Massimo Guiggiani
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Massimo Guiggiani |
Massimo Guiggiani is Professor of Applied Mechanics at the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering (DICI), Universita di Pisa, Italy.
He graduated with honors in Mechanical Engineering from the Universita di Pisa in 1981. From October 1981 to January 1983 he served as an officer in the Technical Corp of the Italian Army. He became an Assistant Professor at the Universita di Pisa in 1983 and an Associate Professor at the Universita di Siena in 1992. In the years 1992-2000 he tought Numerical Analysis, Technical Drawing, Computer Aided Geometric Design in the Universita di Siena, and Vehicle Mechanics in the Universita di Pisa. In the year 2000 he became a Professor in the Universita di Pisa. Since then he teaches Applied Mechanics and Vehicle Dynamics.
His current research interests include:
vehicle dynamics
geometric modeling, analysis and design optimization of gear drives
Formerly, he performed research on the Boundary Element Method (BEM), with special focus on:
Cauchy principal value integrals
hypersingular integrals
error indicators
self-adaptive mesh refinement
Galerkin BEM
He has been involved in research collaborations and grants with the following companies and academic institutions:
Ecole Polytechnique, France
Iowa State University, USA
Ohio State University, USA
Teesside Polytechnic, UK
Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
Ferrari
Avio (formerly Fiat Avio)
Bridgestone
Piaggio
Electricite de France
Enea
CRF
Siemens
In the years 2008-2011 he was the Faculty Advisor of E-Team, the Formula SAE - Formula Student team of the Universita di Pisa.
Additional information can be found in his LinkedIn page or in his CV