Politecnico di Bari

Post-Doc, D.I.Me.G.

About

Ing. Luciano Afferrante, PhD
Politecnico of Bari
Department of Mechanical and Management Engineering
Viale Japigia, 182- 70126 Bari, Italy
Centre of Excellence in Computational Mechanics
Via Re David, 200 - 70125 Bari, Italy
E-mail: luciano@poliba.it

Luciano Afferrante makes his research activity at the Politecnico of Bari.

He regularly does activities of peer review for numerous international scientific journals and cooperates actively in projects of national and international research. He has published over 50 works between international journals and international and national conferences.

He is an active member of CEMeC - Center of Excellence in Computational Mechanics in which follows the lines of research: “Thermal and Fretting Fatigue in gas turbine components” e “Design of brake-clutch systems and gear systems”.


EDUCATION AND TRAINING

 1996-2001 - Degree in Mechanical Engineering (5 years course), cum laude at Politecnico of Bari, by discussing the thesis “Transient analysis of the thermoelastic contact in clutches and brakes”.

 2002 – Registered as professional engineer.

 2003-2006 – PhD (Dottorato) in Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico of Bari, by discussing the thesis “ThermoElastoDynamic Instability (TEDI) in sliding contact”.

• 2003 - University of Shieffield – UK - Visiting PhD Student.
Research topic: numerical and experimental studies about the ratchetting phenomenon in rolling contact problems.
Advisor: Prof. A. Kapoor.

• 2005 - University of Leeds – UK  - Visiting PhD Student.
Research topic: squeal in brakes.
Advisor: Prof. D.C. Barton.

• 2005 - University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, USA  - Visiting PhD Student.
Research topic: Thermoelastic (TEI) and ThermoElastoDynamic (TEDI) Instability.
Advisor: Prof. J.R. Barber.

• 2005 - University of Leicester – UK - Visiting PhD Student.
Research topic: Rolling Contact Fatigue.
Advisor: Prof. A.R.S. Ponter.

• 2006 - University of Cambridge – UK - Visiting Scientist .


PREVIOUS AND PRESENT EMPLOYMENT

• 2002 (February-June) – research contract with the Department of Mechanical and Management Engineering of the Politecnico of Bari.
• 2002 (July-December) - research contract with the CEMeC - Center of Excellence in Computational Mechanics.
• 2003 - research contract with the Department of Mechanical and Management Engineering of the Politecnico of Bari.
• 2006-2007 – research grant from the Politecnico of Bari funded by PROMOMAT program.
• 2008 - research grant from the Politecnico of Bari funded by CEMeC.


TEACHING

• A.A. 2003/2004
N.1 Cycles of Support for Education in Mechanical Engineering, at the Faculty of Engineering, Politecnico of Bari.
Tutorials activities in the course of Mechanical Design.

• A.A. 2004/2005
Tutorials activities in the course of Mechanical Design.

• A.A. 2005/2006
Tutorials activities in the course of Mechanical Design.

• A.A. 2006/2007
Tutorials activities in the course of Mechanical Design.

• A.A. 2007/2008
Tutorials activities in the course of Mechanical Design.

• A.A. 2008/2009
Teaching at UniMo (course of Elements of Mechanical Design).

• A.A. 2009/2010
Teaching at UniMo (course of Elements of Mechanical Design).

Also, Luciano Afferrante supervised various thesis.

EDITORIAL AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Referee for International Scientific Journals

• WEAR
• International Journal of Solids and Structures
• International Journal of Mechanical Science
• Journal of Engineering Mathematics
• Applied Thermal Engineering
• Tribology International

Collaborator of the Organizing Committee of the XXXIII Conference AIAS: Innovazione nella progettazione industriale, 31 August – 2 Septeber 2004, Bari.

Some comments about the PhD Thesis “ThermoElastoDynamic Instability (TEDI) in sliding contact”:

- “This thesis introduces a hitherto unknown category of frictional instability associated
with the interaction of thermal expansion and elastodynamics. The potential
applications of this mechanism are enormous, ranging from earthquakes through mechanical
engineering components to nanoscale friction mechanisms. For this contribution
alone, the thesis is worthy of the PhD degree. In addition, I notice that
Mr. Afferrante has published or had accepted several papers in the premier peer-reviewed
journals in the Mechanics field…..…….”
Prof. James Richard Barber, University of Michigan – USA

- “In general the thesis is of high quality. It is well structured, clearly written, and answers novel and important questions.
…….
The thesis is, as mentioned above, a very impressive work. However, it is even more impressive that Afferrante has written 9 journal papers that are not included in the thesis.”
Prof. A. Klarbring, head of the Division of Mechanics at Linkoping University – Sweden

- “This work gives an interesting discussion on the phenomenon of friction-induced instabilities
of solids when inertia forces and thermal equations are taking into account.
………
The mathematical analyses as well as the numerical simulations are well discussed. The derived
results are new and really original. There are matters for several publications in international
journals. The reviewer has much appreciated the maturity of the redaction and the rigor of the
mathematical arguments.
In conclusion, this work is an outstanding PhD thesis.”
Prof. Nguyen Quoc Son, research director at the CNRS, Solid Mechanics Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique, France

- “……….the thesis is well written and the materials covered are more than enough as a Ph.D.
thesis by the standard in any US institution.  Therefore, my impression is
that Italian institutions set higher standard than US institutions for
graduating PhDs. I have been trying hard to make some constructive
suggestions and comments about this work but I have failed simply because
the thoughtfulness of the author……………”
Prof. Yun-Bo Yi, University of Denver – USA

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