Associate Professors

In 1999 he obtained a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering (110/110 with honors) at the University of Cala-bria (Italy). He worked in the internatio-nal consulting company Accenture in Rome until the end of 2002 with the role of Business Analyst in the field of process reengineering. He was a PhD student in Structural Engineering at the University of Calabria from 2002 to 2005. Since January 2005 he has been Assistant Professor of Machine Design at the University of Calabria for the scientific field of Mechanical Design and Machine Construction (ING-IND/14). In 2012 he obtained the national scientific qualification of Associate Professor for the scientific field of Industrial Design, Machine Construction and Metallurgy (09/A3). Since April 2016 he has been Cooperative Associate at CERN (European Organization for Nucle-ar Research) in Geneva (Switzerland).

F. Niccoli, C. Garion, C. Maletta, C. Cangialosi, A. Infantino, S. Danzeca, P. Chiggiato, Particle radiation effects on shape memory alloy couplers for ultrahigh vacuum sealing: A preliminary study, Smart Materials and Structures, 28(8) (2019).
F. Niccoli, C. Garion, C. Maletta, P. Chiggiato, Shape-memory alloy rings as tight couplers between ultrahighvacuum pipes: Design and experimental assessment, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A 35 (2017) .
A.H. Faraji, M. Goodarzi, S. H. Seyedein, G. Barbieri, C. Maletta, Numerical modeling of heat transfer and fluid flow in hybrid laser-TIG welding of aluminum alloy AA6082, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 60/1 (2016) 137-151.
E. Sgambitterra, C. Maletta, F. Furgiuele, Temperature dependent local phase transformation in shape memory alloys by nanoindentation, Scripta Materialia, 101 (2015) 64-67
C. Maletta, E. Sgambitterra, F. Furgiuele, R. Casati, A. Tuissi, Fatigue properties of a pseudoelastic NiTi alloy: Strain ratcheting and hysteresis under cyclic tensile loading, International Journal of Fatigue, 66 (2014) 78-85.
E. Sgambitterra, C. Maletta, F. Furgiuele, H. Sehitoglu, Fatigue crack propagation in [0 1 2] NiTi single crystal alloy, International Journal of Fatigue, 112 (2018) 9-20 .

Numerical methods for structural engineering.
Advanced and functional materials (ceramics, composites, shape memory alloys).
Fatigue and fracture of engineering materials.

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