Publications

International Journal Publications

[1] Comina, C., R. Cosentini, G. Della Vecchia, S. Foti, G. Musso, 2010. Hydro-chemo-mechanical processes in soil samples: monitoring through electrical resistivity tomography. European Physical Journal 6 (22012). DOI:10.1051/epjconf/20100622012

[2] Romero, E., G. Della Vecchia, C. Jommi, 2011. An insight into the water retention properties of compacted clayey soils. Géotechnique 61 (4), 313-328. DOI:10.1680/geot.2011.61.4.313

[3] Comina, C., R. Cosentini, G. Della Vecchia, S. Foti, G. Musso, 2011. 3-D electrical resistivity tomography monitoring of chemical diffusion in homogeneous and layered soil samples. Acta Geotechnica 6 (4), 195-203, DOI: 10.1007./s11440-011-0146-3

[4] Cosentini, R., G. Della Vecchia, S. Foti, G. Musso, 2012. Estimation of the hydraulic parameters of unsaturated samples by electrical resistivity tomography. Géotechnique 62 (7), 583-594. DOI:10.1680/geot.10.P.066

[5] Della Vecchia, G., C. Jommi, E. Romero, 2013. A fully coupled elastic-plastic hydro-mechanical model for compacted soils accounting for clay activity. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics 37 (5), 503-535. DOI: 10.1002/nag.1116

[6] Musso, G., E. Romero, G. Della Vecchia, 2013. Double structure effects on the chemo-hydro-mechanical behaviour of compacted active clay. Géotechnique 63 (3), 206-220. DOI:10.1680/geot.SIP13.P.011

[7] Cattaneo, F., G. Della Vecchia, C. Jommi, 2014. Evaluation of numerical stress-point algorithms on elastic-plastic models for unsaturated soils with hardening dependent on the degree of saturation. Computers and Geotechnics 55, 404-415. DOI: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2013.09.018.

[8] Della Vecchia, G., A. Pandolfi, G. Musso, G. Capasso, 2014. An analytical expression for the determination of in-situ stress state from borehole data accounting for breakout size. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences 66, 64-68. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrmms.2013.12.012.

[9] Della Vecchia, G., A.C. Dieudonne, C. Jommi, R. Charlier, 2015. Accounting for evolving pore size distribution in water retention models for compacted clays. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics 39 (7), 702-723. DOI: 10.1002/nag.2326.

[10] Bagnoli, P., M. Bonfanti, G. Della Vecchia, M. Lualdi, L. Sgambi, 2015. A method to estimate concrete hydraulic conductivity of underground tunnel to assess lining degradation. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology 50, 415-423. DOI: 10.1016/j.tust.2015.08.008.

[11] Della Vecchia, G., M.L. De Bellis, A. Pandolfi, 2016. A multiscale microstructural model of damage and permeability in fractured solids. Procedia Engineering 158, 21-26. DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2016.08.399.

[12] De Bellis, M.L., G. Della Vecchia, M. Ortiz, A. Pandolfi, 2016. A linearized porous brittle damage material model with distributed frictional-cohesive faults. Engineering Geology 215, 10-24. DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2016.10.100.

[13] Wirth, X., J. Ning-Jun, T. da Silva, G. Della Vecchia, J. Evans, E. Romero, S.K. Bathia, 2016. Undergraduate Geotechnical Engineering Education of the 21st Century. ASCE Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice 142 (4), 02516002-1 - 02516002-8. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000317.

[14] Della Vecchia, G., G.Musso, 2016. Some remarks on single and double porosity modelling of coupled chemo-hydro-mechanical processes in clays. Soils and Foundations 56 (5), 779-789. DOI: 10.1016/j.sandf.2016.08.004.

[15] De Bellis, M.L., G. Della Vecchia, M. Ortiz, A. Pandolfi, 2017. A multiscale model of distributed fracture and permeability in solids in all-around compression. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 104, 12-31. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2017.03.017.

[16] Dieudonnè, A.C., G. Della Vecchia, R. Charlier, 2017. A water retention model for compacted bentonites, Canadian Geotechnical Journal 54 (7), 915-925. DOI: 10.1139/cgj-2016-0297

[17] G. Caramiello, A. Montanino, G. Della Vecchia, A. Pandolfi, 2018. An approach to hydraulic fracture through a porous brittle damage material model. Advanced Modelling and Simulation in Engineering Science 5 (23). DOI: 10.1186/s40323-018-0117-4.

[18] Scelsi, G., M.L. De Bellis, A. Pandolfi, G. Musso, G. Della Vecchia, 2019. A step-by-step analytical procedure to estimate in situ stress state from borehole data. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 176, 994-1007. DOI:

10.1016/j.petrol.2019.01.100.

[19] Della Vecchia, G., M. Cremonesi, F. Pisanò, 2019. On the use of the dam breaking test for the rheological characterization of liquefied sands. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, on line, DOI: 10.1002/nag.2905.

[20] Della Vecchia, G., G. Scelsi, G, Musso, 2019. Modelling the role of pore water salinity on the water retention behaviour of compacted active clays. Italian Geotechnical Journal 3-2019, 17-29. DOI:10.19199/2019.3.0557.

[21] Pisanò, F., M. Cremonesi, F. Cecinato, G. Della Vecchia, 2020. A CFD-based framework for the analysis of soil-pipeline interaction in re-consolidating liquefied sand. ASCE Journal of Mechanics 146(19), 0402119. DOI: /10.1061/(ASCE)EM.1943-7889.0001846

[22] Flessati, L., G. Della Vecchia, G. Musso, 2020. Mechanical behavior and constitutive modeling of cement-bentonite mixtures for cutoff walls. Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering 33(3), 0420483. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EM.1943-5533.0003584

[23] Guida, G., Musso, G., Sanetti, G., di Prisco, C., & Della Vecchia, G. (2021). A procedure to estimate cutoff wall transport properties from monitoring wells. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 45(9), 1282-1299.

[24] Jiang, N. J., Hanson, J. L., Della Vecchia, G., Zhu, C., Yi, Y., Arnepalli, D. N., ... & Singh, D. N. (2021). Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering education during the pandemic. Environmental Geotechnics, 8(3), 233-243.

[25] Scelsi, G., Abed, A. A., Della Vecchia, G., Musso, G., & Sołowski, W. T. (2021). Modelling the behaviour of unsaturated non-active clays in saline environment. Engineering Geology, 295, 106441.

[26] Yuan, K., Ni, W., Lü, X., Della Vecchia, G., Wang, H., Li, L., & Nie, Y. (2022). Influence of wetting–drying cycles on the compression behavior of a compacted loess from microstructure analysis. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 81(9), 1-13.

[27] Musso, G., Vespo, S., Guida, G. , Della Vecchia (2022). Hydro-mechanical behaviour of a cement-bentonite mixture along evaporation and water-uptake controlled paths. Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment (Accepted).

[28] Musso, G., Scelsi, G., Della Vecchia (2022). Chemo-mechanical behaviour of non-expansive clays accounting for salinity effects. Géotechnique (Accepted).

[29] Pisanò, F., Betto, D., Della Vecchia, G., Cremonesi, M. (2022). Pipeline flotation in liquefied sand: a simplified transient model. Ocean Engineering (Accepted).

[30] Guida, G., Della Vecchia, G., Vespo, G., Musso, G. (2023). The role of hydraulic and thermal properties on evaporation from granular soils: a numerical insight. Submitted to Environmental Geotechnics, under review.

Book Chapters

[1] Jommi, C., G. Della Vecchia, 2010. Geomechanical analysis of river embankments. In Mechanics of Unsaturated Geomaterials, Lyesse Laloui (ed.), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken (USA), 353-373. ISBN 978-1-84821-266-4

[2] Pandolfi, A., M.L. De Bellis, G. Della Vecchia, 2015. A multiscale microstructural model of permeability in fractured solids. In Innovative Numerical Approaches for Multi-Field and Multi-Scale Problems, Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics Volume 81, Kerstin Weinberg & Anna Pandolfi (eds.), Springer Series, 265-283. ISBN 978-3-319-39021-5

International Conference Proceedings

[1] Della Vecchia, G., C. Jommi, E. Romero, 2008. Hydro-mechanical coupling in unsaturated compacted clayey soils: modelling the water retention behaviour . 3rd International Workshop of Young Doctors in Geomechanics, W(H)YDOC 08, Pereira, De Gennaro & Delage (eds) 2008, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, Champs-sur-Marne. November 19-21, 2008. Pp. 21-24.

[2] Della Vecchia, G., R.M. Cosentini, S. Foti, G. Musso, 2009. Hydro-Mechanical Coupling in Saturated and Unsaturated Soils and its Consequences on the Electrical Behaviour. European COMSOL Conference, Milano, Italy. 14-16 Ottobre 2009.

[3] Cattaneo, F., G. Della Vecchia, C. Jommi, G. Maffioli, 2010. A comparison between numerical integration algorithms for unsaturated soils constitutive models. In Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, proceedings of the 7^th European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering. T. Benz & S. Nordal (eds), Taylor & Francis Group, London , 319-324.

[4] Cosentini, R.M., G. Della Vecchia, S. Foti, G, Musso, 2010. Detecting water content changes in sand samples by means of Electrical Resistivity Tomography. In Unsaturated Soils, proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Unsaturated Soils. E. Alonso and A. Gens (eds), Taylor & Francis Group, London, 647-652.

[5] Della Vecchia, G., A. Lima, E. Romero, C. Jommi, 2010. Some remarks on the hydro-mechanical modeling of natural and compacted Boom Clay. In Unsaturated Soils, proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Unsaturated Soils. E. Alonso and A. Gens (eds): 803-809. London: Taylor & Francis Group.

[6] Cattaneo, F., G. Della Vecchia, C. Jommi, 2010. A driver for the integration of coupled hydro-mechanical constitutive laws. In Unsaturated Soils, proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Unsaturated Soils. E. Alonso and A. Gens (eds) Taylor & Francis Group, London, 1017-1023.

[7] Della Vecchia, G., L. Morales, E. Garzón, C. Jommi, E. Romero, 2010. Modelling criteria for a microbiologically stabilised compacted soil in the framework of elastoplasticity. In Unsaturated Soils, proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Unsaturated Soils. E. Alonso and A. Gens (eds), Taylor & Francis Group, London, 795-801.

[8] Cardoso, R., G. Della Vecchia, C. Jommi, E. Romero, 2010. Water retention curve for evolving marl under suction cycles. In Unsaturated Soils, proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Unsaturated Soils. E. Alonso and A. Gens (eds), Taylor & Francis Group, London, 1451-1457.

[9] Della Vecchia, G., R.M Cosentini, 2011. Electrical resistivity tomography: monitoring of hydro-chemical processes and parameter estimation. In Geotechnical Engineering: New Horizons, Proceedings of the 21st European Young Geotechnical Engineers’ Conference. F.B.J. Barends, J. Breedeveld, R.B.J. Brinkgreve, M. Korff and L.A. van Passen (eds), IOS Press, Amsterdam, 312-317.

[10] Della Vecchia, G., C. Jommi, E. Romero, 2011. Radial stress path in compacted Boom clay: stiffness and anisotropy. In Proceedings of the Fifth Asian-Pacific Conference on Unsaturated Soils, Kasetsart University, Pattaya, Thailand. A. Jotisankasa, A. Sawangsuriya, S. Soralump and W. Mairaing (eds), 273-278.

[11] Della Vecchia, G., C. Airò Farulla, C. Jommi, 2012. Modelling the water retention domain of a compacted scaly clay. In Unsaturated Soils: Research and Application, Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Unsaturated Soils. C. Mancuso, C. Jommi and F. D'Onza (eds), Vol. 2, 55-62.

[12] Gomez, R., E. Romero, G. Della Vecchia, C. Jommi, J. Suriol, A. Lloret, 2012. Parameter calibration of a water retention curve model that includes void ratio dependency and microstructural features. In Unsaturated Soils: Research and Application, Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Unsaturated Soils. C. Mancuso, C. Jommi and F. D'Onza (eds), Vol. 1, 153-158.

[13] Arato, A., R.M. Cosentini, G. Della Vecchia, S. Foti, A. Godio, G. Musso, 2012. Electrical Resistivity Tomography: combined field and laboratory experiments for the characterization and monitoring of hydrocarbon pollution. In Geotechnical and Geophysical Site Characterization 4, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Geotechnical and Geophysical Site Characterization, Porto de Galinha, Pernambuco, Brazil. R.Q. Coutinho and P.W. Mayne (eds), CRC Press, Leiden (NL), 1789-1796.

[14] Musso, G., G. Della Vecchia, E. Romero, 2013. Modeling the coupled chemo-hydro-mechanical behavior of compacted active clays. Specific Lecture in Coupled Phenomena in Environmental Geotechnics, Proceedings of the International Conference 'Coupled Phenomena in Environmental Geotechnics (CPEG)', Torino, Italy. M. Manassero, A. Dominijanni, S. Foti and G. Musso (eds), Taylon & Francis Group, London (UK), 199-210.

[15] Musso, G., G. Della Vecchia, E. Romero, 2013. Modelling the coupled chemo-hydro-mechanical behavior of structured active clays on basis of quantitative microstructural information. In Poromechanics V, Proceedings of the 5th Biot Conference on Poromechanics, Vienna, Austria. C. Hellmich, B. Pichler and D. Adam (eds), American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, Virginia (USA), 1534-1541.

[16] Dieudonne, A.C., S. Levasseur, R. Charlier, G. Della Vecchia, C. Jommi, 2013. A water retention model for compacted clayey soils. In Computational Geomechanics COMGEO III, Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Computational Geomechanics, Krakow, Poland. S. Pietruszczak and G.N. Pande (eds), International Centre for Computational Engineering, Rhodes, Greece & Swansea, UK, 23-31.

[17] Dieudonne, A.C., G. Della Vecchia, R. Charlier, C. Jommi, 2014. Influence of microfabric evolution on the retention behaviour of compacted clayey soils. In Unsaturated Soils: Research and Applications, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Unsaturated Soils, UNSAT2014, Sydney, Australia, 679-684.

[18] Dieudonne, A.C., S. Levasseur, R. Charlier, G. Della Vecchia, C. Jommi, 2014. Influence of clay fabric and water retention properties along hydromechanical stress path. In Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, NUMGE 2014, Delft, the Netherlands. M.A. Hicks, R.B.J. Brinkgreve, A. Rohe (eds), CRC Press/ Balkema, Leiden, the Netherlands, 971-975.

[19] Musso, G., Della Vecchia, G., 2014. Comparing double porosity and single porosity models for the simulation of coupled chemo-hydro-mechanical behavior of compacted active clays. In Geomechanics from Micro to Macro, Proceedings of the TC105 ISSMGE International Symposium on Geomechanics from Micro to Macro, IS-CAmbridge, Cambridge, UK. K. Soga, K. Kumar, G. Biscontin, M. Kuo (eds), Taylor & Francis Group, London.

[20] Jommi, C., N. Valimberti, R.N. Tollenaar, G. Della Vecchia, L.A. van Paassen, 2016. Modelling desiccation cracks in a homogenous soil clay layer: comparison between different hypotheses on constitutive behaviour. E3S Web of Conference 9, 08006, EDP Science. Proceedings of Third European Conference on Unsaturated Soils E-UNSAT 2016, Paris (France). DOI: 10.1051/e3sconf/20160908006.

[21] Jommi, C., G. Della Vecchia, 2016. Fabric and clay activity in soil water retention behaviour. E3S Web of Conference 9, 04002, EDP Science. Proceedings of Third European Conference on Unsaturated Soils E-UNSAT 2016, Paris (France). DOI: 10.1051/e3sconf/20160904002.

[22] Scelsi, G., G. Della Vecchia, C. di Prisco, G. Musso, G. Sanetti, 2019. Optimization of the Geometry of Monitoring Devices for Contaminant Detection in Cement-Bentonite Cutoff Walls. In National Conference of the Reserchers of Geotechnical Engineering, CNRIG 2019: Geotechnical Research for Land Protection and Development, Lecco (Italy), Springer, Cham., 555-564.

[23] Pisanò, F., M. Cremonesi, F. Bortolotto, G. Della Vecchia, 2019. A CFD approach for the flotation analysis of pipelines in liquefied sand. In XVII European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Icelandic Geotechnical Society, 1-8.

[24] Trischitta, P., R. Cosentini, G. Della Vecchia, G. Sanetti, G. Musso, 2020. Preliminary investigation on the water retention behaviour of cement bentonite mixtures. Accepted for publication in the 4th European Conference on Unsaturated Soils, EUNSAT-2020.

[25] Scelsi, G., G. Della Vecchia, G. Musso, 2020. A water retention model for compacted clays subjected to salinization and desalinization processes. Accepted for publication in the 4th European Conference on Unsaturated Soils, EUNSAT-2020.

[26] Musso, G., A. Zibisco, R. Cosentini, P. Trischitta, G. Della Vecchia, 2020. Electrical Resistivity Tomography monitoring of drying and wetting of a cement bentonite mixture. Accepted for publication in the 4th European Conference on Unsaturated Soils, EUNSAT-2020.

[27] Vespo, S., G. Della Vecchia, G. Musso, 2020. Modelling evaporation processes of cement-bentonite mixtures. Accepted for publication in the 4th European Conference on Unsaturated Soils, EUNSAT-2020.

[28] Scelsi, G., G. Della Vecchia, G, Musso, 2020. An elasto-plastic framework for the chemo-mechanical behaviour of low to medium activity clays. Accepted for publication in the 16th International Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics , IACMAG2020.

[29] Musso, G., G. Scelsi, G. Della Vecchia, 2020. Elasto-plastic modelling of the behaviour of non-active clays under chemo-mechanical actions. Accepted for publication in the 2nd International Conference on Energy Geotechnics, ICEGT-2020.

National Conference Proceedings

[1] Cosentini, R.M., G. Della Vecchia, S. Foti, G. Musso, 2011. La tomografia elettrica come tecnica per la caratterizzazione idraulica dei mezzi porosi ed il monitoraggio dei processi transitori. In Innovazione Tecnologica nell’Ingegneria Geotecnica: Atti del XXIV Convegno Nazionale di Geotecnica. Napoli, 22-24 Giugno 2011. Edizioni AGI, 687-694 (in Italian).

[2] Della Vecchia, G., A. Galli, C. di Prisco, 2017. Un approccio semplificato per la valutazione delle strategie di manutenzione delle infrastrutture ferroviarie. In L'Ingegneria Geotecnica nella conservazione e tutela del patrimonio costruito: Atti del XXVI Convegno Nazionale di Geotecnica. Roma, 20-22 Giugno 2017. Edizioni AGI, 907-915 (in Italian).

[3] Guida, G., G. Della Vecchia, C. di Prisco, G. Musso, G. Sanetti, 2020. Dispositivi per il monitoraggio delle proprietà chemo-idrauliche di diaframmi plastici. Accpted for XXVIII Convegno Nazionale di Geotecnica.

[4] Musso, G., P. Trischitta, A. Zibisco, R.M. Cosentini, G. Sanetti, G. Della Vecchia, 2020. Studio sperimentale del comportamento meccanico di miscele cemento-bentonite lungo percorsi di essiccamento e imbibizione. Accepted for il XXVIII Convegno Nazionale di Geotecnica.

[5] S. Alberti, M.M. Secondi, G. Della Vecchia, C. di Prisco, G. Favata, 2020. Analisi sperimentali della risposta di micropali soggetti a prove di sfilamento. Accepted for il XXVIII Convegno Nazionale di Geotecnica.

Other Publications

[1] Comina, C., R. Cosentini, G. Della Vecchia, S. Foti,and G. Musso, 2009. Monitoring transient hydro-mechanical processes in porous media using electrical resistivity tomography. Pure Mathematics and Applications PU.M.A. 20 (1-2), 165 – 167.

[2] Della Vecchia, G., 2009. Alcuni effetti dell’attività della frazione argillosa sul comportamento dei terreni compattati. Incontro Annuale dei Ricercatori di Geotecnica, Università di Roma – la Sapienza, Roma. 9-11 Settembre 2009 (in Italian).

[3] Cosentini, R.M., G. Della Vecchia, S. Foti, G. Musso, 2009. Analisi della variazione del grado di saturazione mediante misure di tomografia elettrica. Incontro Annuale dei Ricercatori di Geotecnica, Università di Roma – la Sapienza, Roma. 9-11 Settembre 2009 (in Italian).

[4] Della Vecchia, G., G. Capasso, A. Pandolfi, 2011. Determinazione dello stato di sforzo in situ a partire da dati di scavo di pozzo . Incontro Annuale dei Ricercatori di Geotecnica, Politecnico di Torino, Torino. 4-6 Luglio 2011 (in Italian).

[5] Della Vecchia, G., G. Musso, E. Romero, 2011. Effetti della doppia struttura sul comportamento chemo-idro-meccanico di argille attive compattate. Incontro Annuale dei Ricercatori di Geotecnica, Politecnico di Torino, Torino. 4-6 Luglio 2011 (in Italian).

[6] Della Vecchia, G., C. Jommi, A.C. Dieudonnè, 2013. Un modello di curva di ritenzione per terreni argillosi compattati. Incontro Annuale dei Ricercatori di Geotecnica, Università di Perugia, Perugia. 16-18 Settembre 2013 (in Italian).

[7] Della Vecchia, G., F. Pisanò, A. Galli, C. di Prisco, 2014. Una procedura semplificata per il calcolo dei cedimenti in rilevati ferroviari. Incontro Annuale dei Ricercatori di Geotecnica, Università di Chieti, Chieti. 14-16 Luglio 2014 (in Italian).

[8] Musso, G., G. Della Vecchia, 2014. Modelli accoppiati di barriere per rifiuti radioattivi. Giornata di Studio: Il contributo della geotecnica alla protezione del sottosuolo dagli inquinanti , Napoli, 18 Luglio 2014 (in Italian).

[9] Caramiello, G., A. Montanino, G. Scelsi, M.L. De Bellis, G. Della Vecchia, A. Pandolfi, 2017. Un modello di danno fragile per mezzi porosi: esempi di applicazione. Incontro Annuale dei Ricercatori di Geotecnica, Matera. 5-7 Luglio 2017 (in Italian).

[10] Della Vecchia, G., M. Cremonesi, F. Cecinato, F. Pisanò, 2018. Sulla modellazione di sabbie liquefatte come fluidi non newtoniani. Incontro Annuale dei Ricercatori di Geotecnica, Genova. 4-6 Luglio 2018.

[11] Redaelli, I., A.Galli, G. Della Vecchia, C. di Prisco, 2018. Influenza della storia di carico orizzontale sulla resistenza a sfilamento di pali in sabbia. Incontro Annuale dei Ricercatori di Geotecnica, Genova. 4-6 Luglio 2018.

PhD Thesis

G. Della Vecchia, 2009. Coupled Hydro-mechanical Behaviour of Compacted Clayey Soils. PhD Thesis, Politecnico di Milano.