Politecnico di Milano

www.polimi.it

Politecnico di Milano is the oldest and largest Technical University of Italy and comprises the faculties of Engineering, Architecture and Industrial Design. Politecnico di Milano offers several first, higher degree and Ph.D. courses and is involved in numerous European student exchange programs. POLIMI (mech. dept.) is one of the departments of the University and is located in a new campus, called Bovisa, where several new experimental facilities are available: axial and multi-axial test machines to investigate the mechanical behaviour of materials and a test bench suitable to perform static and fatigue full scale tests on large structures. Many hardware and software facilities mainly devoted to structural analyses are also available in POLIMI. Apart from the teaching activity, POLIMI is devoted to basic and applied researches and it has developed many links with private industries, SMEs and public institutions in Italy and in the European Union.POLIMI has been involved in R&D projects, commissioned either by private and state owned companies, public services and European programs. These projects covered different areas, ranging from Technology and Production Engineering to Railway Transportation, Power Transmission systems, impact damage and crack propagation modeling.  

 

Role and contribution to the project:

POLIMI is the coordinator for the HECTOR R&T project, promoted and financed by the European Defence Agency (Contracting Authority). As a Contractor (Consortium leader) POLIMI is responsible for the overall management of the project, as follows:

• Legal, contractual, financial and administrative management;
• Co-ordination of the technical activities of the project, including coordination of conference calls and meetings, collecting reports from Work Package Leaders, including reporting and project reviews;
• Co-ordination of knowledge management: oversight of all deliverables to the Contracting Authority, minutes of the project review meetings and the minutes of the internal projects coordination meetings.
• The Contractor is also responsible for communications with the Contracting Authority.

As a Work Package Leader his role is also to co-ordinate and supervise the technical progress across the participants in the given WP, as well as to produce the synthesis/summary chapter(s) for each report, together with other participants involved in corresponding work package(s).

 

Personnel envolved:

• Marco Giglio 
  Full Professor at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering at Politecnico di Milano.

• Andrea Manes 
  Associate Professor at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering at Politecnico di Milano.

• Claudio Sbarufatti 
  Ph.D. Candidate in Rotary-Wing Aircrafts at the Faculty of Industrial (Aerospace) Engineering at Politecnico di Milano.

 

Company details:

Country	Italy
Postal Code	20156
Town	Milano
Address	Via La Masa, 1
WebSite	www.mecc.polimi.it

 

Contacts:

Name	Mail	Tel.
Marco Giglio	marco.giglio@polimi.it	+39 022399 8234
Andrea Manes	andrea.manes@polimi.it	+39 022399 8630
Claudio Sbarufatti	claudio.sbarufatti@mail.polimi.it	+39 022399 8668