Personal Information
- Full Name : Alberto Corigliano
- Date of birth : 16 February 1963
- Role : Full professor
- Email : alberto.corigliano@polimi.it
- Office : Piazza L. Da Vinci, 32
- Telephone : +39-02-23994244
Full professor of Solids and Structural Mechanics with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Member of the technical committee of Eurosime, Associate Editor of the European J. of Mechanics A/Solids, of Advanced Modelling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences and of Frontiers in Materials – Mechanics of materials. President of the 25° International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM2020+1-Virtual, 22-27 August 2021) and member of the Executive Committee of the Congress Committee of IUTAM 2016-2024. In 2006 won the Bruno Finzi prize for Rational Mechanics of the “Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere”, in July 2015 was appointed Euromech Fellow by the European Mechanics Society, in July 2018 was elected member of the “Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere”, in april 2024 he was awarded an ERC advanced grant for the project 101140720 IMMENSE. (Co) author of more than 360 papers, 14 patents, 2 books (1 book “Mechanics of Microsystems” edited by Wiley in 2018); (h-index 40, 5868 citations, Scopus, December 19, 2024). Wide range of subjects in the fields of structural and materials mechanics, among them: damage phenomena in composite materials and interface models; brittle and quasi-brittle fracture; parameter identification of constitutive models; reliability, design and multi-physics problems for MEMS; metamaterials; deep and reinforced learning applied to SHM and materials and structures optimization.
Education and Professional Career
deputy Head of the Department of Structural Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
2009 - 2012Visiting Professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure Cachan, Laboratoire de Mécanique et Technologie.
May 2006Visiting scholar at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
July-August 2004Professore ordinario (full professor) of Structural Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
2002Professore associato (associate professor) of Structural Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
1998 - 2002Visiting Professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure Cachan, Laboratoire de Mécanique et Technologie.
July 1996, February 1997, July 1999Researcher at the Laboratoire de Mécanique et Technologie Cachan - France.
1991 - 1992Ricercatore (assistant professor) of Structural Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
1991 - 1998Service as Lieutenant in the Military Engineering Corps.
July 1988 - November 1989Laurea (Master of Sciences), (100/100 with honours), in Structural Engineering.
1988High School degree of Scientific studies, (60/60).
1982Research
AC covered a wide range of subjects in the fields of structural and materials
mechanics, with particular reference to theoretical and computational problems
relevant to non-linear material responses.
Along his career, AC has mainly contributed to the fields of: elasto-plasticity,
advanced and composite materials, parameters and models identification,
microsystems, metamaterials, deep and reinforcement learning applied to
materials and structures.
The main scientific results may be schematically divided in ten main subjects:
i) Shakedown and a priori bounds in elasto-plastic dynamics.
ii) Static and dynamic step by step elasto-plastic analysis.
iii) Effects of material instability on the structural response.
iv) Models and methodologies in ductile fracture.
v) Damage phenomena in composite materials and interface models.
vi) Models and methodologies in brittle and quasi-brittle fracture.
vii) Parameter identification of constitutive models.
viii) Reliability, multi-physics problems and design of Micro Electro
Mechanical Systems (MEMS).
ix) Mechanical metamaterials.
x) Structural Health Monitoring through deep-learning.
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Teaching
Teaching activity comprises tenure of numerous classes (Structural Mechanics, Computational Mechanics, Fracture Mechanics, Inelastic Structural Analysis, Theory of Plasticity, Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS)) within the curricula of Civil Engineering, Civil Engineering for Risk mitigation, Materials Engineering and Nanotechnology, Mathematical Engineering, at the Politecnico di Milano. Currently, AC teaches classes of Computational Mechanics and Inelastic Structural Analysis and of Theory of Plasticity at the School of Civil, Environmental and Land management Engineering and of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) at the School of Industrial Engineering (Politecnico di Milano). For additional information visit the official page on Politecnico website.
EU and Italian research projects on competitive calls
Project IMMENSE - ERC2023 - ADG
2024 - 2029PI of the ERC advanced grant IMMENSE, project 101140720
Cariplo foundation-Regione Lombardia 2018
2019 - 2021Coordinator of the Regional Research grant “META-materiali come nuova tecnologia per pannelli fono-isolanti ad alte prestazioni, realizzati con materiali plastici rigenerati (METAISOLECOMAT)”
MIUR Cofin 2015
2017 - 2020National and Local coordinator of the National Research grant “Multi-scale mechanical models for the design and optimization of micro-structured smart materials and metamaterials”
Inter Dep. Laboratory for Microsystems and 3D microfabrication technology
2014 - 2016Project Coordinator of the Research Grant for an inter-Departmental laboratory: MEMS&3D lab “Inter Dep. Laboratory for Microsystems and 3D microfabrication technology” Politecnico di Milano.
Research Grant: Lab4MEMS
2013 - 2015Research unit coordinator and scientific responsible of the Research Grant: Lab4MEMS “LAB FAB for smart sensors and actuators MEMS” Eniac Joint undertaking. grant n° 325622.
MIUR Cofin 2009
2011 - 2014National and Local coordinator of the National Research grant “Multi-scale modelling of materials and structures”.
Cariplo Foundation-2009
2009 - 2010Local coordinator of the Regional Research grant “Surface interactions in micro and nano devices”.
MIUR Cofin 2007
2008 - 2009National and Local coordinator of the National Research grant “Multi-scale problems with complex interactions in structural engineering”.
Cariplo Foundation-2007
2008 - 2009Coordinator the Regional Research grant “Dissipative and failure phenomena in Micro and Nano Electro Mechanical Systems”.
MIUR Cofin 2005
2006 - 2007National and Local coordinator of the National Research grant “Interfacial resistance and failure in materials and structural systems”.
Cariplo Foundation-2005
2006 - 2007Local Coordinator of the Regional Research grant “Innovative Models for the Study of the Behavior of Solids and Fluids in Micro/Nano Electromechanical System”.
Patent-DfMM, FP6-EU NoE
2004 - 2007Research unit coordinator and scientific responsible of the International Research grant “Design for Micro & Nano Manufacture”.
MIUR Cofin 2003
2004 - 2005Local coordinator of the National Research grant “Modelling, identification and monitoring of interface damage in structural layered systems”.
Industry Research Projects
AC is and has been scientific responsible of various
research contracts funded by industries on subjects related to modelling
and simulation, reliability, experiments for structures, advanced
materials and microsystems.
The most meaningful industrial collaboration is with
STMicroelectronics
• 2008-2021. A series of research contracts on “Study and mechanical modelling of Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)”. Politecnico di Milano – STMicroelectronics.
• From 2021 the collaboration with STMicroelectronics has been inserted in a wider activity that generated the Joint Research Platform STEAM between Politecnico di Milano and STMicroelecronics.
International congresses
2021. President of the 25th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Milano, ICTAM2020+1, 22-27 August.
2018. Chairman of ESMC 2018 (10th European solid mechanics conference), Bologna, 2-6 July.
2015. Chairman of ESMC 2015 (9th European solid mechanics conference), Madrid, Spain, 6-10 July.
2008. Secretary general and co-organizer of: 8th World congress on computational Mechanics joint with the 5th European Congress on computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, Venice, 30 June-4 July 2008.
2006. Local organizer of Eurosime06 (Thermal, Mechanical and Multiphysics Simulation and Experiments in Micro-Electronics and Micro-Systems), Como 24-26 April.
Awards
Awarded the ERC advanced grant IMMENSE, project 101140720
April 2024