Marco Amabili is a Changjiang chair professor in the School of Engineering at

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, China. He is also an Emeritus Distinguished James McGill professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at

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, Canada.

Biography and achievements

Marco Amabili was born and raised in

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, Italy. He studied at the

University of Ancona Marche Polytechnic University or Polytechnic University of the Marches (Italian ''Università Politecnica delle Marche'') is a public university in Ancona, Italy. It offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in Agriculture, Engineering, Economi ...

(now renamed

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) where he received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the

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. Amabili is very well known for his extensive research on nonlinear vibrations and dynamic stability of shell and plate structures, a subject to which he has given many innovative contributions. He is also very active in studying nonlinear vibrations and biomechanics of the human aorta and advanced aortic grafts, composite structures, MEMS and active vibration control. Professor Amabili serves as Associate Editor-in-Chief for ''International Journal of Non-linear Mechanics'' (Elsevier) and is co-Editor-in-Chief of the ''International Journal of Mechanical System Dynamics'' (Wiley). He is also Associate Editor of the ''Journal of Fluids and Structures'' and ''Mechanics Research Communications'', both by Elsevier; he served as associate editor of ''

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'',

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, and ''Journal of Vibration and Acoustics'',

. He is member of the editorial board of several journals, including the '' Journal of Sound and Vibration'', Elsevier. He was the chair of the executive committee of the

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of the

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(

) in 2023-2024 and the Chair of the

Technical Committee ''Dynamics and Control of Systems and Structures''. Marco Amabili is an elected Fellow of the

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- Academy of Sciences and an International Member of the

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(NAE) of the USA. He is also a Fellow of the

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and the

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. He was elected Fellow of the

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in 2018 and a foreign member of

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in 2020. He served as chair of the Canadian National Committee for

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(International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics) from 2019 till the end of 2023. Amabili delivered the Koiter lecture of the Dutch Research School on Engineering Mechanics in 2019. The Koiter lecture honors researchers who have made profound contributions to the field of Engineering Mechanics, and it has a rich history. In 2020 he received the

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of the

; established in 1930, it is one of the society awards with the longest history. He received the 2021 Raymond D. Mindlin medal of the

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(

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) for outstanding research contributions to applied solid mechanics. He was awarded the Gili-Agostinelli International Prize for mechanics of the Lincei National Academy of Sciences of Italy in November 2021. Amabili was the recipient of the 2022

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in engineering, one of the highest recognitions in North America. He was elected Honorary Member of the

in 2024, the oldest and one of the highest recognitions of the society. Professor Amabili is working in the area of

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, nonlinear dynamics and stability of thin-walled structures, reduced-order models, fluid-structure interaction and vascular biomechanics. His research is multi-disciplinary, and it has been utilized in the design and analysis of aeronautical and aerospace structures, laminated and FGM shell structures, improving the design of vascular grafts, safety of pressure tanks and innovative flow-meters. Amabili is the author of about 300 papers in refereed international journals (plus about 300 conference papers and presentations), including ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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'') in applied mechanics and has achieved a high ''h''-Index. He is the author of the monographs ''Nonlinear Vibrations and Stability of Shells and Plates'' and ''Nonlinear Mechanics of Shells and Plates in Composite, Soft and Biological Materials'' both published by ''

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''. Amabili, together with M.P. Païdoussis and F. Pellicano, showed for the first time the strongly subcritical behavior of the stability of circular cylindrical shells conveying flow. A series of papers presented theoretical, numerical and experimental investigations, showing that a supported circular shell made of aluminum presents divergence for much smaller velocity than predicted by linear theory. Since 2014, Amabili developed innovative shell theories with thickness deformation. These theories were extended to model soft biological tissues that undergo large thickness deformations and are described as incompressible and hyperelastic. This interest was expanded into the experimental and numerical study of the mechanics of the human aorta, the viscoelastic characterization of aortic tissues with and without smooth muscle activation and aortic grafts. In 2017 Amabili participated to a research with the Technical University of Delft to identify the Young modulus of

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nano-drums from nonlinear vibrations; the outcome of the study was published in ''

''. Amabili was the first to report the experimentally observed nonlinear damping in large-amplitude vibrations in 2003. He developed, for the first time, original and innovative models of nonlinear damping by introducing geometric nonlinearity in linear viscoelasticity, a very complex and important problem in engineering applications.

Education

*Ph.D. in Mech. Eng. –

, Italy, 1996 *M.Sc. in Mech. Eng. – University of Ancona (

), Ancona, Italy, 1992

International awards

of the

(ASME), 2020 *Raymond D. Mindlin Medal of the

(ASCE), 2021 *Cataldo Agostinelli and Angiola Gili-Agostinelli International Prize of the Lincei National Academy of Sciences of Italy, 2021 *

in Engineering for USA and Canada,

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, 2022 * Honorary Member of the

(ASME), 2024 *International Member

(NAE), 2024 *Fellow of the

- Academy of Sciences, 2020 *Fellow of the

, 2019 *Foreign Member of

, 2020 *Member of the

, 2018 *Member of the European Academy of Sciences, 2020 *Rayleigh Lecture Award,

(ASME), 2022 *Blaise Pascal Medal in engineering, European Academy of Sciences (Brussels), 2022 *Koiter lecture of the Dutch research school on Engineering Mechanics in 2019 *Fellow of the

, 2020 *Christophe Pierre Research Excellence Award, McGill University, 2015 *

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of the

(ASME), 2011

Books

*M. Amabili, ''Nonlinear vibrations and stability of shells and plates'',

(2008). *M. Amabili, ''Nonlinear mechanics of shells and plates in composite, soft and biological materials'',

(2018).

References

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