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Railway Track for the 21st Century

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 John Preston

Professor in Rail Transport

Research interests

  • Demand, capacity and cost modelling for sustainable transport infrastructure.
  • The design, monitoring and evaluation of transport interventions designed to promote sustainable choices.
  • The determination of pathways for future mobility transitions to net zero carbon.

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

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

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

Modelling of stress transfer in root-reinforced soils informed by four-dimensional X-ray computed tomography and digital volume correlation data
Daniel Bull,
Joel Smethurst,
Gerrit Meijer,
Ian Sinclair,
Fabrice Pierron,
Tiina Roose,
William Powrie,
& Glyn Bengough
, 2022 , Proceedings of the Royal Society A , 478 (2257)
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2021.0210
Type: article
Saturation and its effect on the resilient modulus of a pavement formation material
Letisha Blackmore,
Christopher R.I. Clayton,
William Powrie,
Jeffrey A. Priest,
& Louise Otter
, 2020 , G{\'e}otechnique , 70 (4) , 292--302
DOI: 10.1680/jgeot.18.P.053
Type: article
Measurements of the high frequency dynamic stiffness of railway ballast and subgrade
Xianying Zhang,
David Thompson,
Hongseok Jeong,
Martin Toward,
David Herron,
Chris Jones,
& Nicolas Vincent
, 2020 , Journal of Sound and Vibration , 468
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsv.2019.115081
Type: article
The noise radiated by ballasted and slab tracks
Xianying Zhang,
Hongseok Jeong,
David Thompson,
& Giacomo Squicciarini
, 2019 , Applied Acoustics , 151 , 193--205
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2019.03.012
Type: article
The role of clay content on the response of railway track foundations during free-to-drain cyclic changes in principal stress rotation
Anna Mamou,
Christopher Clayton,
William Powrie,
& Jeff Priest
, 2019 , Transportation Geotechnics , 20 , 1--6
DOI: 10.1016/j.trgeo.2019.100246
Type: article
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