Railway Engineering Technology Developments and Innovations

1. Railway Wheels Failure Mechanism and Locally Resonant Bandgap for Vibration Isolation

Boris I and Jaesun Lee

2. Railway Axles

Sunil Kumar Sharma, Holger Fricke, Samson Abiodun Aasa, and Srihari Palli

3. Rail–Wheel Interaction

Yogesh Kumar Singla and Samson Abiodun Aasa

4. Digital Twins in Railway Systems

Srihari Palli, Sivasankara Raju Rallabandi, Samson Abiodun Aasa, Seepana Praveenkumar, Pavankumar Rejeti, Azad Duppala, and Abdulsamad Ibrahim

5. Regenerative Braking System for Railways

Sai Sarath Gonuguntla and Samson Abiodun Aasa

6. Sustainability in Railway Engineering

Sivasankara Raju Rallabandi, Srihari Palli, Samson Abiodun Aasa, Seepana Praveenkumar, Badana Govindarajulu, and Bendi Venkataramana

7. Adaptive Sliding Mode Controller Development to Improve Rail Network Efficiency through Virtual Coupling: A Case Study Evidence

Saikat Dutta

8. Railway Transition Zones

Avni Jain, Andrei Metrikine, and Karel van Dalen

9. Navigating the Cybersecurity Landscape in Railway Infrastructure: Measures, Challenges, and Innovation

Ajay Kumar Verma and Shilpi Lavania

10. Design and Manufacturing of Railway Track

Smitirupa Pradhan and Prajapati Naik

11. Formulation of a Metamodel-Based Multi-Objective Optimisation Problem for a Rail Vehicle’s Dynamic Response

Manish Pandey

12. Railway Track System and Dynamics 

Smitirupa Pradhan and Prajapati Naik

13. Case Studies of Failures in Railway Engineering, High-Speed Rail Innovations, and Challenges in Metro Trains

Abhishek Gannarapu

14. Frictional Braking in Trains

Vineesh Vishnu and K. P. Vineesh

15. Railway Wheel Technology and Evolution of Temperature in Railway Wheels

Abhishek Gannarapu

Biography

V. M. Ravindra Kumar is a faculty member at the School of Mechanical Engineering at VIT-AP University. He received a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He worked on a major railway engineering problem, “Locomotive Wheel Failure from Excessive Wheel Gauge Change,” and successfully identified the root causes of the problem. His research areas include railway engineering, numerical modeling of manufacturing processes, 3D and 4D printing. He has published research articles in various national and international journals and contributed to book and book chapters. He has the experience of working in sponsored research projects.

K. P. Vineesh is a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Calicut. He has 8 years of experience in teaching, research, and academic administration. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. His major research areas are railway engineering, machine design, metal additive manufacturing, and vehicle dynamics. He has several peer-reviewed international journals in his core research areas and holds two patents.

Sunil Kumar Sharma is a Professor and Chair of Rail Vehicle Technology at the Institute of Railway Vehicles and Railway Technology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany, and an Assistant Professor at Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya, Vadodara, a Central University established by the Ministry of Railways, Government of India. He received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He has worked at the Non-destructive Evaluation and Structural Health Monitoring Laboratory at C.N. University, South Korea. His research interests include vehicle dynamics, contact mechanics, mechatronics, and real-time software-enabled control systems for high-speed rail vehicles. He has published several research articles in national and international journals, contributed to book chapters, and edited a book. He is among the top 2% of scientists in a global list compiled by Stanford University, USA.