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BS EN 15227:2020

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Railway applications. Crashworthiness requirements for rail vehicles

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Language(s)

English

Published date

16-04-2020

This document specifies crashworthiness requirements applicable to new designs of: — locomotives, — driving vehicles operating in passenger and freight trains; — passenger rail vehicles operating in passenger trains (such as trams, metros, mainline trains).

This document specifies crashworthiness requirements applicable to new designs of:

— locomotives,

— driving vehicles operating in passenger and freight trains;

— passenger rail vehicles operating in passenger trains (such as trams, metros, mainline trains).

This document identifies common methods of providing passive safety that can be adapted to suit individual vehicle requirements.

This document specifies the characteristics of reference obstacle models for use with the design collision scenarios.

This document also specifies the requirements and methods for demonstrating that the passive safety objectives have been achieved by comparison with existing proven designs, numerical simulation, component or full-size tests, or a combination of all these methods.

Committee
RAE/3/-/11
DocumentType
Standard
ISBN
9780580854385
Pages
62
ProductNote
THIS STANDARD ALSO REFERS TO prEN 17343:2019, PREN 16186:2019
PublisherName
British Standards Institution
Status
Current
Supersedes

Standards Relationship
EN 15227:2020 Identical

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