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Mauro Caresta

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Mauro Caresta
Office: ME-110, Mechanical Engineering Building
Laboratory: L206
Phone: + 61 2 9385 4763
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Research Interests:

  • Structural vibrations, fluid-structure interaction problems, vibro-acoustics, vibration of shells and plates
  • Submarines modelling
  • Passive and active control techniques
  • Integrity assessment methods

Education/Employment:

1997 – 2003 MEng inMechanical Engineering, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
2003 – 2004 Design Engineer, Water purification plants, Italy
2005 – 2006 High school teacher of mechanics, Italy
2006 – 2009
PhD in Mechanical Engineering, UNSW, Sydney
2009 – 2010
Postdoctoral research fellow, UNSW
2010 – 2011

Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization & UNSW
Project: Nuclear fuel assemblies integrity assessment
2011 – 2011
Associated lecturer in Flight Dynamics
2011 –

Postdoc at the University of Cambridge

Professional Societies:

  • Member of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Albo degli ingegneri di Roma, Italy

Publications:



Journal Papers:

  1. M.Caresta , “Active control of sound radiaded by a submarine in bending vibration”, Journal of Sound and Vibration 330, 615-624 (2011).
  2. M.Caresta and N.J. Kessissoglou, “Free vibrational characteristics of isotropic coupled cylindrical-conical shells”, Journal of Sound and Vibration 329, 733-751 (2010).
  3. M.Caresta and N. J. Kessissoglou, “Vibration of fluid loaded conical shells”, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 124, 2068-2077 (2008).
  4. M.Caresta and N.J. Kessissoglou, “Design modifications to a submarine propulsion system for reduction of hull radiated noise”, Journal of Ship Research, in press (2011).
  5. M.Caresta and N.J. Kessissoglou, “Reduction of the sound pressure radiated by a submarine by isolation of the end caps from the main hull”, Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, Transactions of ASME, 133, 1-7 (2011).
  6. M.Caresta and N.J. Kessissoglou, “Acoustic signature of a submarine hull under harmonic excitation”, Applied Acoustics 71,17-31 (2010).
  7. M.Caresta and N.J. Kessissoglou, “Structural and acoustic responses of a fluid loaded cylindrical hull with structural discontinuities”, Applied Acoustics 70,954-963 (2009).
  8. M.Caresta and N.J. Kessissoglou, “Purely axial vibration of thin cylindrical shells with shear-diaphragm boundary conditions”, Applied Acoustics 70, 1081-1086 (2009).
  9. M.Caresta and D.Wassink, “Relationship between natural frequencies and pull out force for plates clamped in two opposite sides”. Acoustics Australia 39,119-122 (2011).
  10. M.Caresta and D. Wassink, “Vibrational characteristics of roll swage jointed plates”, Acoustics Australia 38, 82-86 (2010).
  11. M. Caresta, N.J. Kessissoglou and Y.K. Tso, “Low frequency structural and acoustic responses of a submarine hull”, Acoustics Australia 36, 47-52 (2008).
  12. P.Gangemi, N.J. Kessissoglou, M.Caresta and Y.Tso, “Active control of the accordion modes of a submerged hull”. Low Frequency Noise, Vibration and Active Control. (Accepted for publication)

Conference Papers:

  1. M. Caresta and N.J. Kessissoglou, “Active suppression of acoustic radiation from a submarine hull using inertial actuators”, The 20th International Congress on Acoustics, Sydney, Australia, 23-27 August 2010.
  2. M. Caresta and D. Wassink, “Vibrations of roll swage jointed plates”, The 20th International Congress on Acoustics, Sydney, Australia, 23-27 August 2010.
  3. M. Caresta and N.J. Kessissoglou, “Active vibration control of a submarine hull to reduce the far field sound radiation”, International Conference on Recent Advances in Structural Dynamics, Southampton, UK, 12-14 July 2010.
  4. M. Caresta and N.J. Kessissoglou, “Reduction of the radiated sound pressure from a submarine by optimum configuration of the propeller-shafting system”, International Conference on Recent Advances in Structural Dynamics, Southampton, UK, 12-14 July 2010.
  5. M. Caresta and N.J. Kessissoglou, “Effect of the bending modes on the radiated sound pressure from a submarine hull”, Proceedings of Acoustics 2009, Adelaide, Australia, 23-25 November 2009.
  6. M. Caresta and N.J. Kessissoglou, “Optimum configuration of the propeller shafting system for a submerged vessel to reduce the radiated sound pressure”, Proceedings of Acoustics 2009, Adelaide, Australia, 23-25 November 2009.
  7. M. Caresta and N.J. Kessissoglou, “Free vibrations of coupled cylindrical-conical shells”, Proceedings of the 16th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, Krakow, Poland, 5-9 July 2009.
  8. M. Caresta and N.J. Kessissoglou, “Free vibration of conical shells with fluid loading”, Proceedings of Eurodyn 2008, Southampton, UK, 7-9 July 2008.
  9. M. Caresta and N.J. Kessissoglou, “Vibration of a submarine hull under harmonic propeller-shaft excitation”. Acoustics 2008, Paris, France 29 June - 04 July 2008.
  10. M. Caresta and N.J. Kessissoglou, “Effect of eccentric axial excitation from the propulsion system on the sound radiation of a submarine hull”, Proceedings of Internoise 2008, Shanghai, China, 26-29 October 2008.
  11. M. Caresta and N.J. Kessissoglou, “Low frequency structural and acoustic responses of a submarine hull under eccentric axial excitation from the propulsion system”, Proceedings of Acoustics 2008, Geelong, Australia, 24-26 November 2008.
  12. M. Caresta and N.J. Kessissoglou, “Acoustic signature of a submarine hull”, Proceedings of the 14th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, Cairns, Australia, 9-12 July 2007.

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