Rocco Lupoi
Assistant Professor
Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Dr. Rocco Lupoi was appointed Assistant Professor within the Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering Department, Trinity College Dublin, in July 2012; the year after he was awarded of a prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship. He is a mechanical engineer by background, and he obtained an MEng degree from Politecnico di Torino (Italy) in July 2004 over a "vecchio-ordinamento" course of studies. In the same year he was awarded of a grant for a PhD programme in the University of Bath (UK), with thesis title "Effect of shape, size and material on energy dissipation in Equal Channel Angular Extrusion". In this challenging work, he investigated the concepts and working mechanisms of a novel technology known as UREAD capable of dissipating energy in engineering systems against the occurrence of unwanted events (such as earthquakes, crashes and collisions) and with the potential of being 100% re-usable. After being awarded of a PhD degree in October 2008, he was appointed Research Associate in the Institute of Manufacturing (IfM) - Cambridge University (UK) to explore innovative melt-free material additive processes. He is a recognized expert of Cold Spray and other deposition methods, and he is one of the inventors of a new LASER-based coating technology known as "SprayLaze". He is a major contributor in the field, with high-rank publications, patents submitted and an article in a Nature Publishing Group - NPG journal. Dr. Lupoi in Trinity is exploring new manufacturing processes and the potential of Cold Spray as metal Additive Manufacturing method; he is the lead PI of a large research project in this topic funded by the European Space Agency. Dr. Lupoi is currently lecturing 1MEMS1 - Introduction to Manufacturing (1st year); 3MEMS1/4B05 - Manufacturing Technology (3rd and 4th year); 4MEMS2/5MEMS2 - Advanced Manufacturing (4th year and Master level); 5MEMS1 - Micro and Precision Manufacturing (Master level). Dr. Lupoi is the director of the National Cold Spray Research Centre in Ireland; below and under "Research Projects" a list of current activities is reported - each project has a personalized webpage it is possible to consult.
Research Interest
Additive Manufacturing; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ENERGY; Energy Absorbing Materials; ENERGY-ABSORPTION; Hydraulics engineering; Industrial Engineering; LASER; LASER CLADDING; LASER MACHINING; Manufacturing (Mechanical Engineering); Manufacturing Engineering; Materials Engineering; Materials technology, engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Physics; Process Development Engineering; Process Engineering; Production Engineering; Structural Engineering
Publications
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Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) of Cold Spray of particles in supersonic nozzles in, editor(s)K. Kelly and G O Donnell , Perspectives on Manufacturing, Trinity Centre for Bioengineering, 2015, pp73 - 83, [R. Lupoi]
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Fang LUO , Andrew COCKBURN, Martin SPARKES , Rocco LUPOI , Zhi-jun CHEN, William O NEILL, Jian-hua YAO, Rong LIU, Performance characterization of Ni60-WC coating on steel processed with supersonic laser deposition, Defence Technology, 11, 2015, p35 - 47
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Cold Spray in, editor(s)Prof. Luc Laperriere; Prof. Gunther Reinhart , CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering, 2015, pp1 - 4, [R. Lupoi]
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M.C. Meyer and R. Lupoi, AN ANALYSIS OF THE PARTICULATE FLOW IN COLD SPRAY NOZZLES, Mechanical Sciences, 6, 2015, p127 - 136
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Shuo Yin, Xinkun Suo, Yingchun Xie, Wenya Li, Rocco Lupoi, Hanlin Liao, Effect of substrate temperature on interfacial bonding for cold spray of Ni onto Cu, Journal of Materials Science, 50, 2015, p7448 - 7457
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R. Bouttier, G. Lopes, L. Clarke and R. Lupoi, UREAD impact behaviour using Non-Newtonian materials, International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Applications, 3, (4), 2015, p57 - 62
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C. Stenson, M.C. Meyer, B. Twomey and R. Lupoi, Particle speed analysis in CoBlast, Procedia CIRP, 37, 2015, p77 - 82
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Barry Aldwell, Shuo Yin, Kevin A. McDonnell, Daniel Trimble, Tanvir Hussain, Rocco Lupoi, A novel method for metal-diamond composite coating deposition with cold spray and formation mechanism, Scripta Materialia, 115, 2016, p10 - 13
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Chaoyue Chen, Yingchun Xie, Shuo Yin, Marie-Pierre Planche, Sihao Deng, Rocco Lupoi, Hanlin Liao, Evaluation of the interfacial bonding between particles and substrate in angular cold spray, Materials Letters, 173, 2016, p76 - 79
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Shuo Yin, Morten Meyer, Wenya Li, Hanlin Liao, and Rocco Lupoi, Gas Flow, Particle Acceleration, and Heat Transfer in Cold Spraying, Journal of Thermal Spray Technology, 25, (5), 2016, p874 - 896
