I've just joined the railway forum as my upcoming project at university will be related to transport and, you guessed it, rail!
I'm looking for some help to figure out the degree of curvature on a railroad that I plan on designing.
I've read the for rail, one should use the degree of curvature using the chord method... However, the whole concept of calculating this out seems very overwhelming!
I've come across a useful website, which contains the 'instructions', but I can't seem to work it out...
It's figure 9.7 that is relevant to what I want to calculate, if anybody has experience with such mathematics.
Thank you
http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...0-00-1/CH9.htm
The only 'reference' of my plan is a general outline of the proposed rail line. It's only a guidance so of course, it will change but I figured that something is better than nothing!
https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/rail.png?w=9bb58663