Colin Cole

Colin Cole

Central Queensland University

H-index: 38

Oceania-Australia

About Colin Cole

Colin Cole, With an exceptional h-index of 38 and a recent h-index of 29 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Central Queensland University, specializes in the field of railway engineering, train and wagon dynamics, intelligent systems, optimisation.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Development of a Digital Twin for prediction of rail surface damage in heavy haul railway operations

Physical coupling and decoupling of railway trains at cruising speeds: train control and dynamics

Lateral instability of three-piece bogie container wagon and effect of the loading distributions

Augmented digital twin for railway systems

Exploring hydrogen fuel cell and battery freight locomotive options using train dynamics simulation

Analysis of traction coefficient subject to rail cleaning effect based on tribomachine measurements

Car and train platoon simulations

Heavy haul rail/wheel wear and RCF assessments using 3D train models and a new wear map

Colin Cole Information

University

Position

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Citations(all)

5001

Citations(since 2020)

3061

Cited By

4378

hIndex(all)

38

hIndex(since 2020)

29

i10Index(all)

108

i10Index(since 2020)

81

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Central Queensland University

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Colin Cole Skills & Research Interests

railway engineering

train and wagon dynamics

intelligent systems

optimisation

Top articles of Colin Cole

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Development of a Digital Twin for prediction of rail surface damage in heavy haul railway operations

Vehicle System Dynamics

Sanjar Ahmad

Maksym Spiryagin

Qing Wu

Esteban Bernal

Yan Sun

...

2024/1/2

Physical coupling and decoupling of railway trains at cruising speeds: train control and dynamics

International Journal of Rail Transportation

Qing Wu

Xiaohua Ge

Shengyang Zhu

Colin Cole

Maksym Spiryagin

2024/3/3

Lateral instability of three-piece bogie container wagon and effect of the loading distributions

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

Yan Quan Sun

Maksym Spiryagin

Qing Wu

Colin Cole

2024/4

Augmented digital twin for railway systems

Vehicle System Dynamics

Esteban Bernal

Qing Wu

Maksym Spiryagin

Colin Cole

2024/1/2

Exploring hydrogen fuel cell and battery freight locomotive options using train dynamics simulation

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

Colin Cole

Yan Sun

Qing Wu

Maksym Spiryagin

2024/3

Analysis of traction coefficient subject to rail cleaning effect based on tribomachine measurements

Experimental Techniques

E Bernal

D Camacho

ML Rahaman

M Spiryagin

Q Wu

...

2024/4

Car and train platoon simulations

Journal of Vibration and Control

Qing Wu

Xiaohua Ge

Colin Cole

Maksym Spiryagin

2024/1

Heavy haul rail/wheel wear and RCF assessments using 3D train models and a new wear map

Wear

Qing Wu

Esteban Bernal

Maksym Spiryagin

Visakh Krishna

Haohao Ding

...

2024/2/15

Hand operated tribometer versus twin disc dry friction characteristics measurements

Wear

Esteban Bernal

Maksym Spiryagin

Kevin Oldknow

Qing Wu

Mohammad Rahaman

...

2024/3/15

Dynamic interactions of rail vehicle-track-bridge due to track-bridge transition zone settlement

Yan Quan Sun

Robert Hu

Maksym Spiryagin

Colin Cole

2024/2

Freight container wagon modelling and simulation analysis due to braking

Vehicle System Dynamics

Yan Quan Sun

Sanjar Nafis Ahmad

Ingemar Persson

Maksym Spiryagin

Esteban Bernal Arango

...

2024/3/6

A Time Headway Control Scheme for Virtually Coupled Heavy Haul Freight Trains

Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control

Qing Wu

Xiaohua Ge

Shengyang Zhu

Colin Cole

Maksym Spiryagin

2024/4/26

Railway track buckling assessment using computational mechanics

Dan Agustin

Qing Wu

Maksym Spiryagin

Colin Cole

2024/2

The effect of the wavelength of lateral track geometry irregularities on the response measurable by an instrumented freight wagon

Vehicle System Dynamics

Don Skerman

Colin Cole

Maksym Spiryagin

2024/3/3

Wheel-rail contact wear analysis on curved lubricated track for heavy haul locomotive studies

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

Yan Quan Sun

Maksym Spiryagin

Qing Wu

Colin Cole

2024/4/3

iNEW method for experimental-numerical locomotive studies focused on rail wear prediction

Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing

Esteban Bernal

Maksym Spiryagin

Qing Wu

Chris Bosomworth

Ben Sneath

...

2023/3/1

Preliminary investigation of an 8-axle freight locomotive design as a possible net-zero-emission motive power solution for Australian rail operational tasks

Maksym Spiryagin

Greg Wright

Peter Wolfs

Sanjar Ahmad

Esteban Bernal

...

2023/1/1

Vehicle system dynamics in digital twin technologies

Vehicle System Dynamics

Maksym Spiryagin

Johannes Edelmann

Colin Cole

2023/9/1

Coupler force and fatigue assessments with stochasticdraft gear frictions

Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English Edition)

Qing Wu

Colin Cole

Maksym Spiryagin

2023/2/1

Influence of wagon and locomotive wheel diameter differences on wear and RCF considering train operational conditions

Esteban Bernal

Sanjar Ahmad

Yan Sun

Maksym Spiryagin

Qing Wu

...

2023/1/1

See List of Professors in Colin Cole University(Central Queensland University)

Co-Authors

H-index: 65
Mohammad Rasul

Mohammad Rasul

Central Queensland University

H-index: 51
David P Thambiratnam

David P Thambiratnam

Queensland University of Technology

H-index: 45
Peter Wolfs

Peter Wolfs

Central Queensland University

H-index: 41
Manicka Dhanasekar

Manicka Dhanasekar

Queensland University of Technology

H-index: 34
Maksym Spiryagin

Maksym Spiryagin

Central Queensland University

H-index: 28
Qing WU

Qing WU

Central Queensland University

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