Prof. Ing. Michele Ciavarella, MEng, MSc, Ph.D.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
One Cyclotron Road,  MS 62-203
Berkeley, CA 94720
(510) 486-6676
 
 

Primo Ricercatore (Senior Researcher)

CNR - IRIS str. Crocefisso 2B

70126 Bari (ITALY)

ph. +39 080 548 12 65

fax. +39 080 548 25 33

m.ciavarella@area.ba.cnr.it


 

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.

m.ciavarella@soton.ac.uk

Education

* Feb. 1994: Laurea (5 years degree course) “110/110 cum laude (Hons) in Mech. Engineering (Ingegneria Meccanica), Politecnico di Bari, Italy

* 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.

Employment

* April 1994 - July 1995: Officer (Ufficiale di Complemento) in the “Genio Navale” of the Italian Navy (Marina Militare Italiana). Elected national representative of Italian Navy officers in “COCER Comitato Centrale di Rappresentanza”, Dec.1994 - May 1995.

* 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.

Awards & Travel grants

* 1998 Capocaccia National Prize of the AIAS “Stress Analysis Italian Association”, for outstanding contribution to the study of frictional contact problems.

* 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

Teaching

* 1994-1998 collaboration with Politecnico di Bari on several courses related to Machine Design, Computational Mechanics and Solid Mechanics.

* 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.

Areas of current research

* Nano-indentation testing, Design of MEMS switch relays, Multiscale Roughness modeling, Fretting Fatigue in dovetail joints of gas turbine compressors, Fundamental science of electrical contact resistance, Fundamentals of Fatigue from notched and cracked components, Gear Design under LCF/HCF, TBC Coatings technology and design under thermo-elastic loads. 

Selected grant applications

*Network on COmputational MEchanics of Solids, COMES. CNR, 1998-2000. Funded. http://www.iei.pi.cnr.it/COMES/

*“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.

Others

* Has published over 50 papers of which over 28 on international technical journals. 

* 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

 
 

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