JCR Journal Publications

Brazales, Á., Chamorro, R., Escalona, J.L., Aceituno, J.F. (2026). Floquet stability analysis of moving railway track models with lumped parameters. Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics 21(8): 081003. 
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Yu, X., Muñoz, S., Urda, P., Aceituno, J.F., Rodríguez, M., Escalona J.L. (2025). Experimental study of the use of a transfer function to find rail corrugation from axle-box accelerations. Measurement, 249. 
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Suárez, F., Donaire-Ávila, J., & Aceituno, J. F. (2025). An automatic procedure for calibrating the fracture parameters of fibre-reinforced concrete. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 318.
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Donaire-Ávila, J., Aceituno, J. F., & Suárez, F. (2025). Cumulative effects of cracking in monoblock multipurpose precast concrete sleepers on railway tracks. Engineering Structures, 326, 119491. 
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Suárez, F., Aceituno, J.F., Donaire-Ávila, J. (2023). Analysis of two experimental setups to study mode II fracture on fibre-reinforced gypsum notched specimens. Materiales de Construcción, 73(351), e322-e322.
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Yu, X., Aceituno, J. F., Kurvinen, E., Matikainen, M., Korkealaakso, P., Rouvinen, A., Jiang, D, Escalona, J. L., Mikkola, A. (2022). Comparison of numerical and computational aspects between two constraint-based contact methods in the description of wheel/rail contacts. Multibody System Dynamics, 54, 303-344.
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Chamorro, R., Aceituno J. F., Urda, P., Del Pozo, E., Escalona J. L. (2022). Design and manufacture of a scaled railway track with mechanically variable geometry. Scientific Reports, 12, 8665.
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Urda, P., Aceituno, J. F., Muñoz, S., Escalona, J. L. (2021). Measurement of railroad track irregularities using an automated recording vehicle. Measurement, 138, 109765.
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Jiménez-González, J. I., García-Baena, C., Aceituno J. F., Martínez-Bazán, C. (2021). Flow-induced vibrations of a hinged cavity at the rear of a blunt-based body subject to laminar flow. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 495, 115899.
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Escalona, J. L., Yu, X., Aceituno, J. F. (2021). Wheel-rail contact simulation with lookup tables and KEC profiles: a comparative study. Multibody System Dynamics.
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Aceituno, J. F., Urda, P., Briales, E., Escalona, J. L. (2020). Analysis of the two-point wheel-rail contact scenario using the knife-edge-equivalent contact constraint method. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 148, 103803.
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Escalona, J.L., Aceituno, J. F., Urda, P., Balling, O. (2020). Railway multibody simulation with the knife-edge-equivalent wheel-rail constraint equations. Multibody System Dynamics, 48, 373-402.
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Urda, P., Aceituno, J. F., Muñoz, S., Escalona, J. L. (2020). Artificial neural networks applied to the measurement of lateral wheel-rail contact force: A comparison with harmonic cancellation method. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 153.
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Urda, P., Muñoz, S., Aceituno, J. F., Escalona, J. L. (2020). Wheel-rail contact force measurement using strain gauges and distance lasers on a scaled railway vehicle. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 138, 106555.
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Urda, P., Muñoz, S., Aceituno, J. F., Escalona, J. L. (2020). Application and Experimental Validation of a Multibody Model with Weakly Coupled Lateral and Vertical Dynamics to a Scaled Railway Vehicle. Sensors, 20, 3700.
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Aceituno, J. F., Chamorro, R., Muñoz, S., Escalona, J. L. (2019). An alternative procedure to measure railroad track irregularities. Application to a scaled track. Measurement, 137, 417-427.  
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Muñoz, S., Aceituno, J. F., Urda, P., Escalona, J. L. (2018). Multibody model of railway vehicles with weakly coupled vertical and lateral dynamics. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 115, 570-592.  
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Escalona, J.L.; Aceituno, J.F. (2018). Multibody Simulation of Railway Vehicles with Contact Lookup Tables. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences.
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Aceituno, J.F.; Chamorro, R.; García-Vallejo, D.; Escalona J.L. (2017). On the design of a scaled railroad vehicle for the validation of computational models. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 115-1, pp.60-76.
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Aceituno, J.F.; Wang, P.; Wang, L.; Shabana, A.A. (2017). Influence of rail flexibility in a wheel/rail wear prediction model. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part F, Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, 231-1, pp.57-74.
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Halminen, O.; Aceituno J.F.; Escalona, J.L.; Sopanen J.; Mikkola A. (2017). Models for dynamic analysis of backup ball bearings of an AMB-system. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 95, pp.324-344.
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Halminen, O.; Aceituno J.F.; Escalona, J.L.; Sopanen J.; Mikkola A. (2017). A touchdown bearing with surface waviness: A dynamic model using a multibody approach. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part K, Journal of multi-body dynamics, Vol. 1, pp.1-12.
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 Halminen, O.; Aceituno J.F.; Escalona, J.L.; Sopanen J.; Mikkola A. (2017). A touchdown bearing with surface waviness: Friction loss analysis. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 110-1, pp.73-84.
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Recuero, A.M.; Aceituno, J.F.; Escalona, J.L.; Shabana, A.A. (2016). A nonlinear approach for modeling rail flexibility using the absolute nodal coordinate formulation. Nonlinear Dynamics, 83-1, pp.463-481.
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Aceituno, J.F., Escalona, J.L. (2020). On the Double-Point Wheel-Rail Contact Situation Using Simplified Constraints. A Preliminary Study. In: Advances in Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham.  
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