What you'll learn:
- You will be able to classify rail vehicles and to know their fundamental differences to road vehicles. This will help you to formulate requirements.
- You will know the structural elements of rail vehicles, so you can discuss technical features confidently.
- The knowledge of longitudinal and lateral dynamics will provide you with important basics to perform your own calculations.
- You will learn the basics of manufacturing rail vehicles, which will help you to understand the processes of rail vehicles.
The rail industry is thriving worldwide and offers plenty of interesting jobs. The design andmanufacturing of rail vehicles is different from other engineering tasks in several aspects. Thiscourse will introduce you to the most important differences in order toprepare you for a potentialcareer in rail.
Learn the basics of rail vehicle engineering to work in sustainable transportation:
- Learn to classify rail vehicles according to operation or vehicle type
- Get to know the main differences between road and rail transport
- Identify structural elements of rail vehicles and their requirements
- Understand longitudinal and lateral dynamics of rail vehicles, including hunting movement andwheel rail contact
- Find out how rail vehicles are manufactured
This course will help you find out why rail vehicles are designed as they are and how this links tooperational requirements.
Thecourse was developed based on introductory lectures held at Aachen university of appliedsciences as part of the course on economics and technology of railways (in German). It providesyou with a primer that helps you to acquire jobs in the booming and future oriented railway industry.
While there are several textbooks on the subject, I don't know of any online course to give youquick access. Even if you wish to use a textbook, this course will help you to enter the subject.
