Faculty profile
Giovanni Montesano
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Research
Latest funding
- $40,000
Advanced structural analysis toolchain to support the development of lightweight composite airframes for high-speed uncrewed aerial vehicles
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $143,282
Robust AI-supported virtual tools to accelerate the constitutive characterization and modelling of lightweight fiber-reinforced composite materials
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $96,000
Integrated forming and impact simulation models for rapid liquid composite molded lightweight structures
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
Advanced structural analysis toolchain to support the development of lightweight composite airframes for high-speed uncrewed aerial vehicles
Principal investigators: Montesano, Giovanni G
Keywords: fe-based numerical simulations; fiber-reinforced composite materials; lightweight airframe structures; mean-field homogenization theories; microstructural characterization; process-structure-property relations; uncrewed aerial vehicles (uav)
Robust AI-supported virtual tools to accelerate the constitutive characterization and modelling of lightweight fiber-reinforced composite materials
Principal investigators: Montesano, Giovanni G
Keywords: ai-supported prediction tools; electric vehicle lightweighting; failure and damage mechanics; fiber-reinforced composite materials; micromechanics-based models; process-structure-property relations; rate-dependent material behaviour; safety and crashworthiness
Integrated forming and impact simulation models for rapid liquid composite molded lightweight structures
Principal investigators: Montesano, Giovanni
Keywords: virtual integrated process-to-performance chains; high-performance fiber-reinforced plastic (frp) composites; rapid liquid molding processing technologies; energy absorbing automotive structures; fabric forming process model; manufacturing-induced defects; material constitutive model; multiscale mechanics; damage mechanics; cae crash simulation
Development of safe ultra-lightweight liquid molded composite structures for next-generation electric vehicles
Principal investigators: Montesano, Giovanni G
Keywords: coupled process-crash models; crashworthiness assessment; electric vehicle lightweighting; failure and damage mechanics; finite element analysis; high-performance composite materials; liquid composite molding processes; multi-scale mechanics; process simulation models; strain rate-dependent materials
High Resolution Variable Pressure SEM Imaging System for Structure/Surface Characterization and Failure Analysis of High Performance Materials.
Principal investigators: Bougherara, Habiba
Designing cost-effective high-performance residential wind turbines for remote Canadian communities
Principal investigators: Montesano, Giovanni
High Definition Infrared Thermographic System for Microscopic Assessment of New and Emerging Lightweight Materials
Principal investigators: Montesano, Giovanni
3D Stero Micro-Imaging Measurement System (3D Micro DIC) for in-situ characterization of advanced composites and new emerging smart materials
Principal investigators: Bougherara, Habiba
Experimentally validated physics-based multi-scale models for long-term durability assessment of next-generation lightweight composite vehicles
Principal investigators: Montesano, Giovanni
Enabling the development of safe lightweight next-generation vehicles using high-performance composite materials
Principal investigators: Montesano, Giovanni
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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