Summary
Lorenzo Iannucci is Professor of Advanced Structural Design and the RAEng/AIRBUS Chair in Advanced Airframe Design. Previously holding the RAEng/Dstl Chair in Multiscale Armour Design.
He obtained his Bachelor of Science (1st class honours) in Aeronautics Engineering from the Department of Aeronautics of Imperial College. A MSc in computation mechanics followed this also from the Department of Aeronautics of Imperial College.
Following graduation Prof Iannucci worked as a Design Engineer for Babcock Power Ltd from 1981 designing nuclear power and offshore structure in safety critical environments. In 1985 he became a Senior Design Engineer for Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd designing critical structural items for nuclear power systems. In 1986 he started as a Research Fellow in the Department of Civil Engineering of Imperial College on a project for RAE Farnborough developing novel experimental and numerical techniques to model explosions in soils. He was awarded a PhD on part of the research undertaken for the RAE.
In 1990 he returned to UK industry and worked for a BAe company developing new fracture based composite failure models and impact modelling techniques. In 1994 he was head of the Advanced Structures group and leading several European projects on the development of composite design tools. He was also involved in pioneering a new novel bird strike modelling technique. In 1996 he accepted a position of Principal Scientist at DRA, further developing novel composite modelling techniques and leading basic research projects for the European Union. He was also chairman of the Bird Strike GARTEUR group. In 1998 he started as a Lecturer in advanced structural design in the Department of Aeronautics, and continued to develop his research interest in design, algorithm development, and modelling techniques relevant to non-dynamic analyses, impact testing and design of morphing and flow control structures. Recently developing new material and solver techniques for polymeric armour and understanding the design of drones to minimize damage from impact onto manned aircraft. This led to a promotion to the Professor of Advanced Structural Design in 2012.
He has been involved in research funded by the CEC, EPRSC, Dstl, MoD, QINETIQ, BAE/RR, AIRBUS, DfT and the DTI(TSB). He has also published numerous journal and international conference papers.
Publications
Journals
Mohsin MAA, Iannucci L, Greenhalgh E, 2023, Delamination of novel carbon fibre-based non-crimp fabric-reinforced thermoplastic composites in mode I: experimental and fractographic analysis, Polymers, Vol:15, ISSN:2073-4360, Pages:1-14
Wan A Hamid WLH, Iannucci L, Robinson P, 2023, Flexural behaviour of 3D-printed carbon fibre composites: Experimental and virtual tests - application to composite adaptive structure, Composites Part C: Open Access, Vol:10
Gouskos D, Iannucci L, 2023, An experimental and numerical study on the translaminar fracture of cross-ply non-crimp fabric composites, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol:277, ISSN:0013-7944
Kempesis D, Iannucci L, Ramesh KT, et al., 2022, Micromechanical analysis of high fibre volume fraction polymeric laminates using micrograph-based representative volume element models, Composites Science and Technology, Vol:229, ISSN:0266-3538, Pages:109680-109680
Del Rosso S, Iannucci L, Kempesis D, et al., 2022, Self-heating effect on ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene fibres and composites, Materials and Design, Vol:220, ISSN:0264-1275, Pages:1-12