About Me

I "retired" from engineering in 2018. This is my eighth year of teaching.

Family

• wife: Dr. Spinelli, DVM

• children: Giada (6), Michael (4), Gabriella (2)

• dogs: Gratch (8) and Scarlet (2)

Degrees

• MAT in Secondary Education — National Louis University

• MS in Civil Engineering — University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• BS in Mathematics — University of Missouri-Columbia

• BS in Civil Engineering — University of Missouri-Columbia

High School — Blue Springs South (Missouri)

Hobbies — exercising, cooking, and riding rollercoasters with my wife; exploring with my children and watching them grow; playing with my dogs; reading; yard work; and learning more about mathematics

3. Spinelli, S.A., Lefèvre, V., Lopez-Pamies, O. 2015. Dielectric elastomer composites: A general closed-form solution in the small-deformation limit. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 83, 263–284. (PDF)

2. Spinelli, S.A., Lopez-Pamies, O. 2015. Some simple explicit results for the elastic dielectric properties and stability of layered composites. The Special Issue on “Qualitative Methods in Engineering Science”. International Journal of Engineering Science 88, 15–28. (PDF)

1. Spinelli, S.A., Lopez-Pamies, O. 2014. A general closed-form solution for the overall response of piezoelectric composites with periodic and random particulate microstructures. International Journal of Solids and Structures 51, 2979–2989. (PDF)