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We were proud to welcome Fabrizia Petrella from Leonardo as one of our speakers during the 2021 EuroMed SIMULIA Regional User Meeting. She presented "Fluid-Structure Interaction with Abaqus/Explicit: Aircraft Ditching Numerical Simulation".

This study aims to implement and validate a procedure to generate ditching loads directly at the interface between structure and fluid through the Coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian Methodology. The process consists of two principal steps: the correlation and the validation of experimental data with numerical ones and the prediction of rotorcraft effective behavior during the ditching phenomenon. The first step includes the comparison of experimental data, coming from the testing campaign, with the numerical results, coming from the numerical impact simulation of rotorcraft FE scaled model with representative and non-representative (rigid model) stiffness. The second step consists of the evaluation of the expected rotorcraft impact behavior through the use of a full-scale FE model representative of the actual stiffness predicting the water impact effects on the actual structure.

Fabrizia is an aeronautical engineer with 4 years of experience at Leonardo Helicopters. She specializes in the role of a structural analyst. She graduated in 2013 from Politecnico di Milano with a Bachelor's Degree in Aerospace Engineering, she then completed a Master's Degree in Aeronautical Engineering in 2017.

From March 2016 to April 2017 she developed her master thesis with the title "Study of Head Injury Criteria through the use of THUMS and Hybrid III" at Transport Safety Laboratory in Milan. This thesis was in collaboration with Politecnico di Milano and The University of New South Wales, Australia. Before beginning work at Leonardo Helicopters, she spent three months at St. Giles International school in New York City.