Transport of DE-LIGHT: The Design and Prototyping of a Lightweight Crashworthy Rail Vehicle Driver's Cab
Author
Robinson, Mark
Carruthers, Joe
O'Neill, Conor
Ingleton, Stephen
Grasso, Marzio
Attention
2299/16904
Abstract
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