Maksym Spiryagin

BSc(Hons) MSc(Hons) PhD MIMechE CEng MIEAust CPEng NER RPEQ
Professor - Engineering
School of Engineering and Technology
Centre for Railway Engineering

m.spiryagin@cqu.edu.au

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1197-898X

(07) 4930 9677

Rockhampton North
Building 70 - Room 1.08
Centre for Railway Engineering

About Me

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 Spiryagin’s involvement in academia and railway industry projects includes many years of research experience in locomotive design and traction, rail vehicle dynamics, contact mechanics, wear, mechatronics and the development of complex systems using various approaches.

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 two hundred other scientific publications and twenty patents as one of the inventors.

Professor Spiryagin is a Chartered Professional Engineer and RPEQ in Australia and a Chartered Engineer in the UK.

General

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

•Australian Standard 7641:2018 Rail lubrication

•Code of Practice - Distributed Power Freight Trains (2018)

• Australian Standard 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:

2020-2021Member 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- Member of the Scientific Committee of 26th International Symposium on Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks (IAVSD2019), Gothenburg, Sweden.

2019- 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 twin technique
Modelling and simulation of electro-mechanical control systems
Mechatronics for rail vehicles (active suspension, active steering, integrated wheelset control, etc)
Real-time models and embedded systems
Train Dynamics
Fuzzy logic system
Acoustics

Key Achievements

- Invited keynote and speaker addresses:

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)

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- Principal Guest Editor of a Special Issue on “Vehicle System Dynamics in Digital Twin Technologies” in the Journal of Vehicle System Dynamics, Taylor & Francis

2022- Principal Guest Editor of a Special Issue on “Rail Decarbonisation” in the Journal of Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, SAGE

2022- 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

2020-2021 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