Stefano Zucca

Stefano Zucca is a Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (DIMEAS) at the Polytechnic University of Turin. He serves as Vice-Rector for Resource Planning and is involved in student-related commissions. His research spans multiple disciplines, including contact mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, and rotordynamics, with applications in turbomachinery and aerospace systems.

• Scientific disciplinary sector: Mechanical Design and Machine Construction (IIND-03/A)
• ERC sectors: Aerospace Engineering, Computational Engineering, Industrial Design

Research interests focus on nonlinear dynamics of turbomachinery components, friction contact modeling, reduced-order modeling, and structural wear analysis. His work integrates experimental mechanics with finite element simulations to address friction damping and gear dynamics.

Recent publications emphasize parametric instability in rotors, equilibrium hypotheses in bladed disks, robust turbine blade design, and guidelines for contact parameter usage in nonlinear dynamic analysis.

Awards:

• AIAS Capocaccia Award (2004)

Teaching includes courses like Rotor Dynamics for Aerospace Applications and Fundamentals of Structural Mechanics across Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering programs.

Collaborations include EU-funded projects (MSCA, H2020), PNRR initiatives, and commercial research contracts with companies like Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie S.r.l.