Institute of Railway Research

Activities

Activities per year 2009 2022 2022

• 50 Oral presentation
• 5 Invited talk
• 4 Participating in a conference, workshop, ...
• 2 Editorial work
• 7 More
  • 2 Membership of a Society or Institute
  • 2 Poster presentation
  • 1 Organising a conference, workshop, ...
  • 1 Conference Peer-review
  • 1 Publication Peer-review

Activities per year

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• Towards A Valid Model Of Train Braking System At Low Adhesion Condition

  Hamid Alturbeh (Speaker), Jose Machado Dos Santos (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Julian Stow (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  24 Aug 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• A virtual laboratory for pantograph modelling identification and validation

  Jose Machado Dos Santos (Speaker), Pedro Antunes (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Joao Pombo (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Jose Batista Rebelo (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Hugo Pacheco Magalhaes (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Jorge Ambrósio (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  24 Aug 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• On the surface parameterization of wheels and rails with defects for vehicle-track dynamic analysis

  Hugo Pacheco Magalhaes (Speaker), Filipe Marques (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Joao Pombo (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  24 Aug 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Designing an inset railway switch using a dedicated computational tool

  Hugo Pacheco Magalhaes (Speaker), Pedro Mascarenhas Jorge (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Yann Bezin (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Andy Foan (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Phil Winship (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  24 Aug 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Research on wheel-rail adhesion characteristics of high-speed railway on long slope section

  Bowen Hou (Speaker), Jiadong Qin (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Joao Pombo (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Chaozhi Ma (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  24 Aug 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Pantograph-catenary dynamic studies on contact wire gradients considering aerodynamic effects

  Jose Batista Rebelo (Speaker), Joao Pombo (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Pedro Antunes (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Jose Machado Dos Santos (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Hugo Pacheco Magalhaes (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Rakesh Mishra (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Frankie Jackson (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  24 Aug 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Analysis of pantograph aerodynamic loads using computational fluid dynamic studies

  Frankie Jackson (Speaker), Rakesh Mishra (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Joao Pombo (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Pedro Antunes (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Jose Batista Rebelo (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Jose Machado Dos Santos (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Hugo Pacheco Magalhaes (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  24 Aug 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Prediction of wheel wear using Hertzian and non-Hertzian contact models

  Filipe Placido Alves (Speaker), Hugo Pacheco Magalhaes (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Joao Pagaimo (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), João Neves Costa (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Filipe Marques (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Joao Pombo (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Jorge Ambrósio (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  24 Aug 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Modelling the improved behaviour of a switch installed on ballast-asphalt track

  Samuel Hawksbee (Speaker), Ilaria Grossoni (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Yann Bezin (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Benjamin Lee (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Geoff Watson (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), David Milne (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Louis Le Pen (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Taufan Abadi (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Pedro Mascarenhas Jorge (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  24 Aug 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Enhancement of a CEN56 acute crossing using an automated optimisation process

  Yann Bezin (Speaker), Hugo Pacheco Magalhaes (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Pedro Mascarenhas Jorge (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Phil Winship (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  24 Aug 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Rail pad stiffness estimation based in machine learning algorithms

  Diego Ferreño (Speaker), Jose A. Sainz-Aja (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Isidro A. Carrascal (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Joao Pombo (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Jose A. Casado (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Soraya Diego (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Miguel Cuartas (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  23 Aug 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Sleepers spacing. Introduction to odstrack project

  Roberto Sañudo Ortega (Speaker), José Nuno Varandas (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Stefano Ricci (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Joao Pombo (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Valeri Markine (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Borja Alonso (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  23 Aug 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• A pantograph-catenary dynamic analysis tool to support railway electrification projects

  Pedro Antunes (Speaker), Joao Pombo (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Jorge Ambrósio (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Jose Batista Rebelo (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Jose Machado Dos Santos (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  23 Aug 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Multibody modelling of a friction damped locomotive for virtual homologation

  Pedro Millan (Speaker), Joao Pagaimo (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Pedro Antunes (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Hugo Pacheco Magalhaes (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Jorge Ambrósio (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  23 Aug 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• 5th International Conference on Railway Technology

  Joao Pombo (Chair)

  22 Aug 2022 → 25 Aug 2022

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organising a conference, workshop, ...

• 5th International Conference on Railway Technology (Event)

  Joao Pombo (Member of editorial board), Paul Allen (Member of editorial board), Hamid Alturbeh (Member of editorial board), Pedro Antunes (Member of editorial board), Yann Bezin (Member of editorial board), Xiaocheng Ge (Member of editorial board) & Hugo Pacheco Magalhaes (Member of editorial board)

  22 Aug 2022 → 25 Aug 2022

  Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Conference Peer-review

• How Research, Development and Innovation is changing maintenance activities and regimes

  Yann Bezin (Speaker)

  13 Jun 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

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• Optimal Vibration-Absorber Design: A Case Study on Railway Trailing Arm Bush

  Cenxiao Qu (Speaker), Yuan Li (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Jason Zheng Jiang (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Simon Neild (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Gareth Tucker (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Malcolm C. Smith (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Neil Houghton (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Andrew Gleeson (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Sharon Odetunde (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  9 Jun 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• 13th World Congress on Railway Research

  Gareth Tucker (Chair)

  9 Jun 2022

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participating in a conference, workshop, ...

• 13th World Congress on Railway Research

  Simon Iwnicki (Chair)

  9 Jun 2022

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participating in a conference, workshop, ...

• Optimising the Design, Maintenance and Operation of Branch Lines

  Julian Stow (Speaker), Andrew Smith (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Chris Nash (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Manuel Ojeda Cabral (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Anthony Whiteing (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  9 Jun 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Further development of the Red Aspect Approaches to Signals (RAATS) toolkit

  Chris Harrison (Speaker), Xiaocheng Ge (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Julian Stow (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Rawia El Rashidy (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Matthew Newall (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  9 Jun 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Using wheel impact load detector data for the identification of vehicle defects in freight wagons

  Philip Shackleton (Speaker), Krzysztof Sztrauch (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Bridget Eickhoff (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Adam Bevan (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  8 Jun 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Advanced Studies for Improved Current Collection Performance at Catenary Gradients

  Jose Batista Rebelo (Speaker), Joao Pombo (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Pedro Antunes (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Jose Machado Dos Santos (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Hugo Pacheco Magalhaes (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Jorge Ambrósio (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  8 Jun 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• 13th World Congress on Railway Research

  Julian Stow (Chair)

  8 Jun 2022

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participating in a conference, workshop, ...

• A Framework for Locomotive Bogie Conditionbased Maintenance (LOCATE)

  Farouk Balouchi (Speaker) & Adam Bevan (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  8 Jun 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Supporting Railway Electrification Projects with an Integrated Pantograph-Catenary Dynamic Analysis Tool

  Pedro Antunes (Speaker), Joao Pombo (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Jorge Ambrósio (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Jose Batista Rebelo (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Jose Machado Dos Santos (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  8 Jun 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Using machine learning to predict signal aspects based on train movement data

  Peter Hughes (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Matthew Newall (Speaker)

  7 Jun 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Understanding the influence of imbalanced loading of freight wagons on derailment resistance to improve network safety

  Philip Shackleton (Speaker), Gareth Tucker (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Bridget Eickhoff (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Adam Bevan (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  7 Jun 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Whole Life Rail Model Damage Function for High-Performance Rail Steel: Validation and Verification

  Yousif Muhamedsalih (Speaker) & Adam Bevan (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  7 Jun 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Improved Wheel-Rail Adhesion Estimation

  Hamid Alturbeh (Speaker) & Julian Stow (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  7 Jun 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Investigating the benefits of dependable speed measurement

  Jordan Brant (Speaker), Hamid Alturbeh (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Julian Stow (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  7 Jun 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Optimisation of Wheelset Maintenance Strategies using a Combination of Physical and Data-driven Models

  Ruichen Wang (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Adam Bevan (Speaker), Adam Roebuck (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Harsh Shah (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  7 Jun 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Recent Developments in Pantograph-Catenary Interaction for Technology Development and De-Risk Electrification Projects

  Joao Pombo (Speaker), Pedro Antunes (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Jose Batista Rebelo (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Jose Machado Dos Santos (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Hugo Pacheco Magalhaes (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Jorge Ambrósio (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  23 Nov 2021

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Future Rail Vehicle Maintenance: Condition-Based And Automated Asset Management

  Adam Bevan (Speaker) & Farouk Balouchi (Speaker)

  16 Nov 2021

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Smart Rolling Stock Maintenance – Depots of the Future?

  Gareth Tucker (Speaker) & Adam Bevan (Speaker)

  9 Jun 2021

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• The Efficiency and Performance Engineering Network

  Ruichen Wang (Member of programme committee)

  Apr 2021 → 23 Aug 2021

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participating in a conference, workshop, ...

• Review of Technologies for Real Time Rail Electrification Systems Monitoring

  Jordan Brant (Speaker)

  14 Dec 2020

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Poster presentation

• Minimal Requirements for Realistic Pantograph-Catenary Interaction Studies in High Speed and Conventional Rail Operations

  Jose Batista Rebelo (Speaker)

  14 Dec 2020

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Advancements in Pantograph-OLE Dynamic Analysis tools

  Pedro Antunes (Speaker)

  14 Dec 2020

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Support Tool for Optimal Design of Conventional and High-Speed Railway Turnouts

  Hugo Pacheco Magalhaes (Speaker)

  14 Dec 2020

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Introducing the Smart Rolling Stock Maintenance Research Facility

  Gareth Tucker (Speaker)

  1 Dec 2020

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Recent Developments in Pantograph-OLE Dynamics

  Pedro Antunes (Speaker)

  24 Aug 2020

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Rail Life Prediction and Management

  Adam Bevan (Speaker), Gareth Tucker (Speaker) & Yousif Muhamedsalih (Speaker)

  4 Mar 2020

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Inertance-Integrated Damping Technologies for Railway Vehicle Applications

  Gareth Tucker (Speaker), Jason Zheng Jaing (Speaker) & Malcolm C. Smith (Speaker)

  4 Mar 2020

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Low Cost Improvements to Container Wagons - Investigating the use of a variable rate spring in the vertical primary suspension of Y series bogies

  Gareth Tucker (Speaker)

  4 Mar 2020

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit (Journal)

  Simon Iwnicki (Reviewer)

  2020

  Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial work

• Vehicle System Dynamics (Journal)

  Simon Iwnicki (Member of editorial board)

  2020 → …

  Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial work

• Journal of Tribology (Journal)

  Simon Iwnicki (Reviewer)

  2020

  Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication Peer-review

• A simulation approach to train braking degradation in low adhesion

  Jose Machado Dos Santos (Invited speaker)

  21 Nov 2019

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation