GLASS T&AM Glass
Structures & Advanced Materials modelling |
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Ing. Mauro Corrado, Ph.D. – Director Assistant Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics Dept.
of Structural, Geotechnical and Building
Engineering Politecnico di Torino Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 10129
Torino (Italy) Phone:
+39 011 0904858 Fax:
+39 011 0904899 Email: mauro.corrado@polito.it Former Marie Curie Fellow at the
Institute of Civil Engineering École Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) |
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Ing. Gregorio Mariggiò PhD student Dept.
of Structural, Geotechnical and Building
Engineering Politecnico di Torino Email: gregorio.mariggio@polito.it |
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Ing. Luisa Gaiero Research assistant Dept.
of Structural, Geotechnical and Building
Engineering Politecnico di Torino Email: luisa.gaiero@polito.it |
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Biografical sketch and career |
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• Mauro Corrado attended the
master (5 years) in Civil Engineering at Politecnico
di Torino, where he got the degree with a dissertation on “Applicability of
shear-capacity models to reinforced concrete deep beams”, (supervisor Prof.
Giuseppe Mancini), on 2004 with a final score of 110/110 cum laude. •
At the end of 2004 he was admitted to the PhD course in Structural
Engineering at Politecnico di Torino, where he
started his academic carrier at the Department of Structural, Geotechnical
and Building Engineering with the following positions: - January 2005 – April 2008: PhD
Student with scholarship. Thesis entitled:
“Size-scale effects on the plastic rotational capacity of reinforced concrete
beams” (Supervisors: Prof. Alberto Carpinteri and
Prof. Giuseppe Mancini). - March 2008 – October 2011: post-Doctoral
Fellow. - November 2011 – present: Assistant
Professor of Structural Mechanics. -
September 2014 – August 2016: Marie
Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Computational Solid Mechanics
Laboratory of the Institute of Civil Engineering at the École
Polytechnique Fédérale de
Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. • Dr.
Corrado has been the Coordinator of
the student mobility (Erasmus+ Programme) for
the School of Civil Engineering at the Politecnico
di Torino since from January 2013 to September 2014. He has also been the Responsible for the Quality System
Management of the Laboratory of Materials and Structures of the Politecnico di Torino from July 2013 to July 2014. • Aggregate
Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics in the School of
Civil Engineering since the A.Y. 2012/13. • Visiting
Professor at the IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Lucca, Italy
(February-March 2014 and April-May 2017), Visiting Researcher in the Computational Solid Mechanics
Laboratory at the École Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne (June 2017). • Dr.
Corrado is a recipient of a Marie
Curie Intra-European Fellowship for Career Development (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF). • Dr.
Corrado is member of the editorial
board of the International Journal of Structural Glass and Advanced
Materials Research and the journal Fracture and Structural Integrity. |
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COORDINATION
OF RESEARCH PROJECTS |
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• 2017 - 2019: Project Coordinator of the research
project “Enhancing the effective strength of structural glass with functional
coatings” funded by Politecnico di Torino and Compagnia di San Paolo under the call “Create a network
around your research idea 2017”; Partners: Glass and Transparency Research
Group from TU Delft (The Netherlands), and Cromology
Italia SpA (Italy); total funding: 150 kEuro. •
2014 - 2016: Principal
Investigator of the Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship 2013 “A
multi-scale numerical approach for a consistent understanding and modelling
of structural concrete” (grant agreement no. 628921); coordinator: Prof.
Jean-Francois Molinari (EPFL); total funding: 212 kEuro. • 2014: Coordinator of the consultancy contract “Quantitative evaluation
of the crack pattern in photovoltaic modules”; total budget: 4 kEuro |
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Participation
in Research Projects |
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• 2012-2017: Participant of the ERC Starting Grant
“Multi-field and multi-scale computational approach to design and durability
of photovoltaic modules” (Principal Investigator: Dr. Marco Paggi). • 2012-2017: Participant of the FIRB Future in
Research 2010: “Structural Mechanics models for renewable energy
applications” (Principal Investigator: Dr. Marco Paggi). • 2010-2012: Participant of the Italian Project of
National Interest (PRIN) “Advanced applications of Fracture Mechanics for
the study of integrity and durability of materials and structures” (Principal
Investigator: Prof. Alberto Carpinteri). |
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Invited
Lectures/Seminars |
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• “An XFEM
strategy to analyse the
scale-slenderness-reinforcement failure mode transitions in RC beams”, IMT Institute
for Advanced Studies Lucca, February 27, 2014. • “Dynamic behavior of finite thickness cohesive interfaces”, IUTAM
Symposium on Materials and Interfaces under High Strain Rate and Large
Deformation, June 17-21, 2013, Metz, France. • “Static and dynamic nonlinear fracture mechanics:
applications to RC and composite elements”,
Laboratoire de Simulation en Mécanique des Solides, École Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne, January 28, 2013. • “The
Overlapping Crack Model to analyze the nonlinear
behaviour of concrete and reinforced concrete structures”, at the meeting
with Prof. James R. Rice (Harvard University),
November 24, 2008, Politecnico di Torino, Torino,
Italy. |
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Conference
Organization |
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• Organizer of the Minisymposium “Advanced
multi-physics and multi-scale techniques for modeling inelastic processes in
solids: damage, fracture and contact mechanics” at the ECCOMAS Congress 2016,
Crete Island, Greece. Co-organizers: M. Paggi (IMT
Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy) and J. Reinoso
(University of Hannover, Germany). • Member of the
Organizing Committee of the X-DMS
2015: eXtended Discretization MethodS,
Ferrara, Italy, September 9-11, 2015. • Member of the
Organizing Committee of the XXI
Congresso Nazionale di Meccanica Teorica ed Applicata (AIMETA
2013), Torino, Italy, September 17-20, 2013. • Co-chairman in the
session “Size and Scale Effects” of the 7th International Conference on
Fracture Mechanics of Concrete and Concrete Structures (FraMCoS-7), 2010, Jeju, Korea. |
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Referee
Activities |
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Dr. Corrado is an expert evaluator for the
Italian Ministry of University, Education and Research, the Czech
Fulbright-Masaryk Commission, and the European Commission
(H2020-MSCA-IF-2018). Peer-reviewer for the
following international journals: • ACI Materials
Journal (American Concrete Institute) • ACI Structural
Journal (American Concrete Institute) • Advances in
Materials Science and Engineering (Hindawi
Publishing Corporation) • Applied Mathematical
Modelling (Elsevier) • Engineering
Fracture Mechanics (Elsevier) • Engineering
Structures (Elsevier) • Frattura e Integrità Strutturale (Italian
Group of Fracture) • International
Journal of Fatigue (Elsevier) • International
Journal of Solids and Structures (Elsevier) • Journal of Bridge
Engineering (ASCE Publications) • Journal of
Structural Engineering (ASCE Publications) • Journal of
Mechanical Science and Technology (Springer) • Mathematics and
Mechanics of Solids (SAGE) • Materials and
Structures (Springer) • Structures
(Elsevier) • The Arabian Journal
for Science and Engineering (Springer) Peer-reviewer of book
proposals for Elsevier Science and Technology Books. |
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Major
Collaboration |
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Dr. Corrado and his research unit collaborate with several research
centers, universities, and institutions around the world and in Italy,
including: • MUSAM - Multi-scale Analysis of
Materials, IMT Lucca, Italy (http://musam.imtlucca.it/):
multi-scale and multi-physics modelling in the finite element framework,
application of the cohesive zone model for the analysis of crack propagation
along material interfaces and in multi-crystalline materials. • Glass and Transparency Research Group,
Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands (https://www.tudelft.nl/bk/over-faculteit/afdelingen/architectural-engineering-and-technology/organisatie/leerstoelen/structural-design/glass-transparency-research-group/):
structural glass. • LSMS - Computational Solid Mechanics
Laboratory, École Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (https://lsms.epfl.ch/): multi-scale finite
element analysis of reinforced concrete elements in quasi-static and dynamic
regimes. • Elasticity and Strength of Materials
Group, School of Engineering, Universidad de Sevilla,
Spain: implicit finite element method for delamination in composite
materials, in dynamic regime and under the hypothesis of large displacements. • Prof. Laura De Lorenzis,
analytical models for delamination in composite materials, Institute of
Applied Mechanics, Technische Universität
Braunschweig, Germany. • Prof. Alison Raby and Prof. Yaqub Rafiq,
finite element analysis of impact loadings on offshore structures, School of
Marine Science and Engineering, Plymouth University, UK. • Dr. Baoming Gong, ductile crack propagation in metallic materials, Tianjin
University, China. Besides, Dr.
Corrado and his research unit are promoting technology transfer with
industrial collaborations: • Cromology Italia SpA (https://www.cromology.it/) • Bottero Glass Technologies
(http://www.bottero.com/it/) • SOLBIAN Energie Rinnovabili Srl • Dott. Gallina Srl • Stucky SA (Switzerland) |
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Supervision
of graduate students |
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• Supervisor of a
PhD candidate in the PhD programme of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Torino. • Co-advisor of a PhD project in Structural
Engineering (2009/11). PhD candidate: Dr. Baoming Gong; thesis title: “Hardening
Cohesive/Overlapping Zone Model and Fractal Approach to Ductile Fracture”. • Co-advisor of 12 Theses for
the Master degree in Civil Engineering. •
Academic
tutor of 3 training internships. |
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Last updated by Mauro Corrado on
May 2019 |
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