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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
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Email: [email protected]

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
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Email: [email protected]

Dr Zhiwei Hu

Associate Professor
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Email: [email protected]

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
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Email: [email protected]

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

The influence of variation in track level and support system stiffness over longer lengths of track for track performance and vehicle track interaction
David Milne, John Harkness, Louis Le Pen & William Powrie, 2019, Vehicle System Dynamics
DOI: 10.1080/00423114.2019.1677920
Type: article
Effect of train speed and track geometry on the ride comfort of high-speed railways based on ISO 2631-1
Chi Liu, David Thompson, Michael Griffin & Mani Entezami, 2019, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit
DOI: 10.1177/0954409719868050
Type: article
Monitoring and repair of isolated trackbed defects on a ballasted railway
David Milne, Louis Le Pen, Geoff Watson, David Thompson, William Powrie, Mick Hayward & Simon Morley, 2018, Transportation Geotechnics, 17(Part A), 61-68
DOI: 10.1016/j.trgeo.2018.09.002
Type: article
Automated processing of railway track deflection signals obtained from velocity and acceleration measurements
David Milne, Louis Le Pen, William Powrie & David Thompson, 2018, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit
DOI: 10.1177/0954409718762172
Type: article
Full scale measurements of train underbody flows and track forces
D. Soper, C. Baker, A. Jackson, David Milne, L. Le Pen, G. Watson & W. Powrie, 2017, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 169, 251-264
DOI: 10.1016/j.jweia.2017.07.023
Type: article