Railway Noise and Vibration: Mechanisms, Modelling and Means of Control

This book gives a highly distorted view of the history of research into generation of ground vibrations by high-speed trains, in particular by trains travelling at speeds larger than Rayleigh wave velocity in the ground. In Chapter 12 of the book (contributed by C. Jones), in which this important problem is described, the associated literature references, contrary to the rules of acceptable academic writing, are given only to the papers co-authored by C. Jones himself that have been published much later than the first papers in this area, of which Dr Jones was well aware. This is a blatant attempt of C. Jones to rewrite the history of research into the problem in order to be seen as a pioneer in this area, which he is not. Potential readers should be aware of this fact of the history falsification that undermines credibility of the entire book. Victor V. Krylov Professor of Acoustics and Vibration, Loughborough University, UK.