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  •  +39 0984/494839
  •  luigi.bruno@unical.it
  •  Cube 44C- 4th floor
  • SSD:  ING-IND/14 - MECHANICAL DESIGN AND MACHINE CONSTRUCTION
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BRUNO Luigi
He completed his master’s degree on July 22nd, 1999 in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Calabria. He was awarded a PhD from the University of Pisa after discussing his thesis on February 17th, 2003. From October 1st, 2002 to October 31st, 2014 he worked as an Assistant Professor in Machine Design at the University of Calabria. He has worked as an Associate Professor in Machine Design since November 1st, 2014. In addition, Prof. Bruno was invited to act as a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology of Gandhinagar – India (from December 2012 to February 2013) and at the University of Alabama at Birmingham – USA (from August 2013 to February 2014, from November 2014 to February 2015, and from October 2015 to january 2016, from june to july 2017.
Selected Publications

M.A. Fazio, M.E. Clark, L. Bruno, C.A. Girkin, In vivo optic nerve head mechanical response to intraocular and cerebrospinal fluid pressure: imaging protocol and quantification method, SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 8(1), 2018, 1-11.
L. Bruno, G. Bianco, M.A. Fazio, A multicamera speckle interferometer for dynamic full-field 3D displacement measurement: Validation and inflation testing of a human eye sclera, OPTICS AND LASERS IN ENGINEERING 107, 2018, 91-101.
L. Bruno, Full-field measurement with nanometric accuracy of 3D superficial displacements by digital profile correlation: A powerful tool for mechanics of materials, MATERIALS & DESIGN 159, 2018, 170-185.
C. Morano, L. Bruno, L. Pagnotta, M. Alfano, Analysis of crack trapping in 3D printed bio-inspired structural interfaces. PROCEDIA STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY 12 (Proceedings of AIAS 2018, international conference on stress analysis), 2018, 561-566.
L. Bruno, Mechanical characterization of composite materials by optical techniques: A review. OPTICS AND LASERS IN ENGINEERING 104, 2018, 192-203.

Lines of Research

• Mechanical characterization. 
    Stress analysis.
    Non destructive testing and evaluation.
• Interferometric techniques.
    Biomechanics of eye tissues.

Thesis Proposals and Topics
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