Impact Energy Absorbtion Characteristics Review on the Initial Design of TTX Mcp Car front-end Structure

기존선 틸팅차량 Mcp Car 차체 설계초안의 충돌에너지 흡수특성 고찰

TTX(Tilting Train Express), which has improved traveling performance on curved track, is being designed in cope with future railway circumstance. Nowadays, in the world, many efforts are focussed on railway safety. Especially, a variety of researches on train crashworthiness have been conducted. As a part of these efforts, some equipments on TTX are designed to reduce fatalities and casualties in crash accidents. This paper introduces impact energy absorbtion characteristics on the initial design of the front end structure. Some comments are made briefly for improvement of initial structural design and future following researches.