Luca Bruno, Prof. Ph.D.
Associate
Professor in Structural Design Department
of Structural Engineering and Geotechnics Viale Mattioli,
39 I - 10126 Torino, Italy Tel. +39-011-564.48.70 Fax +39-011-564.49.99 e-mail: luca.bruno@polito.it url: http://staff.polito.it/luca.bruno/ |
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Date of birth: 19 April 1971
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since December 2004: Associate Professor in Structural Engineering at
the Department of Structural Engineering and Geotechnical Studies - Politecnico di Torino, Italy.
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1999 - 2004: Assistant Professor in Structural Engineering at the
Department of Structural Engineering and Geotechnical Studies - Politecnico di Torino, Italy;
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1997 - 2000: PhD in Fluid
Mechanics at l’Institut de
Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Equilibre, UMR 6594 CNRS / UM-UP-
Marseille, France;
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1997 - 2000: PhD in Structural Engineering at the Department of
Structural Engineering and Geotechnical Studies - Politecnico
di Torino, Italy;
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1996 - 1997: Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondis (D.E.A.) “Dynamique des Structures et Couplages” - Ecole
Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Ecole Centrale de Paris, Ecole Polytechnique,
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Techniques Avancées, Paris, France.
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1991 - 1996: Degree in Architecture – Faculty of Architecture - Politecnico
di Torino, Torino. Italy.
Click here to access the complete Curriculum
Vitae.
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April 2008: Outstanding Paper Award promoted by the
International Association for Bridge Structural Engineering (IABSE). Paper: F. Venuti, L. Bruno, P. Napoli (2007), “Pedestrian lateral
action on lively footbridges: a new load model”, SEI, 3/2007 (pre-print PDF).
The Award is remitted each year to the author of a paper published in the
preceding year’s issues of the IABSE journal, Structural Engineering
International (SEI).
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December 2005: Young author’s award promoted by the Office Technique pour l'Utilisation de l'Acier
(Otua) at the 2nd International Conference Footbridge
2005 (2nd prize). Paper: F. Venuti, L. Bruno, N. Bellomo (2005), “Crowd-structure interaction: dynamics
modelling and computational simulations”,
Footbridge 2005 Proceedings, Venice.
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September 2002: ANIV Best Paper award, promoted by the Italian Wind
Engineers Association (ANIV). Paper: L. Bruno, S. Khris,
J. Marcillat (2001), “Contribution of numerical
simulation to evaluating the effect of section details and partial streamlining
on the aerodynamic behaviour of bridge
decks”, Wind and Structures, Techno-Press, vol. 4 (pre-print
PDF). The Award has been remitted to the best paper of a young
Italian Researcher in Wind Engineering published in an international journal
during the period 1998-2002.
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September 1997: OPTIME award for the "Best Young Graduates of the
Year" provided by the Employers’ Association of Turin.
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September 1998: winner of the three-years scholarship promoted by the
Italian Ministry of University and Scientific and Technological Research to
help international mobility for the joint Italian/French PhD course.
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June 1997: winner of the one-year scholarship offered by the University
“La Sapienza”
- Rome promoted to financially help attendance in specialization courses
abroad (D.E.A. Course at Ecole Nationale
des Ponts et Chaussées,
France).
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Vision
Teaching in mono-disciplinary courses:
from posed engineering or architectural problems to models
and solution techniques via physical phenomena observation.
One of the engineers main missions is to build quantitative
mathematical models to describe in a compact and accurate way the significant
features of the complicate, sometimes complex, real world in order to analyse
and modify it.
The writer’s past teaching activity has been addressed to
develop the student’s attitude and ability to fully follow the path of this
conceptual track.
Teaching in multi-disciplinary design studios:
the convergence of heterogeneous knowledge in the design
practice to set and solve a problem via an iterative process.
Architects and engineers, exact sciences, human sciences and
technologies generally cooperate in the design of every handwork over the
landscape: the writer’s past teaching activity has been addressed to develop
the students’ attitude to combine different kinds of knowledge, to compensate
heterogeneous performance requirements and to collaborate with co-workers with
different professional backgrounds.
The design process, not always causal and linear, involves both the “problem setting” – also called “structural conceptual design” – and the “problem solving”, both preformed at different scales in space and during different process phases: the writer’s past teaching activity has been addressed to give to the students the opportunity to experience, handle and control the design process.
- University courses
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2000/01 – 2009/10: “Structure I” course – BSc. Course in Architectural
Sciences – Ist Faculty of Architecture, Politecnico di Torino (I year, I semester, 40
hours, about 120 students). Click here to access the contents of the Course.
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2000/01 – 2009/10: Contribute of
Structural Concept Design in the frame of the Studio Design “Architecture -
Town Planning”– BSc. Course in Architectural Sciences – Ist
Faculty of Architecture, Politecnico di Torino (I year, II semester, 30 hours, about 60 students). Click here to access
the contents of the Course.
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2003/04 – 2009/10: “Wind Engineering” module (about 75 hours) within the
Course “Wind Engineering and Statistics of Random Process”, MSc. Course in
Mathematics for Engineering Sciences – Ist Faculty of
Engineering, Politecnico di
Torino (II
year, I semester, about 15 students), co-chaired by L. Bruno, G. Pistone
(Department
of Mathematics). Click
here to access the contents
of the Course.
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since 2010/11: “Structures” module (60 hours) within the first year
Studio Design “Architectural Design”– BSc. Course in Architectural Sciences – Ist Faculty of Architecture, Politecnico
di Torino (I year, II semester, about 75 students).
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since 2010/11: “Computational Wind Engineering” module (about 50 hours)
within the Course “Computational Fluid Dynamics and Wind Engineering”, MSc.
Course in Mathematics for Engineering Sciences – Ist
Faculty of Engineering, Politecnico di Torino (II year, I semester, about 25 students), co-chaired by L. Bruno, C. Canuto (Department of Mathematics), L. Zannetti
(Aerospace
Engineering Department).
The
teaching activity quality at Politecncico di Torino is monitored by an ad hoc Evaluation
Committee (CPD, http://www2.polito.it/strutture/cpd).
Click
here to access the courses scores statistics.
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2011: designated scientific tutor of a 3-years PhD scholarship on the
theme “Multi-scale modelling of complex crowd-structure interaction for
applications in Civil Engineering” funded by the Lagrange Project (CRT bank
foundation and the Institute for Scientific Interchange foundation).
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Since 2010: Member of the Council of the PhD School in Structural
Engineering at Politecnico di
Torino;
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Since 2009: Member of the Council of the PhD School in Mathematics for
Engineering Sciences at Politecnico di Torino;
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2004 - 2007: Co-supervisor of the Phd Thesis
in Mathematics for Engineering Sciences “Stochastic Numerical Models for Wind
Engineering” (pre-print PDF). Student: Davide
Fransos. Co-supervisor: C. Canuto (Department of Mathematics).
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2004 - 2007: Formulation of the research theme and tutoring in the
development of the Phd Thesis in Structural
Engineering “Crowd-Structure Interaction in Lively Footbridges” (pre-print PDF).
Student: Fiammetta Venuti.
Co-supervisors: P. Napoli (Department of Structural Engineering and
Geotechnical Studies) and N. Bellomo (Department
of Mathematics). Recipient of the following awards and grants:
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First prize at the 2nd Young Engineers Symposium (Fribourg 2007,
Switzerland), organized by the Swiss national group of IABSE;
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Talent Support grant 2007 offered by the IABSE Fundation;
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Second prize at the 7th PhD Symposium in Civil Engineering (Stuttgart
2008, Germany), organized by Fédération Internationale du Beton.
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since 1998: co-supervisor and supervisor of many BSc. and MSc. Theses in
Architecture, Civil Engineering and Mathematics for Engineering Sciences. The
MSc. Thesis “Conception of a suspended pedestrian footbridge through numerical
optimisation” has been the recipient of the “Steel Promotion” Award 2003.
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Vision
Besides
inside the structure, look around it. (read more…)
- Past and present research
activity
The
writer initiated in the Nineties a research field scarcely explored in Italy
and at its infancy in the international scientific community: the computational
study of dynamic interaction phenomena between civil structures and some types
of flows to which the structures are subjected, i.e. the incoming wind flow (aerodynamic
and aeroelastic behaviour of bridges, cables, tower) and the crossing crowd
flow (dynamic behaviour of footbridges).
The
writer’s research activity has been and actually is
part of a multidisciplinary context, working with several research structures
at Politecnico di Torino
and collaborating at a national and international level. He also collaborates
in a stable way with consulting companies in both civil engineering and Fluid
Mechanics.
The
main research themes afforded up to now can be classified in three groups.
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Direct computational simulation of the aerodynamic
behaviour of bluff bodies:
a.
computational simulations of turbulent flows around
bluff bodies; (read
more…)
b.
evaluation of the aerodynamic loads on long-span
bridge decks. (read more…)
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Indirect aerodynamic/aeroelastic characterisation of a
prototype via identification of the empirical functions by means of the
computational approach:
c.
determination of aerodynamic admittance functions and
flutter derivatives; (read
more…)
d.
determination of stochastic aerodynamic and
aeroelastic coefficients. (read more…)
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Computational simulation of the crowd-structure
interaction in footbridges:
e.
crowd modelling and development of pedestrians load
model; (read more…)
f.
computational simulation of the coupled system
(crowd-structure interaction). (read more…)
- Future research activity
Are you interested to cooperate with me in
future research activities? Please, contact me writing to luca.bruno@polito.it
The
results of the research activities have been published in national and
international congress and journals, since 1997.
Click
here to access the list of publications and downloadable pre-print
(.pdf format).
Reviewer
for several International Journals (Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial
Aerodynamics, Wind and Structures, Engineering Structures, Structural
Engineering International, Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, Hong Kong
Institution of Engineers Transaction) and International Conferences. Evaluator
of research proposals submitted for financing to National Authorities in
several countries.
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2007-2009: scientific responsibility at the Department of Structural
Engineering and Geotechnical Studies (Politecnico di Torino) for the research and development project Lagrange,
promoted by the CRT bank foundation and the Institute for Scientific Interchange
foundation. Title of the project: “Modelling of interaction phenomena in the
complex crowd-structure system for pedestrian crossing”. Co-founding by the Sintecna Company (Turin, Italy), consulting company in structural
engineering. Total founding: 20.000,00 Euro.
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2006-2008: Coordinator of the local project unit for the Politecnico Torino within the Research Project of Relevant
National Interest (PRIN) “Aeroelastic phenomena and other dynamic interactions
in non conventional bridges and footbridges”. Coordinator at a national level: C. Borri
(Università di Firenze). Specific title of the programme carried out by the local research group:
“Computational simulation of the wind-structure and pedestrian-structure interaction
in crossing works”. Founding assigned to the local project unit: 54.000,00
Euro.
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2005: scientific responsibility for the research and development
contract between the Department of Mathematics - Politecnico
di Torino and the Optiflow Company (Marseille, France), consulting company
in fluid dynamics, for the purpose of determining flutter derivatives of bridge
decks through computational approach.
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2004-2006: Participation in the Research Project of Relevant National
Interest (PRIN) “Reliability in time of bridge and viaduct structures”. Coordinator at a national level:
P.G. Malerba (Politecnico di Milano). Coordinator of the local project unit: D. Sabia.
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2002-2004: participation in the Research Project of Relevant National
Interest (PRIN) “Identification, modelling, analysis and control of the
uncertainties in the design of long-span bridges”. Coordinator at a national level: P.G. Malerba
(Politecnico di Milano). Coordinator of the local project unit: G. Mancini.
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1999 - 2002: in charge of the yearly Research Projects financed by the Politecnico di Torino as part of
the Young Researchers’ Programme. Title of the projects: “Numerical simulation
of the aeroelastic effects of the wind on long-span bridge decks” and “Numerical
simulation of the aerodynamic behaviour of long-span bridges”. Total founding:
13.743,00 Euro.
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2007 – 2009: president of the Study Course Council in Architectural
Sciences (47
professors, about 1200 students) – Ist Faculty of Architecture – Politecnico
di Torino.
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2005 – 2007: vice president of the Study Course Council in Architectural
Sciences – Ist
Faculty of Architecture – Politecnico di Torino.
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2004 - 2005: member of the Work Group for the National Observatory on
the Teaching of Architecture – Ist Faculty of
Architecture – Politecnico di
Torino.
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2001 – 2005: member of several Work Groups at the Ist
Faculty of Architecture – Politecnico di Torino: Teaching, Students Relationship and Tutoring,
Sustainability.
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1998 – 2007 : concept, development and management of the Computing Center in the Architectural quarters of the Department of
Structural Engineering and Geotechnical Studies – Politecnico
di Torino.
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since 2006: in progress study of the wind effects on the high-rise
building (210 m high) for the new headquarters of the Intesa
– S. Paolo Bank in Turin (architectural design by R. Piano).
Consultancy work for the Sintecna Company
(Turin, Italy) on behalf of the Intesa - S. Paolo
Bank.
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1999: study of the wind effects on the glass cover and the sunbreaker elements of the centre for vehicle
engineering (Lingotto
di Torino, architectural design by R. Piano).
Consultancy work for the OptiFlow Company (Marseille, France) on behalf of
the Sintecna Company
(Turin, Italy).
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1996: employed in the Lajara
Architectural and Engineering Society in Marseille (France): posted to the “Groupe Aérodynamique Numérique”
(I.R.P.H.E.), Unité Mixte de Recherche n°138 C.N.R.S Universités de la
Méditerranée et de Provence, as part of the convention: "Windengeen: étude numérique de l’action du vent sur les
structures".
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Member of the Scientific Committee of the Research Centre on Buildings
Aerodynamics and Wind Engineering (CRIACIV);
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Member of the Italian Association of Wind Engineering (ANIV);
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Member of the International Association for Bridge Structural
Engineering (IABSE);
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Member of the Working Group on Benchmarking of the International
Association of Wind Engineering (IAWE);
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Member of the Organizing Committee of the Benchmark on the Aerodynamics of a Rectangular 5:1 Cylinder (BARC).