Train Wreck

The Forensics of Rail Disasters
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4214-2707-2
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 600 g

Gripping forensic tales explain how and why trains crash.

Trains are massive—with some weighing 15,000 tons or more. When these metal monsters collide or go off the rails, their destructive power becomes clear. In this book, George Bibel presents riveting tales of trains gone wrong, the detective work of finding out why, and the safety improvements that were born of tragedy.

Train Wreck details numerous crashes, including 17 in which more than 200 people were killed. Readers follow investigators as they sift through the rubble and work with computerized event recorders to figure out what happened. Using a mix of eyewitness accounts and scientific explanations, Bibel draws us into a world of forensics and human drama.

Train Wreck is a fascinating exploration of
• runaway trains
• bearing failures
• metal fatigue
• crash testing
• collision dynamics
• bad rails

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bibel, George

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Verkehr: Ratgeber, Sachbuch
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The Railroad Industry (as Seen through Accidents)
Chapter 2. How Trains Crash, Then and Now
Chapter 3. Moderate-Speed Passenger Train Collisions
Chapter 4. Freight Train Collisions
Chapter 5. Avoiding Collisions
Chapter 6. Positive Train Control
Chapter 7. Moving at the Wrong Speed
Chapter 8. Bearing Failures
Chapter 9. Gravity: It's the Law
Chapter 10. More Runaways: Brake Failure
Chapter 11. Broken Rail
Chapter 12. Buckled Track
Epilogue: Safety in the Modern Era
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bibel, George
George Bibel, a former NASA summer faculty fellow, is a professor of mechanical engineering at the School of Engineering and Mines, University of North Dakota. He recently completed the Air Line Pilots Association Advanced Accident Investigation Course. He is the author of Plane Crash: The Forensics of Aviation Disasters and Train Wreck: The Forensics of Rail Disasters.

George Bibel is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of North Dakota. He is the author of Beyond the Black Box: The Forensics of Airplane Crashes and the coauthor of Plane Crash: The Forensics of Aviation Disasters.