Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part F-Journal

Article	Citations
Intelligent detection of fine cracks on sleepers based on improved YOLOv5 model of cascade fusion	30
Field testing and performance optimization of a weld reinforcement device in heavy haul railways	26
Shaping light rail vehicle wheel profile in terms of wear and ride safety	19
Study on the application amount optimization of water-based friction modifier based on field experiments	18
Validation of a rail temperature model with experimental measurements	17
Comparative analysis of rail pad lateral dynamic performance in metro systems	16
Visualization of wheel-rail contact area of running vehicle using film sensor	15
Field investigation on the effect of the tamping machine and dynamic track stabilizer on changing the rail support modulus	15
Similarity based position calibration for multisource track inspection data	15
Stability control of high-speed bogies using an adaptive vibration absorber	14
Assessing the fast non-Hertzian methods for wheel-rail rolling contact integrated in the vehicle dynamics simulation	14
Influence mechanism of vertical dynamic track irregularity on train operation stability of long-span suspension bridge	14
Effectiveness of grouted layer in the mitigation of subway-induced vibrations	13
Research on ultrasonic guided wave-based high-speed turnout switch rail base flaw detection	13
Predicting vehicle-body vibration accelerations with track irregularities based on deep learning approaches	12
A study of vertical tie reaction forces in ballasted railroad tracks through field instrumentation and numerical modeling	12
A field methodology to assess the performance of rail cleaning, using a new portable tribometer	12
Theoretical model of fatigue limit of full-size axle with different impact defects	12
Use cases for obstacle detection and track intrusion detection systems in the context of new generation of railway traffic management systems	12
Effect of rotor eccentricity on the dynamic performance of a traction motor and its support bearings in a locomotive	11
Experimental and simulation study on the effect of different wheel profiles on the dynamics and wheel wear of high-speed trains	11
Estimating the occurrence of broken rails in commuter railroads with machine learning algorithms	11
The impact of short-wave effects on deterioration of track geometry	11
Conceptual exploration of power peak shaving by smart train operation in rail freight transport	11
Multi-modal battery-operated trains on partially electrified lines: A case study on some regional lines in Italy	10

Research on the traction characteristic evaluation of urban rail vehicles based on entropy weight TOPSIS	10
Rail profile optimization of a subway’s sharp curve considering multiple curve sections and metal removal	10
Particle swarm optimisation of a PID-based virtual coupling controller for metro railway trains	10
A Method for Maintaining Virtually Coupled States of Train Convoys	10
Identification method of cyclic top defects in track geometry measurements in its early stage	9
High–speed train crash safety assessment for Train–moose collisions	9
Monitoring the bogie lateral dynamics of a high-speed train through wireless sensor nodes	9
Machine learning methodology based on relative wavelet energy for identification of multiple out-of-round railway wheels	9
Investigating the stick-slip vibration behavior of a locomotive with adhesion control in a curve	9
Effect of material failure criteria on collision behavior of metro vehicle end structures	9
Characterisation and evaluation of global uneven heating during railway tread braking – Brake rig testing and field study	8
Carrydown of liquid friction modifier	8
Train/track coupled dynamics model of long heavy haul train based on substructure and parallel computing	8
Research on movement and deposition of snow particles with different shapes in the bogie region	8
Application of waste materials for concrete and composite railway sleeper production: A review	8
A vision-based method for line-side switch rail condition monitoring and inspection	8
Train-velocity-filtering of wayside noise to measure grind effectiveness when targeting variable wavelength rail corrugation	8
The corrugation of railway rails: 2. Monitoring and conclusions	8
Probabilistic review of wheel profiles based on hollow tread in the U.S. heavy haul rail network	7
Modelling and experimental characterization of secondary suspension elements for rail vehicle ride comfort simulation	7
A parallel method for assessing track segment quality in railway maintenance	7
Horizontal curvature estimation of tram tracks using OpenStreetMap	7
Study on the influence of transient processes in pantograph-catenary contact-loss on the characteristics of glue rail insulation	7
Experimental simulation of alternating aerodynamic loads induced by high-speed trains passing in tunnels	7
Research on the working performance of fouled ballast bed under the multi-scale effect	7
Experimental investigation on RFID-odometer-based localization of an automated shunting vehicle	7
Hunting motion of high-speed emu during cross-line operation: Mechanism and countermeasures	7
Influence of thermal loading parameters and microstructure on the formation of stratified surface layers on railway wheels	7
An undercarriage image driven anomaly detection method for metro vehicle based on adversarial memory enhancement	7
Multi objective ant Colony Optimisation to obtain efficient metro speed profiles	7
Using digital image correlation (DIC) to measure railway ballast movement in full-scale laboratory testing of sleeper lateral resistance	7
A review of techniques for measurement of forces and neutral temperatures in railway track	6
Experimental characterization of the vibration effects on wheels of a mass rapid transit vehicle	6
Prediction of wheel-rail contact forces using simple onboard monitoring system and machine learning	6
Incentivized decarbonization through safer and more efficient heavy haul operations	6
Characterisation of track buckling resistance	6
Influence of coupling vertical and lateral loads on the centre negative flexural behaviour of prestressed monoblock concrete sleepers	6
Modelling of rolling contact fatigue under various interface conditions	6
Experimental measurement of track irregularities in EMS maglev systems using the mid-chord offset method and inverse filtering technology	6
Novel approach for validation of innovative modules for railway traffic management systems in a virtual environment	6
Railway degradation behaviour analysis in narrow-gauge railways: A local-railway case study	6
Research on the mechanism of rail corrugation of steel spring floating slab track on metro	6
Automated rerailing of a road-rail shunting vehicle on road-level tracks using 2D-Lidar	6
Wireless sensor nodes for freight trains condition monitoring based on geo-localized vibration measurements	6
Effect of polygon-shaped wheels on fatigue fracture of fastener clips in high-speed railway lines	5
Optimisation of wheelset maintenance by using a reduced flange wear wheel profile	5
Impact simulation investigation on freight train draft gear systems	5
Acceleration-based condition monitoring of track longitudinal level using multiple regression models	5
Mechanism and improvement for tail vehicle swaying of power-centralized EMUs	5
Comparison of wheel wear models for the simulation of railway wheels subjected to plastic deformation	5

Smart railways: AI-based track-side monitoring for wheel flat identification	5
Dynamic behaviour of bridges under critical conventional and regular trains: Review of some regulations included in EN 1991-2	5
Farewell diesel: On the way to climate neutrality using alternative drives and fuels in rail passenger service and rail transport	5
An authorisation framework for actively controlled running gear	5
Optimizing passengers’ experience: A goal-oriented reinforcement learning speed control approach for urban railway trains	5
Dynamic diagnosis method and quantitative characterization of rail corrugation	5
Improvement of the hydraulic system in a rail grinder based on the grinding effect	5
A rail corrugation index to characterize noise impacts and grinding effectiveness on rail transit systems	5
Wheel wear prediction for high-speed trains by considering wheel-rail elastic deformation	5
The traffic loading caused deformation of sand-rubber filler	5
Overview of methods to identify the static normal wheel-rail contact	5
Numerical Investigation on the Flow underneath a High-Speed Train of Six Coaches Marshalled with Different Bogies	5
A holistic solution to virtual coupling based urban rail train control system	5
Development of metro track geometry fault diagnosis convolutional neural network model based on car-body vibration data	5
On monitoring fretting fatigue damage in solid railway axles by acoustic emission with unsupervised machine learning and comparison to non-destructive testing techniques	5
Innovative requirements and evaluation methods for slab track design	5
A new small sample test configuration for fatigue life estimation of overhead contact wires	5
Investigating the effect of rail profile deviation on hunting instability of high-speed railway vehicle under multi-parameter coupling	5
Application of yaw dampers with frequency-selective damping to improve the locomotive adaptability to low/high conicity stability	5
Finite element analysis of a crossing panel under dynamic moving load – effect of support conditions and implications on foot fatigue	5
Carbody hunting behaviour of high speed vehicles in low effective conicity of wheel-rail contact	5
Two fast models to compute the thermal field in wagons with brake blocks via finite differences	4
Sliding movement temperature analysis between composite conductor rail and a collector shoe	4
Rail-wheel friction quantification and its variability under lab and field trial conditions	4
Research on a coupler with arc surface contact and its effect on a train collision	4
Gauge widening failures of wagon wheels in Indian Railways: Finite element modeling and observed statistics	4
Effect of dynamic stiffness of fasteners on vibration and acoustic radiation of a ballastless track	4
A condition monitoring approach for the detection of defects in the primary suspension of railway vehicles	4
A reliability study of railway switch and crossing components	4
Fatigue analysis of coil springs in the primary suspension of a railway vehicle based on synthetic spectrum for time-varying vibration load	4
Comparison of evaluation methods for the dynamic characteristics of railway hydraulic dampers	4
Analysis of the dynamic contact behaviour of high-speed train transmission gear excited by wheel defects	4
An innovative small-scale testing procedure to study damage in shoe-braked wheels	4
Evaluation of locomotive frame and fuel tank gusset modifications to prevent fatige cracks	4
Effect of wheel polygonization on the dynamic response of the electromechanical coupling system in a permanent magnet direct-drive locomotive	4
Effects of flange wear on dynamic vehicle-turnout interaction	4
A twin-disc study of the role of the surface quality achieved by grinding on the wear resistance and rolling contact fatigue behavior of wheel/rail pairs	4
Finite element investigation of residual stresses during laser powder deposition process as an innovative technique to repair worn rails	4
Estimation of rail-wheel contact forces and wear number using wheel tread temperature rise	4
A novel rail corrugation suppressor using synergistic mechanism of vibration absorption and damping	3
Evaluation of Chinese freight train bearing condition based on spatiotemporal feature extraction	3
Design optimization of hopper cars employing functionally graded honeycomb sandwich panels	3
Research on probability statistics of train running safety indices based on pseudo-excitation method	3
A risk-informed decision support tool for the strategic asset management of railway track infrastructure	3
An investigation into the constitutive relation of corrugated metro rail material based on nano-indentation experiment and inverse analysis	3
Detection of rail local defects using in-service trains	3
Safety of a high-speed train passing by a windbreak breach under different wind speeds	3
Polygonization of rail vehicle wheels – relationship between vibration frequency and polygon order	3
An experimental study on abnormal vibration of metro trains caused by out-of-round wheels	3
Acoustic roughness measurement of railway tracks: Implementation of an optical measurement approach & possible improvements to the standard	3
Augmented asset management in railways – Issues and challenges in rolling stock	3
Rail track support condition monitoring with distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) system	3
Application of smart wayside object controllers to railway signalling systems for decarbonisation	3
Quantification of longitudinal fastener stiffness and the effect on fastening system loading demand	3
A vision for a lightweight railway wheelset of the future	3
Real-scale experiments of resistive heating laminate composite panels for radiant heating in railway vehicles	3
Using the fatigue crack initiation parameter for prediction of the crack location on a curved track by 3D-FE analysis	3
Study on the generation mechanism of curve squeal and its relationship with wheel/rail wear	3
State movement for controlling trains operating under the virtual coupling system	3
Forecasting cross-tie condition based on the dynamic adjacent support using a theory-guided neural network model	3
Similitude scaled method for three-dimensional train collision	3
Evaluating glass fiber reinforced composite sleepers to mitigate elastic fastening system spike fatigue failure: A finite element study	3
Analysis and correction of the consistency problem in the calculation method for Sperling human vibration comfort evaluation index in railway vehicles	3
Machine learning based prediction of rail transit signal failure: A case study in the United States	3
Simulation method for train curve derailment collision and the effect of curve radius on collision response	3
Rail gage-based risk detection Using iPhone 12 pro	3
The influence of semi-actively controlled magnetorheological bogie yaw dampers on the guiding behaviour of a railway vehicle in an S-curve: Simulation and on-track test	3
Wind tunnel testing on the aerodynamic effect on a train with single-sided and double-sided wind barriers of different lengths	3
Dynamic characteristics of disc brake systems of a high-speed train with wheel polygonal wear	3
An integrated approach for fatigue design of rail vehicle suspensions under block loading	3
The effect of vertical track irregularity on wheelset lifting in rail vehicle collision	3
Rail machining – current practices and potential for optimisation	3
Impact of coupled effects of airtight components at variable cross-section location on vehicle airtightness in Wuhan metro	3
Design and optimization of nine degrees of freedom suspension model for hyperloop pods	3
Compound stochastic dynamic response investigation of train-multi-span simply supported beam bridge coupling system based on design of experiment modeling	3
The role of vehicle dynamics in train-induced ground vibrations and the detection of irregular axle-pulse responses due to a varying track support stiffness	3
Analysis of settlement thresholds for a new ballastless track-concrete box subgrade structure	3
Study on levitation control performance assessment of maglev train based on minimum entropy	2
Analysis of the causes of severe side wear of the high rail on metro curves by numerical simulation and field investigation	2
The directivity of noise radiated by a railway wheel in situ	2

Study on the effect of mitigation strategies for rail corrugation in metro lines	2
An adaptive backstepping nonsingular fast terminal sliding-mode control for the electromechanical brake system with backlash nonlinearity compensation	2
Static and dynamic effects of train-track-bridge system subject to environment-induced deformation of long-span railway bridge	2
Field-based investigation of low adhesion leaf layers: Assessing layer initiation and environmental influences	2
Advances in research on the ballast bed stability on railway bridges	2
Natural rail fracture defect calibration using infrared thermography and edge detection	2
Variability of support conditions and effects on the non-linear flexural response of concrete sleepers	2
Modelling and iterative learning control of internal pressure for high-speed trains under excitation of varying-amplitude tunnel pressure waves	2
Could laser-based profile measurements be used in wheel/rail contact and vehicle dynamics simulations?	2
Comparative analysis of wheel‒rail frictional temperature rise using moving heat source and thermo-mechanical coupling methods at various wheel‒rail creepages	2
Optimization of metro wheel reprofiling based on cluster analysis	2
A finite element modelling approach for the numerical analysis of switch rail contact loading and cyclic profile degradation	2
Artificial intelligence-aided intelligent obstacle and trespasser detection based on locomotive-mounted forward-facing camera data	2
Behaviour of coal-fouled elastomeric polyurethane-stabilized ballast under cyclic loading	2
Influence of vibration suppression device for ladder-type sleeper track on vehicle-track system dynamic interaction	2
Cavity noise reduction of a high-speed train pantograph through jet parameter optimization	2
Towards time-domain modelling of wheel/rail noise: Effect of the dynamic track model	2
Curve negotiation performance of a newly-designed medium and low speed maglev vehicle	2
Evaluation of dynamic derailment in a railway switch considering the longitudinal impacts caused by vehicle retarder	2
Under ballast mat – A review of recent developments, limitations, and future prospects	2
Investigation of frictional rolling contact behavior in a switch panel considering traction load	2
Development of track component health indices using image-based railway track inspection data	2
A study of the effect of grinding machine parameters on acoustic rail roughness and surface quality	2
Differential parametrization of rail vehicle properties and its impact on hunting	2
Numerical investigation on loading pattern of railway concrete slabs	2
Study on the allowed maximum amplitudes of low-order polygonal wear on resilient wheels based on operational safety	2
A study on the effect of inerters in the motor elastic suspension on the stability of bogies in high-speed trains	2
A computational fluid dynamics study of the influence of sleeper shape and ballast depth on ballast flight during passage of a simplified train	2
Investigation of squeal noise generation in wheel-rail contact under wet conditions using a twin-disc test rig	2
On-time and energy-saving train operation strategy based on improved AGA multi-objective optimization	2
A review of snow melting and de-icing technologies for trains	2
Onboard energy storage for discontinuous, safer third rail DC electrified rail systems	2
Investigation of probable squat growth from initial surface cracks in rails using a three-dimensional rollover simulation	2
Modelling tamping effectiveness for track geometry longitudinal levelling defects	2
Investigation into the braking performance of high-speed trains in the complex braking environment of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway	2
A real-time automatic rail extraction algorithm for low-density mobile laser scanning data	2
Research on influence of track stiffness on development of rail squat defects	2
Field test for micro-pressure wave reduction measurement by area optimization of windows of tunnel hoods	2