But when I turned to look, the cable on the downhill side was indeed no longer threaded through the guiding wheels atop the support tower behind us.
Except the walking wheels, there are guiding wheels and stabilizing wheels on both sides of the bogie, which clamp on both sides of the track beam, to ensure the vehicle safely and smoothly running along the track [1].
As you turn into the corner, you must be almost completely off the brakes, but still lightly on them, to allow maximal traction to the guiding wheels.
A spotter is a person that looks for what you are unable to see from inside the vehicle and will help guide wheel placement.
When steady wheels on one side and guide wheels on the opposite side leave the track surface, the flexibility coefficient is 0.651.
Despite the success in Curitiba, the extension of BRT stopped due to the oil crisis in the decade of 1980, when we could only mention as a positive aspect the creation of the "mechanically guided busways" in Essen (Germany) and other European cities, although this new concept of rail guided wheels was not widely accepted.
And its enormous steering wheel guided the wheels straight and true, although its vacuum-assisted drum brakes provided somewhat uncertain stopping power.
By converting the vertical stiffness of spring on the tumbler of guide wheels into the radial stiffness of guide wheel, the equivalent radial stiffness of guide wheel K g can be obtained.
As shown in the figure, the left rear guide wheel of the front bogie, the right front guide wheel of the front bogie, the left rear guide wheel of the back bogie and the left front guide wheel of the back bogie all experience load increase.
Open image in new window Fig. 10 Load variation regularity of each wheel in the bogie, a guide wheel radial force, b steady wheel radial force, c walking wheel radial force, d walking wheel cornering force.
