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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
Connect with William

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
Connect with David

Email: [email protected]

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
Connect with Simon

Email: [email protected]

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]

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

A behavioural framework for fibre reinforced gravel
Olufemi Ajayi, Louis Le Pen, Antonios Zervos & William Powrie, 2017, Géotechnique, 67(1), 56-68
DOI: 10.1680/jgeot.16.P.023
Type: article
The effect of boundary conditions, model size and damping models in the finite element modelling of a moving load on a track/ground system
Jou-Yi Shih, David Thompson & Antonios Zervos, 2016, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 89, 12-27
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2016.07.004
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
Remediation of mud pumping on a ballasted railway track
Andrew Hudson, Geoff Watson, Louis Le Pen & William Powrie, 2016
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2016.06.103
Type: conference
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