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Safety Compliance Oversight Plan for Rail Transportation of High-Level Radioactive Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel
Ensuring the Safe, Routine Rail Transportation of Foreign Research Reactor Spent Nuclear Fuel ; The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has regulatory oversight for the safety of railroad operations within the United States. Ranking at the top of FRA’s priorities is the safety of rail shipments...FY2008 Capital Assistance to States - Welded Rail Installation, Hiawatha Route
Capital Assistance to States–Intercity Passenger Rail Service Program - September 2008 Award AnnouncementsFY2008 Capital Assistance to States - Point Defiance Bypass Design, Engineering, and Right-of-Way, D to M Street Tacoma
Capital Assistance to States–Intercity Passenger Rail Service Program - September 2008 Award AnnouncementsFY2008 Capital Assistance to States - Third Track Construction and Interlocking Reconfiguration Preliminary Engineering (VA)
Capital Assistance to States–Intercity Passenger Rail Service Program - September 2008 Award AnnouncementsFY2008 Capital Assistance to States - One-Mile Rail Replacement and 4 Bridge Redeckings, Vermonter Route
Capital Assistance to States–Intercity Passenger Rail Service Program - September 2008 Award AnnouncementsFY2008 Capital Assistance to States - Two-Mile Track Reconstruction, Ethan Allen Route
Capital Assistance to States–Intercity Passenger Rail Service Program - September 2008 Award AnnouncementsModeling the Effect of Fluid-Structure Interaction on the Impact Dynamics of Pressurized Tank cars
This paper presents a computational framework that analyzes the effect of fluid-structure interaction (FSI) on the impact dynamics of pressurized commodity tank cars using the nonlinear dynamic finite element code ABAQUS/Explicit. There exist three distinct phases for a tank car loaded with a...