Research output per year
Research output per year
MSc(Palermo), PhD
BS8 1TR
Alberto Pirrera is an Associate Professor of Nonlinear Structural Mechanics at the Department of Aerospace Engineering of the University of Bristol, where he has been a faculty member since 2013, holding an EPSRC Early Career Research Fellowship (2015-2020), and where he completed his PhD in 2011. Before that, Alberto obtained his Master’s in Aerospace Engineering from Università degli Studi di Palermo, in Italy. His academic home is the Bristol Composites Institute (ACCIS), where he is a co-director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Composites Science, Engineering and Manufacturing. A modeller and a theoretician specialising in engineering science, Alberto’s research interests lie in the area of structural analysis, design and optimisation. In recent years, he has focused on well-behaved nonlinear structures, on morphing, adaptive and shape changing devices and on wind turbine blades.
Research Interests & Expertise:
• Structural & Solid Mechanics,
• Nonlinear Mechanics,
• Structural Stability,
• Computational Mechanics,
• Morphing and Adaptive Structures,
• Composite Structures,
• Wind Turbine Blade Structures.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference Abstract
Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference Paper › peer-review
Pirrera, A. (Principal Investigator)
1/04/15 → 31/08/20
Project: Research
Shen, J. (Creator), Garrad, M. S. (Creator), Zhang, Q. (Creator), Wong, V. (Creator), Pirrera, A. (Creator) & Groh, R. (Creator), Dryad, 26 Jul 2024
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.3bk3j9ktv, https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.3bk3j9ktv
Dataset
Groh, R. M. (Creator), Shen, J. (Creator), Pirrera, A. (Creator), Zhang, Q. (Creator), Scarpa, F. (Creator) & Garrad, M. S. (Creator), University of Bristol, 19 Mar 2024
DOI: 10.5523/bris.1n7g692ynrlht214cxm7yk77qi, http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/1n7g692ynrlht214cxm7yk77qi
Dataset
Groh, R. M. (Creator), Shen, J. (Creator), Pirrera, A. (Creator), Garrad, M. S. (Creator), Zhang, Q. (Creator) & Wong, V. C. H. (Creator), University of Bristol, 26 Feb 2024
DOI: 10.5523/bris.26kk1dpzjl8h22hfj36zdaobx1, http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/26kk1dpzjl8h22hfj36zdaobx1
Dataset
Eichhorn, S. (Recipient), Hamerton, I. (Recipient) & Pirrera, A. (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)