Short Bio

Professor Stefano Lenci did research and taught at the Universities of Ancona (now Polytechnic University of Marche), Camerino, Pisa, Rome “La Sapienza” and Paris 6, where he stayed for two years and a half. He has been responsible for various national and international scientific projects and has supervised over 200 undergraduate students and 25 PhD students (4 ongoing). Prof. Lenci was invited to deliver more than 40 seminars at different universities. He is the author of about 400 scientific publications including 12 books and 213 journal articles. He has been Guest Editor of Special Issues and a reviewer for 187 international scientific journals. He has delivered invited/keynote/plenary lectures at various Conferences and chaired several sessions at international Congresses.

His research is focused on the investigation of several aspects of the nonlinear dynamics of various mechanical systems and models, including buckled beams, shallow arches, rolling ships, inverted pendulum between lateral walls, mathematical pendulum, rigid block, infinite beams on unilateral soil, frictional impact oscillator, bilayer beams. An original method for controlling nonlinear dynamics and chaos has been developed and applied to various mechanical systems. The dynamical integrity of mechanical systems has been investigated, too. Other specific research issues include laying of marine pipelines in deep and ultra-deep waters (the J-lay problem), the dynamic of windscreen wiper, various aspects of the mechanical behaviour of interfaces, and mechanical models for detecting elastic and damaged behaviour of composites. Recently, he has investigated the nonlinear vibrations of non-uniform beams, the effects of the boundary conditions of the nonlinear oscillations of beams, the isochronous oscillations of nonlinear beams, wave propagation in beams on unilateral soil, and exact solutions for nonlinear oscillators and nonlinear dynamics of wind towers.

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