Institute of Railway Research

Activities

Activities per year 2009 2022 2023 2024

• 76 Oral presentation
• 12 Participating in a conference, workshop, ...
• 7 Invited talk
• 2 Organising a conference, workshop, ...
• 10 More
  • 2 Conference Peer-review
  • 2 Editorial work
  • 2 Membership of a Society or Institute
  • 2 Poster presentation
  • 1 Publication Peer-review
  • 1 Visiting an external academic institution

Activities per year

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• Machine Learning-Based Parametric Analysis of Railway Systems

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

  4 Sep 2024

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Application of Systemic Thinking to Learn Safety Culture and Human Reliability Perspectives in Freight Train Derailments

  Hang Peng (Speaker), Gareth Tucker (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & C. Watson (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  3 Sep 2024

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Research on Dynamic Performance of No.18 Turnout of Passenger Dedicated Line at 400 km/h

  B. Hou (Speaker), Y. Zhu (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), D. Wang (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Joao Pombo (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  3 Sep 2024

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• A Model Predictive Controller for Hardware-in-the-Loop Pantograph Test

  Manuel Tur (Speaker), Santiago Gregori (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Pedro Antunes (Speaker), Jose Machado Dos Santos (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Ana María Pedrosa Pedrosa (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Jaime Gil Romero (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Joao Pombo (Speaker)

  2 Sep 2024

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Supporting Railway Electrification with Novel Pantograph-Catenary Dynamic Analysis Tools

  Pedro Antunes (Speaker), Jose Batista Rebelo (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Jose Machado Dos Santos (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Joao Pombo (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), T. Kemp (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & M. Whittaker (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  2 Sep 2024

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Influence of Overhead Line Equipment Irregularities on Pantograph-Catenary Interaction

  Jose Batista Rebelo (Speaker), Pedro Antunes (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Joao Pombo (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & D. Campbell (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  2 Sep 2024

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Rolling Stock Preventive Maintenance Scheduling - Short-term Scheduling Optimisation

  Hassna Louadah (Speaker), Lee McCluskey (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Gareth Tucker (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  14 Jun 2024

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Comparison of Options for Dynamic Response Analysis of Axle Bearings

  Phil Shackleton (Speaker), Adam Bevan (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Pete Gowan (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  25 Oct 2023

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

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• Effects of a multi-flow trim on the flow characteristic of a control valve

  Qingyun Bu (Speaker), Muhammad Atif (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Rakesh Mishra (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Hamid Alturbeh (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Aliyu Aliyu (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  1 Sep 2023

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Exploring acceleration data resulting from passenger discomfort in a railway vehicle by using machine learning

  Phornpavee Sirirangsee (Speaker), Simon Iwnicki (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Hassna Louadah (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Pritesh Mistry (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & David Crosbee (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  31 Aug 2023

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• A fault tree for reliability analysis of an intercity train door

  Hassna Louadah (Speaker), Pritesh Mistry (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Gareth Tucker (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  31 Aug 2023

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Condition Monitoring Scheme of Locomotive Suspension System

  Xiaoyuan Liu (Speaker)

  31 Aug 2023

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Track based vehicle defect detection – turning measurement data into action

  Phil Shackleton (Speaker)

  31 Aug 2023

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• An extensive review of tribodynamic modelling for rolling element bearing condition monitoring

  Zewen Zhou (Speaker), Bingyan Chen (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Xue Gong (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Xiuquan Sun (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Zhifeng Hu (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Khalid Rabeyee (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Fengshou Gu (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Andrew Ball (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Yousif Muhamedsalih (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  30 Aug 2023

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Dynamic Analysis of Pantograph-Catenary Interaction on Contact Wire Gradients with Aerodynamic Effects

  Pedro Antunes (Speaker), Joao Pombo (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 (Speaker), Rakesh Mishra (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Frankie Jackson (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  24 Aug 2023

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Comparison of vehicle dynamics simulation results using laser and contact-based profilometer measurements as inputs

  Yi Wang (Speaker), Elliot Rothwell (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Kevin Oldknow (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & David Crosbee (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  24 Aug 2023

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Comparison of dynamics modelling techniques for friction damped Y-Series suspension

  David Crosbee (Speaker) & Yi Wang (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  24 Aug 2023

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• The initial development of infrastructure switches & crossings modules of the Universal Cost Model 2.0

  Yann Bezin (Speaker), Hugo Pacheco Magalhaes (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Pedro Mascarenhas Jorge (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Carlos Perez Casanueva (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Stefan Marschnig (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  22 Aug 2023

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Predicting dynamic force level in railway crossings

  Yann Bezin (Speaker), Pedro Mascarenhas Jorge (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Hossein Alizadeh Otorabad (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  21 Aug 2023

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Assessment of an iterative settlement procedure in railway switches and crossings using two different approaches

  Michel Sebes (Speaker), Samuel Hawksbee (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Fares Naccache (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Pedro Mascarenhas Jorge (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Moncef Toumi (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Ilaria Grossoni (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Yann Bezin (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  21 Aug 2023

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Towards Rolling Stock Preventive Maintenance Scheduling - Short-term Scheduling Optimisation

  Hassna Louadah (Speaker), Lee McCluskey (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Gareth Tucker (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Emmanuel Papadakis (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  9 Jul 2023

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Risk Informed Quantitative Probabilistic FMECA with Monte Carlo Simulation of Human and Organizational Factors for Improved Decision Making

  Sana Ullah Khan (Speaker), Simon Iwnicki (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Gareth Tucker (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Hassna Louadah (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  2 Mar 2023

  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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Transformation of cyber security/safety assurance

  George Bearfield (Speaker), Richard Thomas (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Simon Parkinson (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Coen Van Gulijk (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

  8 Jun 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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