Ferrari, Giovanni - ÉTS Montréal

Overview

Research Areas

Aeronautics and Aerospace
Innovative materials and advanced manufacturing
Health Technologies

Expertise

Vibrations et amortissement non linéaires
Contrôle actif des vibrations
Vibration des composants nucléaires
Biomécanique cardiovasculaire
Viscoélasticité
Comportement dynamique des matériaux avancés

Courses and supervision

Course

3 credits Hiver 2026

3 credits Automne 2026

Publications

Giovanni Ferrari, Brian Painter, Kostas Karazis, Marco Amabili. 2026 « Characterization of fuel rods supported by dimple-less spacer grids and subjected to nonlinear vibrations ». International Journal of Mechanical System Dynamics vol. 6 , nº 1. p. 3-21
Celia Hameury, Giovanni Ferrari, Marco Amabili. 2025 « A nonlinear dual-mode active vibration controller for hardening systems and its experimental application to a beam ». Journal of Sound and Vibration vol. 597 , nº Part A
Xiaoyun Zhang, Yilong Wang, Giovanni Ferrari, Marco Amabili, Dengqing Cao. 2025 « Dynamical modeling and response analysis of multi-folded beam structures with nonlinear joints ». Nonlinear Dynamics vol. 113 , nº 11. p. 12719-12743
Celia Hameury, Giovanni Ferrari, Giulio Franchini, Marco Amabili. 2024 « An experimental approach to multi-input multi-output nonlinear active vibration control of a clamped sandwich beam ». Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing vol. 216
L. Landim Gomes, L. Li, G. Ferrari, M. Amabili, M. Tabrizian. 2024 « Development of a bioscaffold based on decellularized porcine aorta repopulated with human vascular smooth muscle cells ». Canadian Journal of Cardiology vol. 40 , nº 10, Suppl.. p. S157
Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Giovanni Ferrari, Celia Hameury, Tarcisio M. P. Silva, Abdulaziz Buabdulla, Marco Amabili. 2023 « An experimental method to estimate the electro-mechanical coupling for active vibration control of a non-collocated free-edge sandwich plate ». Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing vol. 188
Celia Hameury, Giovanni Ferrari, Abdulaziz Buabdulla, Tarcisio M. P. Silva, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Giulio Franchini, Marco Amabili. 2023 « Multiple-input multiple-output active vibration control of a composite sandwich beam by fractional order positive position feedback ». Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing vol. 200
Tarcisio M. P. Silva, Celia Hameury, Giovanni Ferrari, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Giulio Franchini, Marco Amabili. 2023 « Particle swarm optimization of a non-collocated MIMO PPF active vibration control of a composite sandwich plate ». Journal of Sound and Vibration vol. 555
Marco Amabili, Giovanni Ferrari, Mergen H. Ghayesh, Celia Hameury, Hasna Hena Zamal. 2022 « Nonlinear vibrations and viscoelasticity of a self-healing composite cantilever beam: Theory and experiments ». Composite Structures vol. 294
Giovanni Ferrari, Kostas Karazis, Marco Amabili. 2022 « Experiments on the localized interaction at the interface fuel rod/spacer grid in pressurized water reactors ». Nuclear Engineering and Design vol. 399
Brian Painter, Giovanni Ferrari, Marco Amabili. 2022 « Nonlinear vibrations of beams with Bouc–Wen hysteretic boundary conditions ». Nonlinear Dynamics vol. 108 , nº 4. p. 2903-2916
Marco Amabili, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Giovanni Ferrari. 2021 « Nonlinear vibrations and damping of fractional viscoelastic rectangular plates ». Nonlinear Dynamics vol. 103 , nº 4. p. 3581-3609
Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Giulio Franchini, Giovanni Ferrari, Brian Painter, Kostas Karazis, Marco Amabili. 2021 « Nonlinear vibrations of beams with bilinear hysteresis at supports: Interpretation of experimental results ». Journal of Sound and Vibration vol. 499
Marco Amabili, Goffredo O. Arena, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Ivan D. Breslavsky, Raymond Cartier, Giovanni Ferrari, Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Ali Kassab, Rosaire Mongrain. 2020 « Biomechanical characterization of a chronic type a dissected human aorta ». Journal of Biomechanics vol. 110
Marco Amabili, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Isabella Bozzo, Ivan D. Breslavsky, Giovanni Ferrari, Giulio Franchini, Francesco Giovanniello, Chloé Pogue. 2020 « Nonlinear dynamics of human aortas for material characterization ». Physical Review X vol. 10 , nº 1
Marco Amabili, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Giovanni Ferrari, Giulio Franchini, Francesco Giovanniello, Eleonora Tubaldi. 2020 « Identification of viscoelastic properties of Dacron aortic grafts subjected to physiological pulsatile flow ». Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials vol. 110
Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Giovanni Ferrari, Marco Amabili. 2020 « Nonlinear vibrations of a fluid-filled, soft circular shell: Experiments and system identification ». Nonlinear Dynamics vol. 102 , nº 3. p. 1409-1418
Giovanni Ferrari, Giulio Franchini, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Francesco Giovanniello, Stanislas Le Guisquet, Kostas Karazis, Marco Amabili. 2020 « Nonlinear vibrations of a nuclear fuel rod supported by spacer grids ». Nuclear Engineering and Design vol. 361
Giovanni Ferrari, Giulio Franchini, Luca Faedo, Francesco Giovanniello, Stanislas Le Guisquet, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Kostas Karazis, Marco Amabili. 2020 « Nonlinear vibrations of a 3 × 3 reduced scale PWR fuel assembly supported by spacer grids ». Nuclear Engineering and Design vol. 364
Marco Amabili, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Isabella Bozzo, Ivan D. Breslavsky, Giovanni Ferrari. 2019 « Layer-specific hyperelastic and viscoelastic characterization of human descending thoracic aortas ». Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials vol. 99. p. 27-46
Giovanni Ferrari, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Eleonora Tubaldi, Francesco Giovanniello, Marco Amabili. 2019 « Experiments on dynamic behaviour of a Dacron aortic graft in a mock circulatory loop ». Journal of Biomechanics vol. 86. p. 132-140
Marco Amabili, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Ivan D. Breslavsky, Giovanni Ferrari, Eleonora Tubaldi. 2018 « Viscoelastic characterization of woven Dacron for aortic grafts by using direction-dependent quasi-linear viscoelasticity ». Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials vol. 82. p. 282-290
Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Giovanni Ferrari, Marco Amabili. 2018 « Identification of the viscoelastic response and nonlinear damping of a rubber plate in nonlinear vibration regime ». Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing vol. 111. p. 376-398
Giovanni Ferrari, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Stanislas Le Guisquet, Lorenzo Piccagli, Kostas Karazis, Brian Painter, Marco Amabili. 2018 « Non-linear vibrations of nuclear fuel rods ». Nuclear Engineering and Design vol. 338. p. 269-283
Yu-Hsuan Wang, Pengfei Song, Xiao Li, Changhai Ru, Giovanni Ferrari, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Marco Amabili, Yu Sun, Xinyu Liu. 2018 « A paper-based piezoelectric accelerometer ». Micromachines vol. 9 , nº 1
Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Giovanni Ferrari, Marco Amabili, Zenon J. G. N. del Prado. 2017 « Experimental and theoretical study on large amplitude vibrations of clamped rubber plates ». International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics vol. 94. p. 36-45
Farbod Alijani, Marco Amabili, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Silvia Carra, Giovanni Ferrari, Rinaldo Garziera. 2016 « Damping for large-amplitude vibrations of plates and curved panels, Part 1: Modeling and experiments ». International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics vol. 85. p. 23-40
Marco Amabili, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Ivan D. Breslavsky, Giovanni Ferrari, Rinaldo Garziera, Kseniia Riabova. 2016 « Experimental and numerical study on vibrations and static deflection of a thin hyperelastic plate ». Journal of Sound and Vibration vol. 385. p. 81-92
Marco Amabili, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Giovanni Ferrari. 2016 « Travelling wave and non-stationary response in nonlinear vibrations of water-filled circular cylindrical shells: Experiments and simulations ». Journal of Sound and Vibration vol. 381. p. 220-245
Giovanni Ferrari, Marco Amabili. 2015 « Active vibration control of a sandwich plate by non-collocated positive position feedback ». Journal of Sound and Vibration vol. 342. p. 44-56
Antonio Zippo, Giovanni Ferrari, Marco Amabili, Marco Barbieri, Francesco Pellicano. 2015 « Active vibration control of a composite sandwich plate ». Composite Structures vol. 128. p. 100-114
Farbod Alijani, Marco Amabili, Giovanni Ferrari, Vincenzo D'Alessandro. 2013 « Nonlinear vibrations of laminated and sandwich rectangular plates with free edges. Part 2: Experiments & comparisons ». Composite Structures vol. 105. p. 437-445

G. Ferrari, B. Painter, K. Karazis, G. Franchini, F. Giovanniello, M. Amabili. 2020 « Large amplitude vibrations and nonlinear damping of PWR fuel rods and fuel assemblies ». Communication lors de la conférence : 1st International Seminar on Fluid-Structure Interaction Modelling for Nuclear Fuel Assemblies (Aix-en-Provence, France, 2020)
G. Ferrari, P. Balasubramanian, M. Amabili, I. Breslavsky, E. Tubaldi. 2018 « Experimental characterization of the direction and time-dependent characteristics for the layers constituting the tissue of descending thoracic human aortas ». Communication lors de la conférence : 21st International Conference on Composite Structures (Bologna, Italy, Sept. 04-07, 2018)

Celia Hameury, Giovanni Ferrari, Marco Amabili. 2025 « Experimental testing of four different active vibration controllers on a clamped sandwich beam with nonlinear vibrations ». Proceedings of the CSME-CFDSC-CSR 2025 International Congress (Montreal, QC, Canada, May 25-28, 2025)
Giulio Franchini, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Tarcisio M. P. Silva, Giovanni Ferrari, Celia Hameury, Abdulaziz Buabdulla, Marco Amabili. 2024 « Active vibration control: Two different experimental approaches ». Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Mechanical System Dynamics, ICMSD2023 (Beijing, China, Sept. 01-05, 2023) Springer
Giulio Franchini, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Tarcisio M. Silva, Giovanni Ferrari, Celia Hameury, Abdulaziz Buabdulla, Marco Amabili. 2024 « Advancing active vibration control: Unified experimental insights for composite ». 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM 2024) (Daegu, Sounth Korea, Aug. 24-30, 2024)
Celia Hameury, Giovanni Ferrari, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Tarcisio M. P. Silva, Marco Amabili, Abdulaziz Buabdulla, Giulio Franchini. 2023 « Experimental determination of electromechanical coupling matrices for active vibration control of composite structures ». ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE) (New Orleans, LA, USA, Oct. 29-Nov. 02, 2023) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Tarcisio M. P. Silva, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Abdulaziz Buabdulla, Giulio Franchini, Giovanni Ferrari, Celia Hameury, Marco Amabili. 2023 « Development of numerical models based on experimental tests for the design of active vibration controllers ». Proceedings of ASME 2023 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, SMASIS 2023 (Austin, TX, USA, Sept. 11-13, 2023) American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Giovanni Ferrari, Brian Painter, Giulio Franchini, Kostas Karazis, Marco Amabili. 2022 « Experimental characterization of the nonlinear boundary conditions applied by two different designs of spacer grids on PWR fuel rods ». ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE) (Columbus, OH, USA, Oct. 30-Nov. 03, 2022) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Giulio Franchini, Giovanni Ferrari, Brian Painter, Kostas Karazis, Marco Amabili. 2021 « Nonlinear vibrations of beams with bilinear hysteresis at supports: Interpretation of experimental results ». ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE) (Virtual, Nov. 01-05, 2021) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Marco Amabili, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Isabella Bozzo, Ivan D. Breslavsky, Giovanni Ferrari, Giulio Franchini. 2020 « Nonlinear dynamics of human aortas for viscoelastic mechanical characterization ». ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE) (Virtual, Nov. 16-19, 2020) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Giovanni Ferrari, Giulio M. Franchini, Marco Amabili, Kostas Karazis, Brian Painter. 2020 « Nonlinear vibrations of model PWR fuel assemblies, part 2: Interpretation of results using bilinear stiffness model ». ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE) (Virtual, Nov. 16-19, 2020) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Giovanni Ferrari, Giulio Franchini, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Kostas Karazis, Marco Amabili. 2020 « Nonlinear vibrations of model PWR fuel assemblies, part 1: Experimental setup and measurements ». ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE) (Virtual, Nov. 16-19, 2020) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Marco Amabili, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Giovanni Ferrari. 2019 « Nonlinear damping in large-amplitude vibrations of viscoelastic plates ». ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE) (Salt Lake City, UT, USA, Nov. 11-14, 2019) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Marco Amabili, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Giovanni Ferrari, Giluo M. Franchini, Francesco Giovanniello, Kostas Karazis, Brian Painter. 2019 « Experiments on nonlinear vibrations of a nuclear fuel rod supported by spacer grids in air and submerged in water ». ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE) (Salt Lake City, UT, USA, Nov. 11-14, 2019) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Isabella Bozzo, Marco Amabili, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Ivan D. Breslavsky, Giovanni Ferrari. 2019 « Experimental determination of layer-specific hyperelastic parameters of human descending thoracic aortas ». ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE) (Salt Lake City, UT, USA, Nov. 11-14, 2019) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Eleonora Tubaldi, Giovanni Ferrari, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Marco Amabili. 2019 « Dynamic behaviour of a Dacron aortic graft ». ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE) (Salt Lake City, UT, USA, Nov. 11-14, 2019) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
M. Amabili, I. Breslavskyi, P. Balasubramanian, G. Ferrari, E. Tubaldi. 2018 « Viscoelastic characterization of woven Dacron with direction-dependent quasi-linear viscoelasticity ». 8th World Congress of Biomechanics (Dublin, Ireland, July 08-12, 2018)
Marco Amabili, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Giovanni Ferrari, Stanislas Le Guisquet, Kostas Karazis, Brian Painter, Lorenzo Piccagli. 2018 « Identification of non-linear vibration parameters of a nuclear fuel rod ». Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference (Quebec, QC, Canada, Aug. 26-29, 2018) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Eleonora Tubaldi, Giovanni Ferrari, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Ivan Breslavskyi, Marco Amabili. 2018 « Viscoelastic characterization of woven Dacron for aortic grafts by using direction-dependent quasi-linear viscoelasticity ». ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE) (Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Nov. 09-15, 2018) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Marco Amabili, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Giovanni Ferrari, Eleonora Tubaldi. 2017 « Experimental investigation on the dynamic behaviour of a Dacron graft used for the treatment of descending thoracic aortic aneurism ». ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE) (Tampa Bay, FL, USA, Nov. 03-09, 2017) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Giovanni Ferrari, Marco Amabili. 2017 « A tool to identify damping during large amplitude vibrations of viscoelastic structures ». ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE) (Tampa Bay, FL, USA, Nov. 03-09, 2017) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Giovanni Ferrari, Stanislas Le Guisquet, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Marco Amabili, Brian Painter, Kostas Karazis. 2017 « Identification of non-linear parameters of a nuclear fuel rod ». ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE) (Tampa Bay, FL, USA, Nov. 03-09, 2017) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Marco Amabili, Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Giovanni Ferrari. 2016 « Experiments and simulations in travelling wave and non-stationary nonlinear vibrations of circular cylindrical shells ». ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE) (Phoenix, AZ, USA, Nov. 11-17, 2016) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Prabakaran Balasubramanian, Giovanni Ferrari, Zenon J. G. N. Del Prado, Marco Amabili. 2016 « Theoretical and experimental study on large amplitude vibrations of clamped viscoelastic plates ». ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE) (Phoenix, AZ, USA, Nov. 11-17, 2016) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Giovanni Ferrari, Marco Amabili, Prabakaran Balasubramanian. 2015 « Nonlinear damping on large-amplitude vibrations of plates ». ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE) (Houston, TX, USA, Nov. 13-19, 2015) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Giovanni Ferrari, Margherita Capriotti, Marco Amabili, Rinaldo Garziera. 2014 « Active vibration control of a composite sandwich plate ». ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE) (Montreal, QC, Canada, Nov. 14-20, 2014) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)