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

Staff

Lead researchers

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

Connect with William

Email: W.Powrie@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor David Thompson MA PhD CEng FIMechE FIOA FHEA

Professor of Railway Noise and Vibration

Research interests

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

Connect with David

Email: djt@isvr.soton.ac.uk

Dr Zhiwei Hu

Associate Professor

Connect with Zhiwei

Email: Z.Hu@soton.ac.uk

Professor Joel Smethurst BEng PhD GMICE FHEA

Professor

Research interests

Deterioration of geotechnical infrastructure subject to both seasonal cycles of wetting and drying and applied traffic loading
The effect of extreme weather events and climate change on the performance of earthworks (cuttings and embankments) and flood levees
The effects of vegetation transpiration and root reinforcement on the performance of earthworks

Connect with Joel

Email: J.A.SMETHURST@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

The influence of variation in track level and support system stiffness over longer lengths of track for track performance and vehicle track interaction

David Milne, John Harkness, Louis Le Pen & William Powrie, 2019, Vehicle System Dynamics

DOI: 10.1080/00423114.2019.1677920

Type: article

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

Monitoring and repair of isolated trackbed defects on a ballasted railway

David Milne, Louis Le Pen, Geoff Watson, David Thompson, William Powrie, Mick Hayward & Simon Morley, 2018, Transportation Geotechnics, 17(Part A), 61-68

DOI: 10.1016/j.trgeo.2018.09.002

Type: article

Automated processing of railway track deflection signals obtained from velocity and acceleration measurements

David Milne, Louis Le Pen, William Powrie & David Thompson, 2018, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

DOI: 10.1177/0954409718762172

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

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

Properties of train load frequencies and their applications

David Milne, Louis Le Pen, David Thompson & William Powrie, 2017, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 397, 123-140

DOI: 10.1016/j.jsv.2017.03.006

Type: article