Prof. Dr. Francesco Pellicano

Francesco Pellicano is Aeronautical Engineer and Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, he is currently Full Professor, member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, member of the Executive Committee of the Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society of Mechanics Engineers ASME, General Chair of the ISVCS (International Symposium on Vibrations of Continuous Systems), Track Chair of the ASME-IMECE Conference, he was committee president of 2 BsC and 2 MsC programmes, he was Head of the Centre Intermech MoRe. He is/was coordinator (PI or local) of several projects: COMETA, NATO (composite metamaterials), THEORETIC (Electric Powertrain), DIADEM (Diagnostics and Innovative sensors), REFIMAN (industrial retrofitting), METaGEAR POR-FESR (Gears, Materials, Robotics), INDGEAR, EU-Fp7 (condition monitoring) and HPGA Fortissimo, EU-Fp7 (applications of high-performance computing). He published 3 Books, about 100 Journal papers and more than 100 conference papers. Bibliometry: 200 papers on Scopus, h-index 39, about 4500 citations.

His research activities are:

Nonlinear dynamics and complexity in mechanical and biomechanical systems.

Fluid-structure interaction: models for vibration and stability analyses of shells interacting with incompressible heavy fluids, compressible and supersonic fluids; experiments on interactions with non-Newtonian fluids.

Gear stress and vibration modelling and testing: vibration aspects of gears including non-smooth dynamics, complexity and chaotic vibration, optimization using Genetic Algorithms, Diagnostics and Prognostics.

Vibration control using active passive techniques: active control through piezo-electric actuators, active control of suspension through variable stiffness for civil applications; linear and nonlinear dynamic absorbers and applications to railways bridges; quasi-zero stiffness suspension for earthquake applications; origami isolators and applications to automotive.

Shell dynamics and stability: modal interactions, nonlinear random responses and synchronization phenomena, thermal effects and their impact on the dynamic scenario.

Vibration of carbon nanotubes: development of new continuous shell models for investigating the vibration characteristics of single and multiwalled nanotubes considering size effects and van der Waals interactions.