CURRICULUM VITAE
ROBERTO NOVA
born in
Master of Science in Civil Engineering
(laurea magistrale),
Master of Science,
Philosophy Doctor,
Academic Career (always at Milan University of Technology)
Research Assistant 1972-1975
Lecturer 1976
Assistant Professor 1977
Associate Professor 1980
Professor of Geotechnical Engineering 1990
Dean pro-tempore of the Course of Studies in Civil Engineering 2004-2009
Trevithick Premium (ICE) 1990
Geotechnical Research Medal (ICE) 1992
Editor of Rivista Italiana di Geotecnica (since 1998)
Associated editor of Mechanics of Cohesive-Frictional Materials and then International Journal of Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics (including Mechanics of Cohesive-Frictional Materials)
Member of the Advisory Board of Computers and Geotechnics
Member of the Editorial Board of the Revue européenne de génie civil and then European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering
Member of the Editorial Board of Geomechanics and Geoengineering
Member of the Geotechnique Advisory Panel
National Group for Geotechnical Engineering (C.N.R.)
European Greco on Geomaterials 1987-1993
GRECO Géomatériaux 1989-1993 MRT (
A.L.E.R.T. Geomaterials
Italian Geotechnical Society (AGI) 1983-1988
Head of
Visiting research scientist in
Invited to deliver 7 general or keynote lectures in International Conferences, and various invited lectures in national and international conferences.
Invited to present his research work in UK (Universities of Cambridge and Oxford), France (Laboratoire Centrale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris), Spain (Laboratorio de Obras Publicas, Madrid, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya), Germany (Universitaet Fridericiana, Karlsruhe, Freie Universitaet and Weierstrass Institut Berlin, Max Planck Institut, Leipsig), USA (Duke University, Raleigh-Durham), Australia (University of Sidney).
Examiner of PhD thesis or
habilitation dissertations in a dozen different
Member of the scientific committees for the evaluation of various Research Groups or Laboratories of the French CNRS or Universities.
Member of the Expert Committee of DSPT 08 du Ministère de l’education Nationale (France)
Member of the Expert Committee of CERG (
Reviewer for research programme application for the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Australian Research Council and the Georgian Academy of Sciences
Member of the scientific committees of several international conferences
Reviewer of many papers for Géotechnique, Computers and Geotechnics, Mechanics of Cohesive-Frictional Materials, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering-(ASCE), International Journal of Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, Soils and Foundations, Geotechnical Testing Journal, Engineering Geology, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Rivista Italiana di Geotecnica, Meccanica, European Journal of Mechanics (A/Solids), Applied Mechanics Reviews, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, Revue Française de Géotechnique, European Journal of Earthquake Engineering, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering (ASCE), Rock Mechanics & Mining Sciences, Engineering Structures, Journal of Physical Modelling in Geotechnics, Comptes Rendus de l’Academie des Sciences, Rendiconti dell’Accademia dei Lincei, Geomechanics and Geoengineering, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Acta Geotechnica, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Granular Matter.
The main research topics concern the mathematical modelling of the mechanical behaviour of soils and rocks. Several research programmes were also devoted to the analysis of the interaction of geomaterials and engineering structures (foundations, sheet piles, tunnels, earth reinforced walls, slope and mine stability)
Author of 3 books (one published also in French), editor of 2, and author or coauthor of several chapters in edited books and more than 180 papers on international journals or conference proceedings. A selection of them is given below
CORRADI L., NOVA R. (1974) "A
comparative study of bounding techniques in dynamic shakedown of elastoplastic
structures"
NOVA R. (1977) "On the hardening of soils" Archiw. Mech. Stos. 29, 3, 445-458.
NOVA R., WOOD D. M. (1979) "A
constitutive model for sand in triaxial compression"
HUECKEL T., NOVA R. (1979) "Some hysteresis effects of the behaviour of geological media", I. J. Solids Struct. 15, 8, 625-642.
NOVA R. (1980) "The failure of transversely isotropic rocks in triaxial compression" I. J. Rock Mech. Min. Sc. 17, 6, 325-332.
NOVA R., HUECKEL T. (1981) "A unified approach to the modelling of liquefaction and cyclic mobility" Soils and Foundations 21, 13-28.
NOVA R., SACCHI G. (1982) "A model of the stress strain relationship of orthotropic geological media" J. Mech. Theor. App. 1, 6, 927-949.
BALDI G., NOVA R. (1984) "Membrane penetration effects in triaxial testing" J. Geotech. Eng. D.-ASCE, 110, 3, 403-420.
NOVA R. (1986) "Soil models as a basis for modelling the behaviour of geophysical materials" Acta Mechanica, 64, 31-44.
DE BUHAN P., MANGIAVACCHI R., NOVA R., PELLEGRINI G., SALENCON J. (1989) "Yield design of reinforced earth structures by a homogeneization method", Géotechnique, 39, 2, 189-201.
NOVA R., MONTRASIO L. (1991) "Settlements of shallow foundations on sand" Géotechnique, 41, 2, 243-256
LANIER J., DI PRISCO C.,
NOVA R., (1991) "Etude experimentale et analyse théorique de l'anisotropie
induite du sable d'Hostun" Revue
Française de Géotechnique, 57, 59-74.
NOVA R. (1992) "Mathematical modelling of natural and engineered geomaterials" general lecture 1st E.C.S.M. Munchen, Eur.J. Mech. A/Solids, 11,Special issue, 135-154.
NOVA R., (1994) "Controllability of the incremental response of soil specimens subjected to arbitrary loading programmes" J. Mech. Behav. Mater. ,5,2, 193-201
DI PRISCO C., MATIOTTI R., NOVA R., (1995) "Theoretical investigation of the undrained stability of shallow submerged slopes" Géotechnique, 45,3, 479-496
LAGIOIA R., NOVA R., (1995) "An experimental and theoretical study of the behaviour of a calcarenite in triaxial compression" Géotechnique, 45,4, 633-648
MONTRASIO L., NOVA R., (1997) "Settlements of shallow foundations on sand: geometrical effects" Géotechnique, 47,1,49-60
IMPOSIMATO S., NOVA R. (1998) “An investigation on the uniqueness of the incremental response of elastoplastic models for virgin sand” Mechanics of Cohesive Frictional Materials, 3, 65-87
NICOLINI E., NOVA R. (2000) “Modellling of a tunnel excavation in a non-cohesive soil improved with cement mix injections “, Computers and Geotechnics, 27, 4, 249-272
NOVA R. (2000) “Modelling weathering effects on the mechanical behaviour of granite“, in “Perspectives and Developments of Hypoplasticity“, D. Kolymbas editor, 397-411
NOVA R. (2001) “Plastizitaetstheoretische Behandlung geotechnisher Probleme“, in ‘Grundbau-Taschenbuch Teil 1: Geotechnische Grundlagen’ U.Smoltczyk editor, Ernst und Sohn, cap 1.7, 307-346
VATSALA A., NOVA R., SRINIVASA MURTHY B.R. (2001) ‘Elastoplastic model for cemented soil’ J. Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering ASCE, 127,8, 679-687
TAMAGNINI
C., CASTELLANZA R., NOVA R. (2002) ” A Generalized Backward Euler algorithm for
the numerical integration of an isotropic hardening elastoplastic model
for mechanical and chemical degradation
of bonded geomaterials” I. J. Numer. Anal. Meth. Geomech., 26, 10, 963-1004
NOVA R. (2003) “ The failure concept in soil mechanics revisited” in Bifurcations and Instabilities in Geomechanics J.F. Labuz & A. Drescher eds. , Balkema, Lisse, 3-16
NOVA R.
CASTELLANZA R. TAMAGNINI C. (2003) “A constitutive model for bonded
geomaterials subject to mechanical and/or chemical degradation”
M. MAUGERI, R. NOVA (eds.) (2003) Geotechnical analysis of seismic
vulnerability of
monuments and historical sites, Pàtron,
NOVA R. (2004) ‘The role of non-normality in Soil Mechanics
and some of its mathematical consequences’ Computers
and Geotechnics, 31,3, 185-191
CASTELLANZA
R., NOVA R. (2004) ‘Oedometric Tests on Artificially Weathered Carbonatic Soft
Rocks’ J. Geotechnical and
Geoenvironmental Engineering ASCE, 130, 7, 728-739
NOVA R. (2004) ‘Controllability of geotechnical testing’ Rev. Fran. Génie Civil, 8, 613-634
DI PRISCO
C., NOVA R. ,
CORENGIA A. (2004) ‘A model for landslide-pipe interaction analysis’ Soils and Foundations, 44, 1-12
CALVETTI
F., DI PRISCO C., NOVA R. (2004) “Experimental and numerical analysis of
pipeline-landslide interaction” J.
Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering ASCE, 12, 1292-1299
NOVA, R. (2005) "A Simple Elastoplastic Model for
Soils and Rock," In Soil
Constitutive Models: Evaluation, Selection and Calibration, ASCE, Yamamuro,
J.A. and Kaliakin, V.N., (Eds.), Geotechnical Special Publication No. 128,
380-399.
ARROYO,
M., CASTELLANZA, R., NOVA, R. (2005) "Compaction bands and oedometric
tests in cemented soils" Soils &
Foundations, 45, 2, 181-195
COVIELLO
A., LAGIOIA R., NOVA R. (2005) ‘On the measurement of the tensile strength of
soft rocks’. Rock Mechanics & Rock
Engineering 38,4, 251-273
ARROYO, M., NOVA R., TSIGE M. (2006) Microstructure and compactive
instabilities of a stabilised residue. Journal
of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 18, 2, 272-283
FERNANDEZ-MERODO
J.-A., CASTELLANZA R., MABSOUT M., PASTOR M., NOVA R., PARMA M. (2007) Coupling
transport of chemical species and damage of bonded geomaterials, Computers and Geotechnics , 34, 200-215
UTILI S.,
NOVA R. (2007) On the optimal profile of a slope, Soils & Foundations, 47, 4, 717-729
CASTELLANZA
R., GEROLIMATOU E., NOVA R., (2008) An attempt to predict the failure time of
abandoned mine pillars, Rock Mechanics
& Rock Engineering 41,3, 377-401
GEROLIMATOU
E., NOVA R., (2008) An analysis of chamber filling effects on the remediation
of flooded gypsum mines, Rock Mechanics
& Rock Engineering 41,3,403-419
NOVA R. (2008)
Controlabilité des essais géotechniques et ses relations avec l’instabilité des
sols in Micromécanique de la rupture dans
les milieux granulaires F. Nicot & R. Wan Eds., Hermes Science
Lavoisier, Ch. 1, 29-66
UTILI S.,
NOVA R., (2008) DEM analysis of bonded granular geomaterials,