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

Dr Joel Smethurst BEng PhD GMICE FHEA

Associate Professor

Research interests

The effects of vegetation and climate on the performance of earthworks (cuttings and embankments)
The stabilisation of both infrastructure slopes and large landslides using discretely spaced piles
The mechanical stabilisation of soil by plants roots

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

The influence of variation in track level and support system stiffness over longer lengths of track for track performance and vehicle track interaction

David Milne, John Harkness, Louis Le Pen & William Powrie, 2019, Vehicle System Dynamics

DOI: 10.1080/00423114.2019.1677920

Type: article

Effect of train speed and track geometry on the ride comfort of high-speed railways based on ISO 2631-1

Chi Liu, David Thompson, Michael Griffin & Mani Entezami, 2019, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

DOI: 10.1177/0954409719868050

Type: article

Monitoring and repair of isolated trackbed defects on a ballasted railway

David Milne, Louis Le Pen, Geoff Watson, David Thompson, William Powrie, Mick Hayward & Simon Morley, 2018, Transportation Geotechnics, 17(Part A), 61-68

DOI: 10.1016/j.trgeo.2018.09.002

Type: article

Automated processing of railway track deflection signals obtained from velocity and acceleration measurements

David Milne, Louis Le Pen, William Powrie & David Thompson, 2018, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

DOI: 10.1177/0954409718762172

Type: article

Full scale measurements of train underbody flows and track forces

D. Soper, C. Baker, A. Jackson, David Milne, L. Le Pen, G. Watson & W. Powrie, 2017, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 169, 251-264

DOI: 10.1016/j.jweia.2017.07.023

Type: article