Maksym Spiryagin
BSc(Hons) MSc(Hons) PhD MIMechE CEng MIEAust CPEng NER RPEQ RPEVProfessor - Engineering
School of Engineering and Technology
Centre for Railway Engineering
Building 70 - Room 1.08
Centre for Railway Engineering
Professor Maksym Spiryagin is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Railway Engineering at Central Queensland University. He received his PhD in the field of Railway Transport in 2004.
Professor Maksym Spiryagin has extensive experience in both academia and industry, with a multi-decade career dedicated to research leadership in engineering science. His expertise encompasses rail vehicle dynamics and mechatronics, locomotive design and traction systems, simulation modelling, digital engineering, tribology and contact mechanics, railway infrastructure, computer and software engineering. He is also proficient in developing physics-based multidisciplinary digital twins and complex systems through a variety of physics-based simulation methodologies.
He has published five books, including ‘Design and simulation of rail vehicles’ in 2014,‘Design and simulation of heavy haul locomotives and trains’ in 2017 and ‘Rail vehicle mechatronics’ in 2021. He is also one of editors of 'Handbook of railway vehicle dynamics, 2nd edition' published in 2019. And, he has more than three hundred other scientific publications and twenty patents as one of the inventors.
Professor Spiryagin is a Chartered Professional Engineer, RPEQ and RPEV in Australia and a Chartered Engineer in the UK.
Awards
2018 Sir George Julius Medal (Engineers Australia)
https://www.cqu.edu.au/cquninews/stories/general-category/2019/monumental-book-on-heavy-haul-locomotives-sets-up-industry-award
1997-1998 The scholarship of Parliament of Ukraine (East Ukrainian National University).
Media Citations
2021 - CQUniversity’s Research Impact Journal - "Virtual simulations on track to improve rail and rollingstock life cycles"
https://www.cqu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/43900/Research-at-CQUniversity-Capability-Statement.pdf
2021 - Rail Express - "CQUniversity and the digitalisation path to predictive maintenance"
https://www.railexpress.com.au/cquniversity-and-the-digitalisation-path-to-predictive-maintenance/
Professional Experience
2015 - present Development of railway Australian standards:
AS 7518:2022 Rolling Stock Suspension
AS 7486:2022 Rolling Stock Onboard Electrical Energy Storage
Guideline - Wheel Rail Profile Development
AS 7519:2021 Bogie Structural Requirements
AS 7473:2020 Complex System Integration in Railways
AS 7501:2019 Rolling Stock Compliance Certification
AS 7641:2018 Rail Lubrication
Code of Practice - Distributed Power Freight Trains (2018)
AS 7509:2017 Railway Rolling Stock - Dynamic Behaviour
Professional Memberships
- Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK
- Engineers Australia
- Railway Technical Society of Australasia
- The International Association for Vehicle System Dynamics
Other professional activities:
2023-2024 Member of the Scientific Committee of 3rd International Conference on Rail Transportation, Shanghai, China.
2022-2023 Member of the Scientific Committee of 28th International Symposium on Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks (IAVSD2023), Ottawa, Canada.
2020-2021 Member of the Scientific Committee of 27th International Symposium on Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks (IAVSD2021), Saint Petersburg, Russia.
2020-2021 Member of the International Scientific Committee of 2nd International Conference on Rail Transportation, Chengdu, China.
2018-2019 Member of the Scientific Committee of 26th International Symposium on Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks (IAVSD2019), Gothenburg, Sweden.
2019-2021 Member of the International Committee of International Collaborative Research Initiative on RCF and Wear of Rails and Wheels.
2015-2017 Conference Co-Chair of 25th International Symposium on Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks (IAVSD2017), Rockhampton, Australia.
2015-2017 Chair of the Rail Scientific Committee of 25th International Symposium on Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks (IAVSD2017), Rockhampton, Australia.
2016-2017 Member of the International Scientific Committee of 1st International Conference on Rail Transportation, Chengdu, China.
Responsibilities
Deputy Director - Centre for Railway Engineering
Professional Interests
- Locomotive Traction
- Vehicle Dynamics
- Contact mechanics
- Digital twins
- Simulation Modelling
- Mechatronics for rail vehicles (active suspension, active steering, integrated wheelset control, etc)
- Digital Engineering
- System of Systems
- Train Dynamics
- Acoustics
Key Achievements
- Invited keynote and speaker addresses:
2023 28th International Symposium on Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks (IAVSD2023), Ottawa, Canada. Topic: Vehicle system dynamics in digital twin studies in rail and road domains. (Joint presentation with Johannes Edelmann, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria)
2021 RSSB, Vehicle/Track System Interface Committee Adhesion Research Group, London, UK. Topic: Locomotive Adhesion and Rail Friction Field Measurements
2021 RSSB, Vehicle/Track System Interface Committee Adhesion Research Group, London, UK. Topic: Experimental Prototyping of the Adhesion Braking Control System Design Concept for a Mechatronic Bogie
2021 2nd International Conference on Rail Transportation, Chengdu, China. Topic: Problems, assumptions and solutions in locomotive design, traction and operational studies
2019 ICRI-RCF 2019 workshop, The International Collaborative Research Initiative (ICRI) on Rolling Contact Fatigue (RCF) and Wear of Rails and Wheels, Vancouver, Canada. Topic: Locomotive traction and its effect on rail wear: methodology, measurements and simulations
2018 8th Annual Heavy Haul Rail Conference, The Australasian Railway Association. Topic: Understanding the impact on track maintenance of high traction locomotives through advanced simulation approaches
2018 ICRI-RCF 2018 workshop, The International Collaborative Research Initiative (ICRI) on Rolling Contact Fatigue (RCF) and Wear of Rails and Wheels, TUDelft, Netherlands. Topic: Locomotive Traction and Rail Heat Transfer – Modelling and Field Test Validation (Joint presentation with Chris Bosomworth, CQUniversity)
2017 Light Rail Conference, The Australasian Railway Association. Topic: Application of Numerical Simulations for Rail and Wheel Wear Management on Light Rail Networks
2016 6th Annual Heavy Haul Rail Conference, The Australasian Railway Association. Topic: Implementation of Advanced Simulation Techniques for Wheel/Rail Wear Studies on Heavy Haul Routes
2016 RISSB Mechanical and Civil: Infrastructure and Rolling Stock Engineering Forum, Rail Industry Safety and Standards Board. Topic: Dynamic Modelling of Rolling Stock. Using computer simulation to understand rolling stock
2014 RISSB Wheel Rail Interface Forum, Rail Industry Safety and Standards Board. Topics: Contact Mechanics Locomotive suspension
2013 Managing Engineering Risk Workshop, Engineers Australia. Topic: Derailment risk assessment based on the advanced simulation methodology for rail vehicles
Editor
- Associate Editor of Vehicle System Dynamics (Taylor & Francis)
- Associate Editor of Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit (SAGE)
- Associate Editor of Railway Engineering Science (Springer)
- Guest editor:
2022-2024 Principal Guest Editor of a Special Issue on “Rail Decarbonisation” in the Journal of Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, SAGE
2022-2024 Principal Guest Editor of a Special Issue on “Contact Mechanics and Wear of Rail/Wheel Systems (CM 2022)” in the Journal of Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, SAGE
2022-2023 Principal Guest Editor of a Special Issue on “Vehicle System Dynamics in Digital Twin Technologies” in the Journal of Vehicle System Dynamics, Taylor & Francis2020-2021 Principal Guest Editor of a Special Issue on “Hybrid and hydrogen technologies in railway operations” in the Journal of Journal of Railway Engineering Science, Springer
2019-2020 Guest Editor of a Special Issue on "Parallel computing and co-simulation in railway research" in International Journal of Rail Transportation, Taylor & Francis
2018-2019 Guest Editor of a Special Issue on “Emerging rail vehicle design and simulation in train operational environment” in the Australian Journal of Mechanical Engineering, Taylor & Francis
2017 Principal Guest Editor of a Special Issue on “State of the Art Papers of the 25th IAVSD Symposium” in the Journal of Vehicle System Dynamics, Taylor & Francis
2016-2017 Principal Guest Editor of a Special Issue on “Longitudinal Train Dynamics” in the Journal of Vehicle System Dynamics, Taylor & Francis
2014-2015 Principal Guest Editor of a Special Issue on “Modelling of Traction in Railway Vehicles” in the Journal of Vehicle System Dynamics, Taylor & Francis
2012-2013 Principal Guest Editor of a Special Issue on “Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation for Rail Vehicles” in the Journal of Vehicle System Dynamics, Taylor & Francis
Accreditation
I am currently accredited for supervision in the following:
- 4007 Control engineering, mechatronics and robotics
- 4903 Numerical and Computational Mathematics
- 4099 Other Engineering
- 4901 Applied Mathematics
- 4601 Applied computing
- 4017 Mechanical Engineering
- 4612 Software engineering
Current Capacity
Control engineering, mechatronics and robotics - Mechatronics hardware design and architecture
Control engineering, mechatronics and robotics - Simulation, modelling, and programming of mechatronics systems
Mechanical Engineering - Automation and Control Engineering
Mechanical Engineering - Dynamics, Vibration and Vibration Control
Mechanical Engineering - Energy Generation, Conversion and Storage Engineering
Mechanical Engineering - Mechanical Engineering not elsewhere classified
Mechanical Engineering - Numerical Modelling and Mechanical Characterisation
Mechanical Engineering - Tribology
Other Engineering - Other engineering not elsewhere classified
