Powrie - Track Systems for High Speed Railways: Getting it Right

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: W.Powrie@soton.ac.uk

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: djt@isvr.soton.ac.uk

Dr Zhiwei Hu

Associate Professor

Connect with Zhiwei

Email: Z.Hu@soton.ac.uk

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

Connect with Joel

Email: J.A.SMETHURST@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanics Group

Our group undertakes research on fundamental fluid dynamics, applied aerodynamics, flow control, flight dynamics and aeroacoustics.

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

Flow between the train underbody and trackbed around the bogie area and its impact on ballast flight

Jianyue Zhu & Zhiwei Hu, 2017, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 166, 20-28

DOI: 10.1016/j.jweia.2017.03.009

Type: article

Properties of train load frequencies and their applications

David Milne, Louis Le Pen, David Thompson & William Powrie, 2017, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 397, 123-140

DOI: 10.1016/j.jsv.2017.03.006

Type: article

Evaluating railway track support stiffness from trackside measurements in the absence of wheel load data

Louis Le Pen, David Milne, David Thompson & William Powrie, 2016, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 53(7), 1156-1166

DOI: 10.1139/cgj-2015-0268

Type: article

Measuring acceleration of ballast particles at track level

David Milne, Louis Le Pen, Geoff Watson, David Thompson, William Powrie, M. Hayward & S. Morley, 2016

DOI: 10.4203/ccp.110.8

Type: conference

Proving MEMS technologies for smarter railway infrastructure

David Milne, Louis Le Pen, Geoffrey Watson, David Thompson, William Powrie, Mick Hayward & Simon Morlery, 2016, Procedia Engineering, 143, 1077-1084

DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2016.06.222

Type: article