Chiara Pernechele is a Senior Material Science Engineer and she coordinates the activities of the Composite Material Characterization Lab of Dallara Automobili, Italy.
She earned her Master Degree in Physics in 2004 from the University of Parma (Italy), and received her PhD. (2007) in Materials Science from the same institution. From April 2022 she is European Adhesive Engineer,
from EWF.
After ten years of Academic Research in the field of multifunctional materials and nanotechnology, she moved to Dallara Automobili, starting here her activity in the Dallara Advanced Research Centre in Composites (2015). She participated to several International, European and National Research Projects, she co-chaired a recently finished COST Action on Multifunctional composite materials and she is now involved in several activities on sustainable materials.
She is Visiting Lecturer at Cranfiled University and she is actually Adjunct Professor at Muner, for the master course in Advanced Automotive Engineering, Race Car Design.
Her research focuses on innovative and multifunctional adhesives and structural composite materials applied to the field of racing and automotive.
Advanced and sustainable composite materials in motorsport: an industrial perspective
Advanced composite materials are growing their diffusion and their applications due to several important features: their lightweight, the possibility of realizing complex geometries and to overcome several technological challenges thanks to their astonishing properties in terms of stiffness and strength. High level racing championships, as Formula one or Endurance have always been the perfect scenario in which new solutions could be tested before coming to the market. In the recent years due to the strong push given by the Co2 reduction goal and electrification advanced composite materials jumped in everyday life and started to be applied in common products, from sport goods, to mass transports.
This widespread diffusion opens several issues on material production and availability but in particular in ensuring sustainability and protection of human health and of the environment.
The talk will give an overview of how advanced characterization techniques combined with FE simulations are being used in Dallara Automobili to understand the potentialities of advanced materials to go to a greener approach in this field.
Application of product digital twins as well as simulation aims to tackle the “grand challenge” of understanding the effects of different materials, geometry, defects and design on a Racing or automotive product first at a virtual scale. Some examples Will be presented and discussed
