Dr. Alex Remennikov is an Associate Professor in the School of Civil, Mining and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wollongong.
Articles
State dependent properties of rail pads (with S. Kaewunruen), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2009)
Rail pad is one of the main components in ballasted railway track systems. It is...
Dynamic Effect on Vibration Signatures of Cracks in Railway Prestressed Concrete Sleepers (with S. Kaewunruen), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2008)
In general, cracks in structural members indicate a level of serviceability of the engineering structures....
Probabilistic Impact Fractures of Railway Prestressed Concrete Sleepers (with S. Kaewunruen), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2008)
Cracks in railway prestressed concrete sleepers are often caused by the infrequent but high magnitude...
Experimental and Numerical Studies of Railway Prestressed Concrete Sleepers Under Static and Impact Loads (with S. Kaewunruen), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2007)
The present paper deals with experimental and numerical investigations of the static and impact behaviours...
Non-destructive testing (NDT): A tool for dynamic health monitoring of railway track structures (with S. Kaewunruen), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2006)
The applications of NDT are varied and recently, an NDT technique known as ‘modal analysis’...
Contributions to Books
Application of vibration measurements and finite element model updating for structural health monitoring of ballasted railtrack sleepers with voids and pockets (with S. Kaewunruen), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2009)
Although vibration measurements are very useful and common in practice nowadays in many applications related...
Trends in vibration-based structural health monitoring of railway sleepers (with S. Kaewunruen), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2009)
Today vibration-based structural health monitoring (SHM) has been widely used in many applications, i.e. mechanical,...
Dynamic properties of railway track and its components : a state-of-the-art review (with S. Kaewunruen), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2008)
Recent findings indicate one of major causes of damages, which is attributed to the resonant...
Presentations
Design of Water Holding Bulkheads for Coal Mines (with Verne S. Mutton), Underground Coal Operators' Conference (2011)
Water control has been and remains a fundamentally important aspect of underground coal mine design...
Designing explosion rated ventilation seals for coal mines using high-fidelity physics-based computer modelling (with Ian Verne Mutton), Underground Coal Operators' Conference (2010)
Questions have been raised about the effectiveness of ventilation control devices (VCDs) to safely resist...
Relationship between impact energy and fracture toughness of prestressed concrete railway sleepers (with S. Kaewunruen), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2009)
The prestressed concrete sleepers (or railroad ties), which are installed in railway track systems as...
Dynamic design guidelines for prestressed concrete sleepers (with Martin H. Murray and Sakdirat Kaewunruen), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2008)
Current design philosophy, outlined in AS 1085.14, is based on the analysis of permissible stresses...
Impact damage classification of railway prestressed concrete sleepers (with S. Kaewunruen), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2008)
Commonly, railway tracks suffer with the extreme loading conditions, which are attributed to the train...
Other
Optimisation of the Bolt Profile Configuration for Load Transfer Enhancement (with N. Aziz, H. Jalalifar, S. Sinclair, and A. Green), Coal Operators' Conference (2008)
Both bolt profile shape and profile spacing (rib spacing) have been found to influence the...