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Department of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics

College of Engineering, San Diego State University

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Luciano Demasi

Assistant Professor

Contact Information

Office: E-307
Phone: 619-594-3752
Fax: 619-594-6005
Email: ldemasiATmail.sdsu.edu
Personal homepage: http://attila.sdsu.edu/~demasi

Education

M. Sc., Aeronautical Engineering, Politecnico di Torino (Italy), 1999
Ph.D., Aeronautical Engineering, Politecnico di Torino (Italy), 2004

Honors and Awards

  • M.S in Aerospace Engineering with final grade of 110/110 Magna cum Laude (Award for Excellence)

Selected Publications

  • L. Demasi, E. Livne, Nonlinear Aeroelastic Simulation Using Linear Modal Unsteady Aerodynamics : Two Time Integration Approaches Under review
  • L. Demasi, E. Livne, Dynamic Aeroelasticity of Structurally Nonlinear Configurations Using Linear Modally Reduced Aerodynamic Generalized Forces AIAA Journal, in press
  • L. Demasi, E. Livne, Dynamic Aeroelasticity of Coupling Full Order Geometrically Nonlinear Structurs and Full Order Linear Unsteady Aerodynamic The Joined Wing Case Presented at the 49th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics & Materials Conference, Schaumburg, Illinois, 7-10 April 2008
  • L. Demasi, E. Livne, The Structural Order Reduction Challenge in the Case of Geometrically Nonlinear Joined-Wing Configurations presented at the 48th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics & Materials Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, 23-26 April 2007
  • L. Demasi, E. Livne, Exploratory Studies of Joined Wing Aeroelasticity. Presented at the 46th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics & Materials Conference, Austin, Texas, 18-21 April 2005.
  • L. Demasi, E. Livne, Structural Ritz-Based Simple-Polynomial Nonlinear Equivalent Approach An Assessment. Journal of Aircraft Vol. 43, No. 6, 2006, pp. 1685-1697.
  • L. Demasi, Induced Drag Minimization: a Variational Approach Using the Acceleration Potential Journal of Aircraft, Vol.43, No. 3, 2006, pp. 669-680
  • L. Demasi, A Theoretical Investigation on the Conditions of Minimum Induced Drag of Closed Wing Systems and C-Wings Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 44, No. 1, 2007, 81-99
  • L. Demasi, 2D, Quasi 3D and 3D Exact Solutions for Bending of Thick and Thin Sandwich Plates Journal of Sandwich Structures & materials, Vol. 10, No. 4, 271-310 (2008), DOI: 10.1177/1099636208089311
  • L. Demasi, ∞^3 Hierarchy plate theories for thick and thin plates: the generalized unified formulation Composite Structures, 84 (2008) 256-270.
  • L. Demasi, Quasi-3D Analysis of Free Vibration of Anisotropic Plates. Composite Structures 2006, 74, pp. 449-457.
  • L. Demasi, Treatment of Stress Variables in Advanced Multilayered Plate Elements Based Upon Reissners Mixed Variational Theorem . Computers & Structures 2006, 84, pp. 1215-1221
  • L. Demasi, Three-Dimensional Closed Form Solutions and Exact Thin Plate Theories for Isotropic Plates Composite Structures 2007, 80, pp. 183-195.
  • L. Demasi, Refined Multilayered Plate Elements Based on Murakami Zig-Zag Functions. Composite Structures 2005, 70, pp. 308-316.
  • E. Carrera, L. Demasi, Classical and advanced Multilayered plate element based upon PVD and RMVT. Part I : Derivation of finite element matrices; Part II: Numerical implementations IJNME 2002; 55: 191-231 e 253-291.

Research and Teaching Interests

Static and dynamic aeroelasticity of non-conventional configurations, Steady and unsteady aerodynamics, Advanced theoretical models for multilayered composite plates, Mixed models for FEM applications, Induced drag minimization, Nonlinear FE applications for general thin-walled structures, Nonlinear structural equivalent plate modelling, Solution of systems of integral equations with hypersingular integrals