Joao Pombo

Prof, Professor of Railway Technology

Professor of Railway Engineering, Department of Engineering and Technology
School of Computing and Engineering
Member, Institute of Railway Research

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5877-1989

Phone01484 471178
EmailJ.Pombo@hud.ac.uk
Websitehttps://research.hud.ac.uk

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Personal profile

Biography

João Pombo is Professor of Railway Technology at the Institute of Railway Research, University of Huddersfield, UK, with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering by the University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is a specialist in railway engineering with 20 years’ experience and has been involved in Research and Development (R&D) activities involving train & track dynamics, vehicle-infrastructure & pantograph-catenary interaction, wear & maintenance, structural analysis and optimization. He has led and participated in several national and international projects in close collaboration with leading international research centres and industry players. He also has more than three years’ working experience at BOMBARDIER and ALSTOM. João Pombo’s R&D work has been awarded four innovation prizes and he is author of more than 100 papers in refereed journals and international conferences. He is the editor-in-chief of the “International Journal of Railway Technology” and chairman of the "International Conference on Railway Technology" series.

Research Expertise and Interests

Railway Engineering (Rolling Stock and Infrastructure);
Rail Transport Challenges (Capacity, Cost, Carbon and Customer);
High Speed Rail;
Maintenance Engineering (Predictive Maintenance);
Advanced Condition Monitoring (Big Data Analysis);
Design of Mechanical Systems;
Structural Analysis;
Design Optimization;
Vibration of Machines and Mechanisms;
Tribology and Wear;
Noise Control;
Product Development;
Industry Applications.

Research Expertise and Interests

Railway Vehicles
Railway Tracks
railway wheel rail suspension fatigue damage gauging
Technology Entrepreneurship
multibody dynamics
vehicle-track interaction
vehicle dynamics

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Research Output

32 Article
31 Conference contribution
3 Editorial
1 Conference article

A Dedicated Control Design Methodology for Improved Tilting Train Performance

Magalhães, H., Antunes, P., Pombo, J. & Ambrósio, J., 14 Feb 2020, Advances in Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks: Proceedings of the 26th Symposium of the International Association of Vehicle System Dynamics, IAVSD 2019. Klomp, M., Bruzelius, F., Nielsen, J. & Hillemyr, A. (eds.). Springer, p. 72-81 10 p. (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

A new methodology to study the pantograph-catenary dynamics in curved railway tracks

Antunes, P., Ambrosio, J., Pombo, J. & Facchinetti, A., 1 Mar 2020, In : Vehicle System Dynamics. 58, 3, p. 425-452 28 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

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1 Citation (Scopus)

A three-dimensional approach for contact detection between realistic wheel and rail surfaces for improved railway dynamic analysis

Marques, F., Pacheco Magalhaes, H., Pombo, J., Ambrósio, J. & Flores, P., 12 Feb 2020, In : Mechanism and Machine Theory. 149, 28 p., 103825.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Dynamic calibration of slab track models for railway applications using full-scale testing

Sainz-Aja, J., Pombo, J., Tholken, D., Carrascal, I., Polanco, J., Ferreño, D., Casado, J., Diego, S., Perez, A., Filho, J. E. A., Esen, A., Cebasek, T. M., Laghrouche, O. & Woodward, P., 1 Feb 2020, In : Computers and Structures. 228, p. 1-14 14 p., 106180.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

1 Citation (Scopus)

Implementation of a non-Hertzian contact model for railway dynamic application

Magalhaes, H., Marques, F., Liu, B., Antunes, P., Pombo, J., Flores, P., Ambrosio, J., Piotrowski, J. & Bruni, S., 1 Jan 2020, In : Multibody System Dynamics. 48, 1, p. 41-78 38 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article