Klaus Knothe, Master in Mathematics and Civil Engineering TU Darmstadt 1963. Promotion (PhD) Mechanical Engineering, TU Berlin 1967; Habilitation Mechanical Engineering, TU Berlin 1969; Professor at TU Berlin since 1970; retired 2002; several Research Projects together with Deutsche Bahn: Lectures (among others) in Finite Element Method, Structural Dynamics and Rail Vehicle Dynamics; publication of more than 260 papers, among them 4 books. Member of the Editorial Board of Vehicle System Dynamics.Sebastian Stichel has a Master in Vehicle Engineering from the Technical University Berlin 1992 and a PhD from the same University 1996.He joined Bombardier in Västerås in 2000. From 200 to 2010 he was Manager for Vehicle Dynamics at Bombardier. Since 2010 he is Professor in Rail Vehicle Dynamics at KTH Stockholm.

• Introduction.- Modeling of vehicle, track and excitation.- Modeling of wheel/rail contact.- Vertical dynamics, equations of motion and free vibrations.- Forced vertical vibrations and frequency domain solution.- Random vibrations.- Human perception of vibrations: ride comfort.- Introduction to lateral dynamics.- Equations of motion for lateral dynamics.- Lateral eigenbehavior of a wheelset.- Lateral eigenbehavior and stability of bogies.- Stability of bogie vehicles.- Non-linear stability investigations.- Quasi-static curving behavior. - Load collectives for vehicle components.- Appendix.

Klaus Knothe, Master in Mathematics and Civil Engineering TU Darmstadt 1963. Promotion (PhD) Mechanical Engineering, TU Berlin 1967; Habilitation Mechanical Engineering, TU Berlin 1969; Professor at TU Berlin since 1970; retired 2002; several Research Projects together with Deutsche Bahn: Lectures (among others) in Finite Element Method, Structural Dynamics and Rail Vehicle Dynamics; publication of more than 260 papers, among them 4 books. Member of the Editorial Board of Vehicle System Dynamics.Sebastian Stichel has a Master in Vehicle Engineering from the Technical University Berlin 1992 and a PhD from the same University 1996.He joined Bombardier in Västerås in 2000. From 200 to 2010 he was Manager for Vehicle Dynamics at Bombardier. Since 2010 he is Professor in Rail Vehicle Dynamics at KTH Stockholm.

• Introduction.- Modeling of vehicle, track and excitation.- Modeling of wheel/rail contact.- Vertical dynamics, equations of motion and free vibrations.- Forced vertical vibrations and frequency domain solution.- Random vibrations.- Human perception of vibrations: ride comfort.- Introduction to lateral dynamics.- Equations of motion for lateral dynamics.- Lateral eigenbehavior of a wheelset.- Lateral eigenbehavior and stability of bogies.- Stability of bogie vehicles.- Non-linear stability investigations.- Quasi-static curving behavior. - Load collectives for vehicle components.- Appendix.

Klaus Knothe, Master in Mathematics and Civil Engineering TU Darmstadt 1963. Promotion (PhD) Mechanical Engineering, TU Berlin 1967; Habilitation Mechanical Engineering, TU Berlin 1969; Professor at TU Berlin since 1970; retired 2002; several Research Projects together with Deutsche Bahn: Lectures (among others) in Finite Element Method, Structural Dynamics and Rail Vehicle Dynamics; publication of more than 260 papers, among them 4 books. Member of the Editorial Board of Vehicle System Dynamics.Sebastian Stichel has a Master in Vehicle Engineering from the Technical University Berlin 1992 and a PhD from the same University 1996.He joined Bombardier in Västerås in 2000. From 200 to 2010 he was Manager for Vehicle Dynamics at Bombardier. Since 2010 he is Professor in Rail Vehicle Dynamics at KTH Stockholm.

• Introduction.- Modeling of vehicle, track and excitation.- Modeling of wheel/rail contact.- Vertical dynamics, equations of motion and free vibrations.- Forced vertical vibrations and frequency domain solution.- Random vibrations.- Human perception of vibrations: ride comfort.- Introduction to lateral dynamics.- Equations of motion for lateral dynamics.- Lateral eigenbehavior of a wheelset.- Lateral eigenbehavior and stability of bogies.- Stability of bogie vehicles.- Non-linear stability investigations.- Quasi-static curving behavior. - Load collectives for vehicle components.- Appendix.