle and track.

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Hitoshi Tsunashima completed his master course in aeronautical engineering at the University of Osaka Prefecture in 1983. He joined the Kobe Steel Ltd. in 1983, where he carried out his research and development of Automated People Mover. He obtained his Doctoral degree from The University of Tokyo in 1995. He joined Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University in 1996 and currently he is a professor and a deputy director of the Centre for Railway Research. His main research expertise includes modeling and simulation of railway vehicles, applications of advanced control for railway vehicle, condition monitoring of railway systems, multi-body dynamics, human factors and ergonomics.

Akira Matsumoto graduated from Yokohama National University with a bachelor's degree in engineering in 1972. He was working in a governmental research institute of Ministry of Transport from 1972, and then National Traffic Safety & Environment Laboratory (NTSEL) to 2007. In these laboratories, he was engaged in the research and development of new urban transportation systems, railway safety technologies and these assessments, high curving performance railway bogies and vehicles, wheel/rail interface technologies, especially countermeasures of rail corrugation. In addition, he was involved in the accident investigations of serious railway accidents of the expert Judgments for Police examination on flange-climb derailment in Tokló˜