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Italian-Canadian university professor and researcher
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Marco Amabili
Head of man in his thirties with tousled hair sticking up and a small mustache
BornSan Benedetto del Tronto, Italy
NationalityItalian and Canadian
Alma materUniversity of Bologna (Ph.D.), University of Ancona after renamed Marche Polytechnic University (B. Mech Eng. + Master of Sciences Mech. Eng.)
Known forNonlinear vibrations of shells, Fluid-structure interaction, Nonlinear shell theories, Nonlinear damping, Vascular biomechanics.
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical, computational and experimental vibrations; theory of plates and shells; fluid-structure interaction; mechanics of the aorta; smart structures; dynamics of MEMS
InstitutionsWestlake University; McGill University; University of Parma
Notes
He is a chair professor at Westlake University in Hangzhou, China, and Emeritus Distinguished James McGill professor at McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Marco Amabili is a chair professor in the School of Engineering at Westlake University in Hangzhou, China. He is also an Emeritus Distinguished James McGill professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada.

Biography and achievements

Marco Amabili was born and raised in San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy. He studied at the University of Ancona (now renamed Marche Polytechnic University) where he received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bologna. Amabili is very well known for his extensive research on nonlinear vibrations and dynamic stability of shell and plate structures, a subject to which he has given many innovative contributions. Professor Amabili serves as Contributing Editor for International Journal of Non-linear Mechanics (Elsevier) and is co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Mechanical System Dynamics (Wiley). He is also Associate Editor of the Journal of Fluids and Structures and Mechanics Research Communications, both by Elsevier; he served as associate editor of Applied Mechanics Reviews, ASME, and Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, ASME. He is member of the editorial board of several journals, including the Journal of Sound and Vibration, Elsevier. He is the chair of the executive committee of the Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the past Chair of the ASME Technical Committee Dynamics and Control of Systems and Structures. Marco Amabili is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada - Academy of Sciences and an International Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) of the USA. He is also a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and the Engineering Institute of Canada. He was elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2018 and as foreign member of Academia Europaea in 2020. He served as chair of the Canadian National Committee for IUTAM (International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics) from 2019 till the end of 2023. Amabili delivered the Koiter lecture of the Dutch Research School on Engineering Mechanics in 2019. The Koiter lecture honors researchers who have made profound contributions to the field of Engineering Mechanics, and it has a rich history. In 2020 he received the Worcester Reed Warner Medal of the ASME; established in 1930, it is one of the society award with the longest history. He received the 2021 Raymond D. Mindlin medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for outstanding research contributions to applied solid mechanics. He was awarded the Gili-Agostinelli International Prize for mechanics of the Lincei National Academy of Sciences of Italy in November 2021. Amabili was the recipient of the 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship in engineering.

Professor Amabili is working in the area of vibrations, nonlinear dynamics and stability of thin-walled structures, reduced-order models, fluid-structure interaction and vascular biomechanics. His research is multi-disciplinary, and it has been utilized in the design and analysis of aeronautical and aerospace structures, laminated and FGM shell structures, improving the design of vascular grafts, safety of pressure tanks and innovative flow-meters. Amabili is the author of over 570 papers (over 280 in refereed international journals, including Nature Communications, Physical Review X and PNAS) in applied mechanics and has achieved a high h-Index. He is the author of the monographs Nonlinear Vibrations and Stability of Shells and Plates and Nonlinear Mechanics of Shells and Plates in Composite, Soft and Biological Materials both published by Cambridge University Press.

Amabili, together with M.P. Païdoussis and F. Pellicano, showed for the first time the strongly subcritical behavior of the stability of circular cylindrical shells conveying flow. A series of papers presented theoretical, numerical and experimental investigations, showing that a supported circular shell made of aluminum presents divergence for much smaller velocity than predicted by linear theory. Since 2014, Amabili developed innovative shell theories with thickness deformation. These theories were extended to model soft biological tissues that undergo large thickness deformations and are described as incompressible and hyperelastic. This interest was expanded into the experimental and numerical study of the mechanics of the human aorta, the viscoelastic characterization of aortic tissues with and without smooth muscle activation and aortic grafts.

In 2017 Amabili participated to a research with the Technical University of Delft to identify the Young modulus of Graphene nano-drums from nonlinear vibrations; the outcome of the study was published in Nature Communications.

Amabili was the first to report the experimentally observed nonlinear damping in large-amplitude vibrations in 2003. He developed, for the first time, original and innovative models of nonlinear damping by introducing geometric nonlinearity in linear viscoelasticity, a very complex and important problem in engineering applications.

Education

International awards

Books

References

  1. Amabili, M. (2008). Nonlinear Vibrations and Stability of Shells and Plates. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-88329-0.
  2. Amabili, M. (2018). Nonlinear Mechanics of Shells and Plates in Composite, Soft and Biological Materials. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-12922-1.
  3. Amabili, M.; Pellicano, F.; Païdoussis, M.P. (1999). "Non-linear Dynamics and Stability of Circular Cylindrical Shells Containing Flowing Fluid. Part I: Stability". Journal of Sound and Vibration. 225 (4): 655–699. Bibcode:1999JSV...225..655A. doi:10.1006/jsvi.1999.2255. hdl:11381/1456025. ISSN 0022-460X.
  4. Amabili, M; Pellicano, F.; Païdoussis, M.P. (2000). "Non-linear Dynamics and Stability of Circular Cylindrical Shells Containing Flowing Fluid. Part IV: Large-Amplitude Vibrations with Flow". Journal of Sound and Vibration. 237 (4): 641–666. Bibcode:2000JSV...237..641A. doi:10.1006/jsvi.2000.3070. hdl:11381/1456036. ISSN 0022-460X.
  5. Amabili, Marco; Pellicano, Francesco; Paı̈doussis, Michael P. (2002). "Non-linear dynamics and stability of circular cylindrical shells conveying flowing fluid". Computers & Structures. 80 (9–10): 899–906. doi:10.1016/S0045-7949(02)00055-X. ISSN 0045-7949.
  6. Amabili, M.; Karagiozis, K.; Païdoussis, M.P. (2009). "Effect of geometric imperfections on non-linear stability of circular cylindrical shells conveying fluid". International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics. 44 (3): 276–289. Bibcode:2009IJNLM..44..276A. doi:10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2008.11.006. ISSN 0020-7462.
  7. Franchini, G.; Breslavsky, I.D.; Giovanniello, F.; Kassab, A.; Holzapfel, G.H.; Amabili, M. (2022). "Role of smooth muscle activation in the static and dynamic mechanical characterization of human aortas". PNAS. 119 (3): e2117232119. Bibcode:2022PNAS..11917232F. doi:10.1073/pnas.2117232119. PMC 8784113. PMID 35022244.
  8. Davidovikj, D.; Alijani, F.; Cartamil-Bueno, S.J.; van der Zant, H.S.J.; Amabili, M.; Steeneken, P.G. (2017). "Nonlinear dynamic characterization of two-dimensional materials". Nature Communications. 8 (1253): 1253. Bibcode:2017NatCo...8.1253D. doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01351-4. PMC 5666000. PMID 29093446.
  9. Amabili, M. (2003). "Theory and experiments for large-amplitude vibrations of empty and fluid-filled circular cylindrical shells with imperfections". Journal of Sound and Vibration. 262 (4): 921–975. Bibcode:2003JSV...262..921A. doi:10.1016/S0022-460X(02)01051-9. hdl:11381/1456052.
  10. Amabili, M. (2018). "Nonlinear damping in nonlinear vibrations of rectangular plates: derivation from viscoelasticity and experimental validation". Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 118: 275–292. Bibcode:2018JMPSo.118..275A. doi:10.1016/j.jmps.2018.06.004. S2CID 139977231.
  11. "European Academy of Sciences". 2020-04-07. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
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