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POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY

OF VALENCIA

ENTITY PROFILE
The Polytechnic University of Valencia is a public institution renowned for its research
capacity. Its departments, research centres and institutes develop research projects
together with national and international entities and companies. This research group is
composed of twenty-one researchers from diverse disciplines. The group provides the
required multidisciplinary approach to have successfully performed twenty-six national
and international projects in the last three years and to have developed four patents in
partnership with companies.

AREAS OF ACTIVITY UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH CENTRES
• Structural analysis of the railway track • Railway track maintenance (LCC and
using numerical methods (FEM). RAMS). Condition monitoring techniques
Develop- ment of new materials that for premature damage detection.
optimize the railway track structural Analysis of vibro-acoustic behaviour.
behaviour.

R&D: PROJECTS AND PRODUCTS
Project Product National International
TRAVIESA. Transmission of the urban railway track vibrations to its surroundings:
Strategies, technologies and materials for its attenuation. Ongoing.
DIGITALIA. Project, design, analysis and construction of transitions between
different stiffness elements using precast elements in railway tracks. Ongoing.
SUBBALASTO. Design of a bituminous sub-ballast made of pneumatic
powder out of use capable of minimizing the railway vibrations.
BITUVIA. Design of a new slab track made of bituminous mixture. Ongoing.

DINTRA. Reinforcement of the transversal dynamics in railway tracks of
metric and mixed gauges. Ongoing.
PANOLSTON. Anti-noise screens made of olive stones. Ongoing.

ECOTRAV. Design of alternatives with new confi gurations for sleepers made of
recycled concrete for high-speed railway tracks. Ongoing.
RAILMAIN. Research on the elaboration of a predictive maintenance
methodology in railway tracks based on inertial auscultation methods.
BITUTRAN. Design and development of new bituminous mixtures and
additives to mitigate the railway track vibrations. Ongoing.

ADDRESS CONTACT PERSON
Camino de vera, s/n Julia Irene Real Herráiz
46022 Valencia Director of the research group.
Tel.: +34 963877000, ext: 73766. Tel.: +34 963877000 ext:73766.
www.upv.es jureaher@tra.upv.es