TY - CONF A1 - Otremba, Frank A1 - Romero-Navarrete, José A. A1 - Lozano-Guzmán, A. A. T1 - Commodities and rail damage N2 - The normalized contact-mechanics fourth-power law approach for the dynamic loads, suggest: worst railway use situation (double deck at 65 km/h) is 350 times that of the less rail damage situation (flat car at 45 km/h). The normalized dispersion approach for the dynamic loads (Dynamic Load Coefficient), suggest that the worst railway use situation (double deck at 65 km/h) is about 4 times that of the less rail damage Situation (flat car at 45 km/h). The potential effect of the different types of cars on the railway fatigue life could be significant, as a function of the vehicle speed. The experimental validation of these outputs will be carried out as a continuation of this research effort. In addition to that, it should be mentioned that the associated simplified model could be used to analyze some other situations, related with the transport safety of different products. T2 - IMECE 2018 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition CY - Pittsburgh, PA, USA DA - 09.11.18 KW - Commodities KW - Rail KW - Damage PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-46649 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -