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Powrie - Track Systems for High Speed Railways: Getting it Right

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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Professor David Thompson MA PhD CEng FIMechE FIOA FHEA

Professor in Railway Noise And Vibration

Research interests

  • Low noise design in railways
  • Ground vibration and ground-borne noise

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Doctor Zhiwei Hu

Associate Professor

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Doctor Joel Smethurst BEng PhD GMICE FHEA

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • The effects of vegetation and climate on the performance of earthworks (cuttings and embankments)
  • The stabilisation of both infrastructure slopes and large landslides using discretely spaced piles

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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanics Group

Our group undertakes research on fundamental fluid dynamics, applied aerodynamics, flow control, flight dynamics and aeroacoustics.

Dynamics Group

The group's research covers a range of topics including fundamental theoretical studies, the development of numerical tools and experimental measurement techniques.

Research outputs

Effect of train speed and track geometry on the ride comfort of high-speed railways based on ISO 2631-1
Chi Liu,
David Thompson,
Michael Griffin,
& Mani Entezami
, 2019 , Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit
DOI: 10.1177/0954409719868050
Type: article
Flow between the train underbody and trackbed around the bogie area and its impact on ballast flight
Jianyue Zhu,
& Zhiwei Hu
, 2017 , Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics , 166 , 20--28
DOI: 10.1016/j.jweia.2017.03.009
Type: article
Full scale measurements of train underbody flows and track forces
D. Soper,
C. Baker,
A. Jackson,
David Milne,
L. Le Pen,
G. Watson,
& W. Powrie
, 2017 , Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics , 169 , 251--264
DOI: 10.1016/j.jweia.2017.07.023
Type: article
Critical train speeds and associated track movements – a case study
A. Duley,
L. Le Pen,
D. Thompson,
W. Powrie,
G.V.R. Watson,
M. Peter,
& C. Andrew
, 2015
Type: conference
Modelling and measurements of critical train speed effects and associated track movements
A. Duley,
L. Le Pen,
D. Thompson,
W. Powrie,
G.V.R. Watson,
M. Peter,
& C. Andrew
, 2014
Type: conference
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