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Dr. Andre P. Mazzoleni Associate Professor North Carolina State University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 4159 Broughton Hall Box 7910 Raleigh, N.C. 27695 Phone: 919.515.5667 Fax: 919.515.7968 Email: apmazzol@ncsu.edu

Education

Ph.D., Engineering Mechanics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992
M.S., Engineering Mechanics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990
M.A ., Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989
B.S ., Electrical Engineering, Duke University, 1983

Research Interests

Dynamics, Vibrations, Nonlinear Systems, Astronautics, Spacecraft Design

Selected Publications

• "End-Body Dynamics of Artificial-Gravity-Generating Tethered Satellite System During Non-Planar Spin-Up with Elastic Effects Included", A. P. Mazzoleni, Proceedings of the 2003 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Conference, Big Sky, Montana, August 3 – August 7, 2003 (AAS Paper 03-537).
  
  
• "Flexibility Effects on End-Body Dynamics of Artificial-Gravity-Generating Tethered Satellite Systems", A. P. Mazzoleni and J. H. Hoffman, presented at the Astrodynamics Symposium of the 53rd International Astronautical Congress, Houston , TX , October 10-19, 2002 (Paper IAC-02-A.5.05).
  
• “Effect of Coriolis Terms in Thrust Equations for Misaligned Strap-On Solid Rocket Motors”, A. P. Mazzoleni and W. E. Williamson, Proceedings of the 2002 AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, San Antonio, TX, January 28-30 , 2002 (AAS Paper 02-165).
  
  
• "Effects of Tether Elasticity on the Spin-Up Dynamics of a Tethered Satellite System", A. P. Mazzoleni, Proceedings of the Astrodynamics Symposium of the 52nd International Astronautical Congress, Toulouse, France,October 1-5, 2001 (Paper IAF-01-A.4.05).
  
  
• Nonlinear Spacecraft Dynamics with a Flexible Appendage, Internal Damping and Moving Internal Submasses”, by A. J. Miller, G. L. Gray and A. P. Mazzoleni, AIAA Transactions: Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, May-June, 2001, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp.605-615.