Citation

Piechowiak T. Veh. Syst. Dyn. 2010; 48(3): 283-299.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/00423110902780622

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The article presents a survey of diverse methods for validation of pneumatic train brake modelling. Various experimental measurements of railway pneumatic brakes were made chiefly on a test stand at Poznań University of Technology; other test stands and some results have been taken from the literature. The measurements, some of them unconventional, were performed on separate pneumatic elements, brake devices, the brake pipe and fragments thereof. Mechanical devices were also included. The experimental measurement results were used for the verification of numerical models and for the determination of parameters. The latter was partially performed using an optimisation method.