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Alberto Carpinteri

Alberto Carpinteri

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Engineering and Technology
China
2026
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Engineering and Technology
Italy
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
88
Citations
27503
World Ranking
321
National Ranking
53

Alberto Carpinteri publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alberto Carpinteri sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 951 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Alberto Carpinteri D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alberto Carpinteri sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 88 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in China Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Italy Leader Award
  • 2013 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2009 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences

Overview

Alberto Carpinteri is affiliated with Shantou University in China and has a substantial research record in the field of engineering, with a focus on civil and structural engineering, mechanics of materials, and related subfields. Their work spans topics such as fatigue and fracture mechanics, structural behavior of reinforced concrete, and structural response to dynamic loads.

Their recent publications include:

  • Multi-technique damage monitoring of concrete beams: Acoustic Emission, Digital Image Correlation, Dynamic Identification (2020) in Construction and Building Materials
  • Size effect in heterogeneous materials analyzed through a lattice discrete element method approach (2020) in Engineering Fracture Mechanics
  • Fatigue damage investigation on diaphragm cutout detail on orthotropic bridge deck based on field measurement and FEM (2020) in Thin-Walled Structures
  • Stress behaviors of rib-to-deck double-sided weld detail on orthotropic steel deck (2021) in Journal of Constructional Steel Research
  • Post-cracking regimes in the flexural behaviour of fibre-reinforced concrete beams (2022) in International Journal of Solids and Structures

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Alberto Carpinteri include:

  • Giuseppe Lacidogna
  • Federico Accornero
  • Domenico Scaramozzino
  • Stefano Invernizzi
  • Francesco Montagnoli

Their research has been published multiple times in venues such as:

  • Structural Concrete
  • Applied Sciences
  • Curved and Layered Structures
  • International Journal of Masonry Research and Innovation
  • Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Alberto Carpinteri has contributed to book publications, including:

  • Fracture and Complexity (Springer Nature, 2021)
  • Waves in Biomechanics (Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2022)

The main topics of their scientific work address areas such as:

  • Fatigue and fracture mechanics
  • Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete
  • Structural Response to Dynamic Loads
  • Rock Mechanics and Modeling
  • Concrete Corrosion and Durability
  • Innovative concrete reinforcement materials
  • Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation

Alberto Carpinteri's professional recognition includes membership in international scientific organizations, such as:

  • Member of Academia Europaea (2013)
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences (2009)

Best Publications

  • Fractals and fractional calculus in continuum mechanics

    Alberto Carpinteri;F. Mainardi

  • Scaling laws and renormalization groups for strength and toughness of disordered materials

    Alberto Carpinteri

  • Advances in Fracture Research

    Alberto Carpinteri;Yiu-Wing Mai;Robert O. Ritchie

  • Fractal nature of material microstructure and size effects on apparent mechanical properties

    Alberto Carpinteri

  • A generalized Paris' law for fatigue crack growth

    Nicola Pugno;M. Ciavarella;Pietro Cornetti;Alberto Carpinteri

  • Finite fracture mechanics: A coupled stress and energy failure criterion

    Pietro Cornetti;Nicola Pugno;Alberto Carpinteri;David Taylor

  • Structural damage diagnosis and life-time assessment by acoustic emission monitoring

    Alberto Carpinteri;Giuseppe Lacidogna;Nicola Pugno

  • Size effects on nominal tensile strength of concrete structures: multifractality of material ligaments and dimensional transition from order to disorder

    Alberto Carpinteri;Bernardino Chiaia;Giuseppe Andrea Ferro

  • Size effects on tensile fracture properties: a unified explanation based on disorder and fractality of concrete microstructure

    Alberto Carpinteri;Giuseppe Andrea Ferro

  • Mixed mode fracture of concrete

    Pietro Giovanni Bocca;Alberto Carpinteri;Silvio Valente

  • Cusp catastrophe interpretation of fracture instability

    Alberto Carpinteri

  • Notch sensitivity in fracture testing of aggregative materials

    Alberto Carpinteri

  • Mechanical damage and crack growth in concrete: Plastic collapse to brittle fracture

    Alberto Carpinteri

  • From criticality to final collapse: Evolution of the ''b-value" from 1.5 to 1.0

    Alberto Carpinteri;Giuseppe Lacidogna;Simone Puzzi

  • A finite fracture mechanics approach to structures with sharp V-notches

    Alberto Carpinteri;Pietro Cornetti;Nicola Pugno;Alberto Giuseppe Sapora;Alberto Giuseppe Sapora

  • Are scaling laws on strength of solids related to mechanics or to geometry

    Alberto Carpinteri;Nicola Pugno

  • Decrease of apparent tensile and bending strength with specimen size: two different explanations based on fracture mechanics

    Alberto Carpinteri

  • Reliable onset time determination and source location of acoustic emissions in concrete structures

    Alberto Carpinteri;Jie Xu;Giuseppe Lacidogna;A. Manuello

  • Stress-singularity and generalized fracture toughness at the vertex of re-entrant corners

    Alberto Carpinteri

  • Stability of Fracturing Process in RC Beams

    Alberto Carpinteri

Frequent Co-Authors

Giuseppe Lacidogna
Giuseppe Lacidogna Polytechnic University of Turin
Nicola Pugno
Nicola Pugno University of Trento
Marco Paggi
Marco Paggi IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
Bernardino Chiaia
Bernardino Chiaia Polytechnic University of Turin
Giorgio Zavarise
Giorgio Zavarise Polytechnic University of Turin
Andrea Carpinteri
Andrea Carpinteri University of Parma
Peter Wriggers
Peter Wriggers University of Hannover
Michele Ciavarella
Michele Ciavarella Polytechnic University of Bari
Surendra P. Shah
Surendra P. Shah Northwestern University
Luciano Colombo
Luciano Colombo University of Cagliari

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