Railway Engineering Laboratory

The laboratory provides a series of specialized test rigs designed designed for the testing and the characterization of several subsystems in both, rail vehicle (axle, pantograph, bogie frame) and rail infrastructures (sleepers, insulated rail joints, fastening system). The wide range of general-purpose hydraulic actuators and the great number of measurement devices allows the laboratory to the development of custom designed setups for testing great number of rail subcomponents such as springs, silent blocks, air spring. Moreover, the laboratory is capable of conducting in-line testing to asset dynamic behavior, comfort and aerodynamic of vehicles according to several European standard.

More details: https://www.mecc.polimi.it/en/departmental-laboratories/railway-engineering

Wind Tunnel Laboratory

Politecnico di Milano Wind Tunnel laboratory (GVPM), is one of the 4 PoliMi Research Large Infrastructures: we believe in the key role of the experimental approach through high potential laboratories as a fundamental tool for the development of knowledge. At the same time we believe in the key role of the analytical and numerical modelling for a predictive and focused addressing of the experimental research.
We aim to support the virtuous loop among numerical and experimental approaches generated by a never ending practice of modelling validation through experiments and generation of innovative ideas through the insight capability of the experiments and the predictive vision of the numerical modelling.
We have the vision of the facility as a natural meeting point for researchers coming from different countries and institutions, making it a great opportunity of creating new links and value from the meeting of different cultures.

More details: https://www.windtunnel.polimi.it/

Conference Program-Brief Schedule

May 20, 2026
10:30 - 17:00, Onsite Sign-in & Conference Materials Collection
Participants are supposed to sign in at the conference venue and collect all the conference materials at the registration counter on this day.

May 21, 2026
08:00 - 17:00, Registration
09:00 - 09:10, Opening Ceremony
09:10 - 09:55, Keynote Speech #1
09:55 - 10:25, Group Photo & Coffee Break
10:25 - 11:10, Keynote Speech #2
11:10 - 11:55, Keynote Speech #3
12:00 - 13:30, Lunch
13:30 - 15:30, Parallel Sessions
15:30 - 15:45, Coffee Break
15:45 - 18:00, Parallel Sessions
18:00 - 20:00, Dinner

May 22, 2026
Lab Visit