The 2019 JN Reddy Medal Inaugural Recipient
Erasmo Carrera
Professor of Construction and Aerospace Structures in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino (PoliTO)
Citation:
For many contributions to a variety of research topics in solid and structural mechanics, including the introduction of RMVT into layered structure analysis, creation of CUF, and invention of BTD that have worldwide impact in the analysis of layered structures.
Professor Erasmo Carrera obtained his MS in Aeronautics (1986) and Post-graduate degree in Aerospace Engineering (1988) from PoliTO, and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering (1991) from Milan Polytechnic and University of Pisa. The topics of his research are: flutter of thermal blankets for missiles; analysis of launcher configurations; inflatable structures; docking of space systems; progressive damage in laminated composite structures; mixed variational methods; zigzag, mixed, and layer-wise models for multilayered beams, plates, and shells; structural stability; intelligent structures; thermal stresses; aeroelasticity; multi-body dynamics; design and analysis of unconventional lifting systems; vibrations in continuous systems; contact mechanics; wind turbine blades; and others.
Dr. Carrera leads the MUL2 (MULtilayered structures and MULtifield analysis) research group in the DIMEAS Department of PoliTO. The MUL2 deals with the development of advanced structural models for the analysis of multilayer structures, with particular attention to multi-field analyses and fluid-structure interactions. During the last decade MUL2 developed advanced models for beams, plates, and shells using the Carrera Unified Formulation (CUF). These models are used for static, dynamic and aeroelastic, buckling and failure analyzes of isotropic, composite, piezoelectric and aeronautical and spatial structures with variable properties from point to point (FGM). Recently the CUF was also used for the development of advanced models for fluid dynamics. CUF, has been implemented in the NASMAT platform (NASA MATERIAL) developed at NASA Glenn and NASA Langley.
Dr. Carrera has many distinguished visiting positions across the world: University of Stuttgart; Virginia Tech (USA), Institut Supérieur de Mécanique in Paris; and the Center de Recherche Public Henri Tudor in Luxembourg. He delivered invited lectures and seminars in Italy, Austria, USA, Germany, France, Holland, U.K., Canada, Australia, Brazil, Korea, and China. Dr. Carrera is a Highly Cited Researcher in the Engineering and Materials sections. Due to his scientific output, he has been recently awarded the “Honoray Commendator” by the President of Italian Republic. It is one
of the highest awards in Italy and it has been given to only 73 Italian Scientists since 2003. He has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures journal (Taylor & Francis) since 2017, when Professor Reddy recommended him to lead the journal. During his editorship, the journal has moved from the 224th to the 25th position among the world’s mechanical engineering magazines, tripling its impact factor.
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C. M. Wang
TMR Chair Professor at University of Queensland, Australia
Citation:
For original and sustained contributions to the advancement of Structural Mechanics, including the development of buckling formulas for monosymmetric I-beams and relationships between shear deformable beam and plate solutions with their classical counterparts, and research and development in very large floating structures.
Dr. C.M. Wang’s research interests are in structural stability, vibration, optimization, nanostructures, computational mechanics and large floating structures. He has made significant contributions to these areas by authoring over 430 international refereed journal papers, 6 books, editing 4 books and several conference proceedings.
Dr. Wang is globally renowned for his work on very large floating structures (VLFS). He holds international patents on a pontoon type floating structure, floating breakwater windbreak structure and floating hydrocarbon storage and bunker facility. He has been invited to give keynote lectures and courses on VLFS in many countries. He is the principal investigator of several research/industrial projects on VLFS that amount to over S$10 million. He was the chief consultant for the floating platform at Marina Bay, the floating wetlands at Punggol Waterways, and JTC Corporation assessor for tender documents on floating fuel storage facility. His work on floating wetlands bagged IStructE Singapore Structural Award for Sustainability 2016 and Minister for National Development’s R&D Award 2017. ARC awarded CM with over $1 million research grants to conduct research on a novel floating forest to protect fragile shorelines and Australian ports and on offshore fish farms.
Professor Wang is also well-known for the development of exact relationships between shear deformable beam and plate theories and their classical counterparts. His papers and seminal book (Shear Deformation Theories of Beams and Plates. Relationships with Classical Solutions, Elsevier, U.K., 2000) coauthored with J.N. Reddy and K.H. Lee on shear deformable beams and plates contain these relationships that help unlock the exact solutions for shear deformable beams and plates from corresponding solutions from classical theories. Another notable contribution of Dr. Wang is the use of Eringen’s nonlocal theory for structural analysis that allows researchers to incorporate the effect of small length scale that is important when dealing with nanostructures. His early papers on the nonlocal beam theory have opened a new direction and spurred the publication of hundreds of papers on the subject. He has collaborated with Professor Reddy on shear deformation theories as well as Eringen’s nonlocal models, publishing numerous papers and two books.
Dr. Wang is a Fellow of Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering and Academy of Engineering Singapore; he is also a fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers and the Institution of Engineers, Singapore. He is ranked 14th globally in Civil Engineering in the latest Stanford University Worldwide Survey. He has been listed as a most cited researcher in civil engineering in the Shanghai Ranking for academic subjects 2016.
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