Fabrizio GRECO
Full Professor of Structural Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Calabria
Via P. Bucci, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende, Cosenza (Italy)
Email: fabrizio.greco@unical.it
Tel: +39 984/406916
Personal Information
Researcher identifiers:
Orcid ID: 0000-0001-9423-4964 (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9423-4964 )
Scopus Author ID: 7202127855
Thomson Reuters ResearcherID: D-1437-2018 (http://www.researcherid.com/rid/D-1437-2018; https://publons.com/researcher/1970375/fabrizio-greco/ )
Google Scholar: Fabrizio Greco (https://scholar.google.it/citations?hl=it&user=u3gBPuEAAAAJ)
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Website: http://eleanor.unical.it/eleanor/dettaglianagrafica.asp?dipartimento=1&ruolo=1&docente=69
EDUCATION: 13.11.1997 Civil Engineering Degree, University of Calabria, 110/110 with honors; 19.06 2002 Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.
POSITION: From November 2017: Full Professor of Structural Engineering at University of Calabria, Italy; From January 2005 until October 2017: Associate Professor of Structural Engineering at University of Calabria, Italy; From November 1999 until December 2004: Assistant professor of Structural Engineering at University of Calabria, Italy; On 01.13.2014 (ASN 2012 session) and on 26.01.2015 (ASN 2013 session) received the national scientific qualification for full professor in the sector 08/B.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES: Undergraduate courses of Structural Mechanics for the Master Degree in Building Engineering-Architecture and for the Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering. In the past undergraduate courses Strength of Materials, Dynamics of Structures, Seismic Dynamics of Structures, Statics; graduate courses of Theory of Structures, Structural Analysis and Modelling of Buildings, Structural Mechanics. Graduate course of Design of reinforced concrete structures in a BIM environment.
RESEARCH LABORATORY: Scientific Supervisor of the Research Laboratory “Materials and Structures Engineering” at the University of Calabria; Scientific Supervisor of the Shaking Table for the scientific area of Structural Engineering installed in the Laboratory for testing of materials and structures at the University of Calabria.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL REFEREE ACTIVITIES: Reviewer for several journals such as: International Journal of Solids and Structures, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, European Journal of Mechanics A/Solids, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, Composite Structures, Composites Part B: Engineering; Construction and Building Materials, Journal of Sound and Vibration, International Journal of Damage Mechanics, Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, Journal of Composite Materials, Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures, Annals of Solids and Structural Mechanics, Structural Engineering Mechanics, Applied Mathematical Modelling, Recent Patents on Mechanical Engineering, Journal of Mechanical Engineering Research, Journal of Structures, Meccanica, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Steel and Composite Structures, Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A, Journal of Computational Science, Journal of Structures; Journal of Structures; International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials; Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, Journal of Testing and Evaluation, International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering.
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROPOSAL REFEREE ACTIVITIES: Referee for Research project proposal within the Marsden Fund administered by the Royal Society of New Zealand in the panel Engineering and Interdisciplinary Sciences; Referee for research proposal sumbitted to the Israel Science Foundation.
NATIONAL RESEARCH PROPOSAL REFEREE ACTIVITIES: invited as Referee for the evaluation of research proposal "SIR 2014" funded by MIUR; Referee for the scientific evaluation of projects presented under the "“Procedura per l’attuazione dell'intervento FARE Ricerca in Italia: framework per l'attrazione e il rafforzamento delle eccellenze per la ricerca in Italia”, year 2016. Period April-May 2017; member of the Reprise Register (Register of Expert Peer Reviewers for Italian Scientific Evaluation) set up by the MIUR for the evaluation of research projects. From September 2015 registered for the Basic Research section and from May 2019 also for the Competitive and social development industrial research section.
REVIEWER ACTIVITY FOR VQR 2011-2014: invited as Reviewer for The Italian Research and University Evaluation Agency (ANVUR) within the evaluation of the Italian research system for the period 2011-2014 (VQR 2011-2014).
CURRENT RESEARCH ACTIVITIES: Composite materials: interface models for delamination, debonding in FRP-strengthened beams, numerical approaches to damage of composites, interlaminar and intralaminar damage, laminated composite plates, dynamic delamination; Fracture Mechanics: finite element analysis with discrete-crack and interface models in composite materials and reinforced concrete elements; multiple cracking in plain and reinforced concrete elements by refined diffuse cohesive interface models. Stability and large deformations: Material and structural instabilities in solid with incremental constitutive law. Homogenization: Macroscopic properties of composite materials with evolving micro-structure due to contact and fracture initiation and propagation; interactions between micro and macro-instabilities in solids with heterogeneous microstructure; Multiscale approaches: failure analysis in fiber-reinforced composite materials under large deformations; crack propagation analysis in lightweight aggregate concrete; multiscale failure analysis of periodic masonry structures with traditional and fiber-reinforced mortar joints; static and dynamic response of bioinspired composite materials. Bridges: long span bridges; static and dynamic analysis with moving loads; bridges under extreme fluid actions. Seismic engineering: nonlinear dynamic analysis of base-isolated structures with mixed explicit-Implicit time Integration methods; seismic vulnerability analysis of historical masonry structures.
RECENT RESEARCH PROJECTS:
Head of the Research Unit at the University of Calabria within the framework of the PRIN 2017 Project with the MULTISCALE INNOVATIVE MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES (MIMS), (National Project Coordinator: FRATERNALI Fernando) funded by D.D. MIUR n.453 dated 13.03.2019 with an overall score of 100/100 (LINE C), total admitted cost equal to € 816.790,00.
Research unit component of the following PRIN projects “Advanced mechanical modeling of new materials and structures for the solution of 2020 Horizon challenges” (2015), “Fiber-reinforced Composites: constitutive laws and damage phenomena modelling” (2007), “High performance concrete structures: fracture, damage and reinforcement techniques” (2003); research unit components of the inter-university research projects MURST "Identification Modeling and Control of Uncertainties in the Desing of Large Span Bridges” (2002), “High Performance Concrete: Calculation and Design Methods and Regulatory Aspects” (2001).
Component of the University of Calabria research group appointed to carry out the technical-scientific consultancy activity relating to the structural analysis program on the structure of the "Bisantis" (formerly Morandi) of Catanzaro (Italy), entrusted by ANAS S.p.A. on 13/09/2017.
Scientific Coordinator for the Department of Civil Engineering in the context of the research protocol between the Regional Secretariat of MiBACT for Calabria and the UNICAL Department of Civil Engineering prot. n. 185 of 09/02/2018 for the analysis of structural problems related to the modeling and assessment of the seismic vulnerability of the Cathedral Church of Catanzaro.
Admitted to funding of basic research activities according to the Law 11 December 2016 no. 232 (FFABR), with a score of scientific output of 67 within the Associate Professors.
Scientific representative for activity n. 2 of the financing proposal AIM1810287 presented for the announcement "AIM - Attraction and International Mobility" D.D. MIUR n. 407/2018 PON "Research and Innovation" 2014-2020, Axis I "Investments in human capital", admitted to financing for a total cost of € 556,933.20 with DD. N. 3407/2018 AIM1810287 - 2, Area of specialization prevalent among those relating to SNSI: Cultural Heritage.
Scientific representative for two research contracts of RTDa cofinanced by MUR with DM n. 1062, august 10, 2021, on the topics Innovation and Green. Title of the researches: “New models and advanced techniques for damage identification and monitoring of existing bridges" and “Advanced models and sustainable strategies for risk reduction of historical-cultural buildings”.
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES:
Member of the “International Scientific Advisory (ISA) Committee of ICCM2018” within the 9th International Conference for Computation Methods (ICCM2018), Rome, Italy at August 6th –10th, 2018.
Member of the Scientific Committee for the AIMETA Junior Awards established by the AIMETA association for the year 2019, for the area of Mechanics of Solids and Structures.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the XXV AIMETA Congress, 4-9 September 2022 in Palermo.
Member of the Technical Scientific Committee in the context of the Operational plan for monitoring bridges and viaducts of non-ANAS road networks, with Decree of the Calabria Region n. 9540 of September 23, 2021.
SCIENTIFIC AWARDS: Included for the two consecutive years 2020 and 2021 in the list of world’s top 2% scientists, the best international scientists belonging to various disciplines published by the journal Plos Biology and present in the Mendeley dataset (2020 dataset referred to year 2019 and updated on the May 06, doi: I 0.17632 / btchxktzyw.2; 2021 dataset referred to year 2020 and updated to Aug 01 2021 doi: https://doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw.3). The analysis was conducted by John PA Ioannidis of Stanford University with Jeroen Baas, Richard Klavans and Kevin W. Boyack in the paper "A standardized citation metrics author database annotated for scientific field," Plos Biology https://doi.org/10.1371/journal .pbio.3000384.
KEYNOTE LECTURE: keynote presentation at European Solid Mechanics Conference ESMC 2018 Bologna, July 2-6 2018.
CHAIRMAN OF INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES: International Conference CICE 2006, December 13-15, 2006 Miami Florida USA; International Conference WCCM08-ECCOMAS, 30 June-4 July Venice; ACE-X 2009 3rd International Conference on advanced computational engineering and experimenting, 22-23 June, 2009, Rome, Session “Porous Media and Composite Materials; AIAS XXIX Conference, 7-10 Settembre 2010, Maratea, Session Numerical Methods.
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES: Vice-Coordinator of the PhD Course “Environment, Construction and Energy Science and Engineering” (SIACE-PhD), University of Calabria; Member of the working group for the "Programming of extraordinary maintenance interventions on buildings and technological systems of University of Calabria"; Coordinator of the Council for the Master of Science in Building Engineering-Architecture since 19/12/2019 to date; Rector's Delegate for Building Heritage and Planning since 08/01/2020 to date, appointed with D.R. n. 25 08/01/2020; Coordinator of the Commission for projects relating to public works.
PUBBLICATIONS: author and co-author of more than 250 published research articles, of which 105 are refereed international journal papers, 7 are invited chapters in international books, 87 are contributions in proceedings of international conferences, 43 are papers in proceedings of national conferences.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIP:
Associate Editor for “Structural Durability & Health Monitoring” (ISSN 1930-2983 print, ISSN 1930-2991 online), Scopus Citescore (Impact per Publication 2021): 2.0; SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper 2021): 0.779, from June 2022 to date (https://techscience.com/sdhm/info/abt_editor).
Member of the editorial board for "Mathematical Problems in Engineering" ISSN: 1024-123X (from 2012 to 2014; from 2016 to date) and for "The Scientific World Journal” ISSN: 1537-744X (from 2012 to 2016).
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for “Science and Engineering of Composite Materials” (https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/secm), ISSN 2191-0359, IMPACT FACTOR 2017: 0.619, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Germany, from December 2018 to date.
Member of the Editorial Board of “AIMS Materials Science” ISSN (Online): 2372-0484, Publisher: AIMS Press (2018 CiteScore 1.14 Scopus), from May 2020 to date.
Member of the Editorial Board of “Buildings” (ISSN 2075-5309, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/buildings ) Open Access, Journal Rank: CiteScore - Q1 (Architecture). from May 2021 to date.
MAIN BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS: (updated to 13.05.2023; Scopus database): h-index=37; Total citations 2711 by 1345 documents; 124 Scopus documents from 2000 to 2022; Number of citations for the most cited articles: 129; Coauthors: 42.