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Advanced Composites Center for Innovation & Science (ACCIS)
Department of Aerospace Engineering
University of Bristol, UK
Biography:
Alberto Pirrera is a Senior Lecturer in Composite Structures and currently holds an EPSRC Early Career Research Fellowship (2015-2020) at the Department of Aerospace Engineering of the University of Bristol, where he has been a faculty member since 2013 and where he completed his PhD in 2011. Before that, Alberto obtained his Master’s in Aerospace Engineering from Università degli Studi di Palermo, in Italy. His academic home is the Advanced Composites Centre for Innovation & Science (ACCIS), where he is actively involved with its Centre for Doctoral Training. A modeller and a theoretician specialising in engineering science, Alberto’s research interests lie in the area of structural analysis, design and optimisation. In recent years, he has focused on well-behaved nonlinear structures, on morphing, adaptive and shape changing devices and on wind turbine blades.
Research Interests:
Nonlinear structures, Numerical continuation, Multistaple structures for morphing applications, Buckling and post-buckling, Wind turbine blade structures, Mechanics of plates and shells, Structural optimization, Numerical analysis and finite element method
Selected Publications:
Carrella, A., Friswell, M.I., Pirrera, A., Aglietti, G.S., 2008. Numerical and experimental analysis of a square bistable plate. In: Proceedings of Isma 2008: International Conference on Noise And Vibration Engineering, vols. 1–8. Katholieke Univ Leuven, Dept. Werktuigkunde, Heverlee, pp. 3433–3440
Pirrera, A. and Weaver, P. M.: Geometrically Nonlinear First-Order Shear Deformation Theory for General Anisotropic Shells. AIAA Journal, vol. 47, no. 3, 2009, pp. 767-782.
A. Pirrera, D. Avitabile and P.M. Weaver, “Bistable plates for morphing structures: A refined analytical approach with high-order polynomials”, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 47, Nos. 25-26, December 2010, pp. 3412-3425
Pirrera, A., 2011. Bistable Structures for Morphing Applications Using Anisotropic Shells. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Bristol.
Pirrera A, Avitabile D and Weaver P M 2012 On the thermally induced bistability of composite cylindrical shells for morphing structures Int. J. Solids Struct. 49 685–700
A. Brinkmeyer, M. Santer, A. Pirrera, and P. M. Weaver, "Pseudo-bistable self-actuated domes for morphing applications," International Journal of Solids and Structures, vol. 49, pp. 1077-1087, 5/1/ 2012.
Neil Buckney, Alberto Pirrera, Steven D. Green and Paul M. Weaver, “Structural efficiency of a wind turbine blade”, Thin-Walled Structures, Vol. 67, pp 144-154, June 2013
Eckstein E., Pirrera A., Weaver P.M. Morphing high-temperature composite plates utilizing thermal gradients Compos. Struct., 100 (2013), pp. 363-372
Coburn B H, Pirrera A, Weaver P M and Vidoli S 2013 Tristability of an orthotropic doubly curved shell Compos. Struct. 96 446–54
A. Brinkmeyer, A. Pirrera, M. Santer and P.M. Weaver, “Pseudo-bistable pre-stress morphing composite panels”, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 50, Nos. 7-8, pp 1033-1043, April 2013
Alberto Pirrera, Xavier Lachenal, Stephen Daynes, Paul M. Weaver and Isaac V. Chenchiah, “Multi-stable cylindrical lattices”, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Vol. 61, pp 2087-2107, November 2013
Eckstein E, Pirrera A and Weaver P M 2014 Multi-mode morphing using initially curved composite plates Compos. Struct. 109 240–5
Lamacchia E, Pirrera A, Chenchiah I V and Weaver P M 2014 Non-axisymmetric bending of thin annular plates due to circumferentially distributed moments Int. J. Solids Struct. 51 622–32
(For more see the link, Prof. Alberto Pirrera)
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