Research Group

• Name of Research Group:Digital design and intelligent optimization for railway alignments

  Description of Research Group:Alignment design is the first step in railway construction. Its basic task is to plan the railway location, determine technical standards, design the spatial alignment geometry and configure complex structures. It is of great significance and far-reaching influence. It mainly faces the very difficult problem of "multi-dimensional environmental factors + multi-objective evaluation objectives + multiple coupling constraints". How to quickly generate an alignment solution that satisfies multiple constraints and performs well with respect to multiple objective functions in a multi-dimensional environment is recognized as a NP-hard issue. To solve this problem, our team has carried out successively studies for nearly half a century.
  The team was founded by Professor Zhan Zhenyan, a famous domestic alignment design expert, in the late 1970s. It has been long engaged in the digital and intelligent design of alignments and stations. It is the earliest-started and longest-lasting research team in this field in China. As an important support for high-quality platforms such as the national key discipline of road and railway engineering, the first-class national key discipline of transportation engineering, and the National Engineering Laboratory for High Speed Railway Construction Technology of Central South University, this team has always adhered to the scientific research spirit of "indomitable". We not only paid great attention to theoretical and methodological research (we have published 7 papers continuously on the prestigious CACAIE journal, the world's No. 1 journal in civil and transportation engineering) but also to being down-to-earth engineering applications: Up to now we developed over 30 software systems for the full-stage and full-type railway design requirements of digital alignment design, digital station yard design and intelligent alignment optimization. Those software productions have been popularized and applied in more than 80% of Railway Survey and Design Companies in China, assisted in the design of more than 60,000 km of ordinary speed railways, more than 30,000 km of high-speed railways and more than 10,000 km railways overseas, which significantly improved the efficiency and technical level of railway designs in China. The team has 3 gold awards and 2 silver awards of National Excellent Engineering Design Software, as well as 2 special awards, 2 first awards and 8 second awards of Provincial and Ministerial Awards for Scientific and Technological Progress. So far, the team has trained more than 100 master's and doctoral students, and transported a large number of high-quality talents for domestic railway, highway survey and design institutes, Autodesk, Huawei and other large enterprises and universities at home and abroad. Many graduates have become chief engineers, professors and technical leaders of national key railway projects. Numerous technologies of this team related to digital alignment design have been identified as the international leading level by domestic peer experts. International authoritative experts in civil and transportation engineering highly recommended the team's achievements as "The Best in the World on Railway Alignments".
  The team has established long-term friendly cooperative relations with all domestic railway survey and design companies, the University of Maryland and other famous foreign universities. All graduate students can get the joint guidance of top experts in the field of international transportation and senior experts of enterprises, which can lay a good foundation for studying abroad or job hunting in the future.
  Students who are interested in the relevant direction of digital and intelligent alignment/station design and love scientific studies are welcome to join us. Interested students please send your resume and other materials helpful to the application (such as recommender information, summary of scientific research achievements, etc.) to haopu@csu.edu.cn.

  
  

  李伟

  李伟，1984年6月生，男，博士（后），副教授，博士生导师；现任铁道工程系主任，高速铁路建造技术国家工程研究中心-数字建造实验室主任，《铁道科学与工程学报》青年编委，《Smart Construction》青年编委，国际权威期刊TRANSPORT RES C-EMER, COMPUT-AIDED CIV INF, COMPUT IND ENG, APPL SOFT COMPUT审稿专家；主要从事铁路线路、站场数字化、智能化设计，道路与铁道工程数字化建造、VR与BIM方面的研究工作；主持国家自然科学...

  
  

  宋陶然

  宋陶然，汉族，1995年7月生，籍贯河北保定，中南大学特聘副教授，硕士生导师（邮箱：TaoranSongiRen@csu.edu.cn），高速铁路智能建造与养维研究所副所长，国际学术期刊《Intelligent Transportation Infrastructure》青年编委，世界交通运输大会（WTC）轨道交通选线与设计技术委员会委员。2017年6月本科毕业于中南大学土木工程学院（詹天佑班），2023年6月博士毕业于中南大学土木工程学院道路与铁道工程专业（硕博连读），后留...

  
  

  张洪

  张洪，副教授，博士，硕士生导师。主持国家自然科学基金、国家重点研发计划项目子课题、中国博士后科学基金面上项目、江西省教育厅重点项目、高速铁路建造技术国家工程试验中心开放课题等国家级、省部级项目7项；发表学术论文10余篇；研究成果获中国交通运输协会科技进步特等奖、中国铁道学会科技进步一等奖等奖项。