Francesco BRAGHIN
Francesco BRAGHIN
(Politecnico di Milano)
Francesco Braghin was born in Milano (MI) the 14th October 1972. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 1997 at Politecnico di Milano and has obtained the PhD in Applied Mechanics in 2001. In 2001 he became Researcher and in 2011 Associate Professor in Applied Mechanics at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Politecnico di Milano. Since 2015 he is Full Professor in Applied Mechanics at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Politecnico di Milano. Presently he holds the courses of Control and Actuating Devices at the first year of Master Degree for Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronic Systems and Laboratory at the second year of Master Degree for Mechanical Engineering.
His research activity started with the modeling of complex contact phenomena such as the interaction between tire and road and between wheel and rail. This led to a big step forward in the comprehension of these phenomena as well as associated phenomena such as the prediction of wear and limit conditions (e.g. derailment and macro sliding for F1 tires). It was a natural evolution to expand research in the field of car and rail vehicle dynamics. More and more these vehicles include mechatronic components to improve active and passive safety, comfort and performances. Thus, research evolved towards mechatronic systems, both at basic research level (e.g. optimal fatigue control logics, design and optimization of MEMS sensors as well as of smart actuators based on magnetostrictive and piezo materials) and at component/system level (e.g. smart CFRP structures able to “diagnostic” their status and fatigue life as well as to improve their performances). Most of the above researches were carried out in cooperation with leading industries in the respective field.
