Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
One Cyclotron Road, MS 62-203
Berkeley, CA 94720
(510) 486-6676
CNR - IRIS str. Crocefisso 2B
70126 Bari (ITALY)
ph. +39 080 548 12 65
fax. +39 080 548 25 33
Professore a Contratto di
“Costruzione
di Macchine”
(Contract Professor
in “Machine Design”)
Univ. della Basilicata, V. Tecnica 3
85100 Potenza (Italy)
Senior
Research Fellow(Vis.)
CEDC
- School of Engineering
University
of Southampton
Highfield,
Southampton
SO17
1BJ - U.K.
*
Nov. 1994 – Oct. 1997, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering “Contact
Problems with friction and application to the study of Fretting Fatigue”. Tutors:
Prof. G. Monno (Politecnico di Bari, Italy) – Prof. D.A. Hills (Univ. Oxford,
UK)
*
Oct. 1996- Jul. 1997: University of Oxford, Dept. Eng. Sci., and Lincoln
College, Oxford. Research Student on “Contact, fracture and fretting
fatigue studies for aeronautical applications”, under the supervision
of Prof. D.A. Hills.
*
Jul. 1997- Aug. 1997: University of Michigan, Dept. Mech. Eng, & Appl.
Mech, Research Fellow, working on a project studying “Thermoelastic
Instabilities in Disk Brakes and Clutches”, under the supervision of
Prof. J.R. Barber, Professor of Applied Mechanics.
*
1 Oct. 1998 – February 1999, Senior Research Fellow, Mech. Eng.
Dept., Univ. Southampton, UK
*
from February 1999 to present: “Primo Ricercatore” (Senior Researcher)
at Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IRIS Institute, Bari. Head of the
local centre COMES (COmputational MEchanics of Solids) at the CNR-IRIS
Institute.
*
from November 1999 to present: Contract Professor of Machine Design
at the Universita’ della Basilicata.
*
from 19 January, 2000 to present, Visiting Senior Research Fellow,
School of Engineering University of Southampton U.K.
* Fellowship from CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche.Feb. 1998 – August 1998, University of Oxford, Dept. Eng. Sci., Academic Visitor;
*
CNR final price after the grant “Borsa di Studio” per l'estero di 6 mesi
del CNR, bando 203.07.26 del 12.9.96.
*
CNR “short term” fellowship travel grant in July-August 1997, to University
of Michigan, visiting Prof. JR Barber
*
CNR “short term” fellowship travel grant in July-August 1999, to University
of Oxford, visiting Prof. DA Hills
*
CNR “short term” fellowship travel grant in July-August 2000, to University
of Harvard, visiting Prof. JR Rice
*
1998 teaching contract on “Gear Design” at GETRAG spa, Modugno (Bari)
*
March 1999 – December 1999. Course on “Safety and Design rules” at the
Corso Interreg-III Italia-Albania c/o CNR-IRIS Bari
*
November 1999 – Contract Professor of Machine Design at the Universita’
della Basilicata.
*“Progetto Finalizzato Materiali Speciali per Tecnologie
Avanzate II - PFMSTA II” with the project “SVILUPPO DI BARRIERE TERMICHE
CON CARATTERISTICHE INNOVATIVE/DEVELOPMENT OF THERMAL BARRIER COATING WITH
INNOVATIVE CHARACTERISTICS” with DPPI-Politecnico di Bari (Proff. Monno
e Demelio), CNR, 1999. Funded.
*Bilateral
project with Dr. Robert Wood & Dr. Singellakis (Univ. Southampton):-
Optimisation and testing of surface protection coatings for hot components
of turbines / Ottimizzazione e testing di rivestimenti di protezione superficiale
per componenti caldi di turbine. British Council/Conferenza
dei Rettori CRUI, Travel Grant. Funded
for year 2000.
*
Brite Euram European Network Framework V Project on "AUTOCON", Leading
Company: Daimler-Benz. With Dr. John McBride (Univ. Southampton). Funded,
under negociation, September 2000. Total project request: over US$ 4,400,000.
*
Invited by the US Air Force to a visit and seminars on Fretting Fatigue
at MIT (Prof. Subra Suresh), Purdue University (Prof. T. Farris), Wrigth
Patterson AF Research Lab (Dr. Ted Nicholas), UC Berkeley (Prof. Robert
Ritchie), February, 2000.
*
Invited to lectures on "Rough Surfaces and Contact Mechanics" and "Fretting
Fatigue" by the School of Engineering Science, Univ. Southampton, UK, January,
2000.
*
Co-organizer (with Prof. G. Demelio) of the IGF2000 conference for the
Italian Group of Fracture, in Bari, Italy. May 3-5, 2000.
*
Referee of several international journals in the area of computational
and solid mechanics (International Journal of Solids & Structures,
Journal of Applied Mechanics – Transactions of ASME, Journal of Strain
Analysis).
*
Co-author (with Prof. J.R.Barber) of an invited review paper for the “Report
from the United States National Commettee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics”
ISBN 0-08-043572-6 (“Contact Mechanics”, also published as special issue
"Recent Trends in Solid Mechanics” of Int. J. Solids Struct., ed. Prof.
G. Dvorak, Vol. 37, 29—43, 2000.
*
Guest Editor (with Prof. D.A. Hills) of a special issue “Remnant Life”
of Journal of Strain Analysis, Vol.34, No.6 (2000) co-author of
the "Editorial".
*
Partecipated to supervision of several MSc and PhD thesis at the Politecnico
di Bari
*
Elected member of the National Committee IGF – Italian Group of Fracture.
From May 2000
List
of papers on international journals
RI
1)Ciavarella M, Demelio G, Monno G,
and Hills DA, “The influence of specimen size on the surface stress
distribution induced by indentation testing”, Journal of the European
Ceramic Society, 17, 1997, 1691-96.
RI
2)Ciavarella M, "The generalized
Cattaneo partial slip plane contact problem. I-Theory Int. J. Solids
Struct., 1998, Vol. 35/18, pp. 2349-2362
RI
3)Ciavarella M, "The generalized
Cattaneo partial slip plane contact problem. II-Examples", Int. J.
Solids Struct., 1998, Vol. 35/18, pp. 2363-2378.
RI
4)Ciavarella M, Demelio G, Pappalettere
C, "Technical Note: On the postprocessing of data obtained from cracked
components", J. Strain Analysis, vol 33, part 1, pp 67-71, 1998.
RI
5)Ciavarella M, Hills DA, Monno G,
"The influence of rounded edges on indentation by a flat punch",
IMechE part C - J. of Mech. Eng. Sci., 1998, Vol.212, No.4, pp.319-328.
RI
6)Ciavarella M, Hills DA, Monno G,
“Contact problems for a wedge with rounded apex”, Int. J. Mech.
Sci., 1998, 40 (10), 977-988
RI
7)Ciavarella M, Hills DA, Moobola
R., Analysis of plane, rough contacts, subject to a shearing force,
Int. J. of Mech. Sci., 1999, 41 (1), 107-120
RI
8)Ciavarella M, Demelio G, Hills
DA, “The use of almost complete Contacts for Fretting Fatigue Tests,
Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics: Twenty-Ninth Volume, ASTM STP 1332,
T.L. Panontin and S.D. Sheppard, Eds., American Society for Testing and
Materials, West Conshohocken, PA, 1999, 696-709.
RI
9)Ciavarella M, “Tangential loading
of general 3D contacts”, J. of Appl. Mech., 1998, 64 (4), 998-1003.
RI
10)Ciavarella M, and Hills DA, “The
influence of Indenter Tip-Radius on Indentation Testing of Brittle Materials”,
Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 19, 1999, 239-245.
RI
11)Ciavarella M, Hills DA, “A
note on convective effects in elastic contact problems for dissimilar materials”,
European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids, Volume 18, Issue 3, May 1999,
Pages 481-490
RI
12)Ciavarella M, Hills DA, Brief
Note: Some observations on the Oscillating Tangential Forces and Wear in
General Plane Contacts, European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids, Volume
18, Issue 3, May 1999, Pages 491-497
RI
13)Ciavarella M, Demelio G, On
non-symmetrical plane contacts, Int. J. of Mech. Sci., Volume 41, Issue
12, December 1999, Pages 1533-1550
RI
14)Ciavarella M, Indentation by
nominally Flat or Conical Indenters with rounded Corners, Int. J. Solids
Struct., 1999, 36 (27), 4149-4181.
RI
15)Ciavarella, M, Decuzzi, P, Demelio,
P, Monno, G, Hills, DA, The design of hydrodynamically lubricated Journal
bearings against yield, J. Of Strain Analysis, 1999, 34 (3), 165-173.
ISSN: 0309-3247 Professional Engineering Publishing
RI
16)Ciavarella, M, Demelio, G, Numerical
methods for the optimisation of specific sliding, stress concentration
and fatigue life of gears, International Journal of Fatigue, 21 (5)
1999, pp. 465-474.
RI
17)Ciavarella M, Hills, DA, Special
Issue on Remnant Life, Editorial, J of Strain Analysis, 1999
v34 (6) pagR1-R2
RI
18)Barber JR, Ciavarella M, “Contact
Mechanics”, invited review paper, special issue "Recent Trends
in Solid Mechanics” of Int. J. Solids Struct., ed. Prof.
Dvorak, Vol. 37, 29—43, 2000.
RI
19)Ciavarella M, Demelio, G., Barber,
JR, Jang, YH, Linear Elastic Contact of the Weierstrass Profile,
Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series A., 2000, vol. 456, N.1994, pagg.
387-405
RI
20)Ciavarella M, “Conditions of
yield and cyclic plasticity around inclusions”, J. Strain Analysis,
2000, 35 (1) , 65-70. ISSN: 0309-3247Professional
Engineering Publishing
RI
21)M.Ciavarella, G.Demelio, D.A.Hills,
“An Analysis of Rotating Bending Fretting Fatigue Tests using `Bridge'
Specimens”, Fretting Fatigue: Current Technologies and Practices, ASTM
STP 1367, D.W. Hoeppner, V.Chandrasekaran and C.B.Elliot, Eds., American
Society for Testing and Materials, West Conshohocken, PA, 2000.
RI
22)M.Ciavarella, G.Demelio, “On
the extraction of notch stress intensity factors by the post-processing
of stress data on the free edges of the notch” J. Strain Analysis,
2000, 35 (3) , 221-226. Professional Engineering Publishing ISSN: 0309-3247
RI
23)M.Ciavarella, P.Decuzzi, G.Monno
Frictionally-excited thermoelastic contact of rough surfaces Int. J.
Mech. Sci., 2000, 42 (7), 1307-1325 ISSN: 0020-7403 Elsevier Science
RI-24)
M. Ciavarella, P. Decuzzi, G. Monno, Design of hydrodynamically lubricated
journal bearings against cracking, accepted for publication on Journal
of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design;
RI-25)
M. Ciavarella e P. Decuzzi, The state of stress induced by the plane
frictionless cylindrical contact. Part I: the case of elastic similarity,
accepted for publication on International Journal of Solids and Structures;
RI-26)
M. Ciavarella e P. Decuzzi, The state of stress induced by the plane
frictionless cylindrical contact. Part II: the general case (elastic dissimilarity),
accepted for publication on International Journal of Solids and Structures;
RI-27)
P. Decuzzi, M.Ciavarella e G. Monno, Frictionally Excited Thermoelastic
instability in multi-disk clutches and brakes, accepted for publication
on Journal of Tribology - Transactions of the ASME;
RI-28)
M.Ciavarella Tangential loading of general three-dimensional contacts
– Authors’ closure, Journal of Appl. Mech. T Asme, 66 (4), 1049-1050,
1999