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Francesco dell’Isola

Francesco dell’Isola

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Italy
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
76
Citations
15495
World Ranking
276
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Francesco dell'Isola is affiliated with the University of L'Aquila in Italy. Their research spans primarily the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with significant contributions in subfields such as Mechanics of Materials, Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their work focuses on several main topics, including:

  • Nonlocal and gradient elasticity in micro/nano structures
  • Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization
  • Vibration and Dynamic Analysis
  • Composite Material Mechanics
  • Numerical methods in engineering
  • Thermoelastic and Magnetoelastic Phenomena
  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics

Frequent publication venues where Francesco dell'Isola has contributed include:

  • Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids
  • International Journal of Solids and Structures
  • Mechanics Research Communications
  • International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics
  • Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik

The scientist has collaborated notably with several co-authors, with whom they have multiple joint publications. These frequent collaborators include:

  • Emilio Barchiesi
  • Ivan Giorgio
  • Emilio Turco
  • Anil Misra
  • Pierre Seppecher

Recent published papers include:

  • "A Lagrangian Hencky-type non-linear model suitable for metamaterials design of shearable and extensible slender deformable bodies alternative to Timoshenko theory" (2020, International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics)
  • "Chirality in 2D Cosserat media related to stretch-micro-rotation coupling with links to granular micromechanics" (2020, International Journal of Solids and Structures)
  • "Three-point bending test of pantographic blocks: numerical and experimental investigation" (2020, Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids)
  • "On the validation of homogenized modeling for bi-pantographic metamaterials via digital image correlation" (2020, International Journal of Solids and Structures)
  • "Isogeometric analysis of fiber reinforced composites using Kirchhoff-Love shell elements" (2020, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering)

Francesco dell'Isola has also contributed to several book publications. Three books were published by Springer International Publishing:

  • "Sixty Shades of Generalized Continua" (2023)
  • "Dynamics, Strength of Materials and Durability in Multiscale Mechanics" (2020)
  • "Advances in Mechanics of Materials for Environmental and Civil Engineering" (2023)

Additionally, one book was published by Cambridge University Press:

  • "Discrete and Continuum Models for Complex Metamaterials" (2020)

Best Publications

  • Truss modular beams with deformation energy depending on higher displacement gradients

    Jean Jacques Alibert;Pierre Seppecher;Francesco Dell'isola

  • At the origins and in the vanguard of peridynamics, non-local and higher-gradient continuum mechanics: An underestimated and still topical contribution of Gabrio Piola

    Francesco dell’Isola;Ugo Andreaus;Luca Placidi

  • Large deformations of planar extensible beams and pantographic lattices: Heuristic homogenization, experimental and numerical examples of equilibrium

    F. Dell'Isola;I. Giorgio;M. Pawlikowski;Nicola Luigi Rizzi

  • Pantographic metamaterials: an example of mathematically driven design and of its technological challenges

    Francesco dell’Isola;Pierre Seppecher;Pierre Seppecher;Jean Jacques Alibert;Tomasz Lekszycki;Tomasz Lekszycki;Tomasz Lekszycki

  • Analytical continuum mechanics à la Hamilton-Piola least action principle for second gradient continua and capillary fluids

    Nicolas Auffray;F. Dell'Isola;V. Eremeyev;A. Madeo

  • Advances in pantographic structures: design, manufacturing, models, experiments and image analyses

    Francesco dell’Isola;Pierre Seppecher;Mario Spagnuolo;Mario Spagnuolo;Emilio Barchiesi;Emilio Barchiesi

  • How contact interactions may depend on the shape of Cauchy cuts in Nth gradient continua: approach “à la D’Alembert”

    Francesco dell’Isola;Pierre Seppecher;Angela Madeo

  • Generalized hooke's law for isotropic second gradient materials

    Francesco Dell'Isola;Giulio Sciarra;Stefano Vidoli

  • The bias-extension test for the analysis of in-plane shear properties of textile composite reinforcements and prepregs: a review

    P. Boisse;N. Hamila;E. Guzman-Maldonado;Angela Madeo

  • Homogenization à la Piola produces second gradient continuum models for linear pantographic lattices

    Y. Rahali;Y. Rahali;I. Giorgio;J.F. Ganghoffer;F. dell'Isola

  • Hencky-type discrete model for pantographic structures: numerical comparison with second gradient continuum models

    Emilio Turco;Francesco dell’Isola;Antonio Cazzani;Nicola Luigi Rizzi

  • Geometrically nonlinear higher-gradient elasticity with energetic boundaries

    A. Javili;F. dell'Isola;P. Steinmann

  • Higher-gradient continua: The legacy of Piola, Mindlin, Sedov and Toupin and some future research perspectives

    Francesco dell’Isola;Alessandro Della Corte;Ivan Giorgio

  • A Two-Dimensional Gradient-Elasticity Theory for Woven Fabrics

    Francesco dell’Isola;David Steigmann

  • Linear pantographic sheets: Asymptotic micro-macro models identification

    Claude Boutin;Francesco dell’Isola;Ivan Giorgio;Luca Placidi

  • Modeling the onset of shear boundary layers in fibrous composite reinforcements by second-gradient theory

    Manuel Ferretti;Angela Madeo;Francesco dell’Isola;Philippe Boisse

  • Mechanical response of fabric sheets to three-dimensional bending, twisting, and stretching

    David J. Steigmann;Francesco dell’Isola

  • Edge Contact Forces and Quasi-Balanced Power

    Francesco Dell'Isola;Pierre Seppecher

  • Designing a light fabric metamaterial being highly macroscopically tough under directional extension: first experimental evidence

    Francesco dell’Isola;Tomasz Lekszycki;Marek Pawlikowski;Roman Grygoruk

  • Linear elastic trusses leading to continua with exotic mechanical interactions

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  • Second gradient poromechanics

    Giulio Sciarra;Francesco dell’Isola;Olivier Coussy

  • Boundary Conditions at Fluid-Permeable Interfaces in Porous Media: a Variational Approach

    Francesco Dell'Isola;Angela Madeo;Pierre Seppecher

  • Linear plane wave propagation and normal transmission and reflection at discontinuity surfaces in second gradient 3D continua

    Francesco Dell'Isola;Angela Madeo;Luca Placidi

  • Analytical continuum mechanics `a la Hamilton-Piola: least action principle for second gradient continua and capillary fluids

    N. Auffray;F. dell'Isola;V. Eremeyev;A. Madeo

Frequent Co-Authors

Ivan Giorgio
Ivan Giorgio University of L'Aquila
Luca Placidi
Luca Placidi UniNettuno University
Angela Madeo
Angela Madeo TU Dortmund University
Maurizio Porfiri
Maurizio Porfiri New York University
Ugo Andreaus
Ugo Andreaus Sapienza University of Rome
Victor A. Eremeyev
Victor A. Eremeyev University of Cagliari
Emilio Turco
Emilio Turco University of Sassari
David J. Steigmann
David J. Steigmann University of California, Berkeley
Anil Misra
Anil Misra University of Kansas

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