List of proposed contributors
Stuart Grassie
Dr Stuart Grassie undertook his doctoral research, on rail corrugation and
the high frequency dynamic behaviour of vehicle and track in collaboration with
British Rail Research, and became a Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius
College, Cambridge
in 1981. He has since worked as an academic, in industry and (since 1987) as an
independent consultant with clients world-wide. He has worked for suppliers on
both sides of the wheel/rail interface, for railway systems, and as an expert
on vehicle/track interaction, rail grinding, measuring equipment, rail damage
and railway maintenance practices for statutory authorities, the European
Commission, in court cases and for international standardisation bodies. The
work he most enjoys is "trouble-shooting" and the implementation of
solutions to unusual problems in vehicle/track interaction.
Jay Jaiswal
Dr Jay Jaiswal has been with Corus / British Steel for 26 years after
starting as a Research Investigator at Swinden Technology Centre, Rotherham
in 1978. An encyclopaedic technical knowledge of metallurgy and railway systems
has seen Jay progress through positions within the Technology Strategy Group of
British Steel, to the post of Chief Metallurgist and Programme Manager R&D
for Corus Rail, then Director, Engineering & Technology (CRIS) encompassing
the activities of the Corus Rail Infrastructure Services group of businesses
and into the current post of Director, Track Engineering & Technologies
(Corus Rail Sector). As Director, Track Engineering & Technologies for
Corus Rail Sector, Jay has developed many contacts within the railway
industries of the world. Within the UK
he regularly holds discussions with high-level UK Government bodies. He is a
member of several industry committees in the UK
and of European standardisation groups. Dr Jaiswal has earned a reputation as
being one of the country's foremost experts in Rolling Contact Fatigue. It is
this reputation, and his considerable knowledge of railway metallurgy and
railway systems, that led to Jay being an expert witness for the inquiry
following the tragic Hatfield derailment.
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Andrea Bracciali
Prof. Andrea Bracciali teaches Machine
Design at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University
of Florence.
With a strong background on analytical and experimental noise &
vibration problems, stress analysis, signalling and general railway problems,
he published around 70 papers, most of them downloadable from www.dmti.unifi.it/bracciali.
He offers consultancy in both permanent way and rolling stock fields. He is
involved in numerous vehicle-interaction projects for TOCs, railway components
suppliers and infrastructure owners about flange lubrication, application of
improved steels for solid and tyred wheels, multi-axial fatigue design, noise
& vibration and corrugation problems, rail wear, failure analysis of wheels
and structural components (bogies, carbodies), design and re-design of rail
vehicles.
He is active in several CEN groups to develop European railway standards on
rail roughness and track vibration decay rates. He revised the recently
approved standards on interior and external noise measurements and drafted the
flange lubrication standard.
Ray Lewis
Ray Lewis commenced his career with Post
Office Research at Dollis Hill. After a time spent with the MOD, he worked on
the design of Railway Infrastructure Measuring Systems with BR Research in Derby
in the 80's and 90's. During this time, track geometry, ultrasonic testing and
structure gauging trains were constructed and entered into service. In
2000/2001 he was involved in the updating of the track geometry cars to digital
systems, and through Serco Rail Technologies he supplied the instrumentation
and analysis software package for the new systems on these trains which are now
operated by Network Rail.
He is currently a consultant involved with Serco and MRX of Perth WA in the
development of both unattended and conventional systems for a number of
clients, and also lectures to Track Engineers on Track Recording and Ultrasonic
Testing. He is a Chartered Electrical Engineer and Fellow of the I.E.T.
Dr Sebastian Stichel
Dr Sebastian Stichel undertook his doctoral studies on the use of
Multibody Simulation to derive load spectra for fatigue analysis of vehicle
components at TU Berlin. After his degree he started to work at the Royal
Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm
at the Department of Railway Vehicles. His main research field is freight wagon
dynamics.
He has worked at Bombardier
Transportation Sweden since 2000 and since 2003 he has been head of the Vehicle Dynamics
department, Division Mainline & Metros with engineers in Västerås,
Hennigsdorf and Derby.
He is involved in most orders for the
Division and several development projects. Even though he now is fulll time at Bombardier he still works
to some extent for KTH , teaching Rail
Vehicle Dynamics and supervising PhD students.
Together with Klaus Knothe he published a German text book on Rail Vehicle
Dynamics (Schienenfahrzeugdynamik)."
Dr. Kevin Oldknow
Dr. Kevin Oldknow is Manager, Friction Control Technology at
Kelsan Technologies Corp. (North Vancouver, BC). His current areas of focus include design,
implementation and verification of friction control strategies for the railway
industry, as well as research and development (including modelling) in the
areas of wheel / rail contact mechanics, vehicle dynamics and friction
management. He is responsible for
Kelsan’s field applications group, which conducts full scale experimental
programs and technology implementation projects for freight and transit rail
operations on several continents around the world. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical
Engineering from the University of British
Columbia, with specializations in controls,
dynamics and metal cutting. He has
published several papers in conference proceedings and international journals
in the areas of friction management, controls and dynamics.
Steve Cox
Steve Cox has worked at Pandrol Rail Fastenings for more than
20 years, first in the Research and Development Department and more recently as
Technical Development Director with responsibility for new products. During
this time he has been involved in the mathematical modelling of various
different aspects of track behaviour, the measurement and analysis of track
component deflections, strains and vibrations, technical support of Pandrol
products, and development of new products for heavy haul railways, high-speed
railways, and metro systems. He has managed Pandrol’s contribution to a
number of research projects, including the EU projects Silent Track on railway noise and
CONVURT on
railway vibration.
Gordon Bachinsky
Gordon Bachinsky is President of Advanced Rail Management
(ARM) Corporation, a consulting/contract service company specializing in
assessing rail and wheel, vehicle and track conditions, and designing and
supervising rail grinding and wheel truing programs on freight, passenger and
rail transit systems.
Mr. Bachinsky has 30 years of experience working in the
railway, transit and railway supply industries. He began his railway career as
an apprentice electrician for Canadian National Railway. While working in the
Industrial Engineering Department at CN’s Montreal
headquarters in the mid-1980s, he conducted an intensive study of North
American rail grinding operations. The work on this study ultimately led Mr.
Bachinsky to found ARM in 1990.
During his career, Mr. Bachinsky also has worked in the
Equipment Engineering Department of the Toronto Transit Commission, where he
was involved in the procurement of new-technology transit vehicles with
linear-induction motors and total computer-control operation. He also was a Senior Engineer in the Controls
Division of Harris Corporation, where he worked on equipment used in remote
locomotive control (Locotrol) applications.
Mr. Bachinsky holds a BS Degree in Electrical Engineering
from the University of Manitoba.
He is a member of the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Railway Engineering and
Maintenance of Way Association (AREMA), serving as a member on Committee 4
(Rail) and Committee 2 (Track Measuring Systems). He is a licensed professional
engineer in the Province of Ontario.