2026 Giovanni Garcea: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	33	9489	9129	381	376	132	2827

Overview

Giovanni Garcea is affiliated with the University of Calabria in Italy. Their research primarily spans the engineering field, with a significant focus on mechanics of materials, civil and structural engineering, computational mechanics, control and systems engineering, and mechanical engineering. The body of work includes over 100 publications in these areas.

Their research topics encompass:

Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization
Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques
Numerical methods in engineering
Topology Optimization in Engineering
Structural Load-Bearing Analysis
Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems
Fire effects on concrete materials

Giovanni Garcea has authored papers in a range of peer-reviewed venues, with frequent contributions to:

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
Thin-Walled Structures
SSRN Electronic Journal
International Journal of Solids and Structures

Recent publications include:

"A robust penalty coupling of non-matching isogeometric Kirchhoff-Love shell patches in large deformations" (2020), published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
"Optimal Design of CNT-Nanocomposite Nonlinear Shells" (2020), published in Nanomaterials
"A large rotation finite element analysis of 3D beams by incremental rotation vector and exact strain measure with all the desirable features" (2020), published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
"An isogeometric framework for the optimal design of variable stiffness shells undergoing large deformations" (2020), published in International Journal of Solids and Structures
"Isogeometric analysis of 3D beams for arbitrarily large rotations: Locking-free and path-independent solution without displacement DOFs inside the patch" (2020), published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

The researcher frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors, including:

Domenico Magisano
Leonardo Leonetti
Francesco S. Liguori
Antonio Madeo
Antonella Corrado

Best Publications

Asymptotic post-buckling FEM analysis using corotational formulation

Giovanni Garcea;Antonio Madeo;Giuseppe Zagari;Raffaele Casciaro

145
Citations
Finite element shakedown analysis of two‐dimensional structures

Giovanni Garcea;Giampaolo Armentano;Salvatore Petrolo;Raffaele Casciaro

117
Citations
Mixed formulation and locking in path-following nonlinear analysis

Giovanni Garcea;Giuseppe A. Trunfio;Raffaele Casciaro

102
Citations
Advantages of the mixed format in geometrically nonlinear analysis of beams and shells using solid finite elements

D Magisano;Leonardo Leonetti;Giovanni Garcea

98
Citations
An efficient isogeometric solid-shell formulation for geometrically nonlinear analysis of elastic shells

Leonardo Leonetti;Francesco Liguori;Domenico Magisano;Giovanni Garcea

98
Citations
An iterative method for shakedown analysis

Raffaele Casciaro;Giovanni Garcea

92
Citations
KOITER'S ANALYSIS OF THIN-WALLED STRUCTURES BY A FINITE ELEMENT APPROACH

Antonio D. Lanzo;Giovanni Garcea

90
Citations
PERTURBATION APPROACH TO ELASTIC POST-BUCKLING ANALYSIS

R. Casciaro;R. Casciaro;G. Garcea;G. Attanasio;F. Giordano

87
Citations
Asymptotic post-buckling analysis of rectangular plates by HC finite elements

Antonio D. Lanzo;Giovanni Garcea;Raffaele Casciaro

86
Citations
Postbuckling optimisation of a variable angle tow composite wingbox using a multi-modal Koiter approach

Francesco S. Liguori;Giovanni Zucco;Antonio Madeo;Domenico Magisano

83
Citations
A generalized model for heterogeneous and anisotropic beams including section distortions

Alessandra Genoese;Andrea Genoese;Antonio Bilotta;Giovanni Garcea

80
Citations
A unified mathematical programming formulation of strain driven and interior point algorithms for shakedown and limit analysis

Giovanni Garcea;Leonardo Leonetti

78
Citations
How to improve efficiency and robustness of the Newton method in geometrically non-linear structural problem discretized via displacement-based finite elements

Domenico Magisano;Leonardo Leonetti;Giovanni Garcea

77
Citations
A simplified Kirchhoff–Love large deformation model for elastic shells and its effective isogeometric formulation

Leonardo Leonetti;Domenico Magisano;Antonio Madeo;Giovanni Garcea

76
Citations
The implicit corotational method and its use in the derivation of nonlinear structural models for beams and plates

Giovanni Garcea;Antonio Madeo;Raffaele Casciaro

74
Citations
A mixed beam model with non-uniform warpings derived from the Saint Venànt rod

Alessandra Genoese;Andrea Genoese;Antonio Bilotta;Giovanni Garcea

74
Citations
Mixed formulation in Koiter analysis of thin-walled beams

Giovanni Garcea

71
Citations
An efficient mixed variational reduced‐order model formulation for nonlinear analyses of elastic shells

D. Magisano;K. Liang;G. Garcea;L. Leonetti

59
Citations
A robust penalty coupling of non-matching isogeometric Kirchhoff–Love shell patches in large deformations

Leonardo Leonetti;Leonardo Leonetti;Francesco S. Liguori;Domenico Magisano;Josef Kiendl

58
Citations
Post-buckling optimisation strategy of imperfection sensitive composite shells using Koiter method and Monte Carlo simulation

Francesco S. Liguori;Antonio Madeo;Domenico Magisano;Leonardo Leonetti

57
Citations
A geometrically exact beam model with non-uniform warping coherently derived from the Saint Venant rod

Andrea Genoese;Alessandra Genoese;Antonio Bilotta;Giovanni Garcea

54
Citations
Optimal design of cnt-nanocomposite nonlinear shells

Leonardo Leonetti;Giovanni Garcea;Domenico Magisano;Francesco Liguori

54
Citations