2026 Gianluca Cusatis: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	46	1448	1340	575	499	236	8003

Overview

Gianluca Cusatis is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States and specializes in the field of engineering, with a particular focus on civil and structural engineering. Their research encompasses various subfields including mechanics of materials, building and construction, materials chemistry, and earth-surface processes.

The scientist's main topics of study include:

Rock Mechanics and Modeling
Innovative concrete reinforcement materials
Concrete and Cement Materials Research
Concrete Properties and Behavior
Structural Response to Dynamic Loads
Numerical methods in engineering
Masonry and Concrete Structural Analysis

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Gianluca Cusatis cover important advances in fracture mechanics, concrete materials, and structural engineering. Selected publications include:

Discrete mechanical models of concrete fracture (2021), published in Engineering Fracture Mechanics
Gap Test of Crack-Parallel Stress Effect on Quasibrittle Fracture and Its Consequences (2020), published in Journal of Applied Mechanics
New perspective of fracture mechanics inspired by gap test with crack-parallel compression (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Influence of steel fiber size, shape, and strength on the quasi-static properties of ultra-high performance concrete: Experimental investigation and numerical modeling (2021), published in Construction and Building Materials
Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Matrix (FRCM) for strengthening historical stone masonry structures: Experiments and computations (2020), published in Engineering Structures

The scientist frequently publishes in journals such as SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Engineering Structures, Construction and Building Materials, and arXiv (Cornell University).

Gianluca Cusatis collaborates regularly with multiple coauthors, including Madura Pathirage, Giovanni Di Luzio, Zdeněk P. Bažant, Matthew Troemner, and Elham Ramyar.

Best Publications

Lattice Discrete Particle Model (LDPM) for failure behavior of concrete. I: Theory

Gianluca Cusatis;Daniele Pelessone;Andrea Mencarelli

540
Citations
Confinement-Shear Lattice Model for Concrete Damage in Tension and Compression: I. Theory

Gianluca Cusatis;Zdenek P. Bazant;Luigi Cedolin

474
Citations
Lattice Discrete Particle Model (LDPM) for failure behavior of concrete. II: Calibration and validation

Gianluca Cusatis;Andrea Mencarelli;Daniele Pelessone;James Baylot

372
Citations
CONFINEMENT-SHEAR LATTICE MODEL FOR CONCRETE DAMAGE IN TENSION AND COMPRESSION: II. COMPUTATION AND VALIDATION

Gianluca Cusatis;Zdenek P. Bazant;Luigi Cedolin

303
Citations
Strain-rate effects on concrete behavior

Gianluca Cusatis

293
Citations
Temperature Effect on Concrete Creep Modeled by Microprestress-Solidification Theory

Zdenek P. Bazant;Gianluca Cusatis;Luigi Cedolin

277
Citations
Confinement-shear lattice CSL model for fracture propagation in concrete

Gianluca Cusatis;Zdenek P. Bazant;Luigi Cedolin

273
Citations
Hygro-thermo-chemical modeling of high performance concrete. I: Theory

Giovanni Di Luzio;Gianluca Cusatis

233
Citations
Lattice Discrete Particle Modeling (LDPM) of Alkali Silica Reaction (ASR) deterioration of concrete structures

Mohammed Alnaggar;Gianluca Cusatis;Giovanni Di Luzio

198
Citations
Lattice Discrete Particle Model for Fiber-Reinforced Concrete. I: Theory

Edward A. Schauffert;Gianluca Cusatis

195
Citations
Anisotropic elastic, strength, and fracture properties of Marcellus shale

Zhefei Jin;Weixin Li;Congrui Jin;James Hambleton

193
Citations
Size Effect Analysis for the Characterization of Marcellus Shale Quasi-brittle Fracture Properties

Weixin Li;Zhefei Jin;Gianluca Cusatis

167
Citations
Solidification–microprestress–microplane (SMM) theory for concrete at early age: Theory, validation and application

Giovanni Di Luzio;Gianluca Cusatis

159
Citations
Two-scale Study of Concrete Fracturing Behavior

Gianluca Cusatis;Luigi Cedolin

156
Citations
Discrete modeling of ultra-high-performance concrete with application to projectile penetration

Jovanca Smith;Gianluca Cusatis;Daniele Pelessone;Eric Landis

149
Citations
A novel material for in situ construction on Mars: experiments and numerical simulations

Lin Wan;Roman Wendner;Gianluca Cusatis

144
Citations
Hygro-thermo-chemical modeling of high-performance concrete. II: Numerical implementation, calibration, and validation

Giovanni Di Luzio;Gianluca Cusatis

140
Citations
Discrete mechanical models of concrete fracture

John E. Bolander;Jan Eliáš;Gianluca Cusatis;Kohei Nagai

125
Citations
Lattice Discrete Particle Model for Fiber-Reinforced Concrete. II: Tensile Fracture and Multiaxial Loading Behavior

Edward A. Schauffert;Gianluca Cusatis;Daniele Pelessone;James L. O’Daniel

122
Citations
Cohesive crack analysis of size effect

Gianluca Cusatis;Edward A. Schauffert

116
Citations
Confinement –Shear Lattice Model for Concrete Damage in Tension and Compression

G. Cusatis;Z. P. Bažant;L. Cedolin

104
Citations
Lattice discrete particle modeling of alkali-silica-reaction (ASR) deterioration of concrete structures

M. Alnaggar;Gianluca Cusatis;G. Di Luzio

5
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Zdeněk P. Bažant Northwestern University

Jianmin Qu Tufts University

Christian Carloni Case Western Reserve University

J. William Carey Los Alamos National Laboratory

Carlo Pellegrino University of Padua

Dale P. Bentz National Institute of Standards and Technology

Tinh Quoc Bui Duy Tan University

Gianluca Ranzi University of Sydney

Paolo Gardoni University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Jin-Guang Teng Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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