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Research project

Development and role of structure in railway ballast

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
Connect with William

Email: [email protected]

Research outputs

Modelling the effects of trafficking and tamping on scaled railway ballast in triaxial tests
Sinthuja Aingaran, Louis Le Pen, Antonios Zervos & William Powrie, 2018, Transportation Geotechnics, 15, 84-90
DOI: 10.1016/j.trgeo.2018.04.004
Type: article
Numerical modelling of railway ballast at the particle scale
S. Ahmed, J. Harkness, L. Le Pen, W. Powrie & A. Zervos, 2016, International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 40(5), 713-737
DOI: 10.1002/nag.2424
Type: article
Sleeper end resistance of ballasted railway tracks
L. Le Pen, A.R. Bhandari & W. Powrie, 2014, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 140(5)
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0001088
Type: article
Resin recovery and the use of computed tomography for quantitative image analysis of railway ballast
L. Le Pen, S. Ahmed, A. Zervos, J. Harkness, W. Powrie & J. Pombo, 2014
DOI: 10.4203/ccp.104.130
Type: conference
Dependence of shape on particle size for a crushed rock railway ballast
L. Le Pen, W. Powrie, A. Zervos, S. Ahmed & S. Aingaran, 2013, Granular Matter, 15(6), 849-861
DOI: 10.1007/s10035-013-0437-5
Type: article