Research interests

Main Discipline

Shallow Water Equations, Dam break modelling, Computational Fluid Dynamics, GPU-parallelized numerical schemes, Synthetic Design Hydrographs, Overland flow, Hydroelectric Plants

Hydraulic Structures, Maritime Engineering and Hydrology

Conventional and innovative pavement materials; Asphalt-related emissions and odors monitoring; Road winter maintenance; Street lighting; Sustainable mobility; Urban street design

Pavement and Transportation Engineering

Reinforced concrete, non-linear finite element analysis, seismic design, corrosion and material degradation, robustness, eco-materials, sustainability.

Structural Engineering

Non-linear constitutive modelling of concrete elements reinforced with ordinary (RC) or pretensioned steel bars, and/or with fibres (FRC); FE modeling and optimization of RC and/or FRC structures, hollow core slabs, thin-walled precast roof elements; experimental characterization and modeling of FRCM composites for structural retrofitting; development of eco-compatible waste-added cementitious materials; vulnerability assessment of existing structure.

Structural Engineering

Mechanics of advanced materials, polymers and responsive materials; soft materials; computational mechanics; mechanics of additively manufactured materials.

Solid and Structural Mechanics

Military Architecture, Modern Architecture in Southern Italy (15th-17th centuries).

History of Architecture

Fatigue and fracture of traditional and innovative materials and structures.

Mechanics of Structures

Environmental fluid mechanics, turbulence, non-Newtonian flows in porous media, gravity currents, coastal engineering, free surface dynamics, turbulent fountains, river junctions, wave-currents interaction, water retention curves.

Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics

Research interests: structural identification of historical masonry buildings, compatible strengthening techniques, instrumental and historical monitoring, priority lists for the protection of cultural heritage at a territorial level.

Architectural Restoration

Urban Strategic Design, urban regeneration, participation design, sustainable towns and cities, social housing.

Architectural and Urban Design

Inverse problems in surface and subsurface hydrology and hydraulics. Groundwater, hydraulic and hydrology model calibration. Impacts of climate change on meteorological variables and water resources. Effects of climate change on droughts.

Hydrology and Hydraulic Structures

Structural engineering, Reinforced concrete, Masonry, Existing buildings.

Structural Engineering

GNSS-assisted photogrammetry, DEM generation and surface reconstruction, change detection in images and point clouds.

Photogrammetry

Fracture and damage mechanics, cohesive interface, coupled problems, structural health monitoring.

Solid and Structural Mechanics

Architectural design for public and private buildings with collective network functions, buildings serving artistic and cultural production. Relationship between architectural form and construction technique. Relationship between collective building and open space in the contemporary city. Genesis of form. Urban regeneration.

Architectural and Urban Design

Climate-based Architecture; Daylighting; Environmental Simulation; Indoor/outdoor Thermal Comfort; Adapting Buildings for Climate Change.

Architectural Engineering

Pavement design and maintenance, road construction, highway engineering, bituminous materials, road safety.

Transportation Engineering

Environmental fluid mechanics, turbulence, non-Newtonian flows in porous media, gravity currents, coastal engineering.

Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics

Numerical and physical modeling of unsteady free surface flows, flood hazard due to levee breach or dam-break, mathematical modeling of mixed flows,  side weirs, spatially varied flows.

Hydraulics

Conservation and development of the landscape.

Design

NLFE analysis, constitutive modelling, RC/FRC/precast structures, tunnels, existing structures, sustainable materials, AAC masonry.

Structural Engineering

Free surface unsteady flows; dam break and levee breaches numerical models; flood hazard; flood protection structures; local scour; design hydrographs.

Hydrology and Hydraulic Structures

Resilience of road infrastructures. Flexible pavement reinforcement. Asphalt mixtures fracture mechanics. Recycled pavements. Mechanical characterization of pavement materials.

Road Materials and Construction

Geotechnical Engineering, seismic and environmental geotechnics, constitutive modeling of soil behaviour and forecasting models for finite problems, soil-water interaction.

Geotechnics

Diagnostic and static analysis of historical structures, mainly related to the “proportional theory”; Critical survey of damages of historic structures; Historical and static monitoring data interpretation; Masonry domes analysis and strengthening.

Restoration and Structural Strengthening

Architectural design for public and private buildings with collective network functions, industrial buildings, university campus. Urban regeneration projects.

Architectural and Urban Design

Architectural design for public and private buildings with collective network functions, industrial buildings, university campus. Urban regeneration projects.

Architectural and Urban Design

Fracture mechanics of asphalt materials; Innovative materials for road construction; Hot and cold recycling in asphalt pavements; Pavement design.

Road Materials and Construction

Photogrammetry, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, DEM generation and surface reconstruction, change detection in images and point clouds, Scan-to-BIM, GIS.

Geomatics

GIS for the analysis of urban and regional systems; Integration between urban planning and sustainable mobility; Accessibility and safety in urban environments; Urban Regeneration.

Urban and Regional Planning

Rock Mechanics, slope stability, geotechnical monitoring, tunneling, underground excavations, early warning and natural hazard risk assessment and management, IoT ad Machine learning applied to Natural Hazards.

Rock Mechanics, Geotechnics, Engineering Geology

Fracture mechanics, fatigue, stability of shell structures, damage identification, mechanics of advanced materials.

Solid and Structural Mechanics

Flow and transport phenomena in groundwater. 3D mathematical modelling of seepage through levees. Inverse problems in surface and subsurface hydrology. Impacts of climate change on meteorological variables and water resources. Effects of climate change on droughts intensity and frequency.

Hydraulics, Hydrology, Hydraulic Structures

Mechanical characterization and performance evaluation of bituminous materials. Fracture mechanics in bituminous materials. Hot, warm and cold recycling of reclaimed asphalt pavements and bituminous stabilized materials. Pavement design and pavement analysis. Sustainability of road construction.

Road Construction

Shallow Water Equations, Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics, flood propagation, computational fluid dynamics.

Hydraulic Structures, Maritime Engineering and Hydrology

Fatigue and fracture of traditional and innovative materials, nanostructures and nanomaterials.

Mechanics of Structures

Architectural and urban survey and representation; historical and contemporary (digital) iconographic representation of the architectural project.

Design

Energy efficient buildings, heating and cooling systems for sustainable buildings, renewable energy sources, fluid-dynamics and heat transfer in heat exchangers and microdevices.

Applied Physics

Groundwater hydrology, Contaminant transport, Inverse problems, Parameter estimation, Contaminated sites, flow and transport modeling.

Groundwater

Urban regeneration, quality of public space and adaptation to climate change in urban settlements; environmental  and landscape planning; bicycle and pedestrian planning.

Urban and Regional Planning

Architectural and urban survey and representation; analysis of historical and contemporary (digital) representation of the architectural project.

Design

Research interests

Main Discipline

Mechanical and rheological properties of bituminous binders, asphalt mixture moisture susceptibility

Bituminous materials

Architectural and urban survey and representation; historical and digital representation of the architectural project.

Design

Coastal hydro-morpho dynamics, risk and reliability in coastal engineering.

Hydraulics

Nonlinear Waves, Hydrodynamics, Mathematical Oceanography, Nonlinear Analysis, Renewable Energy Technologies, Smart Grid, Wind Energy, Offshore Wind Turbines, Wave Energy, Structural Health Monitoring, Passive, Active and Semi-active Vibration Control, Random Vibrations, Wind & Earthquake Engineering, Time-frequency and Wavelet Analysis, Non-stationary Processes, Traffic Flow Theory and Control.

Structural engineering

Theoretical and computational aspects of Mesh-Free/Particles numerical methods for fluid dynamics and their applicability in aeronautical, marine, naval and coastal engineering fields.

Fluid Mechanics

Computational mechanics, performance evaluation and modeling of asphalt materials, recycling of asphalt materials.

Bituminous materials and Asphalt pavements

Geotechnics, Rock Mechanics, Foundation Engineering, Slope Stability and Stabilization.

Geotechnics

Flow and transport phenomena in groundwater. Numerical modelling of groundwater. Smart models. Management of groundwater resources. Inverse problems in surface and subsurface hydrology, Stochastic Hydrogeology.

Hydrology, Hydraulics, Hydrogeology

Reinforced concrete structures, non-linear finite element analysis, physically based modelling, structural reliability, sensing and measuring, material degradation mechanisms.

Reinforced concrete structures

Fatigue and fracture of traditional and innovative materials and structures.

Mechanics of Structures

Knowledge, restoration and protection of monumental and vernacular architectural heritage, cooperation for sustainable development, creation of new architectures linked to the heritage environment and the local culture

Architectural Restoration

Mechanical performance of bituminous materials, advanced testing of bituminous materials and of asphalt pavements.

Bituminous materials and Asphalt pavements

Urban and regional economics, real estate development and finance, housing, mixed use development, urban regeneration and new towns. 

Urban and Regional Planning

Geotechnical earthquake engineering.

Geotechnics

Fatigue and fracture of traditional and innovative materials and structures.

Mechanics of Structures

Mechanics of masonry, concrete and reinforced concrete. Smeared crack/crush and interface modelling. Robustness of nonlinear and sequentially linear finite element analysis. Light damage response of buildings to induced seismicity and settlements.

Computational Hydrodynamics

Fracture mechanics and mechanics of fatigue-fracture for building materials, criteria on fatigue resistance, fracture and dynamic behaviour of nanomaterials.

Structural Engineering

Fracture mechanics and mechanics of fatigue-fracture for building materials, criteria on fatigue resistance, fracture and dynamic behaviour of nanomaterials.

Structural Mechanics

Resilient pavements, mechanical and performance evaluation of bituminous materials, recycling od asphalt pavements.

Bituminous materials and Asphalt pavements

Soil science, urban ecology, GIS and spatial modeling, urban soil’s functions and ecosystem services, urban planning and sustainable development.

Soil Science and Sustainable Urban Development

Regional Planning, Landscape Planning, Town Planning, Urban Design, Preservation Planning, Urban Regeneration.

Regional and Urban Planning