Main partnerships (Railway vehicles)

The group developed various links with industry and research labs, among the others: Faiveley Transport, Magliola, F.I.S.A., Blue Engineering, Alstom, Gruppo Mossi & Ghisolfi, AnsaldoBreda, Adtranz (now Bombardier).

The group cooperated also with Swiss Locomotive and Machine work (SLM) in Swizerland, Adtrandz (Swizerland), M.D.I. (Germany), Arge-Care (Germany).

Collaborations are under way also with University of Manchester (Prof. Iwnicki), UIC from Chicago (Prof. Shabana), Delft, Arad (Romania), e Zilina (Rep. Slovacca).

The collaboration activity mainly concerns the numerical analysis and experimental of the dynamic behaviour of railway vehicles, the development of new trolleys, the characterization of components. Collaborations with producers of specific software are active (MDI now MSC software, VI-grade, INTEC, Arge-Care, Altair).

More recently, a collaboration has been developed with the Railway Engineering research group at Central Queensland University (CQU) to study the longitudinal forces of long trains. The collaboration involved the creation of numerical models for the evaluation of the longitudinal forces that are established on the draft gears of the railway wagons during the phases of traction and braking as shown in the work "Bosso, N .; Zampieri, N. (2016) Long train simulation using a multibody code. In: VEHICLE SYSTEM DYNAMICS, vol. 55 n. 4, pp. 552-570 ". From the results of this collaboration an international benchmark has been published "Qing, Wu et al. (2017) International benchmarking of longitudinal train dynamics simulators: results. In VEHICLE SYSTEM DYNAMICS, pp. 1-23" with the aim of comparing the various long train simulators present in the literature. Collaborations are currently under way with the same research group regarding the study of wheel-rail contact and adhesion.