Solid and Structural Mechanics
Department of Civil Engineering
Università degli Studi dell’Aquila
Partial Professional Experience (see the first website listed above for more):
1978 degree in Civil Engineering at “La Sapienza” University (Rome)
1978-1981 Fellowship of the Italian National Research Council, CNR
1981-1988 Assistant Professor at “La Sapienza” University
1988-1990 Associate Professor at L'Aquila University
1990-date Full Professor at L'Aquila University
Angelo Luongo mainly works on Dynamics and Stability of Elastic Structures, with particular interest to geometrically nonlinear systems.
Overview of Publications:
Author of about 150 scientific papers, most of which are published in international journals in the following areas:
Linear free oscillations of elastic suspended cables
Nonlinear oscillations of one dimensional, elastic, structural systems (wires, beams);
Critical and post-critical behaviour of thin-walled beams;
Nonlinear interaction among nearly-simultaneous buckling modes;
Nonlinear dynamics of wires orbiting systems;
Localization phenomena in Dynamics and Buckling;
Sensitivity analysis of defective and nearly-defective dynamical systems;
Aero-elastic stability phenomena in linear and nonlinear systems;
Passive control of aero-elastic oscillations by Tuned Mass Dampers and Nonlinear Energy Sinks;
Perturbation methods for multiple-bifurcations analysis of multi-parameter systems;
Dynamics and buckling of linear and nonlinear spatially-periodic systems;
Dynamics of strings and beams with travelling masses;
Piezo-electro-mechanical systems for passive control and enegy harvesting.
Co-author of six educational and scientific books on Continuum Mechanics, Structural Mechanics and Elastic Stability
Selected Publications:
Pignataro, M., A. Luongo and N. Rizzi. 1985. "On the Effect of the Local Overall Interaction on the Postbuckling of Uniformly Compressed Channels," Thin-Walled Structures, 3:293-321.
M. Pignataro, A. Luongo and N. Rizzi. On the effect of the local-overall interaction on the post-buckliiig of uniformly compressed channels. Thin-Walled Structures, 3:1470-1486, 1986
M. Pignataro and A. Luongo, “Asymmetric interactive buckling of thin-walled columns with initial imperfections”, Thin-Walled Structures, Vol. 5, No. 5, 1987, pp. 365-382
Luongo, A. and Pignataro, M. (1988). Multiple interaction and localization phenomena in the postbuckling of compressed thin-walled members. AIAA Journal 26(11), 1395-1417.
Luongo, A., Pignataro, M.: A nonstandard perturbation analysis of the interaction buckling in nearly symmetric systems. Report 7, Univ. di Roma, Rome, Italy, 1988.
Luongo, A., Pignataro, M.: Interactive buckling of nearly symmetric systems; A nonstandard perturbation approach. Cony. Naz. di Mecc. Mat. i Strutt., Roma, Italy, 1989, 147–155.
M. Pignataro, N. Rizzi and A. Luongo, Stability, Bifurcation and Postcritical Behavior of Elastic Structures. , Elsevier, Amsterdam (1991).
Luongo, A., `On the amplitude modulation and localization phenomena in interactive buckling problems’, International Journal of Solids and Structures 27 (15), 1991, 1943–1954.
A. Luongo and M. Plgnataro, “On the perturbation analysis of interactive buckling in nearly symmetric structures”, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 29, No. 6, 1992, pp. 721-733
Luongo, A., `Mode localization by structural imperfections in one-dimensional continuous systems’, Journal of Sound and Vibration 155 (2), 1992, 249–271.
Luongo, A., `Eigensolutions sensitivity for nonsymmetric matrices with repeated eigenvalues’, AIAA Journal 31 (7), 1994, 1321–1328.
Luongo, A., Eigensolutions of perturbed nearly-defective matrices’, Journal of Sound and Vibration 185 (3), 1995, 377–395.
Luongo A., Paolone A.: Perturbation methods for bifurcation analysis from multiple nonresonant complex eigenvalues. Nonlinear Dyn. 14, 193–210 (1997)
For more see the link: Prof. Angelo Luongo
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