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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).

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Other researchers

Doctor Antonios Zervos

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • The mechanics of railway ballast and ballasted track.
  • The mechanics of catastrophic landslides.

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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
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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