Noise and Vibration Mitigation for Rail Transportation Systems

Xiaozhen Sheng completed his Ph.D. in 2001 at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR), University of Southampton, and stayed there as a research fellow until 2004. At ISVR, he developed the two-and-half dimensional finite and boundary element method for modelling ground vibration generated from railways. He then spent ten years in the industry, first for Cummins Turbo Technologies Co. Ltd in the UK and then for Hunan Tyen Machinery Co. Ltd in China, working on turbomachinery noise and vibration. In the end of 2014, he joined State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, Southwest Jiaotong University, supervising M.Sc. and Ph.D. students to research on every aspect related to railway noise and vibration. He has worked on a number of multi-million projects sponsored by Chinas Ministry of Science and Technology and National Natural Science Foundation and China Railway, supporting the development of Chinas high-speed railways. David Thompson graduated in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 1980 and received his Ph.D. from the ISVR, University of Southampton in 1990. He joined the ISVR as a lecturer in 1996 and became a professor of Railway Noise and Vibration in 2004. He is a fellow of the Institute of Acoustics and fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Professor Thompson is a leading international expert in the field of railway noise and vibration. His research covers many aspects of this field including rolling noise, squeal noise, ground vibration and aerodynamic noise. He has supervised 46 Ph.D. students to completion and published over 200 refereed journal papers and over 250 conference papers. In 2018, he was awarded the Institute of Acoustics Rayleigh Medal for outstanding achievements in acoustics. Geert Degrande is professor at the Department of Civil Engineering of KU Leuven in Belgium. He obtained his master and PhD degree in 1986 and 1992 from KU Leuven. He was avisiting researcher at Princeton University in 1989 and postdoctoral researcher at Ecole Centrale de Paris in 1994. He became assistant professor in 1995 and full professor in 2005. He was head of the Department of Civil Engineering from 2008 until 2016 and presently is head of the Structural Mechanics Section. He was Visiting Fellow at Peterhouse and Academic Visitor at the Department of Engineering of the University of Cambridge during the Michaelmas Term 2022. He is teaching courses on theory of elasticity and plasticity, dynamics of structures, wave propagation and vibration in the built environment, and non-linear structural analysis. His main research interests are structural dynamics, dynamic soil-structure interaction, elastodynamics, computational mechanics, and inverse problems. Emphasis is going to vibration problems in the built environment due to road and railway traffic, industry and construction activities, using both numerical and experimental methods. He has supervised 20 PhD students to completion and published over 110 refereed journal papers and over 280 conference papers. Jens Nielsen graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg, Sweden) in 1988. He received his Ph.D. and Docent degrees from the Department of Applied Mechanics at Chalmers in 1993 and 2000, respectively. He has been a senior member of the research team in the National Centre of Excellence CHARMEC (Chalmers Railway Mechanics) since 1997 and became a professor of Railway Dynamics in 2018. Professor Nielsen is a leading international expert in dynamic vehicletrack interaction applications, such as track design optimization, rail corrugation and out-of-round wheels, railway noise, track geometry degradation, and switches and crossings. Pierre-Etienne Gautier worked at CentraleSuplec Paris, which brings together two leading engineering schools in France (Ecole Centrale Paris and Suplec). He has been working in the field of railway for many years. His research mainly focu

Keynote Lectures.- Predictions, Measurements, Monitoring and Modelling.- High-Speed Rail and Aerodynamic Noise.- Wheel Out-of-Round and Polygonalisation.- Rail Roughness, Corrugation and Grinding.- Wheel and Rail Noise.- Squeal Noise.- Interior Noise.- Structure-Borne Noise and Ground-Borne Vibration.- Resilient track forms.- Bridge Noise and Vibration.- Pantograph-Catenary System Vibration.