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- Paolo Feraboli
Assistant Professor
feraboli@aa.washington.edu
Office: 311D Guggenheim
Phone: (206) 543-2170
University of Washington
BOX 352400
Seattle, WA 98195-2400
Composites and Structures Laboratory
Associated Labs
Research Fields
- Aircraft Certification
- Composite Structural Design
- Damage Resistance & Tolerance
- Crashworthiness & Energy Management
- AA331, Wi06 Aerospace Structures I – 4 credits
Bending, torsion and shear of thin wall structures. Analysis and design of idealized box beams. Analysis and design modern aircraft wings. Elements of aircraft materials and their behavior.
Prerequisite: ENGR 220 or CE 220.
- AA332, Sp06 Aerospace Structures II – 4 credits
Mechanical behavior and damage mechanisms in advanced aerospace materials (metallic and composite). Elements of fracture mechanics and fatigue. Fatigue crack growth and residual strength. Regulatory agency certification approaches to damage tolerant structures. Durability and damage resistance. Advanced Bonded Joints. Damage Inspection and Repair.
Prerequisite: AA 331
- AA499, 2006 – 3 credits (typ.)
Undergraduate Research. - AA540, Wi07 Finite Element Analysis I – 3 credits
Graduate course in FEA. Formulation of the finite element method using variational and weighted residual methods. Element types and interpolation functions. Applications focus on structural analysis and fracture mechanics, and other problems of engineering and physics. Use of ANSYS commercial FE code.
- AA599, Sp06 – 3 credits (typ.)
Special Projects (Graduate Research).
Paolo Feraboli joined the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics of
the University of Washington in the summer of 2005, as Assistant Professor
in Aerospace Structures and Materials. Since then he has been
collaborating with The Boeing Co., Federal Aviation Adminstration (FAA),
and Automobili Lamborghini on various research projects related to the
development of analytical and experimental techniques for composite
materials. He is particularly interested in composites safety and
certification initiatives, in particular in the area of damage resistance
and tolerance, lightning strike protection, and crashworthiness. Since
early 2006 he has been actively involved with the technology development
of the composite-intensive Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
He has authored over 40 publications between peer-reviewed journals and
internationally acclaimed conferences. He chairs the Composite Materials
Handbook-17 Working Group on Crashworthiness (former MIL-HDBK-17), and is
member of the AIAA Materials Technical Committee. He is the General Chair
of the 22nd American Society for Composites (ASC) Technical Conference in
Seattle, WA in September 2007. He is an active member of AIAA, ASC, SAMPE,
and SPE.
Before joining the faculty at UW, Paolo was visiting researcher at NASA
Langley Research Center, in the Mechanics and Durability Branch. He earned
his Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara under the
supervision of Dr. Keith Kedward, and holds previous degrees in Mechanical
Engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy. Prior to moving to the
States, Dr. Feraboli worked for Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. in
Sant'Agata Bolognese, where he was involved with the development of
primary composite structures for the Murcičlago line-up.