PhD program in Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Curriculum in Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Materials and Structures
Theme: Mechanics of Materials
The topics covered are:
- Solid mechanics
- Mechanics of composite materials
- Mechanical metamaterials
- Mechanics of masonry
- Coupled multiphysics modeling
- Meso-scale and Discontinuous-based mechanisms
- Microstructured and multiscale materials modelling
- Plasticity and Damage Mechanics
- Fracture and delamination mechanics
The researchers involved in this theme are:
Andrea Bacigalupo,
Antonio Brencich,
Antonio Caggiano,
Chiara Calderini,
Serena Cattari,
Vito Diana,
Luigi Gambarotta,
Sergio Lagomarsino,
Marco Lepidi,
Roberta Massabò,
Angelo Morro,
Roberta Sburlati.
Relevant publications (reverse chronological order)
- Bacigalupo A., Gnecco G., Lepidi M., Gambarotta L. (2021). Computational design of innovative mechanical metafilters via adaptive surrogate-based optimization, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 375, 113623, .
- Bacigalupo, A., Gambarotta, L. (2021). Identification of non-local continua for lattice-like materials, International Journal of Engineering Science, 159, 103430.
- Vadalà F., Bacigalupo A., Lepidi M., Gambarotta L. (2021) Free and Forced wave propagation in beam lattice metamaterials with viscoelastic resonators, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 193, 106129.
- Giorgi C., Morro A.(2021). A thermodynamic approach to rate-type models in deformable ferroelectrics, Cont. Mech. Thermodyn. 33, 727-747.
- Bacigalupo A., Gnecco G., Lepidi M., Gambarotta L. (2020). Machine-Learning Techniques for the Optimal Design of Acoustic Metamaterials, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 187, 630-653.
- Massabò, R. (2021), Upper and lower bounds for the parameters of one-dimensional theories for sandwich fracture specimens, (2020) Journal of Applied Mechanics, https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4049141
- Alforno, M., Monaco, A., Venuti, F., Calderini, C. (2020). Validation of Simplified Micro-models for the Static Analysis of Masonry Arches and Vaults, International Journal of Architectural Heritage, https://doi.org/10.1080/15583058.2020.1808911
- Bacigalupo, A., Gambarotta, L. (2020), Chiral two-dimensional periodic blocky materials with elastic interfaces: auxetic and acoustic properties, Extreme Mechanics Letters, 39, 100769.
- Ustinov, K., Massabò, R., Lisovenko, D., (2020) Orthotropic strip with central semi-infininite crack under arbitrary loads applied far apart from the crack tip. Analytical solution, Engineering Failure Analysis, DOI 10.1016/j.engfailanal.2020.104410, 2020
- Auricchio, F., Bacigalupo, A., Gambarotta, L., Lepidi, M., Morganti, S., Vadalà, F. (2019). A novel layered topology of auxetic materials based on the tetrachiral honeycomb microstructure. Materials & Design, 179, 107883.
- De Bellis, M. L., Bacigalupo, A., Zavarise, G. (2019). Characterization of hybrid piezoelectric nanogenerators through asymptotic homogenization. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 355, 1148-1186.
- Del Toro, R., Bacigalupo, A., Paggi, M. (2019). Characterization of wave propagation in periodic viscoelastic materials via asymptotic-variational homogenization. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 172, 110-146.
- Fantoni, F., Bacigalupo, A., Paggi, M., & Reinoso, J. (2019). A phase field approach for damage propagation in periodic microstructured materials. International Journal of Fracture, 1-24. doi.org/10.1007/s10704-019-00400-x
- Lepidi, M., Bacigalupo, A. (2019). Wave propagation properties of one-dimensional acoustic metamaterials with nonlinear diatomic microstructure. Nonlinear Dynamics 98, pp.2711–2735
- Vadalà, F., Bacigalupo, A., Lepidi, M., Gambarotta, L. (2019). Acoustic waveguide filters made up of rigid stacked materials with elastic joints , Meccanica, DOI: 10.1007/s11012-019-00959-8
- Lepidi, M., Bacigalupo, A. (2018). Multi-parametric sensitivity analysis of the band structure for tetrachiral acoustic metamaterials. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 136, 186-202.
- Massabò, R., Darban, H., (2019) Mode II dominant fracture of layered composite beams and wide-plates: a homogenized structural approach, (2019) Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 213, pp. 280-301. DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2019.03.002
- Darban H, Massabò R. (2018). Thermo-elastic solutions for multilayered wide plates and beams with interfacial imperfections through the transfer matrix method. Meccanica, 53:553–71, DOI:10.1007/s11012-017-0657-6
- Morro, A. (2018). Balance and constitutive equations in thermoelectroelastic solids, J. Thermal Stresses 41, 1297-1312
- Morro, A. (2018). Modelling of elastic heat conductors via objective rate equations, Continuum Mech. Thermodyn 30, 1231-1243
- Sburlati, R., Cianci, R. and Kashtalyan, M. (2018.) Hashin's bounds for elastic properties of particle-reinforced composites with graded interphase, International Journal of Solids and Structures, 138, 224-235, doi: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2018.01.015 (online from 11 January 2018), Elsevier Ltd., Exeter, U.K. (ISSN: 0020-7683).
- Sburlati, R., Kashtalyan, M. and Cianci, R. (2017). Effect of graded interphase on the coefficient of thermal expansion for composites with spherical inclusions, International Journal of Solids and Structures, 110-111, 80-88, doi: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2017.02.001 (online from 3 February 2017), Elsevier Ltd., Exeter, U.K. (ISSN: 0020-7683).
- Brencich, A. (2015). A post-installed insert for pull-out tests on concrete up to 70MPa, Construction and Building Materials, 95, 788-801.
- Calderini, C., Lagomarsino, S. (2015). Seismic Response of Masonry Arches Reinforced by Tie-Rods: Static Tests on a Scale Model, ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, 141(5), n. 4014137. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)ST.1943-541X.0001079
- Krzan, M., Gostic, S., Cattari, S., Bosiljkov, V. (2015). Acquiring reference parameters of masonry for the structural performance analysis of historical building, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 13(1), 203-236, DOI: 10.1007/s10518-014-9686-x.
- Calderini, C., Degli Abbati, S., Cotič, P., Kržan, M., Bosiljkov, V. (2014). In-plane shear tests on masonry panels with plaster: correlation of structural damage and damage on artistic assets, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 13 (1), pp. 237-256. DOI: 10.1007/s10518-014-9632-y)
- Lagomarsino, S, Penna, A, Galasco A, Cattari, S. (2013). TREMURI program: an equivalent frame model for the nonlinear seismic analysis of masonry buildings, Engineering Structures, 56, 1787-1799, DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2013.08.002.
