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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

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
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
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
The influence of structural response on ballast performance on a high speed railway
D. Milne, L. Le Pen, W. Powrie, D.J. Thompson, G.V.R Watson, S. Morley & M. Hayward, 2014
Type: conference