Also, as we are talking about railway track geometry, the versine measurements are small compared to the radius of the curve so I think we can neglect the angle of the versine measurements relative to the chord.
yes you're right the versines are measured perpendicular to the chord. I sketched that up in Word and just couldn't get the lines in the right place!
The chord is advanced along the profile at regular intervals. Let's say that the interval is 1m and the chord length is 20m, the distance AC is...
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So the first picture hopefully describes what's going on. We have a profile P on which we lay our chord AB at two points, we then measure the offset from the chord to the profile at two points C and D. These offsets are termed the versines, which I've labelled u and v. This process is...
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I was wondering if anyone can help me. I don’t have a homework problem, but a problem I have encountered at work. I am a mechanical engineer working in the railway industry and I am struggling with a problem of reconstructing the vertical geometry of a rail in terms of height and...