This paper is focused on the field of rail vehicles passive safety. The really intensive research was dedicated to the safety tram front end design in last two years. The main point of this research is to reduce the severity of the consequences of a collision between...

In recent years, Kliman presented a calculation of the fatigue life distribution function (FLDF). Under laboratory conditions, he considered the scatter of material properties of smooth material samples as well as the various random load processes. We focused on the scatter of fatigue&#...