RESEARCH FIELDS AND ACTIVITY
The research activity has covered a wide range of engineering applications in structural and materials mechanics, with particular emphasis on theoretical and computational issues of problems in the presence of material and geometric nonlinearities. The main scientific results pertain to the following topics:
Regularized models for damage phenomena in composite materials and imperfect interface models
FE Models for brittle and quasi-brittle fracture
Displacement Discontinuities and cracks
Crack tracking and continuous-discontinuous transition
Nonlocal elasticity applied to CNTs and nanocomposites
Extended Virtual Element Method for problems with singularities and cracks
Large displacements Virtual Element Model
Multi-risk analysis in the framework of territorial risks in civil engineering
Mechanobiology of cell-ECM interactions
RESEARCH PRODUCTS AND BIBLIOMETRIC DATA. (Updated: 15 02 2024)
over 150 research products.
Most significant products: 51 papers in peer-reviewed int. journals, 1 book chapter, 3 monographs.
Google Scholar: Documents: h-index: 21, i-10 index: 33. Citations: 1392
Scopus. Documents: 63. h-index: 18 (14 without self-citations). Citations: 1034.
4 MOST CITED PAPERS (Citations: Scopus, Google Scholar)
Benvenuti E., Simone A. One-dimensional nonlocal and gradient elasticity: Closed-form solution and size effect (2013), Mechanics Research Communications 48, pp. 46-51 (152, 188)
Benvenuti, E., A regularized XFEM framework for embedded cohesive interfaces, (2008) Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 197 (49-50), pp. 4367-4378. (81, 106).
Ventura G., Benvenuti E. (2015) Equivalent polynomials for quadrature in Heaviside function enriched elements. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 102:688–710 (59,76).
Benvenuti E., Tralli A., Ventura G. (2008) A regularized XFEM model for the transition from continuous to discontinuous displacements, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 74 (6), pp. 911-944. (58, 87).
RESEARCH GRANTS
2024-2025 Project Manager of the European Interreg Italy Croatia STRENGTH project on multi-risk analysis (1.8ME), 85% funded by EC.
2019-2022 Project Manager of the European Interreg Italy Croatia PMO-GATE project on multi-risk analysis (1.4 ME), 85% funded by EC.
2019-2020 scientific responsibility of the UNIFE research group within the PRIN 2017 (National coordinator N. Pugno)
2017-2019 scientific responsibility of the UNIFE research group within the PRIN 2015 Multi-scale mechanical models for the design and optimization of micro-structured smart materials and metamaterials (National coordinator A. Corigliano)
2016-2017 member of the UNIFE RU funded by the National Research grant PRIN 2015 Multi-scale mechanical models for the design and optimization of micro-structured smart materials and metamaterials (National coordinator A. Corigliano)
2008-2009 member of the UNIFE RU funded by the National Research grant “Multi-scale problems with complex interactions in structural engineering” MIUR-cofin-2007. (National coordinator A. Corigliano)
2006-2007 member of the UNIFE RU funded by the National Research grant “Interfacial resistance and failure in materials and structural systems” MIUR-cofin-2005. (National coordinator A. Corigliano)
2004-2005 member of the UNIFE RU funded by the National Research grant “Modelling, identification and monitoring of interface damage in structural layered systems” MIUR-cofin-2003
PI of the 2014 UNIFE Internationalization grant "ADIMS: Advanced Discretization Methods"
PI of the 2011 UNIFE Internationalization grant "NURBS models"
EDUCATION
Feb. 2001: PhD in "Material and Structural Mechanics" Università degli Studi di Trento.
March 1997: Laurea (5 years Master of Sciences), 110/110 cum laude, Civil Eng., University of Ferrara, Italy.
July 1990: High School degree (60/60).
CURRENT POSITION
Department of Engineering, Univ.ersity of Ferrara, Italy, From November 2014: Associate Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics.
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Dep. of Engineering, Univ. of Ferrara, Italy, April. 2006 - Nov. 2014: ricercatore (assistant professor).
ABROAD RESEARCH EXPERIENCES
April 1999 - July 1999: visiting scholar il Laboratoire Sols Solides Structures Grenoble, Université Joseph Fourier, collaboration with Prof. Benjamin Loret.
November 1999- December 1999, visiting scholar at Laboratoire Sols Solides Structures Grenoble, Université Joseph Fourier, collaboration with Prof. Benjamin Loret.
November 2001 - December 2001: research period at Laboratoire Sols Solides Structures Grenoble, Université Joseph Fourier, collaboration with Prof. Benjamin Loret.
September 2009, Erasmus visiting professor at UPC Barcelona
November 2011, Visiting researcher at TU Delft
April 2012, Visiting researcher at Czech Technical University in Prague
FELLOWSHIPS
1998: PhD scholarship.
From 2001 to 2006: research grants at UNIFE
ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES AND SCIENTIFIC EVENTS
2015. Co-chair of the X-DMS 2015 (Extended Discretization Methods) International conference, Ferrara, Milano, 9-11 Sept. 2015 (120 participants )
2014 co-organizer of a Minisymposium at WCCM 2014 Barcelona, Analytical and computational models for imperfect interfaces, with R. Rizzoni, F. Lebon, S. Dumont
2016 co-organizer of a Minisymposium at ECCOMAS 2016 Crete " Regularized EnrichedApproximations and Quadrature for Discontinuities, Singularities and Continuous-Discontinuous Transition " with G. Ventura and J.Cesar De Sa
Organizer of the international X-DMS PhD course at the IUSS Ferrara 7-8 Sept. 2015
2017 co-organizer of a Minisymposium at COMPLAS 2017 with G. Ventura and J.Cesar De Sa
2017 co-organizer of a Minisymposium at XDMS 2017 Umea, Sweden with S. Loehnert and G. Ventura
2018 co-organizer of a Minisymposium at ESMC 2018 Bologna Italy with N. Sukumar and A. Tralli
2018 organizer of the GIMC GMA conference in Ferrara (120 participants)
EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACTIVITY AS JOURNAL REFEREE
Member of the Editorial Board of Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi.
Co-Editor with G. Ventura of the volume "Recent advances in Discretization Methods: Discontinuities, virtual elements, fictitious domain methods", SEMA SPRINGER series 2016.
Member of the International Advisory Board of Journal of Composites for Constructions, ASCE
Associate Editor of Frontiers in Built Environment, section Computational Methods in Structural Engineering, Loop
Member of the Editorial Board of Mathematics, MDPI
Reviewer for more than 30 international journals.
TEACHING ACTIVITY
AA 1997/1998: docente a contratto, incaricato per l'insegnamento di Statica (20 ore) nell'ambito del corso di Laboratorio di Tecnologia delle Costruzioni. Corso di Laurea in Architettura. Università di Ferrara.
AA 2001/2002: docente a contratto, incaricato alle Esercitazioni (30 ore) per il corso di Scienza delle Costruzioni Corso di laurea in Ingegneria Gestionale. Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
A.A 2002/2003, Scienza delle Costruzioni I. Corso di laurea in Ingegneria Civile Università di Ferrara.
AA 2003/2004-2004/2005-2005/2006-2007/2008-2008/2009-2009/2010, Progettazione Strutturale Assistita, Facoltà di Ingegneria di Ferrara
AA 2006/2007-2007/2008-2008/2009-2009/2010, Scienza delle Costruzioni I, Ingegneria Civile, Facoltà di Ingegneria di Ferrara
AA 2006/2007-2007/2008-2008/2009-2009/2010, Progettazione Strutturale Assistita, Facoltà di Ingegneria di Ferrara
AA 2009/2010, Meccanica Delle Strutture Ingegneria Civile, Facoltà di Ingegneria di Ferrara
AA 2010/2011-2011/2012-2012/2013, Meccanica Delle Strutture Ingegneria Civile, Facoltà di Ingegneria di Ferrara
AA 2011/2012-2012/2013, Analisi Non Lineare Delle Strutture, Facoltà di Ingegneria di Ferrara
AA 2012/2013, 2013/2014, 2014/2015, Meccanica delle Strutture Ingegneria Civile, Ingegneria Civile, Dipartimento di Ingegneria di Ferrara
AA 2015/2016,2016/2017, 2017/2019, 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2021/2022, 2022/2023: Scienza delle Costruzioni, Dipartimento di Ingegneria di Ferrara
AA 2021/2022, 2022/2023 Laboratorio di Meccanica Computazionale, Dipartimento di Ingegneria di Ferrara