2026 Castrenze Polizzotto: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	33	3015	2832	109	108	140	4470

Discipline name

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

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2832

109

108

140

4470

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index

Citations

4470

World Ranking

3015

National Ranking

109

Overview

Castrenze Polizzotto is affiliated with the University of Palermo in Italy, focusing primarily on engineering and materials science. Their research encompasses several specialized fields, including mechanics of materials, materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, and civil and structural engineering.

Their main research areas include nonlocal and gradient elasticity in micro and nano structures, composite structure analysis and optimization, thermoelastic and magnetoelastic phenomena, numerical methods in engineering, elasticity and material modeling, structural health monitoring techniques, and structural load-bearing analysis.

Recent publications by Castrenze Polizzotto include:

Nonlocal strain gradient elastic beam models with two-step differential approach and decoupling of standard and extra boundary conditions, I (2022), Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems
A 2D warping theory for shear deformable elastic beams of axisymmetric cross section in flexure (2022), European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids
Absolute and relative size effects within nonlocal strain gradient elastic beam models, II (2022), Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems
Integral and differential approaches to Eringen's nonlocal elasticity models accounting for boundary effects with applications to beams in bending (2021), ZAMM - Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics / Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik
Euler-Bernoulli elastic beam models of Eringen's differential nonlocal type revisited within a C⁰-continuous displacement framework (2021), Meccanica

Their frequent collaborators include P. Fuschi, A.A. Pisano, and Isaac Elishakoff.

Polizzotto's work has been published multiple times in the following venues:

Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems
ZAMM - Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics / Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik
Meccanica
European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids

Best Publications

Nonlocal elasticity and related variational principles

Castrenze Polizzotto

551
Citations
Symmetric Galerkin Boundary Element Methods

Marc Bonnet;Giulio Maier;Castrenze Polizzotto

391
Citations
Gradient elasticity and nonstandard boundary conditions

Castrenze Polizzotto

212
Citations
A Galerkin approach to boundary element elastoplastic analysis

G. Maier;C. Polizzotto

161
Citations
Unified thermodynamic framework for nonlocal/gradient continuum theories

Castrenze Polizzotto

148
Citations
A gradient elasticity theory for second-grade materials and higher order inertia

Castrenze Polizzotto

146
Citations
A thermodynamics-based formulation of gradient-dependent plasticity

Castrenze Polizzotto;Guido Borino

141
Citations
Stress gradient versus strain gradient constitutive models within elasticity

Castrenze Polizzotto

122
Citations
A second strain gradient elasticity theory with second velocity gradient inertia – Part I: Constitutive equations and quasi-static behavior

Castrenze Polizzotto

106
Citations
A thermodynamically consistent formulation of nonlocal and gradient plasticity

C. Polizzotto;G. Borino;P. Fuschi

104
Citations
Shakedown problems for material models with internal variables

C Polizzotto;G Borino;S Caddemi;P Fuschi

96
Citations
A unifying variational framework for stress gradient and strain gradient elasticity theories

Castrenze Polizzotto

94
Citations
A strain-difference-based nonlocal elasticity model

C. Polizzotto;P. Fuschi;A.A. Pisano

92
Citations
A Thermodynamic Approach to Nonlocal Plasticity and Related Variational Principles

G. Borino;P. Fuschi;C. Polizzotto

89
Citations
A nonhomogeneous nonlocal elasticity model

C. Polizzotto;P. Fuschi;A.A. Pisano

86
Citations
An energy approach to the boundary element method. Part I: Elastic solids

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85
Citations
A hierarchy of simplified constitutive models within isotropic strain gradient elasticity

Castrenze Polizzotto

82
Citations
Strain-gradient elastic-plastic material models and assessment of the higher order boundary conditions

Castrenze Polizzotto

72
Citations
On the Conditions to Prevent Plastic Shakedown of Structures: Part I—Theory

Castrenze Polizzotto

70
Citations
An energy approach to the boundary element method. Part 1 1: elastic-plastic solids

Castrenze Polizzotto

68
Citations
A nonlocal strain gradient plasticity theory for finite deformations

Castrenze Polizzotto

61
Citations
On the Conditions to Prevent Plastic Shakedown of Structures: Part II—The Plastic Shakedown Limit Load

Castrenze Polizzotto

59
Citations
Size effects of small-scale beams in bending addressed with a strain-difference based nonlocal elasticity theory

P. Fuschi;A.A. Pisano;C. Polizzotto

53
Citations

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