Education and Career

Main Interests: Structural Mechanics AeroServoElasticity Multibody Analysis Rotorcrafts, with particular regard to tiltrotors Smart Materials Active Control Object-Oriented programming

Current Research:

Multibody Analysis	Formulation, implementation and development of a multibody global modelling analysis code, named MBDyn, for the integrated analysis of complex kinematic and dynamic systems, aeroservoelastic models, electric and hydraulic networks. The code is implemented in C++ on Linux/UNIX platforms, but is highly portable to any UN*X environment, and it has been compiled with cygwin for Windows as well. It is highly Object Oriented and easily expandable to meet multidisciplinary needs. MBDyn'S CODE HAS BEEN RELEASED UNDER GPL GIVE IT A TRY. Download the latest release; subscribe to the mailing lists; post questions and suggestions to the developers.
Active Control	Investigation of the active control of a tiltrotor configuration for vibration reduction.
Rotorcraft Model	Design and analysis of a wind-tunnel rotor model for active control purposes
Landing Gears	Design and analysis of landing gear active control
Structural Analysis	Beam and shell characterization and analysis.
Smart Materials	Structural and piezoelectric characterization of smart structural components. Magneto-rheological fluids characterization and applications for structural control

Miscellaneous

• A list of my Publications
• Academic stuff (in Italian)
• Lead Engineer of the (GPL) MBDyn (Multi Body Dynamics) project
• Maintainer of the (GPL) RTAI (Real-Time Application Interface) project.
  
• Member of AIDAA (Associazione Italiana di Aeronautica e Astronautica) since...;
  member of the regional council since 2006.
  
• Member of the American Helicopter Society since 1999.
• Member of the OpenLDAP core development team
  
• Some interesting links
• Member of the Toyai association (ONLUS in Feb 2002), whose aim is to help the Matany hospital in Uganda, Africa. There are many places in the world where people miss important things like efficient medical care. There are many ways we can help them. Toyai is one of these ways.
• Freedom of speech, education, and even the right to a decent life is not always granted everywhere:
  • Bangladesh, l'Isis uccide a colpi di machete un professore "ateo"
    
  • Pakistan, assalto armato in università.
    
  • I volti dell'attentato in Turchia: studenti, lavoratori e famiglie normali che sognavano la pace.
    L'insegnante Izzettin Çevik non ce l'ha fatta. Nell'attentato sono morte anche sua figlia e una sua sorella
  • Non dobbiamo dimenticare il guardiano di Palmira.
  • A Suruc, città turca al confine con la Siria, lunedì una kamikaze 18enne si è fatta esplodere, uccidendo almeno 30 persone.
  • Kenya, attacco all'università, "Le vittime accertate sono 147"
  • Arabia Saudita: Raif Badawi fustigato
  • Pakistan, attacco a scuola militare. Almeno 145 morti, strage di bambini
  • Damasco, diversi colpi di mortaio contro l'università, almeno 15 morti e 20 feriti
• Co-founder and Member Emeritus of the Massimo Bertarelli Fan & Fun Club
• Hobbies: composer, singer and bass guitar player in a pop/rock group, the BEAGLES

pierangelo.masarati@polimi.it
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