The railway accident of Eschede - technical background
The railway accident of Eschede - technical background
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DOI：
10.1016/j.engfailanal.2003.11.001
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发表时间：
2004-08-01
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4
通讯作者：
Weisse, B
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作者：
Esslinger, V;Kieselbach, R;Weisse, B
1998年，德国发生了一起严重的铁路事故。在进行初步调查后，该案以过失杀人罪提交法院。事故是由车轮断裂引起的，车轮制造商和铁路公司受到指控。被告聘请了一些专家对事故的不同技术方面进行调查，以进行辩护。2003年春天，法院决定采用一种独特的程序，连续听取所有专家的意见，以尽可能全面地了解不同的意见，并可能找到事故的真实的原因。在法院听取了来自5个不同国家的13名专家的证词后，法院决定中止此案，因为被告的罪行被认为非常小，如果有任何罪行的话，而且进一步的技术调查和专家证词很可能会使法院更接近定罪。故障分析本身不是法院程序的主题，因此没有进行全面调查。听证会的结果是，大多数专家认为，调查结果无法解释这起事故。相反，一个单一的事件或技术材料现象可能引发疲劳裂纹，然后导致事故。由于专家们对事故的所有现实方面都进行了彻底调查，因此只能对此类事件或现象进行推测。(C)2004爱思唯尔有限公司保留所有权利。
In 1998 a very severe railroad accident occurred in Germany. The case went to court for negligent homicide after a preliminary investigation had been performed. The accident had been caused by fracture of a wheel and the manufacturer of the wheel and the railroad company were accused. The defendants engaged a number of experts to investigate the different technical aspects of the accident for their defence. In spring 2003 the court decided to employ an unique procedure, to hear all experts consecutively to get the best possible overview of the different opinions and possibly find the real cause of the accident. After the court had heard the testimony of these 13 experts from 5 different countries it decided to discontinue the case since the guilt of the accused was deemed to be very small, if there was any guilt at all and that further technical investigations and expert testimony would most probably bring the court no nearer to a conviction. A failure analysis proper was not the subject of the court procedure and therefore a complete investigation was not carried out. The result of the hearing was in the opinion of most experts, that the accident could not be explained by the results of the investigations performed. Rather a singular incident or technological material phenomenon could have initiated the fatigue crack, which then caused the accident. Since all realistic aspects of the accident had been thoroughly investigated by the experts, only speculations on such incidents or phenomena were possible. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.