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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
UK
2026

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
92
Citations
27838
World Ranking
103
National Ranking
3

Materials Science

D-Index
89
Citations
26347
World Ranking
1803
National Ranking
77

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Fabrizio Scarpa is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with a focus on several subfields including Mechanical Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, Biomedical Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist has a significant body of work related to multiple main topics of study, emphasizing the following areas:

  • Cellular and Composite Structures
  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Natural Fiber Reinforced Composites
  • Polymer composites and self-healing
  • Mechanical Behavior of Composites
  • Structural Analysis and Optimization
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials

Fabrizio Scarpa has contributed to several recent publications in various scholarly journals. Some notable examples include:

  • Manufacturing, characteristics and applications of auxetic foams: A state-of-the-art review, 2022, published in Composites Part B Engineering
  • Low-velocity impact resistance of composite sandwich panels with various types of auxetic and non-auxetic core structures, 2021, Thin-Walled Structures
  • Ionic Liquid-Based Polymer Nanocomposites for Sensors, Energy, Biomedicine, and Environmental Applications: Roadmap to the Future, 2022, Advanced Science
  • Cellulose/polyaniline hybrid nanocomposites: Design, fabrication, and emerging multidimensional applications, 2022, Industrial Crops and Products
  • Tunable, multi-modal, and multi-directional vibration energy harvester based on three-dimensional architected metastructures, 2020, Applied Energy

The venues where the scientist frequently publishes reflect specialization in composite materials and structural engineering topics. These venues include:

  • Composite Structures
  • Composites Part B Engineering
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Thin-Walled Structures
  • Materials & Design

Throughout their career, Fabrizio Scarpa has collaborated extensively with various researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Túlio Hallak Panzera
  • Qicheng Zhang
  • Adam W. Perriman
  • Abderrezak Bezazi
  • Gianni Comandini

Best Publications

  • Effective elastic mechanical properties of single layer graphene sheets.

    F Scarpa;S Adhikari;A Srikantha Phani

  • Dynamic properties of high structural integrity auxetic open cell foam

    FL Scarpa;LG Ciffo;JR Yates

  • Structural health monitoring using scanning laser vibrometry: I. Lamb wave sensing

    WJ Staszewski;BC Lee;L Mallet;Fabrizio Scarpa

  • Phononic properties of hexagonal chiral lattices

    Alessandro Spadoni;Massimo Ruzzene;Stefano Gonella;Fabrizio Scarpa

  • Characterization of a novel natural cellulosic fiber from Juncus effusus L

    Mabrouk Maache;Abderrezak Bezazi;Salah Amroune;Fabrizio Scarpa

  • Wave beaming effects in two-dimensional cellular structures

    Massimo Ruzzene;Fabrizio Scarpa;Francesco Soranna

  • Lattice Metamaterials with Mechanically Tunable Poisson’s Ratio for Vibration Control

    Yanyu Chen;Tiantian Li;Fabrizio Scarpa;Lifeng Wang

  • Double-Negative Mechanical Metamaterials Displaying Simultaneous Negative Stiffness and Negative Poisson's Ratio Properties

    Trishan A. M. Hewage;Kim L. Alderson;Andrew Alderson;Fabrizio Scarpa

  • Manufacturing, characteristics and applications of auxetic foams: A state-of-the-art review

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  • Mechanical behaviour of conventional and negative Poisson’s ratio thermoplastic polyurethane foams under compressive cyclic loading

    Abderrezak Bezazi;Fabrizio Scarpa

  • Effective mechanical properties of hexagonal boron nitride nanosheets

    L Boldrin;FL Scarpa;Chowdhury R;S Adhikari

  • 3D Printed Hierarchical Honeycombs with Shape Integrity under Large Compressive Deformations

    Yanyu Chen;Yanyu Chen;Tiantian Li;Zian Jia;Fabrizio Scarpa

  • The transverse elastic properties of chiral honeycombs

    A. Lorato;P. Innocenti;F. Scarpa;Andrew Alderson

  • Theoretical characteristics of the vibration of sandwich plates with in-plane negative poisson's ratio values

    FL Scarpa;Tomlinson G

  • Auxetic materials for bioprostheses [In the Spotlight]

    F. Scarpa

  • On the transverse shear modulus of negative Poisson’s ratio honeycomb structures

    F. Scarpa;P. J. Tomlin

  • Numerical and experimental uniaxial loading on in-plane auxetic honeycombs

    FL Scarpa;Panayiotou P;Tomlinson G

  • Graded conventional-auxetic Kirigami sandwich structures: Flatwise compression and edgewise loading

    Yangqing Hou;Robin M Neville;Robin M Neville;Fabrizio Scarpa;Chrystel D L Remillat

  • Elastic buckling of hexagonal chiral cell honeycombs

    FL Scarpa;S Blain;T Lew;D Perrott

  • Novel extraction techniques, chemical and mechanical characterisation of Agave americana L. natural fibres

    Abderrezak Bezazi;Ahmed Belaadi;Mostefa Bourchak;Fabrizio Scarpa

  • Structural health monitoring using scanning laser vibrometry: II. Lamb waves for damage detection

    WH Leong;WJ Staszewski;BC Lee;Fabrizio Scarpa

  • Elasticity of anti-tetrachiral anisotropic lattices

    Yijin Chen;Fabrizio Scarpa;Y. J. Liu;Jinsong Leng

Frequent Co-Authors

Massimo Ruzzene
Massimo Ruzzene University of Colorado Boulder
Sondipon Adhikari
Sondipon Adhikari University of Glasgow
Hua-Xin Peng
Hua-Xin Peng University of Bristol
Rajib Chowdhury
Rajib Chowdhury Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Jinsong Leng
Jinsong Leng Harbin Institute of Technology
Yanju Liu
Yanju Liu Harbin Institute of Technology
Andrew Alderson
Andrew Alderson Sheffield Hallam University
Kenneth E. Evans
Kenneth E. Evans University of Exeter
Jonathan Rossiter
Jonathan Rossiter University of Bristol
Wieslaw J. Staszewski
Wieslaw J. Staszewski AGH University of Science and Technology

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