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Mercoledì 14.30-16.30

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Professore Ordinario di Scienza delle Costruzioni - Univ. di Firenze, 2023-

Professore Associato di Scienza delle Costruzioni - Univ. di Parma, 2014-2023

Ricercatore universitario di Scienza delle Costruzioni - Univ. di Parma, 1998-2014

Dottore di ricerca in Meccanica delle Strutture - Univ. di Bologna, 1993-1997

Laurea in Ing. Civile con lode - Univ. di Parma, 1993

Formazione e posizioni accademiche

1. Professore Ordinario per il Settore Scientifico Disciplinare ICAR08, “Scienza delle Costruzioni”, dal 01/09/2023, con afferenza al Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale dell’Università degli Studi di Firenze.
2. Professore Associato per il Settore Scientifico Disciplinare ICAR08, “Scienza delle Costruzioni”, dal 01/10/2014 al 31/08/2023, con afferenza al Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, dell’Ambiente, del Territorio e Architettura dell’Università degli Studi di Parma.
3. Ricercatore Universitario per il Settore Scientifico Disciplinare ICAR08, “Scienza delle Costruzioni” dal 16/05/1998 presso la Facoltà di Ingegneria (con afferenza al Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, dell’Ambiente, del Territorio e Architettura) dell’Università degli Studi di Parma.
4. Dottore di Ricerca in “Meccanica delle Strutture”, Università di Bologna; esame finale sostenuto presso l’Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II il 16/09/1997.
5. Laurea in Ingegneria Civile il 17/03/1993 presso la Facoltà di Ingegneria dell'Università di Parma con 110/110 e lode.

Pubblicazioni

• Scopus
• Google Scholar

Progetti di ricerca

• Co-coordinatore del progetto H2020-WIDESPREAD-2018-03: “Structural Integrity and Reliability of Advanced Materials obtained through Additive Manufacturing” – SIRAMM, Project No. 857124, 2019-2023.
• Progetto di ricerca: ”Phase field modeling of fracture in elastomeric materials: theoretical and numerical issues in predicting damage and failure in highly deformable materials”, German Research Foundation (DFG), 2019.
• Responsabile del progetto di ricerca del Ministero degli Affari esteri ICE – Conferenza dei Rettori delle Università Italiane (CRUI) agreement, 2011.

Attivita’ didattica

Docente di:

• Scienza delle Costruzioni (Univ. di Firenze)
• Continuum Mechanics (Univ. di Firenze)
• Meccanica delle Strutture (Univ. di Firenze)
• Meccanica Computazionale delle Strutture (Univ. di Parma)
• Introduction to nonilnear problems in mechanics (Univ. di Parma)
• Scienza delle Costruzioni (Univ. di Parma)
• Meccanica dei Materiali e della Frattura (Univ. di Parma)
• Fondamenti di progettazione strutturale meccanica (Univ. di Parma)
• Metodi Numerici per l’Analisi Strutturale(Univ. di Parma)

Collaborazioni internazionali

• Israel Institute of Technology (TECHNION), Israel.
• California Institute of Technology, Mech & Civil Eng., CALTECH, Pasadena (CA), USA.
• Institute of Structural Mechanics, Faculty of Civil Eng., Bauhaus Univ. Weimar, Germany.
• Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado Univ. at Boulder (CO) USA.
• Institute of Mechanics, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Dortmund Technical Univ., Germany.

Attività editoriali

• Editorial Board Member: “Thin-Walled Structures”, (Elsevier, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/thin-walled-structures/, IF= 6.400), 2014-.
• Associate Editor: “Computers, Materials & Continua”, (Tech Science Press, http://www.techscience.com/cmc/index.html, IF=3.100), 2023-.
• Editorial Board Member: “Computers, Materials & Continua”, (Tech Science Press, http://www.techscience.com/cmc/index.html, IF=3.860), 2018-2023.
• Associate Editor: “Computational Materials Science” (Frontiers in Materials, Frontiers Ed., EPFL Lausanne Switzerland, http://journal.frontiersin.org/journal/materials, IF=3.200), 2017-.
• Editorial Board Member: “Discover Materials” (Springer,  https://www.springer.com/journal/43939/), 2020-.
• Editorial Board Member: “Applied Mechanics”, (MDPI, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applmech), 2020-.
• Editorial Board Member: “Materials Plus”, (Universal Wiser Publisher, https://ojs.wiserpub.com/index.php/MP/), 2022-.
• Editorial Board Member: “Int. J. of Fatigue” (Elsevier, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-fatigue/, IF= 5.186), 2001-2007.
• Editor-in-Chief: “Journal of Civil Engineering Research” (Scientific & Academic Publishing Co., http://www.sapub.org/Journal/articles.aspx?journalid=1038), 2012-2022.
• Editorial Board Member: “J. of Materials Science and Applications” (Science Publishing Group, http://www.ijmsa.org/index), 2020-.
• Editorial Board Member: “Modeling and Numerical Simulation of Material Science (MNSMS)” (Scientific Research Publishing Inc., http://www.scirp.org/journal/mnsms), 2011-.
• Editorial Board Member: “Journal of Engineering” (Hindawi Publishing, https://www.hindawi.com/journals/je/), 2010-.
• Editorial Board Member: “The Scientific World Journal”, Civil Engineering (Hindawi Publishing, http://www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/, IF=2.107),  2013-2016.

Revisore di progetti di ricerca

• Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong (https://www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/rgc/index.html)
• Israel Science Foundation (ISF) (https://isf.org.il/#/Home/en)
• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG) (https://www.dfg.de/en/index.jsp)
• French National Research Agency (ANR) (https://anr.fr/en)
• Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Berne, Swiss (http://www.snf.ch/en/Pages/default.aspx).
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Ottawa  (Ontario), Canada (https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/index_eng.asp).
• U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), USA (http://www.bsf.org.il).
• Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Vienna, Austria (https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/).
• Slovenian Research Agency-ARRS, Ljubljana, Slovenia (https://www.arrs.gov.si/en/).

• Modellazione multi fisica di materiali avanzati

• Meccanica dei materiali attivi (stimuli-responsive polymers, LCEs, gels)

• Simulazione dei processi di additive manufacturing (AM), affidabilità e caratterizzazione meccanica dei materiali ottenuti da AM.

• Meccanica computazionale. Formulazione di nuovi elementi finiti. Metodi agli elementi discreti (particle methods) per l’analisi di solidi continui e materiali granulari.

• Meccanica della frattura in materiali altamente deformabili

Personal website:  

http://people.dicea.unifi.it/rbrighenti

Full Professor of Solids and Structural Mechanics - Univ. of Florence, 2023-

Ass. Professor of Solids and Structural Mechanics - Univ. of Parma, 2014-2023

Assistant Professor of Solids and Structural Mechanics - Univ. of Parma, 1998-2014

Ph.D. in Mechanics of Structures - Univ. of Bologna, 1993-1997

MsC in Civil Eng. cum laude - Univ. of Parma, 1993

Publications

• Scopus
• Google Scholar

Research projects

• Co-coordinator of the H2020-WIDESPREAD-2018-03 project: “Structural Integrity and Reliability of Advanced Materials obtained through Additive Manufacturing” – SIRAMM, Project No. 857124, 2019-2023.
• Grant recipient of the project: ”Phase field modeling of fracture in elastomeric materials: theoretical and numerical issues in predicting damage and failure in highly deformable materials”, German Research Foundation (DFG), 2019.
• Responsible for a research project funded by the Ministry for Foreign Trade – ICE – Conferenza dei Rettori delle Università Italiane (CRUI) agreement, 2011.

International collaborations

• Israel Institute of Technology (TECHNION), Israel.
• California Institute of Technology, Mech & Civil Eng., CALTECH, Pasadena (CA), USA.
• Institute of Structural Mechanics, Faculty of Civil Eng., Bauhaus Univ. Weimar, Germany.
• Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado Univ. at Boulder (CO) USA.
• Institute of Mechanics, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Dortmund Technical Univ., Germany.

Editorial activities

• Editorial Board Member: “Thin-Walled Structures”, (Elsevier, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/thin-walled-structures/, IF= 6.400), 2014-.
• Associate Editor: “Computers, Materials & Continua”, (Tech Science Press, http://www.techscience.com/cmc/index.html, IF=3.100), 2023-.
• Editorial Board Member: “Computers, Materials & Continua”, (Tech Science Press, http://www.techscience.com/cmc/index.html, IF=3.860), 2018-2023.
• Associate Editor: “Computational Materials Science” (Frontiers in Materials, Frontiers Ed., EPFL Lausanne Switzerland, http://journal.frontiersin.org/journal/materials, IF=3.200), 2017-.
• Editorial Board Member: “Discover Materials” (Springer,  https://www.springer.com/journal/43939/), 2020-.
• Editorial Board Member: “Applied Mechanics”, (MDPI, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applmech), 2020-.
• Editorial Board Member: “Materials Plus”, (Universal Wiser Publisher, https://ojs.wiserpub.com/index.php/MP/), 2022-.
• Editorial Board Member: “Int. J. of Fatigue” (Elsevier, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-fatigue/, IF= 5.186), 2001-2007.
• Editor-in-Chief: “Journal of Civil Engineering Research” (Scientific & Academic Publishing Co., http://www.sapub.org/Journal/articles.aspx?journalid=1038), 2012-2022.
• Editorial Board Member: “J. of Materials Science and Applications” (Science Publishing Group, http://www.ijmsa.org/index), 2020-.
• Editorial Board Member: “Modeling and Numerical Simulation of Material Science (MNSMS)” (Scientific Research Publishing Inc., http://www.scirp.org/journal/mnsms), 2011-.
• Editorial Board Member: “Journal of Engineering” (Hindawi Publishing, https://www.hindawi.com/journals/je/), 2010-.
• Editorial Board Member: “The Scientific World Journal”, Civil Engineering (Hindawi Publishing, http://www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/, IF=2.107),  2013-2016.

Projects reviewer

• Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong (https://www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/rgc/index.html)
• Israel Science Foundation (ISF) (https://isf.org.il/#/Home/en)
• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG) (https://www.dfg.de/en/index.jsp)
• French National Research Agency (ANR) (https://anr.fr/en)
• Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Berne, Swiss (http://www.snf.ch/en/Pages/default.aspx).
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Ottawa  (Ontario), Canada (https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/index_eng.asp).
• U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), USA (http://www.bsf.org.il).
• Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Vienna, Austria (https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/).
• Slovenian Research Agency-ARRS, Ljubljana, Slovenia (https://www.arrs.gov.si/en/).

• Multi-physics modeling of advanced materials

• Mechanics of stimuli-responsive polymers (LCEs, gels, active polymers)

• Simulation of additive manufacturing (AM) processes, reliability analysis, and mechanics of AM materials

• Computational mechanics, Finite elements technique. Discrete element method (particle methods) for continuum solids and granular materials.

• Fracture mechanics of highly-deformable materials