Cant deficiency
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cant-deficiency-314-2264247
title:
Cant deficiency
text:
In railway engineering, cant deficiency is defined in the context of travel of a rail vehicle at constant speed on a constant-radius curve. Cant itself refers to the superelevation of the curve, that is, the difference between the elevations of the outside and inside rails. Cant deficiency is present when a rail vehicle's speed on the curve is greater than the speed at which the components of wheel to rail force are normal to the plane of the track. In that case, the resultant force exerts on th
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When a rail vehicle's speed on a curved rail is high enough to begin tipping over
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cant_deficiency
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2024-01-10T17:51:19Z
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