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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

Differences between Euler-Bernoulli and Timoshenko beam formulations for calculating the effects of moving loads on a periodically supported beam
Xianying Zhang, David Thompson & Xiaozhen Sheng, 2020, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 481
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsv.2020.115432
Type: article
Modelling of vibration and noise behaviour of embedded tram tracks using a wavenumber domain method
Wenjing Sun, David Thompson, Martin Toward & Zhaoran Zeng, 2020, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 481
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsv.2020.115446
Type: article
A transferable method for estimating the economic impacts of track interventions: application to ground-borne noise reduction measures for whole sections of route
Marcus Young, Georgios Rempelos, Evangelos Ntotsios, Simon Blainey, David Thompson & Jonathan Preston, 2020, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit
DOI: 10.1177/0954409720953730
Type: article
An analysis of railway track behaviour based on distributed optical fibre acoustic sensing
David Milne, Ali Masoudi, Geoff Watson, Edgar Ferro & Louis Le Pen, 2020, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 142
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymssp.2020.106769
Type: article
The influence of sleeper material characteristics on railway track behaviour: concrete vs composite sleeper
Edgar Ferro, John Harkness & Louis Le Pen, 2020, Transportation Geotechnics, 23
DOI: 10.1016/j.trgeo.2020.100348
Type: article