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Research project

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
Connect with William

Email: [email protected]

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.
Connect with John

Email: [email protected]

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
Connect with David

Email: [email protected]

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

The role of clay content on the response of railway track foundations during free-to-drain cyclic changes in principal stress rotation
Anna Mamou, Christopher Clayton, William Powrie & Jeff Priest, 2019, Transportation Geotechnics, 20, 1-6
DOI: 10.1016/j.trgeo.2019.100246
Type: article
The noise radiated by ballasted and slab tracks
Xianying Zhang, Hongseok Jeong, David Thompson & Giacomo Squicciarini, 2019, Applied Acoustics, 151, 193-205
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2019.03.012
Type: article
Benefits from the remote monitoring of railway assets
John Armstrong & Jonathan Preston, 2019, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Transport, 172(2), 63-72
DOI: 10.1680/jtran.16.00155
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
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