Francesco Pellicano
Full Professor
Centre Intermech MoRe
Francesco Pellicano is Aeronautical Engineer and Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, he is currently Full Professor, Head of the Centre Intermech MoRe, 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 is 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 2 Books, more than 80 Journal papers and more than 100 conference papers. Bibliometry: 176 papers on Scopus, h-index 37, more than 3800 citations. His research activities are: 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. Shell dynamics and stability. Vibration of carbon nanotubes.