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Development and role of structure in railway ballast

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor William Powrie

Professor of Geotechnical Engineering

Research interests

  • Railway track and trackbed behaviour and performance.
  • Geotechnical transportation infrastructure (earthworks, retaining walls, tunnels).
  • Groundwater and groundwater control.

Research outputs

Modelling the effects of trafficking and tamping on scaled railway ballast in triaxial tests
Sinthuja Aingaran,
Louis Le Pen,
Antonios Zervos,
& William Powrie
, 2018 , Transportation Geotechnics , 15 , 84--90
DOI: 10.1016/j.trgeo.2018.04.004
Type: article
Numerical modelling of railway ballast at the particle scale
S. Ahmed,
J. Harkness,
L. Le Pen,
W. Powrie,
& A. Zervos
, 2016 , International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics , 40 (5) , 713--737
DOI: 10.1002/nag.2424
Type: article
Resin recovery and the use of computed tomography for quantitative image analysis of railway ballast
L. Le Pen,
S. Ahmed,
A. Zervos,
J. Harkness,
W. Powrie,
& J. Pombo
, 2014
DOI: 10.4203/ccp.104.130
Type: conference
Sleeper end resistance of ballasted railway tracks
L. Le Pen,
A.R. Bhandari,
& W. Powrie
, 2014 , Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering , 140 (5)
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0001088
Type: article
Dependence of shape on particle size for a crushed rock railway ballast
L. Le Pen,
W. Powrie,
A. Zervos,
S. Ahmed,
& S. Aingaran
, 2013 , Granular Matter , 15 (6) , 849--861
DOI: 10.1007/s10035-013-0437-5
Type: article
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