Formulation of a Basic Building Block Model for Interaction of High Speed Vehicles on Flexible Structures

In traditional analyses of vehicle/structure interaction, especially when there are constraints between vehicule masses and the structure, vehicle nominal motion is prescribed a priori, and therefore unaffected by the structure flexibility. In this paper, a concept of nominal motion is defined. General nonlinear equations of motion of a bulding block model, applicable to both wheel-on-rail and magnetically levitated vehicles, are derived