Associate Professors

He graduated with honors in Mechanical Engineering in 1999 at UNICAL, he received his PhD in Computational Mechanics in 2004. He spent several research periods abroad hosted by international research centers, such as the National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan), the Czech Techcnical University (Prague) and Siemens Industry Software (Belgium). Since 2011 he has been Associate Professor and has been conducting research on several topics in the fi eld of Mechanism and Machine Theory. He has been involved in several national and international research projects and is coordinator of the two FP7 Marie Curie projects DEMETRA, on the design of mechanical transmissions, and INTERACTIVE, on vehicle concept modelling. He is Associate Editor for the Mechanism and Machine Theory journal.

Shweiki, S., Rezayat, A., Tamarozzi, T., Mundo, D., Transmission Error and strain analysis of lightweight gears by using a hybrid FE-analytical gear contact model, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Volume 123, 15 May 2019, Pages 573-590
Vivet, M., Mundo, D., Tamarozzi, T., Desmet, W., An analytical model for accurate and numerically efficient tooth contact analysis under load, applied to face-milled spiral bevel gears, 2018, Mechanism and Machine Theory, 130, pp. 137-156
Catera, G., Gagliardi, F., Mundo, D., De Napoli, L., Matveeva, A., Farkas, L., Multiscale modeling of triaxial braided composites for FE-based modal analysis of hybrid metal-composite gears, Composite Structures, 2017, 182: 116-123
Palermo, A., Britte, L., Janssens, K., Mundo, D., Desmet, W., The measurement of Gear Transmission Error as an NVH indicator: Theoretical discussion and industrial application via low-cost digital encoders to an allelectric vehicle gearbox, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, volume 110, 2018, pages 360-389

Kinematic analysis and optimal synthesis of planar mechanisms.
Development and implementation of innovative concept models for the simulation and multi-objective optimization of vehicle dynamics, including ADAS-equipped vehicles.
Advanced gear meshing modelling for system-level simulation and optimization of the dynamic behaviour of mechanical transmissions.
Mechanical vibrations, with main focus of the study of the linear dynamic behaviour of composites.

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