Giovanni Lucchetta

Centre for Mechanics of Biological Materials - University of Padova 
tel +39 049 8276710 - fax +39 049 8276816 - e-mail giovanni.lucchetta[at]unipd.it

Date of birth: Maj 26, 1974

Giovanni Lucchetta is Assistant Professor of Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Padova. He graduated in Management Engineering at the University of Padova in 2000, and he got the PhD degree in Industrial Manufacturing Engineering with dissertation “Product Structure Simplification for Manufacture and Assembly” at University of Parma in 2004. His main research interests are on polymer processing, with particular reference to injection moulding.

Educational activity
Lucchetta is a lecturer at the University of Padova for the following courses: “Fundamentals of Manufacturing Technology” for Aerospace Engineering students, “Product Design for Manufacture and Environment” and “Laboratory of Virtual Prototyping of Manufacturing Processes” for Mechanical Engineering students.

Main Research Topics
Concurrent engineering and polymer processing, with particular reference to injection moulding.

Membership and Appointment
Lucchetta is research affiliate member of CIRP (International Academy for Production Engineering), and member of ESAFORM (European Scientific Association for Material Forming), SPE (Society of Plastics Engineers), AITeM (Associazione Italiana di Tecnologia Meccanica) and SIR (Italian Society of Rheology).

Publications

[max 10 publications
in the last 3 years]

Fiorotto, M., Lucchetta, G., . Experimental investigation of a new hybrid molding process to manufacture high-performance composites. International Journal of Material Forming 1-7, 2011.

Lucchetta, G., Marinello, F., Bariani, P.F.. Aluminum sheet surface roughness correlation with adhesion in polymer metal hybridovermolding. CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology 60, 2011, 559-562.

Marson, S., Attia, U.M., Lucchetta, G., Wilson, A., Alcock, J.R., Allen, D.M., . Flatness optimization of micro-injection moulded parts: the case of a PMMA microfluidic component. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering 21,2011, 115024.

G Tosello, A. Gava, H.N. Hansen, G. Lucchetta, Study of process parameters effect on the filling phase of micro-injection moulding using weld lines as flow markers, Int J Adv Manuf Technol, 47(1-4) (2010) pp. 81-97.

Berton M., Cellere A., Lucchetta G., A New Procedure for the Analysis of Fibre Breakage After Processing of Fibre-Reinforced Thermoplastics, International Journal of MaterialForming, vol. 3, 2010, p. 671-674.

Carraro P., Lucchetta G., Cooling Rate Influence in Bonded Magnet Injection Moulding, International Journal of Material Forming, vol. 3, 2010, p. 555-558.

Cellere A., Lucchetta G., Identification of Crims Model Parameters for Warpage Prediction in Injection Moulding Simulation, International Journal of Material Forming, vol. 3, 2010, p. 37-40.

Fiorotto M., Sorgente M., Lucchetta G., Preliminary studies on single point incremental forming for composite materials, International Journal of Material Forming, vol. 3, 2010, p. 951-954.

Lucchetta G., Bariani, P.F., Sustainable design of injection moulded parts by material intensity reduction, CIRP Annals, vol. 59(1), (2010), p. 33-36.

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