Archive of Winter School of Reliability 2026

Topics

Reliability issues of technical objects and systems concern a very wide area of applications, especially:

• air, road, rail, sea, and inland waterway, as well as pipeline transport, including means of transport, transportation infrastructure, and management systems,
• industrial and civil engineering,
• energy and electrical and electronic equipment industry,
• information and telecommunications technology,
• mechanical and manufacturing engineering,
• logistics systems and processes,
• agriculture and food industry,
• medicine, health care, environmental protection,
• chemical industry.

The topics of the papers will include theoretical and practical issues of technical objects and systems reliability, including but not limited to:

• objects reliability testing and assessment in operational and maintenance systems,
• modelling and simulation of reliability and durability of technical components and systems,
• objects availability optimisation,
• methods for increasing the reliability of machines and equipment,
• identification of failures and degradation processes of objects,
• analysis of components and systems' resilience to external events,
• human influence on technical systems reliability,
• ecological aspects of components and systems operation and maintenance,
• problems of training on reliability and safety,
• cybersecurity problems.

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Council

Chairman:

• Tomasz Nowakowski (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology)

Honorary members:

• Tadeusz Salamonowicz (Warsaw University of Technology)
• Józef Żurek (Air Force Institute of Technology)

Members:

• Karol Andrzejczak (Poznan University of Technology)
• Anna Borucka (Polish Maintenance Society, Military University of Technology)
• Lech Bukowski (WSB University)
• Andrzej Chudzikiewicz (Office of Rail Transport)
• Tadeusz Dąbrowski (Military University of Technology)
• Marianna Jacyna (Warsaw University of Technology)
• Artur Kierzkowski (Wrocław University of Science and Technology)
• Andrzej Niewczas (Motor Transport Institute)
• Robert Pilch (AGH University of Science and Technology)
• Adam Rosiński (Warsaw University of Technology, Military University of Technology)
• Mirosław Siergiejczyk (Warsaw University of Technology)
• Janusz Szpytko (AGH University of Science and Technology)
• Jan Szybka (AGH University of Science and Technology)
• Barbara Tchórzewska-Cieślak (Rzeszów University of Technology)
• Wojciech Wawrzyński (Warsaw University of Technology)
• Sylwia Werbińska-Wojciechowska (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology)
• Mariusz Zieja (Air Force Institute of Technology)
• Jan Żółtowski (Warsaw University of Technology)
• Andrzej Żyluk (Air Force Institute of Technology)

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Organizing Committee

Przewodniczący:

• Mirosław Siergiejczyk

Vice-chairman:

• Adam Rosiński
• Mariusz Zieja

Members:

• Agnieszka Bodzioch
• Wiktoria Kruszewska
• Karolina Krzykowska-Piotrowska
• Zbigniew Kasprzyk
• Michał Lasota
• Jakub Murawski
• Piotr Pryciński
• Mariusz Rychlicki

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Conditions

Participation application

Application for participation in the Winter School on Reliability 2026 can be made by sending an e-mail titled "APPLICATION ZSN 2026" to the address: zsn.wt@pw.edu.pl no later than December 10th, 2025

Please include the following information in the e-mail:

• Participant's name and surname,
• Participant's title / academic degree,
• Participant's affiliation,
• Title of the paper,
• Authors of the paper with affiliation,
• Data for the invoice with a VAT identification number.

Sending an e-mail is tantamount to consent to process the Participant's data concerning his/her participation in the Conference.

Conference fee payment

Payment should be directed to the account:
Warsaw University of Technology
Faculty of Transport
Koszykowa 75 Str.
00-662 Warsaw

Bank account number:
55 1240 2092 9522 1160 0100 0000 with the name and surname of the participant(s), their affiliation and statement "Winter School on Reliability 2026"

Tel.: (+48) 22 234 7040, (+48) 503 136 585
e-mail: zsn.wt@pw.edu.pl 

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Tips

Abstract texts in Polish and English (preferably together with the article) in electronic version only, should be submitted no later than November 15th 2025, to the following e-mail address: zsn.wt@pw.edu.pl

• The name of the file should include the author's or first author's surname.
• Abstracts in Polish and English, with a total length of two pages, should be prepared in accordance with the publishing requirements (file "Abstract's template") available on the conference website. Abstracts will be published as Materials for the Winter School on Reliability.
• Articles qualified by the Program Council will be published in the post-conference monograph of the WUT Publishing House. Papers should be prepared in accordance with the publishing requirements ("Article's template" file) provided on the conference website.
• Application for participation in the Conference Winter School on Reliability 2023 is tantamount to consent to the issuance of an invoice.

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Files

Downloads - LIV (54th) Winter School on Reliability 2026

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Information

The project "LIV (54) Winter School on Reliability ZSN 2026" is cofinanced from the state budget, allocated by the Minister of Science under the Excellent Science II Programme.