Group

Postdoctoral Researcher  and PhD Students @ POLIMI

Xi Li 

PostDoc Researcher

Development of methodologies for aerospace structures in composite materials in post-buckling field

Funding: ERC Advanced Grant NABUCCO  


Sebastian Stammel 

PhD Student

Development of a methodology for the design of a morphing composite wing component 

Funding: ERC Advanced Grant NABUCCO 

Manfredi Schiera 

PhD Student

Scalability of local and global instability and damage tolerance of honeycomb sandwich composite structures

Funding: Leonardo Labs and PNRR (National Recovery and Resilience Plan financed by Next Generation EU)

Jixuan Yi 

PhD Student

Design of 3D printing morphing wings based on buckling phenomena and physic-informed neural network method 

Funding: China Scholarship Council  




Master Students @ POLIMI

Luca Galloni  

Enhanced vertical tail effectiveness through structural buckling   


Augusto Lima 

Design and analysis of buckling driven multi-stiffness panels under shear loading for adaptive composite structures 


Riccardo Cinquetti 

"Min-Max load approach" to analyze low-cycle fatigue in a composite plate 

Pranav Karthik Gnanavadivel   

Analysis of in-plane shear behavior of composite panels using a picture frame 


Yusuf Kaan Dogan    

Artificial intelligence based methods to determine post-buckling behavior of composite structures  


PhD Students @ TuDelft

Marta Gavioli  

Impact of hands-on experiences on learning enhancement in aerospace engineering   

Funding: 4TU Centre for Engineering Education  


Tiziana Cardone 

Hyper velocity impacts in space applications 

Funding: European Space Agency  

 


Yu Qian Tu

Ditching and water impact of aerospace structures

Funding: China Scholarship Council 

 


Graduated Students @ POLIMI

Matteo Cremaschi, 2024 

Investigation of a variable pressure controlled sandwich panel 

 

Giovanni Gigliotti, 2024 

Design and analysis of buckling driven multi-stiffness panels for adaptive composite structures 

 

Former Postdoctoral Researchers @ TU Delft

Javier Paz Méndez, 2021-2023

Nithya Subramanian, 2020-2022

Antonio Raimondo, 2018-2022 

Edgars Labans, 2016-2020

Duo Zou, 2016-2018

Graduated Students @ TU Delft

Kevin van Dooren, 2024 (PhD)

Thermoplastic composite stiffened structures in post-buckling


Lorenzo Esposito, 2024

HVI-induced stress field and vibrations - Analysis by SPH-FEM coupled numerical method


Avyadhish Malladi, 2024

Numerical modelling of skin-stringer separation in thermoplastic composite stiffened panels


Lucas Kootte, 2023 (PhD)

A methodology to reproduce postbuckling in composite panels to study skin stringer separation

 

Georgiana Mătieş, 2023

Torsion box rudder spar concept design for load alleviation in the rudder shells: a feasibility and parametric study conducted on the airbus single-aisle rudder

 

Etienne Bellanger, 2023

Optimization of a representative wing component using a genetic algorithm

 

Seppe Wille, 2023

Structural analysis of an offshore jack-up installation vessel


Bas Tijs, 2023 (PhD)

Analysis of thermoplastic composites and conduction welded joints

 

Mateusz Harazim, 2023

Hypervelocity impact simulation using smoothed-particle hydrodynamics

 

Javier Gutierrez Alvarez, 2022 (PhD)

Buckling, post-buckling and vibrations of composite plates under combined thermomechanical loads

 

Joost Waaijer, 2022

Crashworthiness analysis of an aircraft subfloor structure using artificial neural networks

 

Danyu Qiao, 2022

Manufacturing and mechanical testing of composite T-joints with carbon nanotube interleaves

 

Sean Dunbar, 2022

On the design of a micropropulsion based inflation system for beyond earth orbit CubeSat inflatable reflectors

 

Rene Leino, 2022

Experimental and numerical investigation on the crush behavior of composite Formula One structures


Gisela Rosado Bailon, 2022

Analysis and optimization of thermoplastic fuselage struts under crashworthiness requirements

 

Andres Pereira, 2022

Twist morphing concept based on buckling-driven technologies

 

Pietro Squillace, 2022

Europa Lander landing system: study on deployment, landing and preliminary design

 

Flores Germonpré, 2021

Modelling skin-stringer separation in a post-buckled composite stiffened panel through single stringer specimens


Kaat  Pareyns, 2021

Scaling methodology for buckling of composite conical shells in axial compression 


Victor Poorte, 2021

Design of a crash energy absorber for a composite aircraft fuselage using a combined analytical-numerical approach 


Arne Schiller, 2021

Buckling of isotropic and composite cylindrical shells with circular cutouts 


Jiayao Zhang, 2020 

Numerical investigation of buckling-driven mechanisms for shape morphing of composite wings 


Sean Prasing, 2020 

Multi-objective optimisation of variable stiffness cylindrical shells: an artificial intelligence approach 


Matthijs Schouten, 2020

Stress wave propagation in aircraft structures under bird impact


Theodor Baciu, 2020 

Numerical and experimental study on post-buckling skin-stringer separation in butt-joined stiffened thermoplastic panels


Tara Bolton, 2020

Buckling analysis of sandwich composite cylindrical-conical shells


Inigo Urcelay Oca, 2020

Experimental determination of fracture toughness for delamination analysis in structural components


Eva Smeets, 2019

Development of a fatigue analysis tool using cohesive zone modelling for composite specimens


David Eberlein, 2019

Composite cylindrical shell buckling: simulation and experimental correlation


Steven Doesburg, 2019

A numerical study of delamination propagation in post-buckled single stringer compression specimens using the virtual crack closure technique


Ang Li, 2019

Optimization of composite structures for crashworthiness


Kevin van Dooren, 2018

Buckling analysis and imperfection sensitivity study of scaled launch-vehicle cylindrical shells


Luc Kootte, 2018

Study of skin-stringer separation in postbuckled composite aeronautical panels


Lijian Qi, 2018

A study of the buckling behaviour of stiffened panels under compression and lateral pressure


Vibhas Mishra, 2017

A methodology to predict the stiffness properties and buckling load of variable stiffness panels

Visiting Students @ TU Delft

Giulia Del Bianco, Visiting PhD student from University of Camerino, 2023

Biocomposites and hybrid materials for crashworthiness applications

 

Alessandro Vescovini, Visiting PhD student from Politecnico di Milano, 2022-2023

Investigation of post-buckling and collapse of double-double composite single-stringer specimens

 

Carmen Lopez, Visiting PhD student from Universidade da Coruña, 2022

Crashworthiness of thermoplastic composite tubes


Helena Heuser, Visiting student from RWTH Aachen, 2020 

Feasibility study for the application of thermomechanical buckling of composite plates in shape control of lightweight structures 


Stefano Pitton, visiting student from Politecnico di Milano, 2019

Artificial intelligence techniques for the optimization of variable stiffness cylindrical shells


Monika Zaczyńska, visiting student from Lodz University of Technology, 2018

Numerical study on dynamic buckling of cylindrical CFRP shell


Ilaria di Memmo, visiting student from Politecnico di Milano, 2017

Fatigue simulation for damage propagation in composite structures


Romeo Casesa, visiting student from Politecnico di Torino, 2017

Cylinder buckling and symmetries


Davide Maria Gatta, visiting student from Universita’ degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, 2017

Progressive damage analysis of composite open-hole specimens in tension and bending