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Brief Curriculum Vitae
- M.Sc. (Laurea) in Civil Engineering at University of Parma, 1992.
- Registered Structural Engineer, Parma (since 1992).
- D.I.C. (Diploma of Imperial College), in
Structural Engineering at the Dept. of Civil Engineering of Imperial
College, University of London, 1997.
- Ph.D. in Structural Engineering at the
Dept. of Civil Engineering of Imperial College, University of London,
1997.
- Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Dept. of
Civil Engineering, University of Parma, 1997-99.
- Assistant Professor, Faculty of
Engineering, University of Parma,
2000-05.
- Associate Professor, Faculty of
Engineering, University of Parma,
2005-.
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Some Recent Publications (chapters in books and research
papers in refereed journals)
- Size
Effect in Beams with Rounded-Tip V-Notches, Materials Science,
Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 325-331, 1996 (with A. Carpinteri and R.
Brighenti).
- The Influence of Radial Edge Constraint
on the Stability of Stiffened Conical Shells in Compression, Thin-Walled Structures,
Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 147-163, 1997 (with M.K. Chryssanthopoulos).
- Part-through cracks in pipes under
cyclic bending, Nuclear Engineering and Design, 1998, Vol. 185, pp.
1-10 (with A. Carpinteri and R. Brighenti).
- Buckling design of conical shells based
on validated numerical models, Thin-Walled Structures, Vol.
31, No. 1-3, pp. 257-270, 1998 (with M.K. Chryssanthopoulos and C.
Poggi).
- Surface flaws in cylindrical shafts under rotary bending, Fatigue and Fracture of
Engineering Materials and Structures, Vol. 21, No. 9, pp.
1027-1035, 1998 (with A. Carpinteri and R. Brighenti).
- Expected fracture plane for multiaxial random stress state -
Part I: Theoretical aspects of the weight function method, International Journal
of Fatigue, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 83-88, 1999 (with A. Carpinteri, E. Macha and R. Brighenti).
- Expected fracture plane for multiaxial random stress state -
Part II: Numerical simulation and experimental assessment through the
weight function method, International Journal of Fatigue, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp.
89-96, 1999 (with A. Carpinteri, E. Macha
and R. Brighenti).
- Buckling design of stiffened conical
shells in compression, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 125, pp.
40-48, 1999 (with M.K. Chryssanthopoulos).
- Elastic buckling and postbuckling behaviour of widely-stiffened
conical shells under axial compression, Engineering Structures, Vol. 21, pp. 845-855, 1999
(with M.K. Chryssanthopoulos).
- Experimental response of
glass-reinforced plastic cylinders under axial compression, Marine Structures,
Vol. 11, pp. 347-371, 1999 (with A.Y. Elghazouli and M.K.
Chryssanthopoulos).
- Multiaxial
fatigue fracture criteria for metallic structures, Journal of
Structural Engineering, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 1-10, 1999 (with A.
Carpinteri).
- Fatigue growth simulation of part-through flaws in thick-walled
pipes under rotary bending, International Journal of Fatigue, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp.
1-9, 2000.
- A fracture plane approach in multiaxial high-cycle fatigue of
metals, Fatigue
and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, Vol. 23, No.
4, pp. 355-364, 2000 (with A. Carpinteri and R. Brighenti).
- External surface cracks in shells under cyclic internal pressure, Fatigue and Fracture of
Engineering Materials and Structures, Vol. 23, No. 6, pp. 467-476,
2000 (with A. Carpinteri and R. Brighenti).
- Numerical simulation of glass-reinforced
plastic cylinders under axial compression, Marine Structures, Vol. 14,
No. 3, pp. 353-374, 2001 (with A.Y. Elghazouli and M.K.
Chryssanthopoulos).
- Multiaxial high-cycle fatigue criterion for hard metals, International Journal
of Fatigue, Vol. 23, pp. 135-145, 2001 (with A. Carpinteri).
- Sulla stabilità strutturale
della Rocca Sanvitale in Fontanellato, Costruire in Laterizio,
No. 78, November/Dicember, pp. 70-75, 2000 (in Italian) (with G.P.
Giani, I. Iori, L. Montrasio and S. Tagliavini).
- A new high-cycle fatigue criterion
applied to out-of-phase biaxial stress state, International Journal
of Mechanical Sciences, Vol. 43, No. 11, pp. 2581-2595, 2001.
- Different buckling modes in axially stiffened conical shells, Engineering Structures,
Vol. 23, No. 8, pp. 957-965, 2001.
- An approach to size effect in fatigue of metals using fractal
theories, Fatigue
and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, Vol. 25, No.
7, pp. 619-627, 2002 (with A. Carpinteri and S. Vantadori).
- A new non-contacting nondestructive testing method for defect
detection in concrete, NDT & E International, Vol. 35, No. 6, pp. 399-406,
2002 (with K. Mori, Y. Murakami, G. Kondo and I. Torigoe).
- A
fractal analysis of size effect on fatigue crack growth, International Journal of Fatigue,
Vol. 26, pp. 125-133, 2004 (con An. Carpinteri).
- A
multiaxial fatigue criterion for random loading, Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering
Materials and Structures (Special Issue), Vol. 26, No. 6, pp.
515-522, 2003 (con An. Carpinteri, S. Vantadori).
- Koiter circles in the
buckling of axially compressed conical shells, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 40,
No. 22, pp. 6095-6109, 2003.
- Fractality in the
threshold condition of fatigue crack growth: an interpretation of the
Kitagawa diagram, Chaos,
Solitons and Fractals, Vol. 22, pp. 589-598, 2004.
- Self-similarity
and fractals in the Paris range of fatigue crack growth, Mechanics of Materials, Vol.
37, pp. 519-529, 2005.
- Signal
processing procedure for non-destructive test of concrete structure
integrity, NDT & E
International, Vol. 38, pp. 575-581, 2005 (con I. Torigoe, K.
Mori).
- A fracture mechanics model
for a composite beam with multiple reinforcements under cyclic bending,
International Journal of Solids
and Structures, Vol. 41, pp. 5499-5515, 2004 (con An. Carpinteri,
S. Vantadori).
- Mechanical
damage of ordinary or prestressed reinforced concrete beams under
cyclic bending, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol. 72, pp. 1313-1328, 2005 (con A.
Carpinteri, S. Vantadori).
- An elastic-plastic
crack bridging model for
brittle-matrix fibrous composite beams
under cyclic loading, International
Journal of Solids and Structures, (in press), 2005 (con An.
Carpinteri, S. Vantadori).
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