Abstract: An important consideration in the design of air cushion and magnetic suspensions is the power required to suspend or levitate the vehicle in equilibrium. Since this power level increases with ...

Abstract: The design and construction of a guideway for ground transportation vehicles involve compromises between the desired smoothness and the necessary sacrifices in regard to expense and time to ...

Abstract: An analytical model is presented for calculating the power spectral density of relatively short wavelength guideway irregularities associated with surface roughness. The results are presented in ...

Abstract: A primitive vehicle suspension system coupling a simple vehicle model to a guideway having random irregularities is defined. The optimum linear suspension which minimizes a linear combination of ...