Railway Engineering: Advances in Condition Monitoring

Dr. Yun Lai Zhou is a professor in the Department of Engineering Mechanics at Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid, Spain. His research interests include structural health monitoring and fracture mechanics, and he has authored and co-authored numerous publications on the subject of structural health monitoring and structural modal analysis in international journals and conference proceedings.

Dr. Peng Dai, as a research scientist, graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology. He works on the railway infrastructure inspection technology. He hosted and participated in more than 10 projects, and published 18 academic papers.

Prof. Magd Abdel Wahabis a full Professor of Applied Mechanics at Soete Laboratory at Ghent University, Belgium. He received his B.Sc in Civil Engineering in 1988, and his M.Sc. in Structural Mechanics in 1991, both from Cairo University. Prof. Wahab completed his Ph.D. in Fracture Mechanics in 1995 at KU Leuven, Belgium, and was awarded a Doctor of Science degree by the University of Surrey in 2008. His research interests include fracture mechanics, damage mechanics, fatigue of materials, durability, and dynamics and vibration of structures, and he has published more than 450 scientific papers and technical reports on solid mechanics and dynamics of structures.

Prof. Linya Liu is a Professor of rail system noise and vibration control in East China Jiaotong University, China. He received his BSc, 1996, from Southwest Jiaotong University, China; and he completed his PhD in 2006 in Tongji University, China, both in Highway & Railway Engineering. He dedicates his research in the field of static and dynamic structural analysis, vibration mitigation and noise control especially for the rail system components including floating track slab. He has authored and co-authored for several books and more than 60 scientific publications in international journals and conference proceedings.