Christian Maria Firrone

Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (DIMEAS)

  • President Joint Committee on Teaching

Profile

Research interests

Aeroelasticita'
Analisi modale e identificazione
Dinamica di sistemi meccanici
Dinamica non lineare in presenza di giunti per attrito
Green propulsion
Mistuning (turbomachinery)
Progettazione meccanica
Propulsione di aeromobili
Smorzamento delle vibrazioni
Smorzamento vibrazioni in ingranaggi
Sperimentazione dinamica
Sustainable air mobility
Turbomacchine

Scientific branch

ING-IND/14 - MECHANICAL DESIGN AND MACHINE CONSTRUCTION
(Area 0009 - Industrial and information engineering)

Research topics

  • Calculation of the dynamic response of bladed discs in the presence of flutter (self-excited vibrations). Determination of the vibration limit amplitude of the turbine blades in the presence of non-linearity due to friction joints. Flutter stabilization techniques by means of mistuning.
  • Damping properties of bolted joints, experimental characterization, identification and simulation
  • Design of passive vibration dampers by means of friction, mainly in aircraft propulsion systems.
  • Reduction techniques of large finite element models, in particular applied to mistuning of bladed discs (asymmetries in the array of blades of a turbine disc).
  • Structural dynamics of aeronautical components, rotating and not rotating, mainly of the turbine module and accessory gearbox. Linear and non-linear dynamic behavior in mechanical systems assembled by means of friction joints.

Skills

ERC sectors

PE8_1 - Aerospace engineering
PE8_4 - Computational engineering
PE8_10 - Manufacturing engineering and industrial design
PE8_7 - Mechanical and manufacturing engineering (shaping, mounting, joining, separation)

SDG

Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Open badges

Editorial boards

  • APPLIED SCIENCES (2020-2021), Guest Editor of magazine or editorial series

Conferences

  • ASME Turbo Expo 2021 Turbomachinery Technical Conference & Exposition (7/6/2021-11/6/2021), Session Organizer "Structures and Dynamics: Structural Mechanics & Vibration"
  • ASME Turbo Expo 2019: Power for Land, Sea and Air (17/6/2019-21/6/2019), Session Organizer “STRUCTURES & DYNAMICS: STRUCTURAL MECHANICS, VIBRATION & DAMPING - mistuning III”
  • ASME Turbo Expo 2018: Power for Land, Sea and Air (11/6/2018-15/6/2018), Session Organizer “STRUCTURES & DYNAMICS: STRUCTURAL MECHANICS, VIBRATION & DAMPING - mistuning III”
  • ASME 2010 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, IMECE2010 (12/11/2010-18/11/2010), Session organizer "Dynamic systems and control"

Other titles

  • Coordinamento per il Politecnico di Torino del progetto 'AMBER: advancing hybrid-electric propulsion' (https://www.clean-aviation.eu/amber-advancing-hybrid-electric-propulsion) (2023-2026)
  • Badge 'Mentoring Polito Project (M2P)' (https://bestr.it/badge/show/3121) (2023-)

Research networks

  • Unità di ricerca "Controllo delle Vibrazioni" della convenzione di partnership Politecnico di Torino - AVIO "GreatLab" (2009-2016). Coordinamento
  • Membro del gruppo di ricerca "AER-MEC PER COMPONENTI DI TURBINE E COMPRESSORI" del Dipartimento di Ingegneria MEccanica e AeroSpaziale (DIMEAS) del Politecnico di Torino (2003-2021). Partecipazione
  • Chairman per l'unità di ricerca "Structural Dynamics and Integrity" dal 2017 all'interno delle European Technology Development Clusters (ETDC) di GE AvioAero (2017-2021). Coordinamento

Teaching

Collegi of the PhD programmes

  • INGEGNERIA MECCANICA, 2022/2023 (39. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • INGEGNERIA MECCANICA, 2021/2022 (38. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • INGEGNERIA MECCANICA, 2020/2021 (37. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO

Collegi of the degree programmes

Teachings

PhD

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Master of Science

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Bachelor of Science

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Teaching and training projects

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Research

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Supervised PhD students

  • Andrea Saponaro. Programme in Ingegneria Meccanica (39th cycle, 2023-in progress)
  • Fatemeh Tavakolian. Programme in Ingegneria Meccanica (39th cycle, 2023-in progress)
  • Serena Occhipinti. Programme in Ingegneria Meccanica (37th cycle, 2021-in progress)

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