University of Trento, Italy
Department of Mechanical and Structural Engineering

SOLID AND STRUCTURAL MECHANICS GROUP

Davide Bigoni
Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics

Education

1985 Civil Engineering Degree, University of Bologna, Awarded Hons.
1986 Consulting Engineer for ISMES s.p.a., Bergamo, Italy.
1989 Visiting Research Associate at Duke University, Durham, N.C., U.S.A.
1990 to 1998 Assistant Professor at Istituto di ­ Scienza delle Costruzioni, University of Bologna, Italy.
1991 Ph.D. Dissertation: Localization of deformation and bifurcation in incremental non­associative elastoplasticity: applications to brittle-cohesive materials (in Italian).
1992 Visiting Engineer at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Bath University, Bath, U.K.
1993 Visiting Faculty at the Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, R.I., U.S.A.
1995 Visiting Faculty at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
1997 Visiting Faculty at the Laboratoire Sols, Solides,Structures of Grenoble, France.
1998 to 2001 Associate Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics, University of Trento, Italy.
2000 Visiting Faculty at the Laboratoire de Mécanique et Technologie - Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France.
2001 Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics, University of Trento, Italy.
2001 Visiting Faculty at the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research - Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland.
2001 to 2004 Head of the Department of Mechanical and Structural Engineering, University of Trento, Italy.
2002 Visiting Faculty at the Laboratoire de Mécanique et Technologie - Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France.
2004 Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Graz, Austria.
2004 Visiting Faculty at the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research - Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland.
2005 Visiting Faculty at the Department of Engineering Phyiscs University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI, USA.
2006 Coordinator of the PhD program in Solid and Structural Mechanics of the university of Trento, Italy.
2006 Visiting Faculty at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK.
2007 Visiting Faculty at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK.
2008 Visiting Faculty at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool and University of Aberystwyth, UK.
2010 Visiting Faculty at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (Edinburgh) and at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Aberystwyth, UK.

Teaching Experiences

since 1990 Graduate and undergraduate courses: Theory and Design of Structures, Elements of Continuum Mechanics, Solid Mechanics. Graduate courses: Nonlinear Elasticity, Large Strain Elastoplasticity, Fracture Mechanics.
1999 Cism course 414: Material instabilities in elastic and plastic solids, Coordinator Prof. H. Petryk, 13-17 September 1999.
2001 Course: Mechanical behaviour of advanced ceramics: forming and service conditions , Centre of Excellence for Advanced Materials and Structures, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, 17-24 September 2001.
2004 Course: Material Instabilities in Solid Mechanics, Technical University of Graz, January 2004.
2006 EPSRC Mathematics for Engineers Summer School: Advances in Continuum Mechanics. The nonlinear deformation of solids , Durham University, September 2006.

Research Awards

2009 EUROMECH Fellow (of the European Mechanics Society).

Membership Activities

Coordinator of the Italian Branch of the Society for Natural Philosophy.
Secretary and Treasurer of The International Society for the Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics (ISIMM).
Member of the EUROMECH Solid Mechanics Conference Committee.

Referee Activities

Editorial Responsibilities:

Member of Editorial Board of:

Panel Member for the European Research Council Starting Grants.

Reviewer for Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Research Grants (UK).

Reviewer for the Research Council of Norway.

Reviewer for the United States - Israel Binational Science Foundation.

Reviewer for The Israel Science Foundation.

Reviewer for the Romanian National Council for Development and Innovation.

Reviewer for the Deutsch-Italienisches Hochschulzentrum.

Reviewer for Italian PRIN (COFIN) MiUR and CIVR.

Reviewer for NATO Collaborative Research Grants.

Referee for the following international journals:

  • Nature Communications;
  • Applied Physics Letters;
  • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids;
  • Philosophical Magazine;
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society A;

    • Acta Geotechnica;
    • AIAA Journal;
    • Applied Bionics and Biomechanics;
    • Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology;
    • CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences;
    • Composite Structures;
    • Computational Materials Science;
    • Computational Mechanics;
    • Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering;
    • Comptes Rendus Mecanique;
    • Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics;
    • Engineering Fracture Mechanics;
    • European Journal of Mechanics;
    • Geotechnique;
    • Geotechnique Letters;
    • IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics;
    • International Journal of Engineering, Science and Technology;
    • International Journal of Fracture;
    • International Journal of Impact Engineering;
    • International Journal of Mechanical Sciences;
    • International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics;
    • International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics;
    • International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering;
    • Iranian Journal of Science and Technology. Transaction B: Engineering;
    • Journal of Applied Mechanics, ASME;
    • Journal of Biomechanics;
    • Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, ASME;
    • Journal of Colloid and Interface Science;
    • Journal of Computational Physics;
    • Journal of Elasticity;
    • Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE;
    • Journal of Impact Engineering;
    • Journal of Sound and Vibration;
    • Journal of Vibration and Control;
    • Majlesi Journal of Electrical Engineering;
    • Materials Research;
    • Materials Science and Engineering: A;
    • Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids;
    • Mathematical Reviews;
    • Meccanica;
    • Mechanics Research Communications;
    • Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering;
    • Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B, Journal of Engineering Manufacture;
    • Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C, Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science;
    • Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics;
    • Science Journal of Mechanical Engineering;
    • SIAM Journal Applied Mathematics;
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics;
    • Waves in Random and Complex Media;
    • ZAMM (Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik);
    • ZAMP (Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik).

    General Lectures

    "Different manifestations of material instability in granular media" 35th Solid Mechanics Conference, Kraków, Poland, September 4-8, 2006.

    "Material instabilities in elastic and plastic solids" XXII International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Adelaide, Australia, August 24-30, 2008.

    "Material instabilities and the perturbative approach in Solid Mechanics" Workshop: Material Theories, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach gGmbH, December 13-20, 2009.

    Conference Organization

    Member of the scientific committee of the IUTAM Symposium on Asymptotics, Singularities and Homogeneization in Problems of Mechanics, July 8-11, 2002, Liverpool, UK.

    Co-chairman with Prof. Henryk Petryk for the Pre-nominated Session on Material Instabilities at the 21st International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, August 15-21, 2004, Warsaw, Poland.

    Member of the scientific committee of the Euromech Colloquium 464 on Fibre-reinforced solids: constitutive laws and instabilities, September 28 - October 1, 2004, University of Cantabria, Santander, SP.

    Co-chairman with Prof. Ahmed Benallal of the Euromech Colloquium 474 on Material instabilities in coupled problems, September 2005, Troyes, FR.

    Member of the scientific committee of the XVII AIMETA Congress, September 11-15, 2005, University of Firenze.

    Organizer of the 1st Meeting of the Group "Aimeta Materiali" (GMA06), Trento, February 23-24, 2006.

    Member of the scientific committee of the congress: Thermo-Mechanical Modelings for Solids, July 9-12, 2007, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, FR.

    Joint organizer with Prof. L. Deseri of the congress: 4th International Symposium on Defect and Materials Mechanics (ISDMM09), July 6-9, 2009, Trento.

    Member of the scientific committee of the congress: 7th Euromech Solid Mechanics Conference, September 7-11, 2009, Lisbon, Portugal.

    Chairman of the congress: Advanced composite materials engineering COMAT 2010, October, 27-29, 2010 Brasov, Romania.

    Member of the scientific committee of the congress: 5th International Symposium on Defect and Materials Mechanics (ISDMM11), June 27- July 1, 2011, Sevilla, Spain.

    Chairman of the IUTAM Symposium "Fracture Phenomena in Nature and Technology" to be held in Brescia (Italy), 2012-2013.

    Member of the scientific committee of the congress: 8th Euromech Solid Mechanics Conference, July 9-13, 2012, Graz, Austria.

    Co-chairman with Prof. R. Kienzler for the Pre-nominated Session "Elasticity" at the 23rd International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, ICTAM2012, to be held in Beijing, China, August 19-24, 2012.

    Chairman of the IUTAM 2012 Symposium Fracture Phenomena in Nature and Technology, to be held in Brescia, July 1-5, 2012.

    Postgraduate Supervision

    Enrico Radi (PhD, 1993);
    Monica Valentini (PhD, 1998);
    Massimiliano Gei (PhD, 2001);
    Michele Brun (PhD, 2003);
    Andrea Piccolroaz (PhD, 2004);
    Giulia Franceschini (PhD, 2006);
    Katia Bertoldi (PhD, 2006);
    Daniele Veber (PhD, 2007);
    Sergia Colli (PhD, 2008);
    Francesco Dal Corso (PhD, 2009);
    Giovanni Noselli (PhD, 2011);
    Sara Roccabianca (PhD, 2011).

    Research Grants and Contracts
    • Coordinator of the Research Grant " INTERCER2 - Modelling and optimal design of ceramic structures with defects and imperfect interfaces ", FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IAPP (2011-2015); total funding 2400 kEuro (funding to the research unit: 854 kEuro).

    • Responsible of the research Grant "Multi-scale modelling of material instabilities, mechanical waves, gradient effects, and metamaterials", MIUR Cofin 2009 (2011-2013); total funding to the research unit: 57.3 kEuro.

      • D. Bigoni has been responsible for the following grants:

      • Research Grant "Multiscale problems with complex interactions in structural engineering", MIUR Cofin 2007 (2007-2009); total funding to the research unit: 73.2 kEuro.

      • Research Grant "Interface models in Solid Mechanics: Continuum/discrete transition and microstructural effects", MIUR Cofin 2005 (2006-2007); total funding to the research unit: 57.6 kEuro.

      • Research Grant "Fundamental micromechanics of fracture in ductile single crystals", 2002-2005, MIUR 26-1-2001, in cooperation with Prof. Walter J. Drugan (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA); total funding: 108 kEuro.

      • Research Grant "Fenomeni di degrado meccanico di interfacce in sistemi strutturali: Applicazioni in ingegneria civile ed a campi di ricerca emergenti", MIUR Cofin 2003 (2004-2005); total funding to the research unit: 45 kEuro.

      • CNR-NATO fellowship for basic sciences "Mathematical models for crack propagation in pre-stressed elastic composites and pre-polarized crystals", granted to Prof. E.M. Craciun (University of Constanta, Romania); June-July 2004, total funding: 4.2 kEuro.
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