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Antonio Pedivellano

Graduate Student

apedivel@caltech.edu

Antonio joined the Space Structures Lab in 2017, after receiving a M.S. in Space Engineering from Caltech. He also received a M.S. in Aerospace Engineering in 2016 and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2014 (both summa cum laude) from University of Palermo, Italy.

His research focuses on stability and dynamics of thin shell deployable structures. He also studies how to control their packaging and deployment using external mechanisms.

As part of the Space Solar Power Project (SSPP), he is involved in the development of a novel deployment mechanism to package and deploy an ultralight deployable spacecraft. He is currently part of the DOLCE team, working towards the flight demonstration of this spacecraft concept in the SSPD-1 mission. From 2017 to 2019, he worked on the structural design and launch qualification of the AAReST (Autonomous Assembly of a Reconfigurable Space Telescope) spacecraft.

Prior to joining Caltech, he was a visiting student at Northwestern University, where he worked on the numerical modeling and fracture simulation of bioinspired materials and graphene-based nanocomposites.

Publications:

  • Pedivellano, A. and Pellegrino, S. (2021). Deployment Dynamics of Foldable Thin Shell Space Structures. In AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum.

  • Pedivellano, A., Gdoutos, E. and Pellegrino, S. (2020). Sequentially controlled dynamic deployment of ultra-thin shell structures. In AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum, 2020-0690.

  • Gdoutos, E., Truong, A., Pedivellano, A., Royer, F. and Pellegrino, S., (2020). Ultralight Deployable Space Structure Prototype. In AIAA SciTech 2020 Forum, 2020-692.

  • Pellegrino, S., Gdoutos, E.E. and Pedivellano, A. California Institute of Technology. (2020). Actively Controlled Spacecraft Deployment Mechanism. U.S. Patent Application 16/670,941.

  • Pellegrino, S., Atwater, H.A., Hajimiri, S.A., Gdoutos, E.E., Leclerc, C., Royer, F.A. and Pedivellano, A., California Institute of Technology. (2020). Coilable Thin-Walled Longerons and Coilable Structures Implementing Longerons and Methods for Their Manufacture and Coiling. U.S. Patent Application 16/514,793.

  • Pedivellano, A. and Pellegrino, S. (2019). Stability Analysis of Coiled Tape Springs. In AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum, 2019-1523.

  • Leclerc, C., Pedivellano, A. and Pellegrino, S. (2018). Stress concentration and material failure during coiling of ultra-thin TRAC booms. In 2018 AIAA Spacecraft Structures Conference, 2018-0690.

  • Underwood, C., Pellegrino, S., Priyadarshan, H., Simha, H., Bridges, C., Goel, A., Talon, T., Pedivellano, A., Wei, Y., Royer, F. and Ferraro, S. (2018). Aarest autonomous assembly reconfigurable space telescope flight demonstrator. In Proceedings of the 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC). International Astronautical Federation (IAF).

  • Benedetti I., Soler-Crespo R.A., Pedivellano A., Gao W., Espinosa H.D. (2017). A continuum damage model for functionalized graphene membranes based on atomistic simulations. 16th International Conference on Fracture and Damage Mechanics, Florence, Italy.