Roberto Sangalli

Head of European Tech Centre

Monza, Lombardia, Italia Informazioni di contatto
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"We do not grow when things are easy, we grow when we face challenges "

Degree in Mechanical Engineering with honor, a broad R&D experience with a strong focus on innovation and business orientation in complex and multicultural organizations.
More than 29 years experience in R&D, ranging from operative technical and managerial role with still deep passion and knowledge of technicalities and product.
Deep knowledge and understanding of worldwide markets and BTB customer requirements
I have lead of product innovation between 2005 and 2011, defining new product design guidelines bearing in mind product performance and high standards of quality
I was given the task, from 2012 to 2014, of restructuring and leading the R&D organization of the most advanced factory, technolgy wise, with the goal of making a breakthrough of product being made and customer homologations.
Mature and solid personality, good relationship attitude, easy interpersonal approach, concreteness and pragmatism, dynamic, flexible, proactive behavior
Organizational capabilities, paying high attention to accuracy, quality, punctuality, in goals achieving, I strongly believe in team work, transparency and integrity.
Always wishing to prove myself in challenging project.

"With no data, we are just people with an opinion"

Attività

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Esperienza

  • Grafico JK Tyre & Industries Ltd.

    Senior Vice President of Technology

    JK Tyre & Industries Ltd.

    - Presente 7 mesi

    Milan, Lombardy, Italy

  • Kumho Tire

    Kumho Tire

    5 anni e 7 mesi

    • Grafico Kumho Tire

      Head of Tire Engineering and OE

      Kumho Tire

      - Presente 3 anni

      Cernusco sul Naviglio, Lombardy, Italy

    • Grafico Kumho Tire

      Head of Tire Engineering

      Kumho Tire

      - 2 anni e 7 mesi

      Mörfelden Waldorf, Frankfurt

  • The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

    The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

    2 anni e 3 mesi

    • Grafico The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

      UUHP Global Program Manager

      The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

      - 1 anno

      Goodyear Innovation Center, Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg

      OE UUHP Product Development
      Defining and implementing new Manufacturing capabilities and technologies
      Defining and implementing new Quality guidelines for process and materials
      Developing and implementing new indoor and outdoor test protocols
      Developing and implementing new simulation capabilities and technologies

    • Grafico The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

      Head of UUHP Technology and Quality - EMEA

      The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

      - 9 mesi

      Goodyear Innovation Center, Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg

      UUHP Product Development, OE and Replacement
      Defining and implementing new Quality guidelines for process and materials

    • Grafico The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

      Technical Project Manager OE EMEA

      The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

      - 6 mesi

      Goodyear Innovation Center, Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg

  • Pirelli

    Pirelli

    21 anni e 9 mesi

    • Grafico Pirelli

      R&D Motorsport

      Pirelli

      - 1 anno e 11 mesi

      Milan, Lombardy, Italy

      Head of Product Development:
      Formula 1
      GP2
      GP3
      GT

    • Grafico Pirelli

      R&D Director, Italy

      Pirelli

      - 1 anno e 3 mesi

      Settimo Torinese, Piedmont, Italy

      Also in charge of Product Development and Industrialisation in the newly modular robotised parent plant "Next Mirs", Passenger and SUV

    • Grafico Pirelli Tyres

      R&D Director, Italy

      Pirelli Tyres

      - 2 anni

      Settimo Torinese, Piedmont, Italy

      Managing a team of 61 people
      Development and Industrialisation of new products, OE and Replacement, Passenger and SUV
      Development and Industrialisation of new semi-finished, compound and reinforcement
      Managing chemical and physical labs
      Managing and development of the indoor testing department

    • Grafico Pirelli

      Head of Pre-development, Research and Industrialisation

      Pirelli

      - 1 anno e 9 mesi

      Milan, Lombardy, Italy

      Same as before and, in addition:
      Managing of worldwide industrialisation plan
      Enhancement of industrialisation capacity

    • Grafico Pirelli

      Head of Pre-development and Research

      Pirelli

      - 5 anni

      Milan, Lombardy, Italy

      Design and engineering of new products, Car, Light Truck and Suv
      Support to country R&D worldwide centres
      Know-how development of specific product performance/issues
      Modelling as internal support to product engineer teams
      Modelling for data exchange and co-development with car makers

    • Grafico Pirelli

      Senior Product Engineer

      Pirelli

      - 3 anni e 1 mese

      Milan, Lombardy, Italy

      Feasibility of the MIRS technology and SUV product lines
      Product specification design and development
      Testing and industrialisation
      Production planning
      Quality and Process debugging

    • Grafico Pirelli

      Product Engineer

      Pirelli

      - 1 anno e 9 mesi

      Milan, Lombardy, Italy

      UHP Product specification design and development
      Testing and industrialisation

    • Grafico Pirelli

      Research Engineer

      Pirelli

      - 5 anni

      Milan, Lombardy, Italy

      Support to product engineers
      Engineering of indoor/outdoor testing methodologies
      Tyre and vehicle dynamics
      Modelling (FEA and mathematical models)
      Mechanical-structural analysis
      Fluid-dynamic and Acoustic analysis
      Experimental testing
      Partnership with University
      EU funded research project

Formazione

  • Grafico Politecnico di Milano

    Politecnico di Milano

    Engineer's Degree Mechanical Engineering 100/100 with Honour

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    Thesis: “Residual stresses and fatigue strength on nitrided mechanical components”, in co-operation with FIAT Research Centre in Orbassano (TO)

  • Goodyear Project Management Office - Innovation Center Luxembourg

    Planning, Scheduling and Controlling

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  • Grafico IMD

    IMD Business School

    IMP-ACT Improving People Agility in Action Organizational Leadership

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    Leadership and Self-Awareness: Understanding Yourself and Others

  • Adecco Management School

    Integration to compete Business Administration and Management, General

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  • Grafico SDA Bocconi

    SDA Bocconi

    Developing managerial Excellence

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    The primary objective of this training initiative is to help strengthen the following key competences:
    • The functioning of financial markets
    • The strategic market analysis
    • Organizational design
    • Performance measurement
    • People management

  • Italian Institute of Culture, Tokyo

    Auto Innovation Design

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    Seminar ”AUTO INNOVATION DESIGN”
    Japan and Italy towards a cleaner, smarter car
    This seminar will be the first event of a broader project on auto innovation and design.The event, involving a day combining seminars and business meetings, aims to promote the partnership of Italy and Japan’s “elites”: firms, universities, research and development centres, as well as institutions specializing in automobile design innovation by means of the integration of new technologies, materials and new…

    Seminar ”AUTO INNOVATION DESIGN”
    Japan and Italy towards a cleaner, smarter car
    This seminar will be the first event of a broader project on auto innovation and design.The event, involving a day combining seminars and business meetings, aims to promote the partnership of Italy and Japan’s “elites”: firms, universities, research and development centres, as well as institutions specializing in automobile design innovation by means of the integration of new technologies, materials and new powertrain solutions.
    These specialists will come together to discuss the concept of design as the driving force behind the excellence of the Made in Italy and Made in Japan.

  • metodi BEDAUX srl

    FMEA Failure Mode and defect Analysis FORD Certification

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  • Grafico London Business School

    London Business School

    Managing Growing Complexity

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  • tma - developing global minds

    Developing Your International Orientation Organizational Leadership

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  • Grafico London Business School

    London Business School

    Understanding Business Complexity

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  • Grafico The University of Akron

    The University of Akron

    Elastomer FEA Forum 1997 Modeling, Virtual Environments and Simulation

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  • The Tire Society - Akron OHIO USA

    Tire Mechanics

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    Attendance to The Tire Society as speaker

Pubblicazioni

  • From Tread Design to Tread Stiffness Matrices

    Tire Science and Technology 36(3) / Research Gate

    The tread design, together with the tread compound, is responsible for the grip characteristics of tires. The aim of this work is to develop an engineering tool that is able to predict the stiffness distribution, i.e., the grip characteristics, of a given tread design without the need of producing a prototype. This is done by combining a graphical preprocessor developed in Matlab that is able to convert a drawing into a mesh, and a commercial FEA code.

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  • Identification of the stiffness characteristics of a 3D brush model taking into account the tyre tread design

    Research Gate

    The tread design, together with the tread compound, is responsible of the grip characteristics of tyres. The aim of this work is to develop an engineering tool that is able to predict the stiffness distribution, i.e. the grip characteristics, of a given tread design without the need of producing a prototype. This is done by combining a graphical pre-processor developed in Matlab, that is able to convert a drawing into a mesh, and a commercial FEA code.

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  • New Predictive Model for the Study of Vertical Forces (up to 250 Hz) Induced on the Tire Hub by Road Irregularities

    Tire Science and Technology 30(1):2-18 / Reasearch Gate

    A physical model has been developed in order to study the forces induced on the tire by road irregularities. It works in a range of frequencies 0-250 Hz, i.e. up to frequencies that are felt by the passengers as noise and vibrations, but it can be easily improved to 400 Hz. The model can resolve road irregularities with wavelength greater than 5 cm (pavement megatexture). The parameters of this model have been identified by comparison with special virtual tests performed on a 3D finite element…

    A physical model has been developed in order to study the forces induced on the tire by road irregularities. It works in a range of frequencies 0-250 Hz, i.e. up to frequencies that are felt by the passengers as noise and vibrations, but it can be easily improved to 400 Hz. The model can resolve road irregularities with wavelength greater than 5 cm (pavement megatexture). The parameters of this model have been identified by comparison with special virtual tests performed on a 3D finite element model of the tire, i.e. without using any experimental data. Once built, the model can be used to analyze the forces transmitted by the tire to the vehicle while passing over various pavement textures for testing both the tire-vehicle system and the pavement textures. Since the model doesn't require any experimental data, it can be used to predict the dynamical characteristics of tires which haven't been built yet, speeding up the optimization process of tires under development. Due to its characteristics, this model appears to be a powerful tool for a joint analysis of vehicle and tire, but it would require vehicle models with a similar frequency response range, currently not reported in literature. Comparisons with the results of indoor cleat tests and with measurements on a test car with an instrumented wheel hub have shown that the mathematical model reproduces with good accuracy the behavior of the tire in the frequency range of interest.

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  • A New Mathematical-Physical 2D Tire Model for Handling Optimization on a Vehicle

    SAE Technical Paper 1999-01-0789

    This paper introduces and discusses a new 2D physical model which has been developed and validated in order to study and optimize the handling behavior of the tire. It can be divided into two parts, the structural model and the contact area model. The parameters, that are function of the vertical load, are identified or calculated by comparison with the results provided by 3D finite element models. The input data for the identification procedure consist of a set of frequency responses performed…

    This paper introduces and discusses a new 2D physical model which has been developed and validated in order to study and optimize the handling behavior of the tire. It can be divided into two parts, the structural model and the contact area model. The parameters, that are function of the vertical load, are identified or calculated by comparison with the results provided by 3D finite element models. The input data for the identification procedure consist of a set of frequency responses performed on the finite element model. A second set of simulations on the 3D model of the tread pattern gives the characteristics of the contact model. Once built the 2D model it is easy to carry out both steady state and transient analysis. The steady state analysis returns the cornering carpet, in terms of lateral force and self-aligning moment as function of the cornering angle. The transient analysis allows the evaluation of the relaxation length and dynamic characteristics. The physical model can be embedded in the vehicle model. Since the parameters are function of the vertical load it is possible to perform any kind of manouvre simulation that implies load transfer between the axles such as overtaking, changing of lane and steering pad at growing speed. As a consequence the 2D model can be seen as a powerful tool to optimize the tire through a sensitivity analysis performed with tire and vehicle models linked to each other.

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  • Virtual Treaded Tire Simulation as a Design Predictive Tool: Application to Tire Hydroplaning

    Research Gate

    In the last decades FEA simulation has been used intensively within the tire development process with the aim to predict and improve tire performance. Thanks to the speed-up in computing times recently obtained on the HW side, the introduction of tread pattern in tire modeling has been made possible and affordable, allowing the tire FEA analyst to perform treaded tire virtual prototyping and give design guidelines in "industrial" times. Abaqus has been developing and implementing new features…

    In the last decades FEA simulation has been used intensively within the tire development process with the aim to predict and improve tire performance. Thanks to the speed-up in computing times recently obtained on the HW side, the introduction of tread pattern in tire modeling has been made possible and affordable, allowing the tire FEA analyst to perform treaded tire virtual prototyping and give design guidelines in "industrial" times. Abaqus has been developing and implementing new features able to represent a treaded tire in rolling conditions and in release 6.7-EF announced a Coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian (CEL) explicit approach to simulate fluid-structure interaction. Pirelli developed a new simulation procedure for treaded tire analysis, based on Abaqus new features *STEADY STATE TRANSPORT, PERIODIC and CEL techniques, and fitted it in the standard design process, starting from tire CAD drawing up to the application of tire dynamic service conditions. This modeling procedure has been applied to investigate FEA potentiality in predicting an important tire performance index strongly related to tread pattern geometry, that is tire hydroplaning. Hydroplaning is a dynamic phenomenon the tire undergoes while rolling on a wet road, when water penetrates under footprint, causing a progressive reduction of the contact patch at increasing rolling speed, thus affecting car/passengers safety. Using Abaqus *SST, PERIODIC Pirelli built up a "virtual" test bench which makes the treaded tire roll in steady state free rolling conditions; the model, rolling at specified forward speed, is then imported into Abaqus/Explicit and coupled with a fluid domain using the CEL approach. Contact patch, footprint pressures and resulting hub forces, which depend on tread pattern capability to drain water, can be numerically monitored and evaluated as a function of speed until critical conditions are identified and considered as a warning index for tire potential hydroplaning. ->

    Altri autori
    • Roberto Vitali
    • Elda Gelosa
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Brevetti

  • TYRE FOR VEHICLE WHEELS HAVING IMPROVED TREAD PATTERN

    Rilasciato EU 20150183273

    A tyre for vehicle wheels having a tread pattern includes: a) two circumferential grooves, which define a first and a second shoulder region, and one central region; b) a plurality of asymmetric transverse grooves having a substantially “V” shape, which extend for the whole width of the tread, including an alternate sequence of a first and a second asymmetric transverse groove defining an alternate sequence of a first and a second asymmetric module; and c) a plurality of lateral transverse…

    A tyre for vehicle wheels having a tread pattern includes: a) two circumferential grooves, which define a first and a second shoulder region, and one central region; b) a plurality of asymmetric transverse grooves having a substantially “V” shape, which extend for the whole width of the tread, including an alternate sequence of a first and a second asymmetric transverse groove defining an alternate sequence of a first and a second asymmetric module; and c) a plurality of lateral transverse grooves, which includes one first lateral transverse groove extending for the whole width of the first shoulder region and for a portion of the central region of the first asymmetric modules, and one second lateral transverse groove extending for the whole width of the second shoulder region and for a portion of the central region of the second asymmetric modules.

    Altri inventori
    • Gianfranco Colombo
    • Stefano Montesello

  • METHOD OF INCREASING THE HIGH-SPEED PERFORMANCE OF A CARCASS STRUCTURE IN A TYRE FOR VEHICLE WHEELS AND TYRE FOR VEHICLE WHEELS

    Rilasciato EU 20120267029

    The present invention relates to a method of increasing the high-speed performance of a carcass structure in a tyre for vehicle wheels. The method includes: preparing at least one hybrid yarn (13) and assembling a carcass structure (2) comprising at least one carcass ply (3a, 3b) substantially built on cords (12) comprising the hybrid yarn (13). The hybrid yarn (13) comprises a plurality of filaments (14a, 15a) obtained from a first multi-filament yarn (14) of polyester and a second…

    The present invention relates to a method of increasing the high-speed performance of a carcass structure in a tyre for vehicle wheels. The method includes: preparing at least one hybrid yarn (13) and assembling a carcass structure (2) comprising at least one carcass ply (3a, 3b) substantially built on cords (12) comprising the hybrid yarn (13). The hybrid yarn (13) comprises a plurality of filaments (14a, 15a) obtained from a first multi-filament yarn (14) of polyester and a second multi-filament yarn (15) having a decay of the modulus with the temperature lower than 20%. Each of the first multi-filament yarn (14) and second multi-filament yarn (15) comprises a plurality of individual filaments (14a, 15a). The individual filaments (14a) of the first multi-filament yarn (14) are at least partly mixed in proportions of at least 50% with the individual filaments (15a) of said second multi-filament yarn (15).

    Altri inventori
    • Barbara Rampana
    • Diego Tirelli

  • Pneumatic Tyre

    Rilasciato EU 8517070

    Patent of CINTURATO P7 Summer HP (Car Tread Pattern)
    A pneumatic tyre for a car having a tread, including a central portion disposed astride an equatorial plane and two shoulder portions. The central portion is separated from the tread shoulder portions by two circumferential grooves and at least one circumferential row, included between a first and a second circumferential groove, is present in the central portion. The tread has a hollow/solid ratio lower than 0.28. The circumferential row…

    Patent of CINTURATO P7 Summer HP (Car Tread Pattern)
    A pneumatic tyre for a car having a tread, including a central portion disposed astride an equatorial plane and two shoulder portions. The central portion is separated from the tread shoulder portions by two circumferential grooves and at least one circumferential row, included between a first and a second circumferential groove, is present in the central portion. The tread has a hollow/solid ratio lower than 0.28. The circumferential row comprises transverse grooves extending over at least 80% of the width of the circumferential row. Each transverse groove includes a median line having at least one first rectilinear stretch and one curvilinear stretch. The transverse grooves have a smaller width than that of the circumferential grooves.

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  • Tyre for motor vehicles

    Rilasciato EU 8371349

    The tread band of a tire has two circumferential portions, a central one and an inner intermediate one, respectively, that are subdivided into center and intermediate blocks respectively; an inner-shoulder circumferential portion has first and second inner-shoulder cuts, axially offset from each other and distributed in an alternated sequence, to confine a continuous inner-shoulder rest surface with an undulated course; and an outer intermediate circumferential portion has first and second…

    The tread band of a tire has two circumferential portions, a central one and an inner intermediate one, respectively, that are subdivided into center and intermediate blocks respectively; an inner-shoulder circumferential portion has first and second inner-shoulder cuts, axially offset from each other and distributed in an alternated sequence, to confine a continuous inner-shoulder rest surface with an undulated course; and an outer intermediate circumferential portion has first and second intermediate cuts, and an outer-shoulder circumferential portion has first and second outer-shoulder cuts. The first and second intermediate cuts and the outer-shoulder cuts, respectively, mutually converge at an angle of about 20° and are axially offset from each other and circumferentially distributed in an alternated sequence, to delimit continuous rest surfaces, an intermediate and outer-shoulder surface respectively, with an undulated course.

    Altri inventori
    • Gianfranco Colombo
    • Stefano Montesello
    • Nevio Zani

  • Tire having a model-based description enabling determination of road handling characteristics

    Rilasciato EU 6761060

    A tire for a wheel of a vehicle includes selected mixes of rubber and reinforcing materials, a carcass, a belting structure, a tread band provided with inserts, shoulders, sidewalls, and beads provided with bead wires and bead fillings. The tire is further represented by a concentrated-parameter physical model including a brush model with a road, where concentrated parameters of the physical model include structural stiffness Kc consisting of lateral stiffness Kcy, camber torsional stiffness…

    A tire for a wheel of a vehicle includes selected mixes of rubber and reinforcing materials, a carcass, a belting structure, a tread band provided with inserts, shoulders, sidewalls, and beads provided with bead wires and bead fillings. The tire is further represented by a concentrated-parameter physical model including a brush model with a road, where concentrated parameters of the physical model include structural stiffness Kc consisting of lateral stiffness Kcy, camber torsional stiffness Kc&thgr;x and yawing torsional stiffness Kc&thgr;z. The tire is further represented by a finite-element model including first and second elements and has construction characteristics substantially equivalent to the concentrated parameters that describe the dynamic behavior of the tire and enable the determination of selected physical quantities suitable for indicating the drift behavior of the tire for evaluation of the tire in relation to its road handling.

    Altri inventori
    • Federico Mancosu

  • Model-based method for determining the road handling performance of a tire of a wheel for a vehicle

    Rilasciato EU 6338270

    A method for determining the road handling of a tire, comprising descriptions of the tire by means of a first, concentrated-parameter, physical model and by means of a second, finite-element model, a simulation on the second, finite-element model of a selected series of dynamic tests and an application to the first physical model of equations of motion suitable for representing the dynamic tests in order to obtain first and second frequency responses of selected quantities; a comparison between…

    A method for determining the road handling of a tire, comprising descriptions of the tire by means of a first, concentrated-parameter, physical model and by means of a second, finite-element model, a simulation on the second, finite-element model of a selected series of dynamic tests and an application to the first physical model of equations of motion suitable for representing the dynamic tests in order to obtain first and second frequency responses of selected quantities; a comparison between the first and second frequency responses of the selected quantities for determining the concentrated parameters of the first physical model and physical quantities indicative of the drift behaviour of the tire.

    Altri inventori
    • Federico Mancosu

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