Handbook of Railway Vehicle Dynamics, Second Edition (ePub)

Simon Iwnicki is professor of railway engineering at the University of Huddersfield in the UK, where he is director of the Institute of Railway Research (IRR). The IRR has an international reputation for its research and support to industry, providing not only valuable practical solutions to specific problems in the industry but also making significant contributions to the understanding of some of the fundamental mechanisms of the wheel-rail interaction on which the safe and economical operation of railways depends. Professor Iwnicki is the editor-in-chief of Part F of the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (the Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit) and co-editor (responsible for railway matters) of the journal Vehicle System Dynamics. He was the academic co-chair of the Rail Research UK Association (RRUKA) from 2010 to 2014, and, from 2014 to 2015, he was chair of the railway division of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He is a former member of the Scientific Committee of Shift2Rail.

Maksym Spiryagin is a professor of engineering and the deputy director of the Centre for Railway Engineering at Central Queensland University, Australia. He received his PhD in the field of railway transport in 2004 at the East Ukrainian National University. Professor Spiryagin's involvement in academia and railway industry projects includes research experience in Australia, China, Italy, South Korea and Ukraine, involving locomotive design and traction, rail vehicle dynamics, acoustics and real-time and software-enabled control systems, mechatronics and the development of complex mechatronic systems using various approaches (co-simulation, software-in-the-loop, processor-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the loop simulations).