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ZHAO Xin

Professor

Director of Institute for Wheel-Rail Interaction and Vibration & Noise

Email: xinzhao@swjtu.edu.cn

Office: Room 317, Red Building of State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, Jiuli Campus

BIO

Education

• PhD, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands, Railway Engineering (2012)

• M.A., Southwest Jiaotong University, Vehicle Application Engineering (2005)

• B.S., Southwest Jiaotong University, Heat Energy & Power Engineering(2003)

Employment

Academic Appointments

• Professor, State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, Southewest Jiaotong University, China (2021-present)

• Associate Professor, State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, Southewest Jiaotong University, China (2015-2021)

• Postdoctoral Fellow, State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, Southwest Jiaotong University, China (2012-2014)

Administrative Appointments

• Director of Institute for Wheel-Rail Interaction and Vibration & Noise, (2020) 

   

Research Interests

• Dynamic/transient wheel/rail rolling contact, High frequency vehicle-track interaction, Wear the RCF failures of wheels and rails

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Principal Publications of the Last Five Years

• Xin Zhao*, Shuangchao Huang, Peng Zhang, Liang Ling, Jizhong Yang, Zefeng Wen, On the modelling of normal wheel-rail contact for high-frequency vehicle–track dynamics analyses, International Journal of Rail Transportation, (accepted,on-line https://doi.org/10.1080/23248378.2021.2004463)

• ZHAO Xin, WEN Ze-feng, WANG Heng-yu, TAO Gong-quan, JIN Xue-song,Research progress on wheel/rail rolling contact fatigue of rail transit in China，Journal of Traffic and Transporation Engineering,2021(21)(1),1-35 (In Chinese).

• Wanming Zhai, Xuesong Jin, Zenfeng Wen and Xin Zhao*, Wear problems of High-Speed Wheel/Rail systems: Observations, Causes, and Countermeasures in China, Applied Mechanics Reviews 72 (2020, Nov.), 060801.

• Yongfeng Liu, Tao Jiang, Xin Zhao*, Zefeng Wen, Xuesong Jin, Effects of axle load transfer on wheel rolling contact fatigue of high-power AC locomotives with oblique traction rods, International Journal of Fatigue 139 (2020)105748.

• Xin Zhao*, Zhe Wang, Zefeng Wen, Hengyu Wang, Dongfang, Zeng, The initiation of local rolling contact fatigue on railway wheels: an experimental study, International Journal of Fatigue 132 (2020), 105354.

• Xin Zhao*, Peng Zhang, Zefeng Wen, On the coupling of the vertical, lateral and longitudinal wheel-rail interactions at high frequencies and the resulting irregular wear, Wear 430-431(2019) 317-326.

• Xin Zhao*, Jizhong Yang*, Boyang An, Chao Liu, Yabo Cao, Zefeng Wen, Xuesong Jin，Determination of dynamic amplification factors for heavy haul railways, Journal of rail and rapid transit, 2018, 232 (2): 514-528.

• Xin Zhao*, Boyang An, Xiaogang Zhao, Zefeng Wen, Xuesong Jin, Local rolling contact fatigue and indentations on high-speed railway wheels: observations and numerical simulations, International Journal of Fatigue, 2017, 103 (October) 5-16

• Xin Zhao*, Xiaogang Zhao, Chao Liu, Zefeng Wen, Xuesong Jin, A Study on Dynamic stress Intensity Factors of Rail Cracks at High speeds by a 3D Explicit finite element model of Rolling contact, Wear, 2016, 366-367, pp 60-70.

• X. Zhao*, Z. Li, A solution of transient rolling contact with velocity dependent friction by the explicit finite element method , Engineering Computations 33 (4) (2016),1033-1050. 

  
  

 Selected Awards and Honors

• First Prize of Sichuan Natural Science Award (2019-Z-1-04-R04)

• Excellent Reviewer Award for Journal of Mechanical Engineering (2017)

 Professional Activities

• Co-chair of Technical Committee of Locomotive & Rolling Stock in WTC (2019–)

• Committee Member of International Conference on Contact Mechanics and Wear of Rail/Wheel Systems (2015–)
  

 RESEARCH

Current Research

• Testing system for adhesion characteristics of wheel/rail under extreme conditions, NSFC Special Fund for Research on National Major Research Instruments. 

• Study on wide-frequency dynamics of high-speed railways and irregularity control,  International Collabration Project of Sichuan Provience.

• Study on wheel-rail "rolling-sliding-jumping" contact behavior at a speed of 400 km/h and above, Autonomous Research Project of State Key Lab of Traction Power.

• Initiation mechanism of RCF of heavy haul rail on sharp curves and its counter measures, Commercial project.

  
  

  TEACHING

Primary Teaching areas

• Wheel-rail rolling contact mechanics

• Wheel-rail damage and counter measures 

    

Current Courses

• Railway Engineering System Dynamics 

• Academic Quality and Research Methodology

• Research on the Frontier of Rail Transit

GRADUATE SUPERVISION

I am available for supervision. Over the past five years, I have supervised and graduated 1 PhD student and 12 Master students.