Lab full name

Advanced Optical Methods and Structural Optimization

ERC 2nd Level Code

ERC 3rd level Code

PE8_7 Mechanical and manufacturing engineering

Research Activities

• Interferometric techniques (speckle, moiré and holography) are applied to stress/strain analysis
of electronic components, biological specimens and industrial components, reconstruction of
3-D shape of objects, evaluation of thermal distortions and residual stresses, identification of
constitutive behavior of materials with high nonlinearities (e.g. biological membranes).
• Nanosciences: nanolography, roughness measurement with nonconventional illumination
(e.g. evanescent fields), measurement of strains of crystalline arrays (at dislocation level).
• Gradient-based (SLP, SQP and modified feasible directions) and metaheuristic optimization
algorithms (simulated annealing, harmony search, big bang-big crunch, firefly algorithm, heat transfer search) have been developed for sizing and layout optimization of large-scale skeletal structures, preliminary design of liquid hydrogen tank, and hybrid methodologies for mechanical characterization of materials (composites, biotissues, cells).

Department

DMMM

Contact Person

Luciano Lamberti

luciano.lamberti@poliba.it

Companies and Institutions

2001-2009: Department of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology (USA) (Prof. Cesar A. Sciammarella)

2011-2012: Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Pennsylvania State University (University Park, USA) (Prof. Aklesh Lakhtakia)

2010-2013: School of Engineering, University of Warwick (Coventry, UK) (Prof. K.K. Liu)

2009 to present: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northern Illinois University (Dekalb, USA), (Profs. Cesar A. Sciammarella and Federico M. Sciammarella

2009 to present: Istituto di Fisica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma (Profs. M. De Spirito and M. Papi;

2009 to present: Dipartimento di Scienze Ginecologiche Ostetriche e Scienze Urologiche, “Università La Sapienza” (Prof. R. Brunelli)

2009 to present: Istituto di Farmacologia Traslazionale, Italian National Research Council, Roma (Dr. T. Parasassi)

2010 to present: Department of Chemistry and Physics - University of Southeastern Louisiana (Hammond, USA) (Prof. S. Yoshida)

2011 to present: Department of Civil Engineering, Dicle University, Diyarbakir (Turkey) (Prof. S.0. Degertekin)

2015 to present: Dipartimento di Tecnica e Gestione dei Sistemi Industriali, Università degli Studi di Padova - Department of Engineering Design and Materials, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (Norway) - Department of Mechanical E

Leonardo Finmeccanica (formerly Alenia Aeronautica)

Centro Ricerche Fiat

Magneti Marelli

Luciano Lamberti

Opto Lab