Newcastle University

Introduction

Gordana is researcher in NewRail within the Rail Infrastructure Group. Her research experience is in a wide range of railway research areas and expertise in wheel-rail contact, particularly in adhesion and rail wear.

Gordana is also the Research Coordinator for Newcastle University's transportNewcastle network. Her role is to promote the University for transport technology research and to assist in the coordination of the network.

Background

My research has been mainly in railway engineering. I have industrial experience in the gas engineering field and welding. For two years I was a lecturer at the Polytechnic of Mechanical and Traffic Engineering in Belgrade, Serbia, teaching public transport.

Qualifications

PhD in Railway engineering, Newcastle University, 2013

MSc Master of Technical Sciences in the field of Railway Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia 2004
BSc Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia 1996
Specialist diploma in welding – welding engineer-specialist 1998
Chartered Mechanical Engineer (in Serbia)

Memberships

Member of The Serbian Chamber of Engineers

Languages

Serbian, English
(little Russian and German)

Research Interests

Main research interests are in railway engineering and transport.

Especially:

• Wheel-rail contact
• Wear and cracking of rails
• Rail materials testing: twin-disc, hardness and strain
• Adhesion
• Derailment

• MSc in Rail Freight and Logistics, starting from September 2013: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/newrail/education/msc.htm;

• RailNewcastle - intensive programmes in railway and logistics providing realistic opportunities for lecturers and students from different cultures to make railway and logistics higher education useful, sustainable and ever-growing: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/newrail/research/project/3967.

• Vasic G, Ingleton S, Schoebel A, Paulsson B, Robinson M. Development of the future rail freight system to reduce occurences and impact of derailment. In: International Scientific-Expert Conference on Railways (RAILCON). 2012, Nis, Serbia.
• Vasic G, Franklin FJ. Modelling of Plastic Deformation and Crack Initiation in Premium Pearlitic Rail Steels. In: 9th International Conference on Contact Mechanics and Wear of Rail/Wheel Systems (CM2012). 2012, Chengdu, China.
• Vasic G, Franklin FJ, Fletcher DI. Influence of partial slip and direction of traction on wear rate in wheel-rail contact. Wear 2011, 270(3-4), 163-171.
• Vasic G, Franklin FJ, Fletcher DI, Kapoor A. Effect of Traffic on Crack Initiation in Rails. Journal of Mechanical Systems for Transportation and Logistics 2010, 3(1), 100-109.
• Fletcher DI, Franklin FJ, Garnham JE, Muyupa E, Davis CL, Kapoor A, Widiyarta M, Vasic G. Three-Dimensional Microstructural Modelling Of Wear, Crack Initiation and Growth In Rail Steel. International Journal of Railway 2008, 1(3), 106-112.
• Vasic G, Franklin FJ, Kapoor A, Lucanin V. Laboratory simulation of low-adhesion leaf film on rail steel. International Journal of Surface Science and Engineering 2008, 2(1/2), 84-97.
• Kapoor A, Fletcher DI, Franklin FJ, Vasic G, Smith L. New developments in rail wheel contact research at the University of Newcastle. In: 11th International Conference on Fracture (ICF11). 2005, Turin, Italy.
• Vasic G, Franklin FJ, Kapoor A. Wear testing of deep head hardened (DHH) normal head hardened (Nippon) and bainitic (J6) rail steels. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2004. Report of TTCI.
• Vasic G, Franklin FJ, Kapoor A. New rail materials and coatings. Rail Research UK Association: University of Newcatle upon Tyne, 2003. Final Report of the Start up Project for RRUK.
• Marinov M, Sahin I, Ricci S, Vasic-Franklin G. Railway operations, Time-tabling and Control. Research in Transportation Economics 2013, 41(1), 59-75. In Press.