Rail Vehicle Crashworthiness Symposium. Held in Cambridge, Massachusetts on June 24-26, 1996

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Rail Vehicle Crashworthiness Symposium. Held in Cambridge, Massachusetts on June 24-26, 1996

D. C. Tyrell / A. H. Rubin

This document contains the proceedings of the Rail Vehicle Crashworthiness Symposium held at the Volpe Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts on June 24, 25, and 26, 1996. These proceedings have been developed from a transcript of the symposium and the material used by the presenters at the symposium. The symposium was conducted in three technical sessions over three days. The three sessions were: (1) Collision Risk: Strategies for evaluating the effectiveness of collision safety measures incorporated into a train system; description of the likely collision scenarios that can occur on train systems; (2) Structural Crashworthiness: The performance of the vehicle structure during a collision; its ability to preserve sufficient volume for the passengers to survive and its ability to control the declearations experienced by the occupied volumes; (3) Interior Crashworthiness: The performance of the interior during a collision; the ability of the interior to limit the forces and decelerations imparted to the occupant.