Full Professor

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  •  +39 0984/494827
  •  +39 0984/494827
  •  furgiuele@unical.it
  •  Cube 44C- 4th floor
  • SSD:  ING-IND/14 - MECHANICAL DESIGN AND MACHINE CONSTRUCTION
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FURGIUELE Franco
He completed his degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Calabria in 1978 and served there in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, now Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering, with different positions from 1981: as Graduate Technician from 1981 to 1998, from 1993 to 1998 also as Adjunct Professor, from 1998 to 2001 as Associate Professor of Machine Design, from 2001 as Full Professor of Machine Design where he currently holds the position of Board Chairman of the PhD Program in Civil and Industrial Engineering.
Selected Publications

Effects of Temperature on Fatigue Crack Propagation in Pseudoelastic NiTi Shape Memory Alloys - Sgambitterra, E., Maletta, C., Magarò, P., (...), Furgiuele, F., Sehitoglu, H., 2019 Shape Memory and Superelasticity 5(3), pp. 278-291.
Fatigue crack propagation in [0 1 2] NiTi single crystal alloy - Sgambitterra, E., Maletta, C., Furgiuele, F., Sehitoglu, H., 2018 International Journal of Fatigue 112, pp. 9-20
Analysis of fatigue damage in shape memory alloys by nanoindentation - Maletta, C., Niccoli, F., Sgambitterra, E., Furgiuele, F., 2017 Materials Science and Engineering A 684, pp. 335-343
Beam-pipe coupling in particle accelerators by shape memory alloy rings - Niccoli, F., Garion, C., Maletta, C., (...), Furgiuele, F., Chiggiato, P. 2017 Materials and Design 114, pp. 603-611
Thermo-mechanical analysis of pseudoelastic NiTi alloy subjected to cyclic load - Furgiuele, F., Magarò, P., Maletta, C., Niccoli, F., Sgambitterra, E., 2017 ICF 2017 - 14th International Conference on Fracture 2, pp. 376-377

Lines of Research

Experimental and numerical methods for stress analysis. 
Elastic properties measurement.
Fracture mechanics investigations.
Non-destructive testing.
Characterization and engineering applications of shape memory alloys and mechanical characterization of natural fi bres composite materials.
Fracture analyses of adhesive joints.
Fracture characterization of NiTi-based shape memory alloys.
Mechanical characterization of natural fi bres composite materials.

Thesis Proposals and Topics
Several topics are currently available. Interested students are suggested to drop by during office hours.