in vento 2014

A few days ago, while I was enjoying a long weekend break at the Greek islands, my colleague Francesco gave two presentations at the 13th Conference of the Italian Association for Wind Engineering (in vento 2014) held in Genova.
http://www.invento2014.org

Francesco, ho has a PhD on Wind Engineering co-advised by Prof. Bontempi and Prof. Augusti of the Sapienza University of Rome, is broadly acknowledged for his contribution on the topic of Performance Based Wind Engineering (PBWE).

One of the presentations regarded the "Building occupants' comfort assessment in the PBWE framework", in collaboration with my good friend Pierluigi Olmati (now post-doc at the University of Surrey) and Prof. Franco Bontempi.
The study, that Francesco conceived, initiated after an original idea of the late Prof. Ciampoli, and was merely outlined last year on a paper I also contributed at the COMPDYN 2013 conference at the island of Kos.
http://www.dicat.unige.it/carassale/invento2014/Abstracts/29_Petrini-etal.pdf

Francesco presenting Building occupants' comfort assessment in the PBWE framework (courtesy of F. Bontempi)

The second presentation focused on the "Piezoelectric energy harvesting under air flow excitation", and was in collaboration with myself and Prof. Franco Bontempi. It regards the ESA-BIC (European Space Agency Business Incubator Center) project piezoVenergy by StroNGER. Francesco presented preliminary results from the Master Thesis of Sara Ferri, successfully defended last April.
http://www.dicat.unige.it/carassale/invento2014/Abstracts/28_Petrini-etal.pdf

Francesco presenting Piezoelectric energy harvesting under air flow excitation (courtesy of F. Bontempi)

In addition to the above presentations, Francesco also co-chaired a technical session on bridges.