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In the case of wheelwise weighing of locomotives, the redistribution of wheel loads as a consequence of their different height on the scales can introduce substantial errors into the measurement results.
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For these errors to have an acceptable value (about 0.5%), the design of locomotive scales should provide such placement of all wheels of the locomotive being weighed for which their points of contact with the load-receiving devices are in one horizontal plane at the time of taking the readings (with a deviation of no more than 0.2–0.3 mm), which is achieved most simply in scales with stationary weight-measuring instruments and segmented tracks.
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Translated from Izmeritel'naya Tekhnika, No. 5, pp. 25–27, May, 1971.
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Vishenkov, A.S., Popov, A.V. Main component of the error of wheelwise weighing of locomotives. Meas Tech 14, 700–703 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00987403
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