Research areas
- Aeroelasticity and Fluid-Structure Interaction
- Aircraft and Spacecraft Design
- Asymptotic/Axiomatic Analysis
- Biomechanics
- Composites
- Damage and Failure
- Meshless methods
- Multifield Analysis
- Rotor-Dynamics
- Structure Mechanics and FEM
Project portfolio
H2020 - Horizon 2020
- Marie Sklodowska-Curie ITN - FULLCOMP: FULLy integrated analysis, design, manufacturing and health-monitoring of COMPosite structures
- Marie Sklodowska-Curie ITN - ICONIC: Improving the crashworthiness of composite transportation systems
- NMBP - COMPOSELECTOR: Multi-scale Composite Material Selection Platform with a Seamless Integration of Materials Models and Multidisciplinary Design Framework
FP7 - 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development
- Anuloid: Investigation of novel vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft concept, designed for operations in urban areas
- SARISTU: Smart Intelligent Aircraft Structures
Clean Sky 2
Clean Sky
ESA - European Space Agency
National and Regional Projects
- STEPS 2: Sistemi e Tecnologie per l'EsPlorazione Spaziale 2
- STEPS: Sistemi e Tecnologie per l'EsPlorazione Spaziale
- Micro.cost: Analysis, design, development and production methods of low cost eolic generators for microgeneration
Industrial partnerships and Others
- Embraer - LoHCW: Low-Fidelity versus High-Fidelity Finite Element Models for Static, Dynamic and Aeroelastic Analyses of Composite Wings
- Embraer - DySAAB: Dynamic Stiffness Analysis of Advanced Beams
- Millennium Sky-y: Medium Altitude, Long Endurance (MALE) surveillance UAV
- IVECO
- Simulation of Explosion on Flying Aircraft
- MEMBRANES: Application and Simulation of Inflatable Structures for Manned and Unmanned Space Vehicles
- Google Lunar X Prize - AMALIA: Ascensio Machinae Ad Lunam Italica Arte