Research Interests

Multibody Dynamics
Aeroservoelasticity
Helicopter and Rotorcraft Dynamics and Aeroservoelasticity
Structural Analysis
Smart Materials
Biomechanics

Multibody Dynamics

ASME IDETC 2015 11th International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Control (MSNDC), Boston, MA, USA, August 2-5, 2015 (co-organizer of session "Computational Methods in Multibody Systems")
Multibody Dynamics 2015, Barcelona, Spain, June 29-July 2, 2015 (co-organizer of Invited Session "Aerospatial and Maritime Applications")
MBDyn selected for Google Summer of Code 2015
ASME IDETC 2014 10th International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Control (MSNDC), Buffalo, NY, USA, August 17-20, 2014 (organizer of session "Software Tools for Computational Dynamics in Industry and Academia")
Guest editor of Volume 227, Number 4, December 2013 special issue of the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part K: Journal of Multi-body Dynamics (JMBD) on Application of multibody dynamics to biomechanics (Editorial)
Co-organizer of session "Software Tools for Computational Dynamics in Industry and Academia" in ASME IDETC 2013 9th International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Control (MSNDC), Portland, Oregon, USA, August 4-7, 2013.
Member of Scientific Committee and co-organizer of Invited Session "Aerospace Applications" in Multibody Dynamics 2013, Zagreb, Hroatia, July 1-4, 2013.
Invited lecturer at the workshop "Logiciels de simulation Open Source pour la conception automobile: exemples et perspectives", Société des Ingénieurs de l'Automobile (SIA), Suresnes (Paris), France, October 2, 2012.
Visiting University of Wyoming for wind energy related research, August 16-27, 2011.
Lecture "Multibody Analysis of Flapping Wing Micro-Aerial Vehicles" at the Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, August 15, 2011.
Lecture "Multibody Dynamics: Introduction and Aeroservoelastic Applications" at the Wind Energy Research Center of the College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Wyoming, April 29, 2010.
Participation in the Army Research Laboratory's Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology (MAST), Microsystem Mechanics (PI of Task 3.3.1 "MBMAC: Multi-Body Microsystems Analysis Code")
Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Energy Resources of University of Wyoming, March-September 2010, working at wind-turbine aeroelasticity and fluid-structure interaction.
Short course on "Multibody Dynamics for Wind Turbines" at REpower Systems AG, Büdelsdorf, Germany, February 22-26, 2010.
Invited Lecturer at Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics, University of California San Diego, on "Overview of Multibody System Dynamics", September 4, 2009.
Short course on "Multibody Dynamics" at Hutchinson CdR, July 6-8, 2009.
Invited Lecturer at Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center, University of Maryland, on "Multibody Dynamics", January 12-16, 2009.
Participation in UMD's Microsystem Mechanics Center research on "Multibody Microsystems Analysis for rotary-wing, flapping-wing, and ground-based systems", MAST/CTA (see also helicopter dynamics). More information here.
Visiting Researcher at LaMSID (EDF R&D - French CNRS Joint Laboratory), July 24 - August 7, 2008. "MBDyn - Multibody System Dynamics" (Seminar given July 30, 2008).
Invited Lecturer at Universidad Pública de Navarra, Mechanical Engineering Department, May 5-7, 2008: "Real-Time Multibody Simulation".
Invited Lecturer at the Séminaire Simulation Numérique, Hutchinson, June 28, 2007: "MBDyn, a Free Multibody Dynamics Solver".
Member of the organizing committee and co-editor of the ECCOMAS thematic conference Multibody Dynamics 2007, June 25-28, 2007.
Chief developer of the free multibody software MBDyn since 1996.

Aeroservoelasticity

Lecture "Multibody Analysis of Flapping Wing Micro-Aerial Vehicles" at the Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, August 15, 2011.
Participation in UMD's Microsystem Mechanics Center research on "Multibody Microsystems Analysis for rotary-wing, flapping-wing, and ground-based systems", MAST/CTA (see also helicopter dynamics). More information here.

Helicopter and Rotorcraft Dynamics and Aeroservoelasticity

Coordinator for Politecnico di Milano of 7th FP project CROP on cycloidal rotor aeroelasticity (project page)
Coordinator of GARTEUR HC EG-31 on "Conceptual Design of Helicopters: Methodologies for the predesign of a helicopter and its flight control system"
Coordinator for Politecnico di Milano of 7th FP project ARISTOTEL on Rotorcraft-Pilot Couplings (RPC) (see also biomechanics). More information here.
Participation in UMD's Microsystem Mechanics Center research on "Multibody Microsystems Analysis for rotary-wing, flapping-wing, and ground-based systems", MAST/CTA (see also multibody dynamics). More information here.
National coordinator of PRIN 2007 project on "Modeling of biomechanical man-machine interaction in vehicles" (see also biomechanics). More information here.
Participation in the 6th Framework Programme NICETRIP on full-scale tiltrotor aeroelasticity and dynamics (POLIMI responsible for WP1).
Participation in GARTEUR Helicopters AG-16 on Rotorcraft-Pilot Couplings (POLIMI coordinator; see also biomechanics). More information here.
Participation in the 6th Framework Programme FRIENDCOPTER on active helicopter blade investigation (POLIMI responsible for WP5; see also structural analysis and smart materials).
Participation in the 6th Framework Programme ADYN on wind-tunnel tiltrotor model aeroelastic stability (WP1).

Wind Energy

POLIMI coordinator of the significant bilateral project "Aeroelastic Analysis of Wind-Turbines by Coupled Computational Fluid Dynamics/Multibody System Dynamics" with University of Wyoming, with the contribution of Ministero degli affari esteri, 2011.
Visiting University of Wyoming for wind energy related research, August 16-27, 2011.
Lecture "Multibody Dynamics: Introduction and Aeroservoelastic Applications" at the Wind Energy Research Center of the College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Wyoming, April 29, 2010.
Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Energy Resources of University of Wyoming, March-September 2010, working at wind-turbine aeroelasticity and fluid-structure interaction.
Short course on "Multibody Dynamics for Wind Turbines" at REpower Systems AG, Büdelsdorf, Germany, February 22-26, 2010.

Structural Analysis

Participation in the 6th Framework Programme FRIENDCOPTER on active helicopter blade investigation (POLIMI responsible for WP5; see also helicopter dynamics and smart materials).
Development of general-purpose beam section analysis software ANBA, especially tailored for the analysis of smart rotorcraft blades.

Smart Materials

Participation in the 6th Framework Programme FRIENDCOPTER on active helicopter blade investigation (POLIMI responsible for WP5; see also helicopter dynamics and structural analysis).

Biomechanics

Coordinator for Politecnico di Milano of 7th FP project ARISTOTEL on Rotorcraft-Pilot Couplings (RPC) (see also helicopter dynamics). More information here.
National coordinator of PRIN 2007 project on "Modeling of biomechanical man-machine interaction in vehicles" (see also helicopter dynamics). More information here.
Participation in GARTEUR Helicopters AG-16 on Rotorcraft-Pilot Couplings (POLIMI coordinator; see also helicopter dynamics). More information here.

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