EN 12663 : 2000

Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Definitions
  2.1 Railway vehicle body
  2.2 Operator of railway vehicles
  2.3 Designer of railway vehicles
  2.4 Vehicle masses
  2.5 Coordinate system
3 Structural requirements
  3.1 General
  3.2 Categories of railway vehicles
  3.3 Uncertainties in railway design parameters
  3.4 Demonstration of static strength and structural
       stability
  3.5 Demonstration of stiffness
  3.6 Demonstration of fatigue strength
4 Design load cases
  4.1 General
  4.2 Longitudinal static loads for the vehicle body
  4.3 Vertical static loads for the vehicle body
  4.4 Superposition of static load cases for the vehicle
       body
  4.5 Proof load cases for equipment attachments
  4.6 General fatigue load cases for the vehicle body
  4.7 Fatigue loads at interfaces
  4.8 Combination of fatigue load cases
  4.9 Modes of vibration
  4.10 Other design loads
5 Permissible stresses for materials
  5.1 Static strength
  5.2 Fatigue strength
6 Requirements of strength demonstration tests
  6.1 Objectives
  6.2 Proof load tests
  6.3 Service or fatigue load tests
  6.4 Vibration tests
  6.5 Impact tests
Annex A (informative) Clauses of this European Standard
        addressing essential requirements or other provisions
        of EU Directives