Railway Engineering, 1st ed. 2025 Advances in Condition Monitoring

Dr. Yun Lai Zhou is a professor in the Department of Engineering Mechanics at Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid, Spain. His research interests include structural health monitoring and fracture mechanics, and he has authored and co-authored numerous publications on the subject of structural health monitoring and structural modal analysis in international journals and conference proceedings.

Dr. Peng Dai, as a research scientist, graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology. He works on the railway infrastructure inspection technology. He hosted and participated in more than 10 projects, and published 18 academic papers.

Prof. Magd Abdel Wahab is a Full Professor of applied mechanics in the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Ghent University, Belgium, and Adjunct Full Professor in several universities in Vietnam and China. He received his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering and his M.Sc. in Structural Mechanics, both from Cairo University. He completed his Ph.D. in Fracture Mechanics at KU Leuven, Belgium and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Surrey. He has published more than 460 scientific papers in solid mechanics and dynamics of structures and edited more than 25 books and proceedings. His research interests include fracture mechanics, damage mechanics, fatigue of materials, durability, and dynamics and vibration of structures.