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Research project

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).
  • Groundwater and groundwater control.
Other researchers

Professor David Thompson MA PhD CEng FIMechE FIOA FHEA

Professor

Research interests

  • Low noise design in railways
  • Ground vibration and ground-borne noise
  • Aerodynamic noise from high-speed trains

Dr Zhiwei Hu

Associate Professor

Dr 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
  • The mechanical stabilisation of soil by plants roots

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Chi Liu,
Michael Griffin,
& Mani Entezami
, 2019 , Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit
Type: article
Louis Le Pen,
Mick Hayward,
& Simon Morley
, 2018 , Transportation Geotechnics , 17 (Part A) , 61--68
Type: article
Louis Le Pen,
, 2018 , Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit
Type: article
Jianyue Zhu,
, 2017 , Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics , 166 , 20--28
Type: article
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