COACH BODY OF RAILWAY VEHICLE

摘要

The coach body of a railway vehicle consists essentially of horizontal and vertical panels (1, 2) with the horizontal panels (1) which form a floor as well as a roof and the vertical panels, in particular the side panels providing apertures (2a) which allow the installation of at least one window and one access door. The horizontal and vertical panels (1, 2) are composed by fibre reinforced split modules (3) with the joint running at right angle to the longitudinal axis. Two of these modules (3) which are complementary and juxtaposed are each time connected by a load-transmitting joint via their horizontal panels (1) in the centre of the vehicle (4) thus forming a longitudinal section of the coach body. The length of the coach body is made up by the load-transmitting assembly of a number of the above mentioned longitudinal sections by their abutment points (5) which extend at right ang le to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle.