Marco Amabili

Marco Amabili is a Professor who holds the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Vibrations and Fluid-Structure Interaction, Department of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada.
Biography and achievements.
Marco Amabili was born and raised in San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy. He studied at the University of Ancona (now renamed Marche Polytechnic University) where he received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bologna. 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. Professor Amabili serves as Contributing Editor for "International Journal of Non-linear Mechanics" (Elsevier). He is also Associate Editor of the "Journal of Fluids and Structures", Elsevier; he served as associate editor of "Applied Mechanics Reviews", ASME, and "Journal of Vibration and Acoustics", ASME. He is member of the Editorial Board of several journals, including the "Journal of Sound and Vibration", Elsevier. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Chair of the ASME Technical Committee "Dynamics and Control of Systems and Structures". Marco Amabili is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He received the Christophe Pierre Research Excellence Award from McGill University in 2015, was elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2018 and as foreign member of Academia Europaea in 2020. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He was elected chair of the Canadian National Committee for IUTAM (International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics) in 2019. 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 Worcester Reed Warner Medal of the ASME; established in 1930, is one of the society award with the longest history. He received the 2021 Raymond D. Mindlin medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for outstanding research contributions to applied solid mechanics.
Professor Amabili is working in the area of vibrations, 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 over 480 papers (over 220 in refereed international journals, including "Nature Communications" and "Physical Review X") 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 "Cambridge University Press".
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 and aortic grafts.
In 2017 Amabili participated to a research with the Technical University of Delft to identify the Young modulus of Graphene nano-drums from nonlinear vibrations; the outcome of the study was published in "Nature Communications". Around the same time he started developing, for the first time, original and innovative models of nonlinear damping for geometrically nonlinear vibrations of structural elements, a very complex and important problem in engineering applications.