Abstract: A method for modular manufacturing of a car body shell of a rail vehicle includes manufacturing at least two directly adjoining large assemblies of the car body shell in parallel. The large assemblies are selected from among the group including an underframe, a side wall, a roof, an end wall, and a head of the body. The at least two large assemblies manufactured in parallel as described above are joined by structural adhesive bonding. A car body shell of a rail vehicle manufactured by the method is also provided.

Abstract: A wall configuration for a vehicle includes a sandwich panel having a core layer provided on either side with a respective metallic cover layer. Edge portions of the cover layers on at least one side of the sandwich panel project from an end face of the core layer. A metal connecting profile has an edge portion inserted into an interspace between the two projecting edge portions of the cover layers. Inner sides of the projecting edge portions of the cover layers are each structurally connected to an associated outer surface of the inserted edge portion of the connecting profile by a respective structural adhesive or bonding layer. At least one of the projecting edge portions of the cover layers is electrically conductively connected to the abutting the edge portion of the connecting profile by a weld seam at a distance from the adhesive-bonding layer.

Abstract: A rail vehicle window profile has window corners, a vertical stop frame, a first horizontal stop frame extending from a window corner, and a second horizontal stop frame extending from another one of the window corners. The vertical stop frame contains a profiled section which has a receiving region for an air-conditioning duct.