PCaDA statement of methods |
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| Authors: | Andrea Collina Stefano Bruni Andrea Zuin |
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| Institution: | Dipartimento di Meccanica, Politecnico di Milano, Via La Masa 1, 20156 Milano, Italy |
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| Abstract: | This paper describes the methods for the numerical simulation of pantograph–catenary interaction developed at Politecnico di Milano and implemented in the simulation software PCaDA (Pantograph–Catenary Dynamic Analysis). The paper also describes how these methods were applied in the pantograph–catenary interaction benchmark treated in this special issue and provides some evaluation of the results obtained using PCaDA in this benchmark. |
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| Keywords: | pantograph-catenary interaction numerical simulation finite elements |
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