On the Vibrations of a Bogie Railway Carriage (4th Report)

Abstract

The investigations on the vibration of a bridge caused by running vehicles, especially by locomotives, have often been published, while those of railway carriages running on a bridge can rarely be found, particularly in the case of carriages which have bogie trucks. I reported previously on the theory of the vibrations of a bogie carriages running on a track, and in this paper, I state how my theory works on the bridge, especially with respect to the up and down motion, and compared their results. Lastly I have found there was no remarkable difference between the amplitudes of the vibration of a carriage running on the bridge and on the ordinary track.