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Chair, Aerospace Structures and Computational Mechanics
Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands
Main research topics:
1. Experimental and numerical studies of buckling and post-buckling phenomena of composite structures.
2. Behavior of metallic and composite structures under dynamic loading.
3. Development of analytical formulations and methods for the structural optimization of composite components.
4. Crashworthiness modeling and testing of aircraft and car structures.
5. Study of the damage propagation in composite structures through experimental tests and finite element analyses.
Capsule Bio written in 2012:
Chiara Bisagni received her Ph.D. and master’s degree in aerospace engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, where she then became associate professor in aerospace structures in the Department of Aerospace Engineering. She was a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from October 2006 to March 2007. Bisagni has received many international recognitions and fellowships, including a Fulbright Grant in 2006-07, a Young Researcher Fellowship in 2001 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Marie Curie Research Training Grant from the Training and Mobility of Researchers Program in the EU in 1998, and an Amelia Earhart Fellowship in 1996-97. She has been also member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Structures Technical Committee since 2009, and has been an AIAA Associate Fellow since 2012.
Professor Chiara Bisagni conducts research in the area of aerospace composite structures. She and her team develop testing equipment and methodologies, as well as numerical tools to analyze buckling and post-buckling of unstiffened and stiffened composite structures. Their goal is to allow composite structures to work safely in the post-buckling range. They also have developed analytical tools that can design and optimize composite structures such as aircraft panels. Bisagni also investigates the dynamic response of aerospace components to short-duration loads, such as dynamic buckling, as well as fatigue and damage propagation. She conducts finite element analyses and experimental crash tests on aircraft, helicopter and automobile structures. Some of her research is developed for Formula 1 racing cards, where the cockpit is equipped with survival cells made of composite materials.
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