5th ADAMS/Rail Users' Conference
Haarlem 2000

List of Presentations:

  1. Welcome Address (Hajo Hajonides, Manager Marketing and Sales NedTrain Consulting)

  2. Introducing ADAMS/Rail 10.1- A Revolutionary Enviroment for Railway Vehicle Simulation (Gabriele Ferrarotti, MDI)

  3. Ongoing Development Regarding Stress Recovery Analysis Using ADAMS (Diego Minen, MDI)

  4. Application Example of Modal Stress Recovery in the Railway Industry (Diego Minen, MDI)

  5. Ongoing Development Regarding Vibration Analysis Using ADAMS (Diego Minen, MDI)

  6. Implementation of the Wheel-Rail Element in ADAMS/Rail Version 10.1 (Walter Kik, ArgeCare)

  7. Gangway Movements with ADAMS/Rail (Erik Sikma and Edward de Jong, NedTrain Consulting, on behalf of Bombardier Transportation Brugge, Belgium)

  8. Design on a New High-Speed Railway Car with Virtual Prototyping Technology (Wang Cheng-Guo, Yuan Liang-Ming, China Acadamy of Railway Siences, He Jian-Qing, Tansan Loco&Car factory, Chu Yong-Ping Hu Jie, Puzhen Loco&Car factory)

  9. Models Development for Applications in Railway Dynamics (João Pombo, Jorge Ambrósio, IDMEC/Instituto Superior Técnico, Lamy Figueiras, António Pereira, Adtranz Portugal)

  10. Dynamic of Railway Bridges (Manfred Zacher, Deutsche Bahn AG)

  11. Simulation of a Scaled Roller Rig (Nicola Bosso, António Gugliotta, Emiliano Napoli, Aurelio Somà, Poiltecnico di Torino)

  12. Investigation of Drive Systems Using ADAMS and MATLAB/SIMULINK (Peter Häse, Adtranz Oerlikon, Christoph Decking, AIS Advanced Information Solution GmbH)

  13. Libary of Components of Pneumatic Suspension System Modeled in MATLAB/SIMULINK and Possibilities of its Application in ADAMS/Rail (Jacek Grajnert, Piotr Wolko, Wroclaw University of Technology)

  14. Derailment Investigation and its Simulation with ADAMS/Rail (E.-S. Lee, A. Schirmer, Technische Universität Berlin, Fachgebiet Schienenfahrzeuge)

  15. Assessment of Corrugation Growth by Simulation Using SFE AKUSRAIL (Klaus Hempelmann, Arnold Groß-Thebing, SFE GmbH and Walter Kik, Argecare)

  16. Simulation of a Freight Bogie with Friction Dampers (Nicola Bosso, Antonio Gugliotta, Aurelio Somà, Politecnico Torino)

  17. Dynamic Modeling and Simulation of Three-Piece North American Freight Vehicle Suspension with Non-Linear Friction Behavior Using ADAMS/Rail (Robert Harder, George Fox University)

Additional Papers available:

  1. Dynamic Simulation of a Freight Car Considering the Car Body's Fexible Property (Si Fang, Rolling Stock Research Institute)

  2. Analysis of a Locomotive Steering Bogie and a Single Airspring Passenger Bogie Using ADAMS/Rail (Kris Wiwatowski, Clyde Engineering, Qinghui Zhong, Compumod)

  3. Improvement in Secondary Suspension of "IRY-IR20" Coach Using ADAMS/Rail (Khare Arvind, Sharma Sanjeev, Singh Ajit, and Rajpurohit Mahesh)

  4. Flexible Multibody Modelisation of a Disc Brake (D.Majcherczak, P Dufrénoy, Laboratoir de Mécanique de Lille)