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Published books:

Handbook of Railway Vehicle Dynamics

CRC Press (December 30, 2005), ISBN: 0849333210

Available on Amazon

The Manchester Benchmarks for Rail Vehicle Simulation (Supplement to Vehicle System Dynamics)

Aa Balkema; 1 edition (September 25, 1999), ISBN: 9026515510

Available on Amazon

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Published papers and proceedings:

2007

González, F., Pérez, J., Vinolas, J and Alonso, A

'Use of active steering in railway bogies to reduce rail corrugation on curves'

Proceedings of the IMechE Part-F Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, Volume 221, Number 4, 2007, pp.509-519(11)

Tunna, J., Sinclair, J. and Perez, J.

'A review of wheel wear and rolling contact fatigue'

Proceedings of the IMechE Part-F Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, Volume 221, Number 2, 2007, pp.271-289(19)

Hsu, S S., Huang, Z., Iwnicki, S D., Thompson, D J., Jones, C J C., Xie, G and Allen, P D

'Experimental and theoretical investigation of railway wheel squeal'

Proceedings of the IMechE Part-F Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, Volume 221, Number 1, 2007, pp.59-73(15)

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2006

G. Xie; P. D. Allen; S. D. Iwnicki; A. Alonso; D. J. Thompson; C. J. C. Jones; Z. Y. Huang

'Introduction of falling friction coefficients into curving calculations for studying curve squeal noise'

Vehicle System Dynamics: International Journal of Vehicle Mechanics and Mobility, Volume 44, Issue 1, Supplement 1, 2006, Pages 261–271

J. Perez; J. M. Stow; S. D. Iwnicki

'Application of active steering systems for the reduction of rolling contact fatigue on rails'

Vehicle System Dynamics: International Journal of Vehicle Mechanics and Mobility, Volume 44, Issue 1, Supplement 1, 2006, Pages 730–740

Bevan A., Allen P.D. and Enblom R.

'Application of a wear prediction method to the analysis of a new UK wheel profile'

Proceedings of the 7th Contact Mechanics and Wear of Rail/Wheel Systems Conference, Brisbane 24th-27th September 2006

Gualano L., Iwnicki S.D., Ponnapalli P.V.S. and Allen P.D.

'Prediction of Wheel-Rail Forces, Derailment and Passenger Comfort using Artificial Neural Networks'

Proceedings of the EURNEX-ZEL Conference, Zilina, Slovakia 30th-31st May 2006

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2005

Bezin Y, Cavalletti M. and Iwnicki S.D.

'Understanding the wheel-rail interface using an integrated flexible track simulation tool'

MSC.Software VPD conference Europe Middle East Africa 24-26th Nov 2005, Munich, Germany

Perez J., Stow J.M. and Iwnicki S.D.

'Application of active steering systems for the reduction of rolling contact fatigue on rails'

Proceeding XIX IAVSD Symposium, Aug 29th - Sep 2nd 2005, Milan, Italy

Kralicek J., Allen P.D., Iwnicki S.D.

'Dynamical analysis of the drive of metro bogie'

Computational Mechanics 21st Conference 2005

Xie G., Allen P.D., Iwnicki S.D., Alonso A., Thompson D.J., Jones C.J.C. and Huang Z.Y.

'The introduction of falling friction coefficents into curving calculations for studying curve squeal noise'

Proceeding XIX IAVSD Symposium, Aug 29th - Sep 2nd 2005, Milan, Italy

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2004

Iwnicki S.D.

'Simulation tools for railway vehicle track systems',

ZEV Glasers Annalen 128 (2004) 4 April 2004 pp140-149, Georg Siemens Verlag, ISSN 1618-8330

Goodall R.M. and Iwnicki S.D.

'Non-linear dynamic techniques v. equivalent conicity methods for rail vehicle stability assessment'

Vehicle System Dynamics, Supplement to Vol 41 (2004), pp 791-801 (ISBN 90 265 1972 9)

Persson I. and Iwnicki S.D.

'Optimisation of railway profiles using a genetic algorithm' - (408Kb)

Vehicle System Dynamics, Supplement to Vol 41 (2004), pp 517-527 (ISBN 90 265 1972 9)

Perez J., Allen P. and Van Uem B.

'Use of simulation in railway vehicle acceptance procedures' - (1,046Kb)

SIMPACK User Meeting 2004, (2004) Wartburg in Eisenach (Germany).

Liang B., Iwnicki S.D. and Swift F.J.

'Simulation and testing of a wheelset with induction motor driven independent wheel'

Proceeding 21st ICTAM Warsaw, 2004

Sheng X., Thompson D.J., Jones C.J.C., Xie G., Iwnicki S.D., Allen P.D. and Hsu S.

'Simulation of roughness growth on railway rails'

Proceeding 8th International Workshop on Railway Noise Buxton, September 2004

Iwnicki S.D., Allen P.D. and Stow J.M.

'Wheel/rail interface issues'

PWI Autumn Technical Seminar, Nottingham, September 2004

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2003

Williams J. Madelin K.B. Stirling A.B. Thanh V.H. Iwnicki S.D. and Bayati H.

'Integrated system approach to vehicle and track interface'

Proc. World Congress on Railway Research, Edinburgh, 2003

Iwnicki S.D.

'Simulation of the wheel-rail contact forces'

Journal of Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, Vol.26 No.10 (2003), pp887-900 ISSN 8756-758x

Iwnicki S.D.

'Assessment of track friendly vehicles'

Proceeding LeRail conference 'Freins et Roues', Paris, France 2003

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2002

Liang B., Iwnicki S.D. and Swift F.J.

'Simulation of the behaviour of a railway vehicle with independently driven wheels'

2nd IFAC Conference on Mechatronic Systems, December 2002, Berkeley, California, USA

Liang B. Payne B.S. Ball B. and Iwnicki S.D.

'Simulation and fault detection of three-phase induction motors'

Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 61 (2002) 1-15 Elsevier ISSN 0378-4754

Jaiswal J., Blair S., Stevens A., Iwnicki S. and Bezin Y.

'A systems approach to evaluating rail life' - (846Kb)

Railway Engineering 2002, July 2002 London, Ed. M. Forde, Glasgow University

Bayati H., Iwnicki S.D. and Stow J.M.

'Opportunities for improving interfaces between railway engineering analysis tools' - (511Kb)

Railway Engineering 2002, July 2002 London, Ed. M. Forde, Glasgow University

Evans J. and Iwnicki S.D.

'Vehicle dynamics and the wheel/rail interface' - (1,357Kb)

Proc. I.Mech.E. Seminar ‘Wheels on Rails – An update', London April 2002

Iwnicki S.D.

'Sharing the benefits of track friendly vehicles'

IQPC conference ‘Achieving best practice in wheel/rail interface management’ Amsterdam January 2002

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2001

Bezin Y., Iwnicki S.D., and Guerguil N.

'Modelling Leafspring Suspensions for ‘Virtual’ Acceptance Test'

2nd International Workshop on Freight Vehicle Design, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, April 2001

Goosey-Tolfrey, V.L., Fowler, N.E., Campbell , I.G. and Iwnicki , S.D.

'A kinetic analysis of trained wheelchair racers during two speeds of propulsion'

Medical Engineering and Physics 23(2001) pp259-266 ISSN 1350-4533

Allen P.D. and Iwnicki S.D.

'The critical speed of a railway vehicle on a roller rig'

Proc. Instn. Mech. Engrs., Vol 215(2001), Part F, pp55-64, ISSN 0954-4097

Iwnicki S.D. and Bezin Y.

'Simulation as a tool for assessing the match between track and vehicle standards' - (438Kb)

Infrarail November 2001 London

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2000

Scheffel H., Kovtun H., Markova O., Kik W., Moelle D., Stow J. & Iwnicki S.D.

'A comparison of various freight car bogies'

13th International Conference on Problems in Mechanics of Railway Transport, Dnepropetrovsk May 2000

Iwnicki S., Stow J., Hardy S., Ventry D.

'Computer simulation of vehicle track interaction'

International Workshop on Freight Vehicle Design, Manchester Metropolitan University April 2000

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1999

Iwnicki S.D. Stow J. and Parkinson H.J.

'Assessing railway vehicle derailment potential using neural networks' - (469Kb)

I.Mech.E. Conference Transactions 1999-11 - Fault Free Infrastucture. Pub Proffessional Engineering Publications Ltd, 1999 (ISSN 1356-1448)

Iwnicki S.D. and Stow J. and Dyson A.M.

'Identifying and quantifying vehicle related track deterioration'

Institution of Civil Engineers Railway Conference (Railtex 99) - Measuring and Monitoring Track Deterioration. 1999.

Iwnicki S.D. and Stow J.M.

'Predictions of rail forces at discontinuities and some implications for track design'

Proceedings of the 4th ADAMS/Rail Users Conference, 28th-29th April 1999.

Iwnicki S.D. and Parkinson H.J.

'An intelligent track monitoring system' - (396Kb)

AIC Conference on Infrastructure Management, London, February 1999

Iwnicki S.D. Grassie S. and Kik W.

'Track Settlement Prediction using Computer Simulation Tools' - (451Kb)

Vehicle System Dynamics Supplement (1999) pp37-46 Swets and Zeitlinger (ISBN 90 265 1629 0)

Jaschinski A. Chollet H. Iwnicki S.D. Wickens A.H. and Von Wuerzen J.

'The application of roller rigs to railway vehicle dynamics' - (3,288Kb)

Vehicle System Dynamics Vol. 31. pp345-392 1999 (ISSN 0042-3114)

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1998

Iwnicki S.D., and Stow J.M.

'Modelling the behaviour of freight vehicles' - (386Kb)

Institution of Civil Engineers Railway Seminars - The Interaction of Vehicle and Track Design, 20th May 1998.

Iwnicki S.D., and Wickens A.H.

'Validation of a MATLAB railway vehicle simulation using a scale roller rig' - (1,008Kb)

Vehicle System Dynamics Vol. 30. No. 3. pp257-270 1998 (ISSN 0042-3114)

Iwnicki S.D., and Zhang W. Lin J.

'Study on a 1/5 scale railway roller rig'

Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering Vol.34 No.4. 1998

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