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1. Basic Study of Railways After World War II

Author : Tetsuo Shimomae

Published in: Birth of the Shinkansen

Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore

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In December 1946, exactly one year after Matsudaira moved to RTRI, Hideo Shima.

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Hideo Shima joined the Ministry of Transport in 1925. He later became director of the vehicle department, chief engineer of Japanese National Railways, and finally president of National Space Development Agency of Japan.

Klingel, J., “Über den Lauf von Eisenbahnwagen auf gerader Bahn”, Organ fürdie Fortshritte des Eisenbahnwesens, no. 20, 1883.

Tadanao Miki joined the Japanese Imperial Navy in 1933 and worked as an airplane designer at Naval Aviation Technology Center, moved to RTRI in 1945 as a senior researcher , and later became head of the railcar body laboratory of RTRI.

Kazuo Nakamura joined the Imperial Japanese Army in 1942 and moved to RTRI from Nakajima Aircraft Co. Ltd. in 1946 as a senior researcher.

F. Carter, “On the stability of running locomotives,” Proc. Roy. Soc., 1928.

Mamoru Hosaka joined the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1942, moved to RTRI in 1945, studied at MIT for one year in 1952, and later developed a train seat reservation system, the first online computer system in Japan. He subsequently became a professor at the University of Tokyo and the chairman of the Information Processing Society of Japan.

Masaharu Kunieda joined the Ministry of Transportation in 1946. After serving as a senior researcher at RTRI, he later became the head of the vehicle dynamics laboratory of RTRI and the chairman of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers.

The nine principles were the economic policies aimed at stabilizing the postwar Japanese economy; they were ordered by the General Headquarters (GHQ) on December 19, 1948.

Tadanao Miki joined the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1933, moved to RTRI in 1945 as a senior researcher, and later became the head of the vehicle structure laboratory of RTRI.

Kazuo Nakamura joined the Imperial Japanese Army in 1942 and moved to RTRI from Nakajima Aircraft Manufacturing Co. Ltd. in 1946 as a senior researcher.

Yoichi Hoshino joined the Ministry of Railways in 1931. He later became the head of the track laboratory of RTRI.

Ammann, Guenewald; Versuche uber die Wirkung von Langskraften im Gleis, Organ, No. 29, 1929.

Ichizo Horikoshi was a then track engineer at the Railway Minister's Office Research Institute (now RTRI).

Horikoshi, I., “On the Buckling of Rails”, Research Materials, no. 18, Railway Minister’s Office Research Institute, 1934, p. 14.

Minoru Numata joined the Ministry of Railway in 1948. After serving as a senior researcher at RTRI, he became a professor at Kyushu University.

Numata, M., “Buckling Strength of Long Welded Rail,” Railway Technical research report, n o.721, RTRI, 1970, p. 65.

Yutaka Sato joined the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1943, moved to RTRI in 1946 as a senior researcher, and later became head of the track laboratory of RTRI.

Hajime Kawanabe joined the Imperial Japanese Army in 1941, moved to RTRI in 1945 as a senior researcher, and later became the head of the signal laboratory at RTRI.

Genji Hirokawa, Susumu Ukai, Kensaku Takahashi, “Electrical Characteristics of Track Circuits at Audio Frequency Domain” (in Japanese), RTRI Research Materials, n o. 1, RTRI, 1944.

Eiji Itakura joined JNR in 1955. After serving as a senior researcher at RTRI, he became the head of the signal laboratory of RTRI.

Masaru Iwase joined the Ministry of Transport in 1945. After served as a senior researcher at RTRI, he later became the head of the power collection laboratory of RTRI and a professor at Nippon Institute of Technology.

The “uplift” is the amount of displacement of contact wire pushed up by pantographs.

Sumini Fujii was an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Tokyo at the time; he later became a professor at the university, then dean of the Faculty of Engineering, president of Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, president of Japan Society of Robotics, and president of Toyama Prefectural University.

Tadashi Matsudaira, “From Zerofighter to Shinkansen (in Japanese),” Journal of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, no. 667, 1974, p. 32.

Tadashi Matsudaira, “A Retrospective of Research and Development on the Tokaido Shinkansen (in Japanese),” Journal of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, no. 646, 1972, p. 102.

Tadashi Matsudaira, “Natural Frequencies of Coarches and Electric Railcars (in Japanese),” RTRI Research Materials, no. 2, Railway Technical Research Institute (RTRI), 1949, p. 3.

Tadashi Matsudaira, Masaharu Kunieda, Keiji Yokose, “Theory of Forced Vertical Vibration of Bogie Cars, with Special Reference to Optimum Values of Stiffness of Spring and Friction (in Japanese)”, RTRI Research Materials, no. 8, RTRI, 1951, p. 9.

Tadashi Matsudaira, “Basic Theoretical Considerations on Hunting Motion of 2-Axle Bogie (in Japanese),” Paper no.63 at the third study meeting, 1947.

Masaharu Kunieda, “Measurement of Train Vibration (in Japanese),” Paper no. 101 at the fourth study meeting, 1948.

Tadashi Matsudaira, “Shimmy of Axle with a Pair of Wheels (in Japanese),” RTRI Research Materials, no. 19, RTRI, 1952, p. 25.

Tadashi Matsudaira, Taiji Aizawa, Yoshio Mukaide, Keiji Yokose, “Train Speed-up through the Improvement of Spring Suspension System of 2-axle Freight Cars (in Japanese)”, RTRI Research Materials, no. 18, RTRI, 1953, p. 5.

Tadanao Miki, “Reminiscence of Odakyu Type 3000 SE Car Design (in Japanese)”, Japan Railfan Magazine, no. 375, Koyusha, 1992, p. 92.

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Tadashi Matsudaira, “Memories of 24 Years in the Post-War RTRI (in Japanese)”, 10 -Year History: 70th Anniversary, RTRI, 1977, p. 291.

11.

Shuuzo Nkae, “Exploring the Roots of the Strain Gauge (in Japanese)”, Railway Research Reviw, no.1, RTRI, 2009, p. 1.

12.

Kazuo Nakamura et al., “The Dynamic Problems of the Wheel Axles of Railway Vehicles (Report 1) (in Japanese)”, RTRI Research Materials, no. 11, RTRI, 1956, p. 8.

13.

Tadanao Miki, “A Concept for the Super Express (4.5 Hours between Tokyo and Osaka) (in Japanese)”, The Engineering Journal for Transportation, no. 89, Kotsu Kyuoryokukai, 1954, p. 2.

14.

Yoichi Hoshino, “Thermal Expansion of Very Long Rails (in Japanese)”, RTRI Research Materials, no. 2, RTRI, 1951, p. 16.

15.

Fumikatsu Tachibana, Masahiko Tanaka, Hdeaki Suzuki, Minoru Numata, “Buckling Experiment of Curved Track (in Japanese),” RTRI Research Materials, no. 7, RTRI, 1957, p. 4.

16.

Yutaka Sato, “The Influence of Train Speed upon Track Strength (in Japanese)”, RTRI Research Materials, no. 18, RTRI, 1952, p. 1.

17.

Hajime Kawanabe, “Aiming for Innovation in Signal Technology (in Japanese)”, Signal Engineering of Japan, no. 11, The Signal Association of Japan, 1958, p. 25.

18.

Eiji Itakura, “The Development of the AF Track Circuit (in Japanese)”, History of the Development of Railway Signals, The Signal Association of Japan, 1980, pp. 282–283.

19.

Murray Hughes, The Second Age of Rail - A History of High-Speed Trains, 2nd edition, The History Press, 2020, pp. 19–20.

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21.

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Title: Basic Study of Railways After World War II
Author: Tetsuo Shimomae
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Book: Birth of the Shinkansen
Print ISBN: 978-981-16-6537-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-16-6538-7

Copyright Year: 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6538-7_1

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