Fabio Semperlotti

Fabio Semperlotti

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

School of Mechanical Engineering
Purdue University
585 Purdue Mall
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2088
fsemperl@purdue.edu

Office: HLAB 1016

Phone: 765-49-45974

Degrees

  • M.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Rome "La Sapienza", 2000
  • M.S., Astronautic Engineering, University of Rome "La Sapienza", 2002
  • Ph.D, Aerospace Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 2009

Research Interests

  • Acoustic and elastic metamaterial
  • Fractional calculus and fractional mechanics
  • Theoretical and computational mechanics
  • Machine learning applied to computational mechanics
  • Quantum algorithms for computational mechanics
  • Structural health monitoring
  • Wave propagation, structural dynamics and vibration control
  • Adaptive structures

Selected Publications

Conlon, S. C., Semperlotti, F., "Airframe Vibration and Damping Characteristics: A Study of Flight and Laboratory Test Structures", J. Noise Contr. Eng.. Vol.60 (5), 2012.

Sheperd, M., Semperlotti, F., Conlon, S. C., "Structural Intensity Modeling and Simulations for Damage Detection", J. Vib. Acoust., Vol. 134(5), 2012.

Kim, G. W., Johnson, D. R., Semperlotti, F., Wang, K.W., "Localization of Breathing Crack Using Combination Tone Nonlinear Response", Smart Mat. Struct., Vol. 20(5), pp. 55014, 2011.

Semperlotti, F., Conlon, S. C., Barnard, A. R., "Airframe Structural Damage Detection: An Application of Nonlinear Structural Surface Intensity", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America EL, Vol.129 (4), 2011.

Kim, G. W., Johnson, D. R., Semperlotti, F., Wang, K.W., "Localization of Breathing Crack Using Combination Tone Nonlinear Response", Smart Materials and Structures,Vol. 20 (5), 2011.

Semperlotti, F., Conlon, S. C., "Nonlinear Structural Surface Intensity: an Application of Contact Acoustic Nonlinearity to Power Flow based Damage Detection", Applied Physics Letter, Vol.97 (14), 2010.

Semperlotti, F., Conlon, S. C., "Structural Damage Identification in plates via Nonlinear Structural Intensity Maps", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America EL, Vol.127 (2), 2010.

Semperlotti, F., Wang, K.W., Smith, E. C., "Localization of a Breathing Crack using Nonlinear Sub-Harmonic Response Signals", Applied Physics Letter, Vol. 95 (25), 2009.

Semperlotti, F., Wang, K.W., Smith, E. C., "Identification of the Location of a Breathing Crack using Super-Harmonics Response Signals due to System Nonlinearity", AIAA Journal, Vol.47 (9), 2009