BIOGRAPHICAL RESUME OF GIULIO MAIER
Professor Emeritus of Structural Engineering at the Technical
University (Politecnico) of Milan, Italy
Education: Master in mechanical engineering,
University of Trieste; "specialization" (Ph.D.) in aerospace engineering,
University of Rome, both “cum laude”.
Academic appointments: at the Technical University (Politecnico)
of Milan: Assistant 1959-63; Associate 1964-70; Full Professor 1970-2006; Emeritus
2007-present; Department Head 1975-78; Continuing Education Chairman 1973-86;
Doctoral School Coordinator 1993-2002. Visiting Scholar at Brown, Cambridge,
Mons, Illinois, Minnesota, Tsinghua Universities.
Research contributions to: mechanics of elastoplastic structures:
shakedown theory, computational methods and extremum properties of solutions;
structural design optimization by mathematical programming; constitutive parameter
identification by inverse analyses, in particular by Kalman filters; boundary
element methods, in particular based on Galerkin symmetric formulations; quasi-brittle
fracture mechanics; diagnostic analysis of structures based on non-destructive
testing and simulation; mechanics of composites and micro-systems; structural
engineering problems, in particular concerning tension structures, offshore
pipelines and concrete dams.
Publications: Author or co-author of about 260 papers; co-author
or co-editor of 9 monographs and books.
Editorial board member of 16 international scientific journals. Former Editor
of "Meccanica" and Associate Editor of "European Journal of Mechanics
A/Solids".
Honors:
Member of: National (Italian) Academy ("Lincei"), Rome; National (Italian)
Academy of Sciences ("dei XL"), Rome; “Istituto Lombardo Accademia
di Scienze e Lettere”, Milan; “Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere
ed Arti”, Venice; “Accademia Udinese di Scienze, Lettere e Arti”,
Udine; “Accademia delle Scienze”, Torino.
Foreign Member of: Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw; Hungarian Academy of
Sciences, Budapest; Russian Academy of Engineering, Moscow; National Academy
of Engineering of the United States, Washington DC; Polish Academy of Sciences
and Arts, Krakow; Portuguese Academy of Sciences, Lisbon; Royal Society of South
Africa; Honorary Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing.
Fellow of: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE); American Society of Mechanical
Engineers (ASME); International Association of Computational Mechanics (IACM);
American Academy of Mechanics (AAM).
President of the Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (AIMETA),
1986-1990;
Rector, International Centre of Mechanical Sciences, Udine, Italy, 2005-present.
Awards:
Honorary doctoral degrees from: University of Thessaloniki, Greece; Faculté
Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium; State University of Saint Petersburg, Russia.
University Medal from University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. Copernicus Medal
from Polish Academy of Sciences. Feltrinelli Prize from Italian National Academy
"Lincei". Warner Koiter Medal 2000, from American Society of Mechanical
Engineers (ASME). O. C. Zienkiewicz Medal from Polish Association for Computational
Mechanics. Ritz-Galerkin Medal from the European Community of Computational
Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS).
Addresses: Department of Structural Engineering (DIS), Technical
University (Politecnico) of Milan, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32 - 20133 Milano,
Italy. Office telephone: 0039 0223994221. Home telephone: 0039 0226411033. Telefax:
0039 0223994220. E-mail: giulio.maier@polimi.it
CURRICULUM VITAE OF PROFESSOR GIULIO MAIER
Department of Structural Engineering (DIS)
Technical University (Politecnico) of Milan
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32 - 20133 Milano, Italy
Office phone: 0039 0223994221; private phone: 0039 0226411033
telefacs: 0039 0223994220; e-mail: giulio.maier@polimi.it
c. v. from web page: http://www/EN/Personale.plp?showbook=completo&category=docente&choosenletter=m&people=1955
EDUCATION
| 1941-1948 | "liceo classico" (highschool with emphasis on the humanities) |
| 1949-1954 | University of Trieste, Italy, Faculty of Engineering: "laurea" (master degree) in Industrial Mechanical Engineering, "cum laude" |
| 1955-1958 | University of Rome, Italy, Post-Graduate School of Aerospace Engineering: "laurea di specializzazione" (doctoral degree) in Aeronautical Engineering, "cum laude" |
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
| 1959-1960 | Assistant Professor, Department of Structural Engineering, University of Trieste, Italy |
| 1961-1964 | Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Technical University (Politecnico) of Milan, Italy |
| 1964 | Research Associate, Division of Engineering, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA |
| 1965-1969 | Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture and, since 1966, Faculty of Engineering, Technical University (Politecnico) of Milan, Italy |
| 1966 | Visiting Researcher, Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium |
| 1967 | Research Associate, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK |
| 1970-2006 | Professor of Structural Mechanics and Engineering ("Scienza delle Costruzioni"), Faculty of Engineering, Technical University of Milan, Italy |
| 1971 | Visiting Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champain, USA |
| 1975-1978 | Head, Department of Structural Engineering, Technical University of Milan, Italy |
| 1973-1986 | Chairman, Continuing Education Committee, Technical University of Milan, Italy |
| 1993-2002 | Co-ordinator of the Doctoral School in Structural Engineering, Politecnico, Milan, Italy |
| 1997 | MTS Visiting Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA |
| 2005-present | Rector, International Center for Mechanical Sciences (CISM), Udine, Italy |
| 2007-present | Professor Emeritus of Structural Engineering, Technical University (Politecnico) of Milan |
HONOURS AND AWARDS
| 1963 | Virgilio Affer Prize, Italian Association for Steel Construction (ACAI) |
| 1968 | Professor L.Stabilini Prize, Politecnico di Milano |
| 1978 | Rancati Prize, Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere, Milan |
| 1981 | Feltrinelli Prize, for Mathematics, Mechanics and Applications, Italian National Academy (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei), Rome |
| 1984 | Copernicus Medal, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw |
| 1984 | Foreign Fellow, Polish Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Warsaw |
| 1985 | Member of Italian National Academy (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei), Rome |
| 1985 | Doctoral Degree in Civil Engineering "honoris causa", Aristotele University, Thessaloniki, Greece |
| 1990 | Member of Academy of Lombardy (Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere), Milan |
| 1991 | Foreign Associate, Royal Society of South Africa, Cape Town |
| 1992 | Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) |
| 1992 | Docteur ès Sciences Appliquées "honoris causa", Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Mons, Belgium |
| 1993 | Member of Italian National Academy of Sciences (Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL), Rome |
| 1995 | Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) |
| 1997 | Foreign Member, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw |
| 1998 | Fellow, International Association of Computational Mechanics (IACM) |
| 1998 | Fellow, New York Academy of Sciences |
| 1998 | University Medal , University of Colorado, Boulder, USA |
| 1998 | Honorary Member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest |
| 2000 | Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Engineering, Moscow |
| 2000 | The Warner T. Koiter Medal of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) |
| 2000 | Honorary Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China |
| 2002 | Fellow, American Academy of Mechanics |
| 2003 | Foreign Associate, National Academy of Engineering, Washington, United States of America |
| 2004 | Doctoral Degree "honoris causa", University of Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| 2005 | Member of Academy of Venice (Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti, Venice) |
| 2006 | Member of the Academy of Friuli, Udine, Italy |
| 2007 | O. C. Zienkiewicz Medal of Polish Association of Computational Mechanics |
| 2008 | Ritz-Galerkin Medal from the European Community of Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) |
| 2008 | Member of the Academy of Sciences, Torino, Italy |
| 2008 | Foreign Member of Polish Academy of Sciences and Arts, Krakow |
| 2010 | Foreign Member of the Portuguese Academy of Sciences, Lisbon |
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
| 1971-present | Advisory Editorial Board, International Journal of "Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering" |
| 1971-present | Advisory Editorial Board, "International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering" |
| 1974-present | Advisory Editorial Board, Int. Journal "Mechanics Research Communications" |
| 1976-1991 | Board of External Editors, Int. Journal "Solid Mechanics Archives" |
| 1978-present | International Editorial Board, Int. Journal "Engineering Structures" |
| 1980-present | International Editorial Board, Int. Journal "Applied Mathematical Modelling" |
| 1982-1986 | Editor, "Meccanica", Journal of the Italian Association for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (AIMETA); since 1986 member of its Editorial Board |
| 1986-1996 | Editorial Advisory Board, Int. Journal "Microcomputers in Civil Engineering" |
| 1988-present | Editorial Board, Int. Journal "Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization" |
| 1988-1994 | Associate Editor, "European Journal of Mechanics/Solids"; since1995 member of its Advisory Editorial Board |
| 1989-present | International Editorial Board of "Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica" |
| 1990-1996 | Editorial Board, "International Journal of Solids and Structures" |
| 1994-1998 | Editorial Board "International Journal of Engineering Analysis and Design" |
| 1995-present | Editorial Board, "Rendiconti Accademia Nazionale Lincei: Matematica e Applicazioni" (Proceedings of the Italian Academy) |
| 1996-present | Advisory Editorial Board, "Archives of Mechanics" |
| 1997-2006 | Editorial Board, "Archive of Applied Mechanics" (“Ingenieur Archiv”) |
| 1998-present | Board of Editors, "Rendiconti della Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze. Memorie di Matematica e Applicazioni" |
| 1999-present | Editorial Board, Int. Journal "Global Optimization" |
| 1999-2007 | Board of Editors, "Computer Modelling in Engineering and Sciences" |
| 2000-present | Editorial Board, "Computers and Structures" |
| 2001-present | Editorial Board, Int. Journal "Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures" |
| 2001-present | Editorial Advisory Board of the book series "Modern Mechanics and Mathematics Series" |
| 2003-present | Editorial Board, Int. Journal "Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering" |
| 2004-present | Editorial Board, "Int. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics" |
| 2004-present | Editorial Advisory Board, "Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences" |
| 2006-present | Editorial Board “Int. Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics” |
MEMBERSHIP IN SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL COMMITTEES
| 1961-1966 | Committee "Stability Problems", European Convention for Steel Constructions |
| 1972-1978 | Committee "Plasticity", European Convention for Steel Constructions |
| 1972-1982 | Working Group on Tension Structures of the International Association for Shell Structures (IASS) |
| 1973-1986 | Chairman, Committee for Continuing Education,Technical University of Milan |
| 1974-1993 | Council of the Italian Association for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (AIMETA) |
| 1974-1986 | International Scientific Committee, Conferences on Structural Mechanics in Nuclear Technology (SMiRT) |
| 1981-present | Scientific Council of the International Center for Mechanical Sciences, Udine (CISM) |
| 1982-1988 | Committee for European Mechanics Colloquia (EUROMECH) |
| 1982-2006 | General Council of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM). Fellow since 1998 |
| 1983-1991 | Congress Committee of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) |
| 1984-2000 | IUTAM Solid Mechanics Symposia Panel |
| 1984-present | Offshore Structures Committee of RINA (Italian Naval Certification Institute) |
| 1986-1990 | President, Italian Association for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (AIMETA) |
| 1989-1997 | International Committee for European Mechanics Conferences |
| 1989-1999 | Council of the International Association of Boundary Element Methods (IABEM) |
| 1989-1993 | Comité de Recrutement, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris |
| 1990-1997 | Activity Group 2"Structural Analysis" of "Codes and Standards" Committee, Directorate for Science, Research and Development, EU, Brussels |
| 1992-1996 | Scientific Council of ISMES, Bergamo, Italy |
| 1994-1997 | Council of European Mechanics Society (EMS) |
| 1995-1996 | Advisory Panel for "Structural Systems and Construction Processes", National Science Foundation (NSF), Washington |
| 1998-2001 | Council, Italian Association of Offshore and Marine Engineering (AIOM) |
| 1999-present | Italian Committee for Large Dams (ItCOLD) |
| 2000-present | General Assembly of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) |
| 2000-2003 | Strategy Board, European Network MAthematics, Computing and Simulation for Industry (MACSI) |
| 2001-2002 | RILEM Technical Committee on "Experimental determination of stress versus crack opening curve" |
| 2001-2004 | Technical Committee 9 of the European Society for Integrity of Structures (ESIS) |
| 2002-2004 | National Committee on Natural Calamities and Risks, appointed by the Italian Government |
| 2004-present | Steering Committee of the Italian Commission of Large Dams (ItCOLD) |
Not mentioned here frequent membership in national and international committees for evaluation of research projects and for academic appointments.
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Italian Association for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
(AIMETA): Vicepresident, from 1978 to 1983; President 1986-1990
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE); Fellow since 1992; Life Member since
1998
Italian Group on Fracture (GIF)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME); Fellow since 2000
European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS)
European Mechanics Society (EuroMech)
Italian Association of Tribology (AIT)
Italian Association of Nondestructive Testing (AIPnD)
International Association of Computational Mechanics (IACM)
European Community of Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS)
MAIN SERVICES IN ACADEMIC EDUCATION
Coordinator of the Continuing Education Program of the Technical
University (Politecnico) of Milan, 1973-1986 (cf. items No. 12, 79, 82, 114,
149, in the publication list).
Head of the Structural Engineering Department, Politecnico, Milan, 1975-1978.
Member of the Scientific Council, at the International Center for Mechanical
Sciences (CISM), Udine, since 1981; CISM Rector in the years 2005-2010.
Coordinator of the Doctoral School in Structural Engineering in the Politecnico
of Milan (1993-2003).
Supervisor of about 120 theses for the Master degree (“laurea”)
and of 22 doctoral theses for doctoral degree (“dottorato”), in
the Politecnico of Milan and in other universities abroad.
Member of examination committees for doctoral (PhD) degrees in various countries.
Courses organized and taught at the Milan Politecnico and elsewhere, e. g. CISM,
Udine (for master and doctoral students and for professional training of engineers)
and invited lectures given in other universities and in conferences are not
listed here.
DOCTORAL THESES SUPERVISED
| 1987 | Perego U. | Sull'analisi elastoplastica per elementi di contorno (On elastic-plastic analysis by boundary elements) |
| 1989 | Ristani S. | Instabilità del comportamento locale e sue conseguenze sul comportamento globale di strutture |
| 1990 | Papa E. | Sulla meccanica del danneggiamento con particolare riferimento alle murature |
| 1995 | Rizzi E. | Sulla localizzazione delle deformazioni in materiali e strutture |
| 1995 | De Vecchi S. | Problemi di meccanica non lineare concernenti tubazioni interrate |
| 1998 | Cocchetti G. | Failure analyses of fractures of quasi-brittle and poroelastic structures with specific reference to gravity dams |
| 1998 | Frangi A. | Some developments in the symmetric Galerkin boundary element method |
| 1999 | Carvelli V. | Limit and shakedown analysis of three-dimensional structures and periodic heterogeneous materials |
| 1999 | Mariani S. | Simulation of ductile fracture: material models, computetional aspects and parameter identification |
| 2000 | Giampieretti R. | Parameter identification of constitutive models for composite and laminates via homogenisation |
| 2003 | Fedele R. | Some parameter identification problems in materials mechanics for civil and industrial applications |
| 2004 | Ardito R. | Diagnostic and limit-state analyses of concrete dams by optimization methods |
| 2005 | Bocciarelli M. | Parameter identification at the microscale and shakedown analysis at the macroscale by means of mathematical optimization |
| 2005 | Ghisi A. | Dam-reservoir interaction, role of joints and diagnosis in dynamic analysis of concrete dams |
| 2007 | Chiarullo E. J. | Mechanical characterization of materials by means of indentation tests, imprint mapping and inverse analysis |
| 2007 | Tavakoli A. | Diagnosis of concrete dams by local tests ans inverse analysis |
| 2008 | Zirpoli A. | Inverse-analysis methods for the in-depth local diagnosis of concrete dams investigated by means of dilatometric tests, and for the identification of blastfill constitutive parameters |
| 2009 | Buljak V. | Assessment of materials mechanical properties and residual stresses by indentation, simulation and “proper orthogonal decomposition” |
| 2010 | Garbowski T. | Material model calibration based on full-field measurements and inverse analysis, with applications to concrete dams and anisotropic free-foils |
The first Ph.D. degrees at the Politecnico have been delivered in 1987. Supervised master theses (about 120) are not listed here.
STAYS IN FOREIGN INSTITUTIONS FOR RESEARCH AND/OR LECTURING
Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium (1966)
Dept. of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK (1967)
Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champain, USA (1970-71)
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (1977, 1979)
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland (1978)
Applied Mechanics Unit, University of Cape Town, South Africa (1980, 1986)
Dept. of Civil Engineering, Imperial College, London, UK (1981)
Laboratorio Nacional de Computaçao Cientifica, CNPq., Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil (1982)
Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA (1964,
1987, 1990)
Laboratoire de Mécanique et Technologie, Paris-Cachan, France (1988)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA (1989)
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (1990, 2000, 2005)
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA (1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995,
1996, 1997)
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA (1997)
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (1998, 1999)
RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS (IN TIME SEQUENCE UNTIL 2010) BY
GIULIO MAIER
(reference is made to the lists of publications)
In the early Sixties: analytical and numerical methods for the nonlinear analysis of tension structures and their application to the design of Palasport in Genova (72 m. diameter, 1963); further results later on inelastic analysis of cable systems. (1, 8, 9, 10, 24, 25, 39, 50, 64, 68, 119).
In the late Sixties and early Seventies: extremum theorems characterizing the solutions of incremental elastic-plastic analysis problems (in rates) and in holonomic plasticity (“deformation theory”) with piecewise-linearized yield criteria and hardening laws. (29, 30, 31, 34, 45, 69, 71, 151).
In the Seventies: mathematical programming (inequality-constrained optimization) solution procedures for shakedown analysis and elastic-plastic analysis and structural optimization problems based on finite element modelling. (29, 32, 36, 44, 47, 48, 52, 58, 60, 65).
In the early Seventies: extension of shakedown theory to second-order geometric effects, nonassociative laws, and to various kinds of piecewiselinear hardening models; dynamic shakedown theorems by a kinematic approach and various bounds on post-shakedown quantities. More recently, extensions of shakedown theory to nonlinear hardening and nonassociative laws.
Optimum (minimum weight) design methods in plasticity based on concepts and algorithms of mathematical programming (continuous and integer) in the Seventies. (38, 40, 46, 59, 61, 94, 148).
In the early Eighties: methods of deterministic and stochastic parameter identification in elastic-plastic, statistically loaded structures based on mathematical programming and Kalman filter techniques. (77, 86, 87, 92, 95, 97, 98, 101, 106).
Since 1963, computational methods and various theorems concerning constitutive (material) instabilities such as softening and their consequences in computational structural mechanics. In more recent times related results have been achieved, particularly in structural dynamics, were the possibility of peculiar chaotic manifestations was pointed out. (3, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 22, 28, 35, 41, 51, 74, 76, 123, 129, 131, 133, 155, 165, 169, 175).
In the Eighties, various results concerning boundary element modelling applied to layered systems, cyclic symmetries, shakedown analysis. (103, 107, 108, 109, 112, 113, 116, 117, 120, 122, 125, 128, 132, 174).
Development of the “symmetric Galerkin” boundary element method and relevant variational and convergence properties in elastoplasticity, nonstationary heat conduction and viscoelasticity. (12, 138, 139, 141, 142, 147, 153, 156, 164, 167, 171, 200).
In the late Eighties and early Nineties: extremum theorems for the finite-step solutions in computational plasticity. (134, 135, 136, 140, 146, 150, 154, 162);
Methods of crack-propagation analysis in quasi-brittle solids, such as concrete, on the basis of boundary element approaches and cohesive crack models. (145, 152, 157, 158, 161, 168, 172, 177);
Various methodological contributions, as a consultant, to various offshore engineering projects. (78, 80, 83, 91, 96, 99, 100, 115, 176).
Since Summer 1994 to Fall 96:
further developments of the symmetric Galerkin boundary element method in quasi-brittle fracture, gradient plasticity, transient heat conduction, poroelasticity and elastoplastic dynamics. (181, 184, 186, 188, 191, 193, 195, 196);
extensions of static and dynamic shakedown theory to more general material models (179, 180, 182);
strain localization and finite element analysis of cohesive fracture by linear complementarity methods (183, 185, 192, 194).
In the years 1997-2002:
extensions of shakedown theories to poroplasticity of fully saturated two-phase porous media (205, 212, 215, 219, 220, 228, 230);
applications of poroelastic analysis to living bones (202, 215);
implementation, comparative computational assessment and reformulation for periodic ductile composite materials of a kinematic approach to limit and shakedown analysis. (201, 203, 208, 213, 214, 216, 231);
further developments of the symmetric Galerkin method, namely: a saddle-point-theorem for transient heat conduction (199); modelling quasi-brittle fracture (Ref.: 200, 204, 234); use of time-independent kernels in elastoplastic dynamics (209);
developments of mathematical models, in particular piecewiselinear models, for cohesive cracks in quasi-brittle materials and interfaces (224, 227);
simplified simulations of ductile fracture (196, 206, 210, 211);
inverse analysis procedures for deterministic and stochastic parameter identification in mechanics of materials (207, 211, 217, 225, 229, 232, 233).
After the year 2005:
the diverse research issues dealt with in these years are specified by the titles of the recent papers, book chapters and invited lectures, listed after the biographical resumé; these reference lists evidence that research activities after 2002 primarily concern inverse structural analysis, in particular parameter identification methods and their applications to several real-life problems in diverse practical situations, from microtechnologies to large dam engineering.
MAIN CONSULTANCIES AND PROJECTS WITH CONTRACTS
Cable structure of the Palasport in Genova: structural design in collaboration with Leo Finzi, 1962-63 (cf. No. 8, 9, 10, 25 in the list of publications).
Transmediterranean Pipeline: structural problems concerning the deep-water laying operations (up to 630 m. depth) across the Sicily Channel (between Tunisia and Italy), 1978-82. Consultant to the design companies SNAMProgetti and SAIPEM (78, 83, 91, 99, 100).
Subsea tunnels crossing the Messina Straits: analysis of the structural damages due to impact loads such as explosions, 1990-94. Consultant, through Department contracts, to the Consortium of offshore companies engaged in the design (176, 189).
Simulations of damages due to explosions in offshore pipelines and on some equipments onboard of submarines; 1994-95. Consultant to the companies SNAMProgetti and Riva-Calzoni, respectively.
Pressurized pipelines: experimental and numerical analysis of soil-structure interactions in the presence of landslides and simulations of ductile fracture processes, especially with reference to dent-and-gauge accidents, 1993-96. Consultant, through the Department, to the Company SNAM (195).
Structural mechanics problems related to nuclear powerplants: “study contracts” on: applications of boundary element techniques (1988-89); bounds and estimates on inelastic deformations (1991-93); simplified inelastic analysis methods in structural dynamics (1994-96). Contractor and consultant to the Working Group Codes and Standards of the Directorate General for Science, Research and Development of the European Union, Brussels (cf. paper No. 170; No. 5, 6 in the list of books and monographs).
Dam engineering: contracts on various structural issues, in particular simulation of fracture processes in concrete dams and their integrity assessment. 1988-1998. Contractor, through the Department, with the Italian energy-generating state-company (ENEL); (161, 177).
European Project on "Structural Analysis for Design at Ultimate Limit States" in the frame of "Human Capital and Mobility". 1995-1998. Co-ordinator of the Project.
Experimental and computational characterization of fracture and inelastic behaviour of polymer-matrix syntactic foam and sandwich panels for new ships called "surface piercing wings" (SPW) or "Seabus" hydrofoil; 1998-99. Consultant, through the Department, of the company Intermarine, Sarzana, (217).
European Project INCO-Copernicus on "Inverse problems in structural and material mechanics". (Partner teams at: Bulgarian and Polish Academies of Sciences; Ecole Polytechnique, Paris; Joint Research Center, Ispra; Politecnico, Milano); 1998-2000. Global Coordinator.
National Research Project (PNR) on "Offshore structural components of composite materials", contract with AGIP-ENI. 1998-2000. Supervisor of training.
Research project on "Inverse problems in mechanics of materials by mathematical programming", sponsored by Australian Research Council, coordinated by Prof. F. Tin-Loi, UNSW, Sydney, 1999-2000. Invited foreign researcher.
Research project on "Polymer-matrix composites for special applications" sponsored by the National Research Council (CNR), Rome. 1999-2002. Principal investigator.
Elastic plastic analysis of fast train wheels: Project for Lucchini SpA under contract with the Mechanical Eng. Dept. 2001-2002. Team Leader.
National Project on "Integrity assessment of large dams". Partners: University of Genova, Padova, Palermo, Trento, Trieste, Techn. Universities of Milan and Turin. Sponsor: Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR); 1999-2000, 2001-2002, 2003-2004 and 2005-2006. National Coordinator.
European Network on "Mathematics, Computing, Simulation for Industry" (MACSI); 2001-2004. Member of the Strategy Board.
European Network on "Integrity Assessment of Large Dams" (IALAD); 2002-2005. Coordinator of the Milan principal partnership.
State-of-the-art study on Alkali-Silica-Reaction (ASR) in concrete dams, with reference to Poglia Dam. Contract with Edison SpA, Milan, 2003. Coordinator.
Research contract on mechanical characterization of paper, with the Experimental Laboratory ("Stazione Sperimentale") of the Italian paper industry, 2005-2006. Project Coordinator.
Research projects on diagnostic analysis of dams, contracts with CESI SpA, Segrate, 2004 and 2005. Project Coordinator.
Analysis of dam-foundation interactions, with applications to Beauregard Dam: contract with Compagnia Valdostana delle Acque (CVA), Aosta; 2005-2006. Project Coordinator.
European Network of Excellence (NoE) on "Knowledge-based Multicomponent Materials (KMM); 2005-2008. Task Leader for "Integration".
Research contract with industrial companies Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (ENI), Milan and Venezia Tecnologie (VETEC), Marghera, on diagnostic analysis of pipelines through indentation tests; 2007-2010. Project Co-Coordinator.
Research contract with Tetrapak Company. Researcher on mechanical characterization of free-foils (paper, laminates).
RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCE COMMUNICATIONS
2010
Maier, G., Bolzon, G., Buljak, V., Garbowski, T., Miller, B. "Synergic combination of computational methods and experiments for structural diagnosis", Computer Methods in Mechanics, Chapter 24, 453-476, Springer, 1st edition, January, 2010
Ardito, R., Cocchetti, G., Maier, G., "Generalised limit analysis in poroplasticity by mathematical programming", Archive of Applied Mechanics, 80, 57-72, 2010
Maier, G., Bolzon, G., Buljak, V., Miller, B. "Comparative assessment of three different approaches in material parameter characterization based on instrumented indentation, using only the indentation curve, only the residual imprint, and both experimental data", Inverse Problems in Sciences and Engineering, in print, 2010
Buljak, V., Maier, G., "Proper orthogonal decomposition and radial basis functions in material characterization based on instrumented indentation", Engineering Structures, in print, 2010
Buljak V., Maier, G., Miller, B., “Comparative assessment of inverse analyses for material characterization based on indentation tests”. IV European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM 2010). 16-21 May 2010, Paris, France
Maier, G., “Large dams: lights and shadows in structural engineering” (in Italian), Atti Accademia Udinese di Scienze, Lettere e Arti, Vol. IC, 99-114, 2007; Rassegna Tecnica, LX, Jan., 18-22; March., 13-15, 2010
Garbowski, T., Maier, G., Novati, G., “Material model calibration for anisotropic elastic-plastic free-foils by cruciform tests, full-field measurements and inverse analysis”, IV European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM), Paris, France, 16-21 May, 2010
Maier, G., Bolzon, G., Buljak, V., Garbowski, T., Novati, G., “On benefits in diverse technologies due to proper orthogonal decomposition for structural diagnosis and material characterization”, 53rd Workshop "Variational Analysis and Aerospace Engineering", Majorana Center, Erice, Italy, 8-16 September, 2010
Cocchetti, G., Garbowski, T., Maier, G., Novati, G., “Inelastic parameter identification for local diagnostic analysis of concrete dams”, IV European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM), Paris, France, 16-21 May, 2010
Garbowski, T., Cocchetti, G., Maier, G., “Diagnosis of concrete dams by flat-jack test, digital image correlation and inverse analysis”, ECCOMAS International Symposium IPM 2009 on Inverse Problems in Mechanics of Structure and Materials, Rzeszow, Poland, April 23-25, 2009
Bolzon G., Buljak V., Maier G., Miller B., “On three procedures for the assessment of elastic-plastic material parameters based on indentation test and inverse analysis”, Workshop on Material Mechanics, AIMETA GMA, 25-26 February 2010, Palermo, Italy.
Bolzon G., Buljak V., Maier G., “Caratterizzazione meccanica
di inclusioni in imballaggi alimentari”, Workshop on Material Mechanics,
AIMETA GMA, 25-26 February 2010, Palermo, Italy.
2009
Ageno, M., Bolzon, G., Maier, G., “Mechanical characterisation of free-standing elasto-plastic foils by means of membranometric measurements and inverse analysis”, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 38, 229-243, 2009
Buljak, V., Bocciarelli, M., Bolzon, G., Maier, G., Miller, B., “Proper Orthogonal Decomposition and Neural Networks for diagnostic inverse analysis of metals”, Riunione Gruppo Materiali dell’ AIMETA – GMA09, Politecnico di Milano 23-24 Gennaio 2009.
Buljak, V., Bolzon, G., Maier, G., “Proper Orthogonal Decomposition in Direct and Inverse Elastic-Plastic Analysis”, X International Conference on Computational Plasticity – Fundamentals and Applications. 2-4 September 2009., Barcelona, Spain.
Buljak, V., Maier, G., Miller, B., “Mechanical characterization of metals by indentation, modeling, proper orthogonal decomposition and artificial neural networks”, IPM 2009 International Symposium on Inverse Problems in Mechanics of Structures and Materials, 23-25 April 2009, Rzeszow, Poland.
Cocchetti, G., Garbowski, T., Maier, G., Novati, G., “A novel flat-jack technique for diagnostic analysis of concrete dams”, 2nd International Conference on Long Term Behaviour of Dams (LTBD09), 12-13 October 2009, Graz, Austria.
Cocchetti, G., Garbowski, T., Maier, G., Novati, G., “Inelastic parameter identification for local diagnostic analysis of concrete dams”, IV European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM), Paris, France, 16-21 May, 2010
Cocchetti, G., Garbowski, T., Maier, G., Novati, G., “Una nuova tecnica basata su martinetti piatti e sull’analisi inversa per la diagnostica di dighe in calcestruzzo”, 13° Congresso AIPnD, 15-17 ottobre 2009, Roma.
Garbowski, T., Bolzon, G., Maier, G., Novati, G., “Parameter identification procedure for the mechanical characterization of free foils”, 18th International Conference on Computer Methods in Mechanics (CMM), Zielona Gora, Poland, 18-21 May, 2009
Garbowski, T., Cocchetti, G., Maier, G., “Diagnosis of concrete dams by flat-jack test, digital image correlation and inverse analysis”, ECCOMAS International Symposium IPM 2009 on Inverse Problems in Mechanics of Structure and Materials, Rzeszow, Poland, April 23-25, 2009
Maier, G., Bolzon, G., Buljak, V., Garbowski, T., “Some novel computational methods for diagnostic analyses of structures”, Invited Plenary Lecture, ICCES conference on Meshless and other novel computational methods, 31. August – 2. September 2009, Bistra Castle, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Maier G., Bolzon, G., Buljak, V., Garbowski, T., Miller, B., “Synergistic combination of computational methods and experiments for structural diagnosis”, Semi-Plenary Lecture, 18th International Conference on Computer Methods in Mechanics (CCM), 18-21 May 2009., Zielona Gora, Poland.
2008
Ardito, R., Maier, G., Massalongo, G., “Diagnostic analysis of concrete dams based on seasonal hydrostatic loading”, Engineering Structures, 30, 3176-3185, 2008
Bocciarelli, M., Bolzon, G., Maier, G. “A constitutive model of metal-ceramic functionally graded material behavior: formulation and parameter identification”, Computational Materials Science, 43, 16-26, 2008
Pedretti, M., Brofferio, C., Fiorini, E., Ardito, R., Maier, G. et alii “Cuore experiment: the search for neutrinoless double beta decay”, International Journal of Modern Physics A, 23, n. 21, 3395-3398, 2008
Cocchetti, B., Fedele, R., Garbowski, T., Maier, G., Tavakoli, A., “Diagnostic analyses of concrete on site, by flat jack tests, computer simulations and parameter identifications”, Conference on Site Assessment of COncrete MAsonry and TImber Structures (SACOMATIS 2008), Varenna (Italy), 1-2 September 2008 .
Chiarullo, E., Buljak, V., Maier, G., “Indentation, imprint mapping and neural networks for identification of material constitutive parameters”, Workshop of GMA-AIMETA (Associazione Italiana di Meccanica Teorica ed Applicata), Genova, 29 February -1 March 2008.
Buljak, V., Chiarullo, E., Maier, G., “On Structural Material Diagnosis by Instrumented Indentation and Neural Networks”, 8th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM8) and 5th European Congress on Computational Mechanics in Applied Science and Engineering (ECCOMAS), Venice, 30 June – 4 July 2008.
Buljak, V., Bolzon, G., Maier, G., “Inverse analysis and Proper Orthogonal Decomposition for the identification of material constitutive parameters”, 12th Italian Conference on Computational Mechanics (GIMC 2008), Alghero, 10-12 September 2008.
Zirpoli A, Maier G, Novati G., Garbowski T, Dilatometric tests combined with computer simulations and parameter identification for in-depth diagnostic analysis of concrete dams. In “Life-Cycle Civil Engineering” Proc. Int. Symp. On Life-Cycle Civil Engng., IALCEE’08, Varenna, Lake Como, Italy, June 10-14, 2008, Taylor & Francis, p. 259-265, ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-415-46857-2, 2008.