Poli-Tech Story #4: Wind Tunnel experiences on long-span bridges, tall buildings and high-speed trains
The Philippine Italian Association has partnered with the Politecnico di Milano to bring to the Philippines the Poli-Tech Stories:
a series of encounters on Politech Culture with Professors and researchers of this prestigious university.
With them we will hear stories of Science, Technology, Creativity, Human and Professional Stories, and finally stories of our Future!
The fourth of these encounters will be virtual, on Zoom, on September 21, at 5:00 PM.
Speaker of this Poli-Tech Story will be Daniele Rocchi, full Professor of Wind Engineering at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Politecnico di Milano.
His research activity mainly covers wind impacts on infrastructures, aero-elasticity of suspension and cable-stayed bridges, detachment of vortexes from squat bodies, investigation of the dynamic response produced by the fluid-structure interaction of sidewalks, stadium covers, buildings, wind generators, and rail vehicles. He is also a member of the CEN Committee for aerodynamics effects provoked by rail vehicles. In this field, his research primarily focuses on studying the effects caused by lateral wind, ballast lifting, slip-stream over pressures in tunnels. He’s the author of 200 scientific papers published on scientific journals and industry conferences.
Daniele Rocchi, full Professor of Wind Engineering at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Politecnico di Milano.
Wind Tunnel experiences on long-span bridges, tall buildings and high-speed trains
Wind is a key factor which strongly impacts the design of large infrastructures as tall buildings, long-span bridges and high-speed trains. The lecture will focus on the role played by the Wind Tunnel in defining the wind effect on these infrastructures via tests on scaled models.