Multiscale Mechanics and Multiphysics of Materials Lab

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Luigi Cabras

Luigi is postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Brescia, on the project "Computational homogenization and microstructural modeling of medium-high carbon steel". He obtained his Master's degree at the University of Cagliari in Civil Engineering, specifically in the field of structural mechanics in 2007. He continued his studies with a University Master Degree in "Design of Structures in Reinforced concrete" at Politecnico di Milano in 2008, where, during the final thesis, he engaged in the joint supervision of the Plan of Requalification Fair of Milan, which involved the analysis of the response of the Isozaki Tower to wind forces, obtained in the GVPM Wind Tunnel. In 2012, he started the PhD in Structural Engineering, at the University of Cagliari. The research was aimed at modelling innovative materials focusing in particular on those with negative Poisson's ratio. During his doctorate, he spent almost two years in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool, as an Honorary Researcher Fellow, as part of the Liverpool Waves Group. After the PhD, in 2015 he secured a grant for a project on "Modeling of the mechanics of complex materials". In 2015 he joined the Solid and Structural Mechanics Group of the University of Trento working in the projects "Mechanical modelling of cellular materials obtained via 3D printing" as well as "Homogenization and propagation of waves in elastic composite materials". In 2019 I have joined the Multiscale Mechanics and Multiphysics of Materials Group of the University of Brescia. I am currently working in the project “Computational homogenization and microstructural modeling of medium-high carbon steel”.
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Francesca Fantoni

Francesca defended her Ph.D. thesis at the University of Brescia (Italy) in 2016. She has been a postdoc student at IMT, School for Advanced Studies in Lucca, Italy, from March 2016 to Feb. 2017 and at the University of Brescia, from April 2017 to Dec. 2019. She currently holds a position as Assistant Professor of Solid Mechanics at the University of Brescia. Francesca's research focuses on modeling the multiphysics phenomena of thermo-chemo-mechanical fractures propagation from both theoretical and numerical perspectives. Furthermore, her research concerns multifield asymptotic homogenization techniques applied to piezoelectric, pyroelectric, thermo-diffusive, and viscoelastic materials, among others.
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Alberto Salvadori

Alberto Salvadori received his M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Brescia in 1995 and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering Science from Politecnico di Milano, in 2000. At present, I am Associate Professor at the University of Brescia. I have also been Research Assitant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, USA from Jan. 2015 to June 2017, as well as recipient of a Marie-Curie IEF fellowship, that was spent at the Technical University of Eindhoven (The Netherlands). I founded the Multiscale Mechanics and Multiphysics of Materials Lab as well as "The Mechanobiology research center, UNIBS". Currently, I am Director of the CeSiA (Centro di Studio e Ricerca di Sismologia applicata e dinamica strutturale - Applied Seismology and Structural Dynamics Research Center ) at the University of Brescia.
My current research interests focus on multi-scale co-designed experiments, models, and simulations of multi-physics processes in continua, with particular emphasis on energy storage materials (lithium and sodium ion batteries) and Mechanobiology of cells (tumor metastasis, angiogenesis, embryogenesis, bacteria and virus adhesion) and tissues. To deal with these interdisciplinary problems, in my research team we use cutting edge strategies, which include advanced computational mechanics coupled to chemo-mechanics, transport (diffusion and migration) of species in solids and in the induced fracturing processes (especially for Li-ion batteries modeling, Hydraulic fracturing, hydrogels ), variationally modeled in two- and three-dimensions and computationally solved. Numerical solution via FEM are achieved by in-house software (developed through the open source c++ library deal.ii) or writing proprietary code for Abaqus or Comsol. .

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