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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).
  • 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

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

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
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
Proving MEMS technologies for smarter railway infrastructure
David Milne,
Louis Le Pen,
Geoffrey Watson,
David Thompson,
William Powrie,
Mick Hayward,
& Simon Morlery
, 2016 , Procedia Engineering , 143 , 1077--1084
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2016.06.222
Type: article
Evaluating railway track support stiffness from trackside measurements in the absence of wheel load data
Louis Le Pen,
David Milne,
David Thompson,
& William Powrie
, 2016 , Canadian Geotechnical Journal , 53 (7) , 1156--1166
DOI: 10.1139/cgj-2015-0268
Type: article
Measuring acceleration of ballast particles at track level
David Milne,
Louis Le Pen,
Geoff Watson,
David Thompson,
William Powrie,
M. Hayward,
& S. Morley
, 2016
DOI: 10.4203/ccp.110.8
Type: conference
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