The design and prototyping of a lightweight crashworthy rail vehicle driver's cab

Dr Joe Carruthers; Conor O'Neill; Dr Stephen Ingleton; Professor Mark Robinson; Marzio Grasso; Professor John Roberts

The design and prototyping of a lightweight crashworthy rail vehicle driver's cab Lookup NU author(s) Dr Joe Carruthers Conor O'Neill Dr Stephen Ingleton Professor Mark Robinson Marzio Grasso Professor John Roberts



Author(s)		Carruthers J, O'Neill C, Ingleton S, Robinson M, Grasso M, Roberts J, Prockat J, Simmonds G
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Publication type		Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Conference Name		9th World Congress on Railway Research
Conference Location		Lille, France
Year of Conference		2011
Date		22-26 May 2011
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This paper describes the design, validation and prototyping of a lightweight crashworthy rail vehicle driver’s cab using advanced composite sandwich materials. By exploiting the lightweighting, energy absorption and design integration benefits of composites, an innovative modular cab structure was developed that provides significant savings in mass, cost and part count compared to conventional cab designs.