ANDREA BRACCIALI

DATI PERSONALI / PERSONAL FACTS

• Posizione attuale / Current position: Professore Associato / Associate Professor
• Università / University: Università degli Studi di Firenze http://www.unifi.it
• Scuola / School: Scuola di Ingegneria http://www.ing.unifi.it
• Dipartimento / Department: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale http://www.dief.unifi.it/cercachi-per-3313.html
• Telefono / Telephone: (+39) 055 4796292 (ufficio/office) 055 4796430 (laboratorio/labs)
• Fax: (+39) 055 4796292
• Mobile Phone: +39 347 2429240
• e-mail andrea.bracciali@unifi.it

CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr. Andrea Bracciali was born in Florence in 1963. He took his degree with honors in Mechanical Engineering at University of Florence in 1988, discussing the thesis "Substructure coupling by modal analysis techniques: development of numerical and experimental procedures" (in italian). He is a professional engineer since 1988.

He is a currently Professor of Machine Design at Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Florence. His main fields of activity are machine design, noise and vibration analysis, railway mechanical engineering. He published more than 90 papers. Please go back to the main page to find a link to the papers download page.

He holds the course "Rolling Stock Design and Manufacturing" at the University of Florence. Interested readers are referred to the web site of the School of Engineering.

Awards

• The paper [1] "Caratterizzazione Dinamica della Cassa di Manovra di un Deviatoio Ferroviario per Alta Velocità", XVII Convegno AIAS, Ancona, Italy, 1989, 105-116 was awarded by the AIAS (Associazione Italiana per l’Analisi delle Sollecitazioni - Italian Association for Stress Analysis) members with the Premio Agostino Capocaccia 1989.
• The paper [11] "Continuous External Train Noise Measurements through an On-board Device", Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit 208, 1994, 23-31 was awarded by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (UK) with the T A Stewart-Dyer/Frederick Harvey Trevithick Prize 1994.
• The paper [18] "Calibration of an On-Board Noise Measuring Device by Simultaneous Measurement of Trackside Noise of Three Different Wheelsets for the ETR500 F.S. Train", Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit 211, 1997, 41-49 was awarded by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (UK) with the William Alexander Agnew Meritorious Award/Clarence Noel Goodall Award 1997.
• The paper [35] "Un modello per la rappresentazione della dinamica verticale di un binario ferroviario alle alte frequenze", Ingegneria Ferroviaria 3, 1999, 132-142 was awarded by the Journal as the 4th best paper in 1999.

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