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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

Use of a reciprocity technique to measure the radiation efficiency of a vibrating structure
Giacomo Squicciarini,
Azma Putra,
David J. Thompson,
Xianying Zhang,
& Mohd A. Salim
, 2015 , Applied Acoustics , 89 , 107--121
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2014.09.013
Type: article
The effect of temperature on railway rolling noise
Giacomo Squicciarini,
David Thompson,
Martin Toward,
& Rebecca Cottrell
, 2015 , Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit , 230 (8) , 1--32
DOI: 10.1177/0954409715614337
Type: article
Experimental procedures for testing the performance of rail dampers
Giacomo Squicciarini,
Martin Toward,
& David Thompson
, 2015 , Journal of Sound and Vibration , 359 , 21--39
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsv.2015.07.007
Type: article
The behaviour of railway level crossings: insights through field monitoring
L. Le Pen,
G.V.R Watson,
W. Powrie,
G. Yeo,
P. Weston,
& C. Roberts
, 2014 , Transportation Geotechnics , 1--13
DOI: 10.1016/j.trgeo.2014.05.002
Type: article
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