Roberto Brighenti  Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics

Academic positions

• 2014- Associate Professor of Structural Mechanics, Dept. of Engineering & Architecture - University of Parma ITALY

• 1998-2014 Assistant Professor of Structural Mechanics, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Environment & Architecture - Faculty of Engineering - University of Parma ITALY

Education

• 1993 - 1997 Ph.D., in Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics of flawed metallic structures, Faculty of Engineering,  University of Bologna, Italy.

• 1993   Italian C. Eng.

• 1987 - 1993 Bsc. & M.Sc. (Laurea) with “summa cum laude”, in Civil Engineering, University of Parma, Italy.

Research

• Mechanics of soft and functional materials (polymers, active responsive materials) (examples).

• Computational mechanics: development of Finite Elements for mechanical problems.

• Particle method for solid and granular materials (examples).

• Meshless methods with application to fracture mechanics.

• Structural optimisation,  Fracture and fatigue repair optimisation.

• Composite materials and structures under static and fatigue loading.  Composite materials optimization.

• Buckling and fracture interaction in thin-walled structures.

• Discontinuous F.E. for the simulation of brittle materials (examples).

• Experimental analysis and numerical modelling of flawed structures (fatigue and fracture).

• Multiaxial fatigue modelling and assessment in materials and structures.

Author of about 220 scientific papers published in International Journals, chapters of International books and in Proceedings of  national and international conferences   (Complete List of publications). 

Editorial activities

• Editorial board member of Thin-Walled Structures, 2014- (Elsevier publisher).

• Associate Editor Computational Materials Science (open access, specialty of Frontiers in Materials), (Frontiers Ed.), 2017-.

• Editorial board member of the Int. Journal Computers, Materials & Continua, 2018- (Tech Science Press).

• Editorial board member of Applied Mechanics, 2020- (MDPI).

• Editorial board member of Discover Materials, 2020- (Springer).

• Editorial board member of J. of Materials Science and Applications, 2020- (Science Publishing Group).

• Editor in Chief of the Journal of Civil Engineering Research, 2012- (Scientific & Academic Publ. Co., Rosemead CA 91731, USA, p-ISSN: 2163-2316,  e-ISSN: 2163-2340, open access). 

• Editorial board member of Journal of Engineering, 2017-, subject area: Civil Engineering  (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, ISSN: 2314-4904 (Online), open access).

• Editorial board member of the Int. J. Modeling and Numerical Simulation of Material Science (MNSMS) 2011- (Scientific Research Publishing Inc., Irvine CA 92619-482, USAp-ISSN: 2164-5345, e-ISSN: 2164-5353, open access).

• Editorial board member of the Int. Journal of Fatigue (Elsevier publisher), 2001 - 2007.

• Editorial board member of the Int. J. ISRN Mechanical Engineering, 2010-2014 (ISRN Hindawi Publishing Corporation, ISSN: 2090-5122, e-ISSN: 2090-5130, open access).

Visiting scholar activities

• Visiting professor at the Dept. of Mech. and Civil Eng. (Prof. Chiara Daraio), Caltech, Pasadena (CA), USA, Gen.-Feb. 2020.

• Visiting professor at the Institute of Structural Mechanics (Prof. Timon Rabczuk), Bauhaus Univ. Weimar, Weimar, Germany, Gen.-Feb. 2019.

• Visiting professor at the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering (Prof. Franck Vernerey), Colorado Univ. at Boulder (CO), USA, Jan.-Feb. 2018.

• Visiting professor at the Institute of Mechanics, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering (Prof. Andreas Menzel), Dortmund Technical Univ., Germany, Gen.-Feb. 2017.

• Visiting professor at the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering (Prof. Franck Vernerey), Colorado Univ. at Boulder (CO), USA, Feb.-Apr. 2016.

Teaching experience

• Professor of Computational Mechanics, engineering post graduates in structural mechanics - University of Parma, Italy, 2004 -present.

• Professor of Fracture Mechanics, engineering undergraduates and post graduates in structural mechanics - University of Parma, Italy - 2004 -2010.

• Professor of Mechanics of Materials, engineering undergraduates and post graduates in structural mechanics - University  of Parma, Italy, 2004-2010.

• Professor of Structural Mechanics, engineering undergraduates in structural mechanics - University of Parma, Italy, 1997 - present

• Supervisor of 4 PhD thesis on Structural Mechanics - University of Parma, Italy, 2019.

• Supervisor of about 80 MSc thesis on Structural Mechanics, Fracture Mechanics and Computational Mechanics - University of Parma, Italy, 1998 -present.

• Tutoring of third and fourth years, civil engineering graduates in structural mechanics and theory of structures at University of Parma, Italy, 1993 - 199714-15)