Railway applications - Measurement of vertical forces on wheels and wheelsets - Part 1: On-track measurement sites for vehicles in service

The scope of this European Standard is restricted to the measurement of vertical wheel forces and calculation of derived quantities on vehicles in service. Measurements of a train in motion are used to estimate the static forces. Derived quantities can be: - axle loads; - side to side load differences of a wheel set, bogie, vehicle; - overall mass of vehicle or train set; - mean axle load of a vehicle or train set. This standard is not concerned with the evaluation of: - dynamic wheel force or derived quantities; - wheel condition (i.e. shape, profile, flats); - lateral wheel force; - combination of lateral and vertical wheel forces.