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Special Routing of Spent Fuel Shipment Study

Special rail routing of spent fuel shipments from commercial nuclear power plants away-From-Reactor (AFR) storage and disposal sites has been proposed as one means of reducing the consequences and severity of radioactive materials accidents in areas of high population density. Whether or not...

A Metallurgical Analysis of an ASTM A 212-B Steel Tank Car Head Plate

The sample was taken from the A-head plate of tank car SOEX 3033 involved in an accident near Winder, Georgia. The A-head plate was reportedly produced to specification ASTM A212-65, Grade B steel. The results of laboratory check chemical analyses indicated that the plate sample met the chemical...

Needs Assessment—Railroad Test Track Siding Options for High Speed Testing

This report presents the results and findings from a study titled “Needs Assessment—Railroad Test Track (RTT) Siding Options for High Speed Testing.” This study was conducted to (1) determine potential capabilities that the proposed siding test track for the Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (...

Robust Anomaly Detection for Vision-Based Inspection of Railway Components

The Computer Vision Laboratory at the University of Maryland has completed a two-year research project in which it developed a library of tools and algorithms that are used to inspect railway tracks with machine vision technology. This technology has been integrated into a distributed computing...

Rail Passenger Vehicle Truck Design Methodology

A procedure for the selection of rail passenger truck design parameters to meet dynamic performance indices has been developed. The procedure is based upon partitioning the design task into three trade-off studies: (1) a vertical ride quality-secondary stroke trade-off, (2) a lateral ride...

The Non-Steady Outflow of Propane Vapor from a Railroad Tank Car

This report discusses the venting of vapors from rail tank cars. Two particular problem areas are addressed, namely the non-steady character of the flow in the final blow-down stage and the influence of real gas effects on flow predictions. Equations are developed with which the non-steady mass...

Statistical Representations of Track Geometry Volume II - Appendixes

This volume contains some of the more detailed data and analyses to support the results and conclusions reached in Volume I of this report. It is divided into appendixes lettered A through J. Appendix A defines a procedure for evaluating the statistical parameters from field-collected track-...