This is an area of wide interest since shells are often associated to fluids and dynamic loads (rockets, storage tanks, fuselage of airplanes, …). Amabili applied the studies to nuclear engineering and soft biomaterials (arteries and grafts).

Mechanical characterization of the human aorta. This research is particularly significant to understand diseases (e.g. aneurysms) and develop innovative grafts.

This was first ever reported by Amabili who identified it from experiments on shells in 2003. Nonlinear damping was later accurately modelled by Amabili using linear viscoelasticity introducing geometric nonlinearities.

This research is particularly significant to understand diseases (e.g. aneurysms) and develop innovative grafts. Amabili has been the first to characterize the quasi-static and dynamic mechanical behaviour of human aortic tissue with smooth muscle activation.