Prof. Ugo Galvanetto obtained his Master Degree (Laurea, summa cum laude) and PhD in Structural Engineering from the University of Padua, Italy. During his PhD he worked in the Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics and its Applications directed by Prof. J.M.T. Thompson at University College London. Upon completing his PhD, Dr Galvanetto worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London in the group of Prof. Mike A. Crisfield. In 1994 returned to Padua University as ‘Ricercatore’ where he worked in the field of homogenisation of non-linear periodic composite materials with Prof. Bernhard A. Schrefler. In 1999 Dr. Galvanetto took up the post of Lecturer in the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London where he became Senior Lecturer in 2004 and Reader in 2007. He then accepted a chair in Aircraft Structures from the University of Padua in July 2008.
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His main research interests are in the field of structural dynamics and computational mechanics:
dynamics, bifurcations and control of mechanical systems with dry friction,
mechanics of composite materials, in particular simulation of impacts and delamination,
Time integration schemes and numerical methods.
The research carried out by Prof. Galvanetto has been funded by EPSRC, the EU and private companies. Prof. Galvanetto has been involved in two main European networks: SICONOS, on simulation and control of non-smooth systems (i.e. mechanical systems with friction) and APSN, Advanced Passive Safety Network. He is currently supervising a research project funded by the Italian Company Dainese SpA (http://www.dainese.com/pre.asp) on the virtual testing of safety helmets.
Prof. Galvanetto has been the originator and the main proposer and he is now the scientific co-ordinator of the Research Training Network MYMOSA of the EU (Marie Curie Research Training Network) on the motorcycle safety with a budget of 2.7 million Euros for four years. 14 institutions are members of the network: 5 universities, 3 research centres and 6 companies of seven European countries, www.mymosa.eu/.
Prof. Galvanetto has published about fifty papers in international journals and his contributions have been presented to almost sixty conferences. His main recent papers are:
U. Galvanetto, C. Surace, A. Tassotti (2008) ‘Structural damage detection based on proper orthogonal decomposition: experimental verification’, AIAA Journal, Vol. 46, No. 7, pp. 1624-1630.
U. Galvanetto, J. Peiro, C. Chantharasenawong (2008) ‘An assessment of some effects of the nonsmoothness of the Leishman–Beddoes dynamic stall model on the nonlinear dynamics of a typical aerofoil section’, Journal of Fluids and Structures, Vol. 24, pp. 151-163.
U. Galvanetto (2008) ‘Computation of the separatrix of basins of attraction in a non-smooth dynamical system’, to be published in Physica D, 10.1016/j.physd.2008.02.009.
A. Cernicchi, U. Galvanetto. L. Iannucci (2008), ‘Virtual modeling of safety helmets: practical problems’, Int. J. of Crashworthiness, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 451-467.
A. Cernicchi, U. Galvanetto, R. Olsson (2008) ‘Virtual testing of composite motorcycle helmets’, Int. J. Modern Physics B, Vol. 22, No. 9-11, pp. 1705-1711.
