Bernardino D'Amico
Bernardino DAmico

Dr Bernardino D'Amico - Laurea Arch PhD FHEA

Associate Professor

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  B.D'Amico@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

After obtaining his Laurea Magistrale (Master's degree) in Architecture in 2010 from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, Bernardino took up an internship at CMMKM. He was working as an architectural engineer on various research-driven projects, such as gridshell.it, where he was responsible for the structural design of a series of prototypes, including ReSonant String Shell, a timber acoustic shell for outdoor chamber music concerts. He was also involved in a joint research collaboration between the department of Construction and Mathematical Methods in Architecture (University of Naples Federico II) and the department of Civil Engineering and Architecture (University of Chieti-Pescara G. D’Annunzio, Italy) where he carried out theoretical and laboratory test-based investigations on a novel lightweight cold-formed steel beam. In October 2012 he joined the School of Engineering and the Built Environment of Edinburgh Napier University, as a PhD candidate, to develop computer-aided methods for the design of free-form grid-shell structural systems.

Bernardino's research interests lie in the general realm of design, analysis and fabrication of sustainable buildings and structures with focus on Computational Structural Design and Optimization.

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Advisory panels and expert committees or witness

  • Member of the departmental Student Staff Liaison Committee
  • Member of the School Research Degree Committee

 

Editorial Activity

  • Guest editor for "Structures" journal - Elsevier (Special Issue on sustainable structures: whole-life analysis, environmental impacts, and material efficiency)
  • Guest editor for "Sustainability" journal - MDPI (Low Energy Architecture and Low Carbon Cities: exploring links, scales, and environmental impacts)

 

External Examining/Validations

  • Master's degree external examination, Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology (CEM) University of Cambridge.
  • PhD external examination, ETH Zurich
  • PhD internal examination, ENU -- candidate: Mike Bather
  • External PhD supervision, DIARC, University of Naples Federico II
  • PhD external examination, University of Colorado Boulder
  • PhD external examination, Polytechnic University of Bari

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)
  • Winner of the RISE award for Design, Innovation and Creativity
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
  • Queen's Anniversary Prize 2015, Innovation in Timber Engineering and Wood Science.
  • Member of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, (IASS).

 

Grant Reviewer

  • Review for the Czech Science Foundation (GACR) the main public funding agency in the Czech Republic supporting all areas of basic research.
  • Review for the Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico (FONDECYT) the public fund of the Government of Chile to promote basic scientific and technological research.
  • Review for the TRAIN@Ed Fellowship, part of the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions COFUND scheme
  • Reviewing activity for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the national research council of the Netherlands
  • Review activity for Edinburgh Napier University internal funding competition (AY 2018/2019).

 

Invited Speaker

  • Embodied Carbon Symposium invited speaker, PennState University (USA)
  • Guest lecture: Timber Construction and Climate Change — VPM Architectural Workshop, Acireale, Italy (2021)
  • Guest lecture: Buildings, construction & climate change – Polytechnic of Turin
  • Guest Lecture: Numerical form-finding of “compression-only” structures — Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne (2014)

 

Research Degree External Examining

  • PhD supervision (DoS) joint ENU and Dongguan University of Technology.
  • PhD Viva Chair, Edinburgh Napier University. Student candidate: Mohamed Jama Mohamed

 

Reviewing

  • Peer review of SEBE research outputs for REF 2021
  • Elsevier Outstanding Reviewer award 2016
  • Reviewer for more than 20 internationally leading research journals --- Full details at: https://publons.com/researcher/1468865/bernardino-damico

 

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Timber Grid-shell Structures: form-finding, analysis and optimisation

Thesis
D'Amico, B. Timber Grid-shell Structures: form-finding, analysis and optimisation. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/9833
This thesis aims to provide a set of tools for analysis and design of free-form timber grid-shells. It provides a brief introduction on the relationship between shape and stru...

Timber gridshells: Numerical simulation, design and construction of a full scale structure

Journal Article
D'Amico, B., Kermani, A., Zhang, H., Pugnale, A., Colabella, S., & Pone, S. (2015)
Timber gridshells: Numerical simulation, design and construction of a full scale structure. Structures, 3, 227-235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.istruc.2015.05.002
Timber gridshell structures, such as the Multihalle for the federal garden festival in Mannheim or the Downland Museum, have been the result of a creative–generative process t...

Optimization of cross-section of actively bent grid shells with strength and geometric compatibility constraints

Journal Article
D’Amico, B., Kermani, A., Zhang, H., Shepherd, P., & Williams, C. (2015)
Optimization of cross-section of actively bent grid shells with strength and geometric compatibility constraints. Computers and Structures, 154, 163-176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruc.2015.04.006
The use of bending as self forming process allows the realization of shape-resistant systems, such as grid shell structures. Here, a numerical method for optimisation of the c...

Form finding and structural analysis of actively bent timber grid shells

Journal Article
D’Amico, B., Kermani, A., & Zhang, H. (2014)
Form finding and structural analysis of actively bent timber grid shells. Engineering Structures, 81, 195-207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2014.09.043
Grid shells are efficient structural systems covering large open spaces with relatively small amount of materials. Also, post forming techniques allow realization of geometric...

Construction and form-finding of a post-formed timber grid-shell.

Conference Proceeding
Pone, S., Colabella, S., Parenti, B., Lancia, D., Fiore, A., D'Amico, B., …Ceraldi, C. (2013)
Construction and form-finding of a post-formed timber grid-shell. In P. J. D. S. Cruz (Ed.), Structures and Architecture: Concepts, Applications and Challenges (245-252). https://doi.org/10.1201/b15267-32
In this paper, the design procedure and construction phases of a post-formed timber grid-shell are described. For form-finding and verification of structural safety, two diffe...

Form-finding and structural optimisation of timber gridshell structures.

Conference Proceeding
D'Amico, B. (2013)
Form-finding and structural optimisation of timber gridshell structures

Performance of Greenheart Timber Under Compression Perpendicular to Grain -- Oct. 2018

Report
D'Amico, B., & Dhonju, R. (2018)
Performance of Greenheart Timber Under Compression Perpendicular to Grain -- Oct. 2018. Gilmour & Aitken Ltd
This report provides results of a series of experimental tests, carried out at the heavy structures lab facility (A25), School of Engineering and the Built Environment. The wo...

Performance of Greenheart Timber Under Compression Perpendicular to Grain -- Nov. 2019

Report
D'Amico, B., & Dhonju, R. Performance of Greenheart Timber Under Compression Perpendicular to Grain -- Nov. 2019. Gilmour & Aitken Ltd

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D'Amico, B., & Dhonju, R. Performance of Greenheart Timber Under Compression Perpendicular to Grain -- Nov. 2019. Gilmour & Aitken Ltd
This report provides results of a series of experimental tests, carried out at the heavy structures lab facility (A25), School of Engineering and the Built Environment. The wo...

Racking Performance of Light Gauge Steel Frame Walls Made with Smartply OSB3 Sheathing Boards Phase 1: Solid Walls

Report
D'Amico, B., & Dhonju, R. Racking Performance of Light Gauge Steel Frame Walls Made with Smartply OSB3 Sheathing Boards Phase 1: Solid Walls. SmartPly/SCI

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D'Amico, B., & Dhonju, R. Racking Performance of Light Gauge Steel Frame Walls Made with Smartply OSB3 Sheathing Boards Phase 1: Solid Walls. SmartPly/SCI
This report describes tests carried out at the heavy structures lab (A25), Edinburgh Napier University on the racking performance of a number of walls made with light gauge st...

Structural Performance of SmartPly OSB/3-12.5mm, FR OSB/3-15mm and FR OSB/3-18mm Flooring panels (July 2020)

Report
D'Amico, B., & Dhonju, R. Structural Performance of SmartPly OSB/3-12.5mm, FR OSB/3-15mm and FR OSB/3-18mm Flooring panels (July 2020)
SmartPly
A Report prepared on behalf of SmartPly, describing test results carried out at the heavy structures lab (A25), Edinburgh Napier University on a series of flooring systems wit...

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