Dr. Alberto Garcia de Miguel

Funded by H2020 Clean Sky 2 – CASTLE project. My work includes: - Develop FEM codes for dynamic homogenization of acoustic metamaterials - Generate global-local models using Femap/Nastran and higher-order elements for the optimization of composite wing structures - Study of the response sensitivity of laminated structures - Create efficient micromechanics models for textile composites

On-going project INTE PolitTO-CALTECH. The research focuses on the design of acoustic metamaterials for aerospace applications. My activities include: - Develop tools for the modeling of periodic elastic and viscoelastic metamaterials - Implement a FEM code for the fast obtention of the dispersion curves and static properties

H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie European Training Network project FULLCOMP - FULLy integrated analysis, design, manufacturing and health-monitoring of COMPosite structures. PhD on Diagnostic and prognostic of composite structures by coupled NDT based inspection and repair and computational multiscale approaches based on component-wise, beam, shell and solid formulations.

Industrial internship. Topic: Evaluation of FE tools for the initial failure analysis of metallic and composite space structures. My work: - Implemented layer-wise plate models for the accurate stress analysis of satellite panels - Wrote a script for the computation and comparison of different failure indexes, including Tsai-Wu, Hoffman, Hashin 3D and LaRC

Carried out within the project INTE PoliTO-Purdue. The research focused on the implementation of advanced computational models for the material characterization of composites. My activities included: - Learned variational asymptotic methods for micromechanics purposes - Used the Swiftcomp software and Abaqus for the obtention of effective elastic properties of reinforced composites

Topic: non-linear effects in multibody systems with MSC Adams and MSC Mentat/Marc. My work included: - Learned the co-simulation tool of Adams-Marc - Created different test cases and a demonstrator of the simulation tool - Wrote a report of the activity highlighting the capabilities of the technique

Computational Mechanics

Lightweight structures

Aircraft and systems