Dr Renato Picelli
Research Associate
- picellir@cardiff.ac.uk
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- Room S/.17F, Queen's Buildings - South Building, 5 The Parade, Newport Road, Cardiff, CF24 3AA
Overview
Mechanical Engineer. Expertise includes design and topology optimisation based on the use of finite element methods for structural and multiphysics analysis. Also a member of the M2DO group managed by Professor H. Alicia Kim.
Biography
Dr. Renato Picelli is a PDRA in the M2DO Group in the School of Engineering, CU since 2016. He received his PhD on "Evolutionary Topology Optimization of Fluid-structure Interaction Problems'' in 2015 from the University of Campinas, Brazil. His PhD work is acknowledged as one of the three existent methodologies for topology optimisation of design-dependent fluid- and acoustic-structure interaction problems. He was a visiting PhD student at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in 2014, and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in 2015. He currently works with topology optimisation for stress-constrained structures using the level set method. In total, he has published 9 journal papers and 16 conference papers in engineering optimisation.
Publications
2020
- Neofytou, A., Picelli, R., Huang, T., Chen, J. and Kim, H. A. 2020. Level set topology optimization for design-dependent pressure loads using the reproducing kernel particle method. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization 61 (10.1007/s00158-020-02549-9)
2019
- Picelli Sanches, R., Neofytou, A. and Kim, H. A. 2019. Topology optimization for design-dependent hydrostatic pressure loading via the level-set method. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization 60(4), pp. 1313-1326. (10.1007/s00158-019-02339-y)
2018
- Picelli Sanches, R., Townsend, S. and Kim, H. A. 2018. Stress and strain control via level set topology optimization. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization 58(5), pp. 2037-2051. (10.1007/s00158-018-2018-z)
- Sivapuram, R., Picelli Sanches, R. and Xie, Y. M. 2018. Topology optimization of binary microstructures involving various non-volume constraints. Computational Materials Science 154, pp. 405-425. (10.1016/j.commatsci.2018.08.008)
- Townsend, S., Picelli Sanches, R., Stanford, B. and Kim, H. 2018. Structural optimization of plate-like aircraft wings under flutter and divergence constraints. AIAA Journal 56(8), pp. 3307-3319. (10.2514/1.J056748)
- Picelli Sanches, R., Townsend, S., Brampton, C., Norato, J. and Kim, H. 2018. Stress-based shape and topology optimization with the level set method. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 329, pp. 1-23. (10.1016/j.cma.2017.09.001)
- Sivapuram, R. and Picelli Sanches, R. 2018. Topology optimization of binary structures using integer linear programming. Finite Elements in Analysis and Design 139, pp. 49-61. (10.1016/j.finel.2017.10.006)
2017
- Picelli Sanches, R., Vicente, W. M. and Pavanello, R. 2017. Evolutionary topology optimization for structural compliance minimization considering design-dependent FSI loads. Finite Elements in Analysis and Design 135, pp. 44-55.
- Picelli Sanches, R., van Dijk, R., Vicente, W., Pavanello, R., Langelaar, M. and van Keulen, F. 2017. Topology optimization for submerged buoyant structures. Engineering Optimization 49(1), pp. 1-21. (10.1080/0305215X.2016.1164147)
2016
- Vicente, W. M., Zuo, Z. H., Pavanello, R., Calixto, T. K. L., Picelli Sanches, R. and Xie, Y. M. 2016. Concurrent topology optimization for minimizing frequency responses of two-level hierarchical structures. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 301, pp. 116-136. (10.1016/j.cma.2015.12.012)
2015
- Picelli Sanches, R., Vicente, W. M., Pavanello, R. and Xie, Y. M. 2015. Evolutionary topology optimization for natural frequency maximization problems considering acoustic-structure interaction. Finite Elements in Analysis and Design 106, pp. 56-64. (10.1016/j.finel.2015.07.010)
- Vicente, W., Picelli Sanches, R., Pavanello, R. and Xie, Y. 2015. Topology optimization of frequency responses of fluid–structure interaction systems. Finite Elements in Analysis and Design 98, pp. 1-13. (10.1016/j.finel.2015.01.009)
2014
- Picelli Sanches, R., Vicente, W. M. and Pavanello, R. 2014. Bi-directional evolutionary structural optimization for design-dependent fluid pressure loading problems. Engineering Optimization 47(10), pp. 1324-1342. (10.1080/0305215X.2014.963069)
2012
- Rodríguez, R. Q., Picelli Sanches, R., Sollero, P. and Pavanello, R. 2012. Structural shape optimization of bonded joints using the ESO method and a honeycomb-like mesh. Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology 28(14-15), pp. 1451-1466. (10.1080/01694243.2012.698112)
My research interests are primarily in topology optimisation of multiphysics and structural-material systems. I am currently working on stress-constrained design and structures for energy harvesting. Past experience in design-dependent pressure loading, acoustic-structure and fluid-structure interactions.