Simon Iwnicki

Personal profile

Biography

Simon Iwnicki graduated from Manchester University with a BSc in Mechanical Engineering then worked as a maintenance engineer at Chloride Motive Power in the 1980s working on battery production and electric vehicle design. He undertook a PhD in the dynamics of underground railway vehicles sponsored by the National Coal Board at South Bank University in London. He spent 21 years as Lecturer and Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University teaching and carrying out research into the interaction between railway vehicles and track where, in 1998, he set up the Rail Technology Unit which provided expert advice and solutions for the railway industry.

In 2012 he joined the University of Huddersfield as Professor of Railway Engineering and Director of the Institute of Railway Research.

Research Expertise and Interests

Professor Iwnicki’s main research activities are in the field of wheel-rail contact and computer modelling of railway vehicle suspensions, a small and highly specialised area which has a major influence on the design of railway vehicles and track. He has been working in this area for over 25 years and has built up a substantial international reputation for this work, providing not only valuable practical solutions to specific problems in the industry, but making significant contributions to the understanding of some of the fundamental mechanisms of the wheel-rail interaction on which the safe and economical operation of railways depends.

Research Degree Supervision

Click Here to see all postgraduate research opportunities with Professor Simon Iwnicki

Research Expertise and Interests

Wheel-Rail Contact
Computer Modelling
Railway Vehicle Suspensions
Railway Vehicles
Railway Tracks
Wheel-Rail Interaction

Fingerprint Dive into the research topics where Simon Iwnicki is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

20 Similar Profiles

Network Recent external collaboration on country level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots.

Projects

1 Active
4 Finished

Smart Maintenance and the Rail Traveller Experience

Iwnicki, S., Bevan, A. & Christodoulides, K.

1/09/17 → 31/08/19

Project: Research

Track to the Future (T2F): The science and analytical tools to design long life, low noise railway track systems

Iwnicki, S., Powrie, W., Preston, J. M., Blainey, S. P., McDowell, G., Roberts, C. & Thompson, D. J.

1/09/15 → 31/08/20

Project: Research

DYNAFREIGHT: Innovative technical solutions for improved train DYNAmics and operation of longer FREIGHt Trains

Iwnicki, S., Bezin, Y. & Shackleton, P.

1/11/16 → 30/06/18

Project: Research

SPECTRUM: Solutions and Processes to Enhance the Competitiveness of Transport by Rail in Unexploited Markets

Iwnicki, S.

1/05/11 → 30/04/15

Project: Research

DynoTRAIN: Railway Vehicle Dynamics and Track Interactions Total Regulatory Acceptance for the Interoperable Network

Iwnicki, S.

1/06/09 → 30/09/13

Project: Research

Research Output

55 Article
18 Conference contribution
7 Editorial
3 Chapter
3 More

A Direct Control Approach for Automatic Steering and Stability of Motorized Independently-Rotating Wheels

Liu, X., Goodall, R. & Iwnicki, S., 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.). 1 ed. Springer, p. 24-30 7 p. (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering).

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

A new nonlinear displacement-dependent parametric model of a high-speed rail pantograph hydraulic damper

Wang, W., Zhou, Z., Zhang, W. & Iwnicki, S., 1 Feb 2020, In : Vehicle System Dynamics. 58, 2, p. 272-289 18 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

2 Citations (Scopus)

Inertance-Integrated Primary Suspension Optimisation on an Industrial Railway Vehicle Model

Lewis, T., Li, Y., Tucker, G., Jiang, Z., Neild, S., Smith, M. C., Goodall, R., Iwnicki, S. & Dinmore, N., 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.). 1 ed. Springer, p. 570-579 10 p. (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering).

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

The ‘FORESEE’ prototype, fully active, steered two axle railway vehicle

Iwnicki, S., Jonsson, P. A., Gustafsson, J., Englund, J., Stichel, S. & Pemberton, M., 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.). 1 ed. Springer, p. 3-15 13 p. (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering).

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