Giovanni Castellazzi

Positions

• 2023–today President, Italian Association of Composites for Civil Engineering applications, www.aico-compositi.it, (Associazione Italiana Compositi AICO).

• 2022–today Faculty Member, PhD program in "Engineering and Information Technology for Structural and Environ- mental Monitoring and Risk Management - EIT4SEMM" , ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - University of Bologna.

• 2021–today Associate Professor, ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - University of Bologna, DICAM Department.

• 2022–today Faculty Member - PhD program in "Engineering and Information Technology for Structural and Environmental Monitoring and Risk Management - EIT4SEMM"
• 2018–2021 Senior Assistant Professor (RTDb), ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - University of Bologna, DICAM Department.
• 2019–today Master degree programme secretary, ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - Master degree in Civil Engineering, (https://corsi.unibo.it/2cycle/CivilEngineering).
  
• 2019–2023 Vice-president, Italian Association of Composites for Civil Engineering applications, www.aico-compositi.it, (Associazione Italiana Compositi AICO).
  
• 2017–2023 National Scientific Qualification, Associate Professor 28/03/2017 al 28/03/2023 SSD 08/B2 – Solid Mechanics.
  
• 2001–2018 Laboratory technician support specialist, ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - University of Bologna, DICAM Department, LAMC – DISTART (2001-2008); LAMC - DICAM (2009–2018).
  
• 2002 Iscrizione all’Albo degli Ingegneri, Albo degli Ingegneri della Provincia di Modena, (MO) Italy.
  
  

Education

• 2009–2010 Post-doctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering.
  Ricerca finanziata sul tema Multi-level schemes for explicit dynamics to track elastic/acoustic waves
  
• 2008–2009 Post-doctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering.
  Ricerca finanziata sul tema assumed-strain elements for incompressible media and plates
  2004-2007 PhD student, PhD program in Structural mechanics, XIX cycle, University of Bologna, Bologna, (3 Years).
  
• 2001 Laurea in Civil Engineering, (Bachelor & Master of Science degree (major in Struttural Design)), ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - University of Bologna, Bologna, (5 Years).
  Affiliations
  
• 2020–today RILEM member, International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures - www.rilem.net.
  
• 2018–today Euromech Memeber, European Mechanics Society: an international non-governmental non-profit scientific organization.
• 2018–today SISCO Member, Italian Society of Solid Mechanics (Associazione Italiana di Scienza delle Costruzioni).
  
• 2014–today AICO Member, Italian Association of Composites for Civil Engineering applications, www.aico-compositi.it, (Associazione Italiana Compositi AICO).
  
• 2012 SPIE Member, International Society for Optics and Photonics, SPIE.
  
• 2011–today AIMETA Member, Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (Associazione Italiana di Meccanica Teorica e Applicata), www.aimeta.it.
  
• 2009–2011 ISSNAF Member, Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation.

Teaching activity

Teaching Award

• 2020 Best Teacher award, Best DICAM teacher for the Civil Engineering program, accademic year 2019/2020, Course taught: Mechanics of Historical Masonry Structures.
  

Master courses

From 2018 I'm teaching three courses: (i) MECHANICS OF HISTORICAL MASONRY STRUCTURES, for master students enrolled at the Master in Civil Engineering at the School of Engineering and Architecture in Bologna, (ii) HISTORIC MASONRY AND WOOD STRUCTURES, for master student enrolled at the Master in Civil Engineering at the School of Engineering and Architecture in Ravenna - Historic Building Rehabilitation, and (iii) CALCOLO AUTOMATICO DELLE STRUTTURE, for italian master student enrolled at the Master in Civil Engineering at the School of Engineering and Architecture in Bologna

Seminars organized for master courses

• 2019 Seminar, Modeling strategies for the computational analysis of masonry structures, Speaker: Dr. A.M. D’Altri - University of Bologna, organized for Mechanics of Historical Masonry Structures master students.
  
• 2019 Seminar, Discrete Element Method for the analysis of masonry vaults, Speaker: Prof. D. Ferretti - University of Parma, organized for Mechanics of Historical Masonry Structures master students.
  
• 2020 Seminar, First AID interventions for historical masonry structures, Speaker: Dr. L. Ferrari - University of Parma, organized for Historical Masonry and Wood Structures master students.
  

Other teaching related activities

2020-2021 Development of open-source computing codes - aLOTofImaginArches, Matlab App for the graphical analysis of masonry arches, aLOTofImagineArches is an opensoure Matlab educational software that allows for interactive demonstrations that involve the user in experimentation with the funicular solution concept.
The tool is designed for the master students of the courses MHMS and HMWS and is mainly useful to capture the idea of infinite^3 funicular solutions for masonry arches., https://virtuale.unibo.it/course/view.php?id=21026.

Scientific activities

Recent research projects

• 2021-2023 Member ReLUIS - WP 10 - Task 10.3 - Validazione e confronto di strumenti software per l'applicazione dei metodi di verifica da normativa.
• 2020-2023 Member, CRYSTINART Crystallization damage at the interfaces of artworks, JPICH Conservation, Protection and Use Call on Cultural Heritage.
  
• 2019–today Member, EBIM project - Existing Building Information Modeling for the management of existing buildings- aims to implement the digitalization of the building process applied to the built heritage. The project is co-funded by Emilia-Romagna Region in the fields of the European Regional Development Fund (POR FESR 2018-2020) , C. Mazzotti, S. de Miranda, G. Castellazzi, A.M. D’Altri, G. Bitelli (CIRI-UNIBO).
  
• 2019–2021 Member, ReLUIS 2019-2020 – Linea Costruzioni in Muratura - WP10 Contributi Normativi relativi a Costruzioni Esistenti in Muratura, S. Cattari, S. Degli Abbati , D. Ottonelli 3 (UNIGE); G. Magenes, C.F. Manzini, P. Morandi (UNIPV); E. Spacone, C. Marano, G. Camata (UNICH); I. Caliò, B. Pantò, F. Canizzaro, G. Occhipinti (UNICT); B. Calderoni, A. De Luca, G. Brandonisio, A.E. Cordasco (UNINA); S. de Miranda, G. Castellazzi, A.M. D’Altri (UNIBO); G. Milani (POLIMI).

Editorial Activities

• 2022–today Associate Editor for Computational Methods in Structural Engineering - Frontiers in Built Environment
• 2022–today Guest Editor, Rising Stars in Computational Methods in Structural Engineering: 2022, Special Issue - recognizing the future leaders of Computational Methods in Structural Engineering is fundamental to safeguarding tomorrow’s driving force in innovation. Electronic ISSN: 2297-3362
• 2022-today Guest Editor, Recent Trends in Historic Masonry Building Assessment Principles Models Methods and Practices, Special Issue - Int. J. of Masonry Research and Innovation (IJMRI).
  ISSN 20569459, 20569467
• 2020–today Editorial Board, Heritage Journal, Heritage is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal of cultural and natural heritage science published quarterly by MDPI. The publication focuses on knowledge, conservation and management of cultural and natural heritage by sensing technologies, novel methods, best practices and policies. ISSN 2571-9408
  
• 2020–today Review Editor, Frontiers in Computational Methods in Structural Engineering, Special section of Frontiers in Building Engineering This new section aims to bridge the gap between numerical methods and computational mechanics in the broader field of structural engineering. Electronic ISSN: 2297-3362
  
• 2012–today Editorial Team Member, Mechanical Engineering Research Journal, an international, double-blind peer reviewed, open-access journal. Mechanical Engineering Research is published by the Canadian Center of Science and Education in both print and online versions. ISSN 1927-0607 (Print) ISSN 1927-0615 (Online)
  
• 2019 Editor, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mechanics of Masonry Structures Strengthened with Composite Materials (MuRiCo 2019)
  
• 2017 Editor, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mechanics of Masonry Structures Strengthened with Composite Materials (MuRiCo 2017),
  
• 2014 Editor, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Mechanics of Masonry Structures Strengthened with Composite Materials (MuRiCo 2014),

Organized Conferences and Minisimposia

• GIMC 2006 - Bologna
• AIMETA 2011 - Bologna
• Bologna 2013 - Bologna
• MuRiCo4 2014 - Ravenna
• COMPDYN2017 - Rhodes (MS Computational Strategies for the seismic assessment of Cultural Heritage Masonry Structures)
• MuRiCo5 2017 - Bologna
• ESMC2018 - Bologna
• MuRiCo6 2019 - Bologna
• MuRiCo7 - 2021 - Online

Organizing Conference

• MuRiCo8 - 2024
  

Software development

I've recently started a new software development within the Julia [https://julialang.org/] computing language using the FinEtools [https://github.com/PetrKryslUCSD/FinEtools.jl] .

I have been one of the active contributors of the software FAESOR [http://hogwarts.ucsd.edu/~pkrysl/faesor] .

• FAESOR is a Finite Element software toolkit for Matlab.
• The toolkit includes finite element tools for linear transient thermal analysis and elastodynamics.
• Further included are models for nearly incompressible linear elasticity (based on assumed-strain nodal integration continuum elements -- NICE), electrostatics, small-strain plasticity, nonlinear heat conduction and phase transformation, vibration of structures in fluids, acoustics, buckling analysis, and more.
• The finite elements include linear and quadratic triangles, tetrahedra, linear to cubic quadrangles and hexahedra, and of course linear to cubic curve elements.
• Starting with version 1.2 beam elements are also available for linear and geometrically nonlinear analysis (including buckling).