Paolo Casini

Civil Engineer
Assistant Professor
DISG, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Strutturale e Geotecnica 
Via Eudossiana, 18- 00184 Roma
ITALY
p.casini@uniroma1.it
+39 06 44585328
+39 064884852

 



Corsi attualmente tenuti:

presso l'Università di Roma "La Sapienza"

 



Position: Assistant Professor of Structural Mechanics 

DISG, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy

Curriculum Vitae: Born in Rome, 08.01.1969.
Five Years Programme Degree in Civil Engineering cum laude (Rome 1995).
Philosophy Doctor in Structural Engineering at University of Rome, July 2000
Researcher in Structural Mechanics, University of Rome "la Sapienza"

Research Interests:
  • Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Structural Identification
  • Mechanical Systems with Friction and Impacts
  • Nonsmooth Bifurcations

   
   
Teaching: Teacher in the following courses since 2000 at University of Rome "La Sapienza" and at University of Pescara
  • Structural Mechanics
  • Computational Mechanics

    (in Italian)
  • Statica
  • Complementi di Statica
  • Scienza delle Costruzioni  
  • Fondamenti di Calcolo Strutturale

Pubblicazioni Didattiche
Paolo Casini, Marcello Vasta. Scienza delle Costruzioni per l'architettura e l'ingegneria edile.
CittàStudi Edizioni (DeAgostini), 2008
Paolo Casini, Marcello Vasta. Scienza delle Costruzioni: teoria e esercizi .
CittàStudi Edizioni (DeAgostini), 2° Edizione, 2011


Selected Publications:
  • Casini P. and Andreaus U., ‘Dynamics of three rigid block assemblies with unilateral deformable contacts. Part 1: Contact modelling’, Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 28, 1621-1636, 1999.
  • Casini P. and Andreaus U.,‘Dynamics of three rigid block assemblies with unilateral deformable contacts. Part 2: Sample application’, Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 28, 1637-1649, 1999.
  • Casini P. and Andreaus U., ‘Dynamics of friction oscillators excited by moving base or/and driving force’, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 245(4), 685-699, 2001.
  • Casini P. and Vestroni F., ‘Nonstandard bifurcations in mechanical systems with multiple discontinuity boundaries’, Nonlinear Dynamics, 35(1), 41-59, 2004.
  • Casini P. and Vestroni F., ‘Bifurcation in hybrid mechanical systems with discontinuity boundaries’, Int. J. of Bifurcation and Chaos, 15(6), 2005.
  • Casini P., Giannini F. and Vestroni F., ‘Analytical and experimental evidence of nonstandard bifurcations in a nonsmooth oscillator dynamics.’ Nonlinear Dynamics vol. 46; p. 259-272, ISSN: 0924-090X, 2006
  • Andreaus U., Casini P. and Vestroni F., 'Nonlinear dynamics of a cracked cantilever beam under harmonic excitation, International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, vol. 42; p. 566-575, 2007 
  • Casini P., Vestroni F., ‘Characterization of bifurcating Nonlinear Normal Modes in piecewise linear mechanical systems International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, vol. 46; p. 142-150, 2011
  • Casini P., Giannini F. and Vestroni F., Experimental evidence of bifurcating Nonlinear Normal Modes in piecewise linear systems. Nonlinear Dynamics vol. 65; p. 655-666, 2011