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

Accepting PhD Students

1310 Citations
22 h-Index

Research output per year

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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

1310 Citations
22 h-Index
35 Article
32 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