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W Powrie 2015 - EPSRC: Track to the Future

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

Professor Simon Blainey PhD, FRGS, FHEA, MCIHT, CMILT

Professor of Sustainable Transport

Research interests

  • Rail demand and operations modelling
  • GIS and transport
  • Transport decision support systems

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.

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.

Transportation Group

Our research focuses on the interactions between behaviour, infrastructure and operations and how they translate into transport policy and practice.

Research outputs

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
Settlement response of fibre reinforced railway ballast
Edgar Ferro,
Olufemi Ajayi,
Louis Le Pen,
Antonios Zervos,
& William Powrie
, 2016
Type: conference
Sound radiation from railway sleepers
Xianying Zhang,
David Thompson,
& Giacomo Squicciarini
, 2016 , Journal of Sound and Vibration , 369 , 178--194
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsv.2016.01.018
Type: article
Discrete element simulation of railway ballast: modelling cell pressure effects in triaxial tests
John Harkness,
Antonios Zervos,
Louis Le Pen,
Sinthuja Aingaran,
& William Powrie
, 2016 , Granular Matter , 18 (3) , 1--13
DOI: 10.1007/s10035-016-0660-y
Type: article
A review and evaluation of ballast settlement models using results from the Southampton Railway Testing Facility (SRTF)
Taufan Abadi,
Louis Le Pen,
Antonios Zervos,
& William Powrie
, 2016 , Procedia Engineering , 143 , 999--1006
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2016.06.089
Type: article