Giuseppe Corrado

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow

In the framework of the EU funded ITN-EID OptiMACS project, a research work involving the development of advanced failure models for aerospace composite structures was carried out. The main contributions are: an extended laminate failure theory (details in a journal article - available here -, presented at the 8th Conference on Mechanical Response of Composites in 2021), a mesoscale damage progression model in a FE framework (work presented at ECCOMAS and ECCM conferences in 2022, and submitted to “Composites Part B: Engineering”).

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow

Within the OptiMACS project, the first contribution of this research work consisted in the evaluation of state-of-art failure criteria and their implementation in post-processing tools (using Python) and user subroutines for Abaqus (in Fortran) to perform hot-spot failure analysis in a FE context (work presented at the 7th Aircraft Structural Design Conference).

Scientific researcher

Research on ultrasonic inspection techniques for composites - aligned with DAITAS project, funded by GKN Aerospace. During this period I got the chance to understand the state-of-art technologies on non-distructive inspections using ultrasounds, while studing the physics behind it. Furthermore, I learned how to use CIVA to run simulations on ultrasonic inspections on composite materials.

Intern in Composites R&D department

During this internship period, the impact (simulating in-service tool drop collisions) behaviour and compression after impact (CAI) resistance of a thermoplastic stringer run-out was evaluated. This experimental work was performed for the development of a thermoplastic composite area ruled rear fuselage section for Gulfstream G650, based on butt joint half-T stringers.