Louis Le Pen

1.8k total citations
49 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Louis Le Pen is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering and General Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Louis Le Pen has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 37 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 15 papers in General Engineering. Recurrent topics in Louis Le Pen's work include Railway Engineering and Dynamics (43 papers), Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures (28 papers) and Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Research (15 papers). Louis Le Pen is often cited by papers focused on Railway Engineering and Dynamics (43 papers), Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures (28 papers) and Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Research (15 papers). Louis Le Pen collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and United Arab Emirates. Louis Le Pen's co-authors include William Powrie, A. Zervos, David Milne, Geoff Watson, David Thompson, Sharif Ahmed, A.P. Hudson, Ali Masoudi, Athma R. Bhandari and Clive Roberts and has published in prestigious journals such as Construction and Building Materials, Journal of Sound and Vibration and Géotechnique.

In The Last Decade

Louis Le Pen

48 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Louis Le Pen United Kingdom 22 1.0k 1.0k 325 249 122 49 1.3k
P. Galvín Spain 25 1.6k 1.5× 1.7k 1.7× 741 2.3× 301 1.2× 107 0.9× 79 2.1k
Chunfa Zhao China 18 959 0.9× 747 0.7× 291 0.9× 220 0.9× 39 0.3× 56 1.2k
A. Romero Spain 18 802 0.8× 838 0.8× 306 0.9× 132 0.5× 47 0.4× 60 1.1k
Meng Ma China 20 706 0.7× 724 0.7× 310 1.0× 97 0.4× 65 0.5× 56 984
Ping Lou China 18 941 0.9× 876 0.9× 354 1.1× 183 0.7× 72 0.6× 71 1.2k
Kai Wei China 18 790 0.8× 794 0.8× 340 1.0× 160 0.6× 48 0.4× 53 1.0k
Juanjuan Ren China 20 709 0.7× 852 0.8× 229 0.7× 206 0.8× 70 0.6× 68 1.1k
H. Xia China 26 1.2k 1.2× 1.2k 1.2× 314 1.0× 188 0.8× 20 0.2× 42 1.6k
Wangbao Zhou China 22 1.1k 1.1× 1.5k 1.5× 238 0.7× 138 0.6× 16 0.1× 126 1.6k
Dimitris Rizos United States 17 260 0.3× 504 0.5× 71 0.2× 197 0.8× 15 0.1× 58 785

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All Works

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Milne, David, Ali Masoudi, Benjamin Lee, et al.. (2025). Mechanically coupled distributed dynamic strain measurement for track systems and earthworks. Transportation Geotechnics. 53. 101605–101605.
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Pen, Louis Le, et al.. (2024). Railway Track Deterioration Models: A Review of the State of the Art. Transportation Geotechnics. 49. 101377–101377. 5 indexed citations
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Luca, Flavia De, Raffaele De Risi, Louis Le Pen, et al.. (2023). Physical and numerical investigation of integral bridge abutment stiffness due to seasonal thermal loading. Transportation Geotechnics. 42. 101064–101064. 8 indexed citations
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Bezin, Yann, et al.. (2023). Modelling the improved behaviour of a switch installed on ballast-asphalt track. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 1. 1–8. 2 indexed citations
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Luca, Flavia De, Raffaele De Risi, Louis Le Pen, et al.. (2022). Challenges and perspectives for integral bridges in the UK: PLEXUS small-scale experiments. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 175(1). 27–43. 6 indexed citations
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Madhusudhan, B. N., et al.. (2022). Reusing Life-Expired Railway Ballast: Laboratory Testing, Shape Analysis, and Petrographic Evaluation. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. 149(1). 12 indexed citations
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Pen, Louis Le, et al.. (2020). The influence of sleeper material characteristics on railway track behaviour: concrete vs composite sleeper. Transportation Geotechnics. 23. 100348–100348. 21 indexed citations
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Powrie, William, Louis Le Pen, David Milne, & David Thompson. (2019). Train loading effects in railway geotechnical engineering: Ground response, analysis, measurement and interpretation. Transportation Geotechnics. 21. 100261–100261. 32 indexed citations
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Powrie, William, et al.. (2019). Behaviour of under-track crossings on ballasted railways. Transportation Geotechnics. 21. 100258–100258. 6 indexed citations
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Pen, Louis Le, et al.. (2019). Effect of Sleeper Interventions on Railway Track Performance. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. 145(4). 59 indexed citations
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Pen, Louis Le, et al.. (2018). Modelling the effects of trafficking and tamping on scaled railway ballast in triaxial tests. Transportation Geotechnics. 15. 84–90. 43 indexed citations
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Milne, David, Louis Le Pen, David Thompson, & William Powrie. (2017). Properties of train load frequencies and their applications. Journal of Sound and Vibration. 397. 123–140. 65 indexed citations
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Pen, Louis Le, et al.. (2016). A Review and Evaluation of Ballast Settlement Models using Results from the Southampton Railway Testing Facility (SRTF). Procedia Engineering. 143. 999–1006. 51 indexed citations
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Pen, Louis Le, et al.. (2016). Scaling relationships for strip fibre–reinforced aggregates. Canadian Geotechnical Journal. 54(5). 710–719. 16 indexed citations
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Pen, Louis Le, et al.. (2015). Critical train speeds and associated track movements – a case study. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 3 indexed citations
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Pen, Louis Le, et al.. (2014). The behaviour of railway level crossings: Insights through field monitoring. Transportation Geotechnics. 1(4). 201–213. 70 indexed citations
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Pen, Louis Le, Athma R. Bhandari, & William Powrie. (2014). Sleeper End Resistance of Ballasted Railway Tracks. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. 140(5). 48 indexed citations
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Pen, Louis Le, et al.. (2013). Dependence of shape on particle size for a crushed rock railway ballast. Granular Matter. 15(6). 849–861. 91 indexed citations

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