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The Railway Track and Its Long Term Behaviour: A Handbook for a Railway Track of High Quality (Springer Tracts on Transportation and Traffic)
Konstantinos Tzanakakis
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Description for The Railway Track and Its Long Term Behaviour: A Handbook for a Railway Track of High Quality (Springer Tracts on Transportation and Traffic)
Paperback. This book presents comprehensive functional knowledge of railway track behavior, detailing the function of the various track components and describing their interaction as elements of the track system and the interaction of the track with railway vehicles. Series: Springer Tracts on Transportation and Traffic. Num Pages: 446 pages, biography. BIC Classification: TBC; TBD; TN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 682.
A proper quality of a track and other infrastructure objects represents a basic requirement for train safety and punctuality. Most of the physical systems and their components deteriorate over time. This affects performance and may lead to failures. Albert Einstein said, You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. Only if we understand how the whole system works, taking into account its imperfections and how they influence its quality and performance will we be able to learn the rules of the game and play better. ... Read more
A proper quality of a track and other infrastructure objects represents a basic requirement for train safety and punctuality. Most of the physical systems and their components deteriorate over time. This affects performance and may lead to failures. Albert Einstein said, You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. Only if we understand how the whole system works, taking into account its imperfections and how they influence its quality and performance will we be able to learn the rules of the game and play better. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer
Condition
New
Series
Springer Tracts on Transportation and Traffic
Number of Pages
414
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783642447020
SKU
V9783642447020
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99-15
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