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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).

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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.

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Doctor Antonios Zervos

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • The mechanics of railway ballast and ballasted track.
  • The mechanics of catastrophic landslides.

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Professor David Thompson MA PhD CEng FIMechE FIOA FHEA

Professor in Railway Noise And Vibration

Research interests

  • Low noise design in railways
  • Ground vibration and ground-borne noise

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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

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
An engineering model for the prediction of the sound radiation from a railway track
Xianying Zhang,
David Thompson,
Erika Quaranta,
& Giacomo Squicciarini
, 2019 , Journal of Sound and Vibration , 461
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsv.2019.114921
Type: article
The effect of sleeper interventions on railway track performance
Taufan Abadi,
Louis Le Pen,
Antonios Zervos,
& William Powrie
, 2019 , Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering , 145 (4) , 1--14
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0002022
Type: article
Behaviour of under-track crossings on ballasted railways
William Powrie,
Louis Le Pen,
David Milne,
Geoff Watson,
& John Harkness
, 2019 , Transportation Geotechnics , 21
DOI: 10.1016/j.trgeo.2019.100258
Type: article
The use of the hollow cylinder apparatus to study stress paths relevant to railway track foundations
Anna Mamou,
William Powrie,
Jeff Priest,
& Christopher Clayton
, 2019
DOI: 10.1051/e3sconf/20199202013
Type: conference
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