Abstract
In the structure of railway passenger cars, the side frame and the center beam are conneted by many transverse beams, which play a role to control the deflections and the load distribution between the side frame and the center beam. In this paper, we analyzed the strength of a steel car under vertical load, assuming the side frame as a "Vierendeel Rahmen". We found that the calculated maximum deflections of the side frame and the center beam agree well with the corresponding experimental results obtained by T.Suzuki and that the ratio of load allotment of the side frame to the total load ranges from about 50% to 80% in a nummerical example.
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