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Giulio Di Toro

Giulio Di Toro

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Earth Science

D-Index
57
Citations
10233
World Ranking
2301
National Ranking
35

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Giulio Di Toro is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Engineering. Their research primarily focuses on geophysics, mechanics of materials, ocean engineering, civil and structural engineering, and artificial intelligence.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geological and geochemical analysis
  • Drilling and well engineering
  • Geotechnical and geomechanical engineering
  • Earthquake detection and analysis
  • Rock mechanics and modeling

Giulio Di Toro has published in several prominent venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Structural Geology
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems

Recent papers include:

  • "Fracture Energy and Breakdown Work During Earthquakes" (2023), Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • "Coseismic fault sealing and fluid pressurization during earthquakes" (2023), Nature Communications
  • "Pseudotachylyte Alteration and the Rapid Fade of Earthquake Scars From the Geological Record" (2020), Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Influence of Effective Stress and Pore Fluid Pressure on Fault Strength and Slip Localization in Carbonate Slip Zones" (2020), Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • "Fast and Localized Temperature Measurements During Simulated Earthquakes in Carbonate Rocks" (2021), Geophysical Research Letters

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Elena Spagnuolo
  • Stefano Aretusini
  • Chiara Cornelio
  • Rodrigo Gomila
  • Shengli Ma

Giulio Di Toro is a member of Academia Europaea since 2013.

Best Publications

  • Fault lubrication during earthquakes

    G. Di Toro;G. Di Toro;R. Han;T. Hirose;N. De Paola

  • Friction falls towards zero in quartz rock as slip velocity approaches seismic rates

    Giulio Di Toro;David L. Goldsby;Terry E. Tullis

  • Recent advances in the understanding of fault zone internal structure: a review

    Christopher A. J. Wibberley;Graham Yielding;Giulio Di Toro;Giulio Di Toro

  • Natural and Experimental Evidence of Melt Lubrication of Faults During Earthquakes

    Giulio Di Toro;Giulio Di Toro;Giulio Di Toro;Takehiro Hirose;Takehiro Hirose;Takehiro Hirose;Stefan Nielsen;Stefan Nielsen;Stefan Nielsen;Giorgio Pennacchioni;Giorgio Pennacchioni;Giorgio Pennacchioni

  • Earthquake rupture dynamics frozen in exhumed ancient faults

    Giulio Di Toro;Stefan Nielsen;Giorgio Pennacchioni

  • Frictional melt and seismic slip

    S. Nielsen;G. Di Toro;T. Hirose;T. Hirose;T. Shimamoto

  • Superheated friction-induced melts in zoned pseudotachylytes within the Adamello tonalites (Italian Southern Alps)

    Giulio Di Toro;Giorgio Pennacchioni

  • Fault lubrication and earthquake propagation in thermally unstable rocks

    Nicola De Paola;Takehiro Hirose;Tom Mitchell;Giulio Di Toro;Giulio Di Toro

  • Thermoporomechanics of creeping landslides: The 1963 Vaiont slide, northern Italy

    Emmanuil Veveakis;Ioannis Vardoulakis;Giulio Di Toro

  • Fault plane processes and mesoscopic structure of a strong-type seismogenic fault in tonalites (Adamello batholith, Southern Alps)

    Giulio Di Toro;Giorgio Pennacchioni

  • Mirror-like faults and power dissipation during earthquakes

    Michele Fondriest;Michele Fondriest;Steven A.F. Smith;Thibault Candela;Stefan B. Nielsen

  • Can pseudotachylytes be used to infer earthquake source parameters? An example of limitations in the study of exhumed faults

    Giulio Di Toro;Giorgio Pennacchioni;Giordano Teza

  • Inferring earthquake physics and chemistry using an integrated field and laboratory approach

    A. Niemeijer;A. Niemeijer;G. Di Toro;G. Di Toro;W.A. Griffith;A. Bistacchi

  • Coseismic recrystallization during shallow earthquake slip

    S. A. F. Smith;G. Di Toro;G. Di Toro;S. Kim;J.-H. Ree

  • Principal Slip Zones in Limestone: Microstructural Characterization and Implications for the Seismic Cycle (Tre Monti Fault, Central Apennines, Italy)

    Steven A. F. Smith;Andrea Billi;Giulio Di Toro;Giulio Di Toro;Richard Spiess

  • Aseismic sliding of active faults by pressure solution creep: Evidence from the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth

    Jean-Pierre Gratier;Julie Richard;François Renard;François Renard;S. Mittempergher

  • Fault Roughness at Seismogenic Depths from LIDAR and Photogrammetric Analysis

    Andrea Bistacchi;W. Ashley Griffith;Steven A. F. Smith;Giulio Di Toro

  • Low- to high-velocity frictional properties of the clay-rich gouges from the slipping zone of the 1963 Vaiont slide, northern Italy

    Fabio Ferri;Giulio Di Toro;Giulio Di Toro;Takehiro Hirose;Raehee Han

  • Gouge graphitization and dynamic fault weakening during the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake

    Li Wei Kuo;Haibing Li;Steven A.F. Smith;Giulio Di Toro;Giulio Di Toro

  • Earthquakes: Radiated Energy and the Physics of Faulting

    Rachel E. Abercrombie;Art McGarr;Giulio Di Toro;Hiroo Kanamori

  • Natural and Experimental Evidence of Melt Lubrication of Faults During Earthquakes

    G. di Toro;T. Hirose;S. Nielsen;G. Pennacchioni

  • Fault Lubrication and Earthquake Propagation in Thermally Unstable Rocks

    N. de Paola;T. Hirose;T. M. Mitchell;G. di Toro

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Nielsen
Stefan Nielsen Durham University
Giorgio Pennacchioni
Giorgio Pennacchioni University of Padua
Takehiro Hirose
Takehiro Hirose Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Fabrizio Storti
Fabrizio Storti University of Parma
Toshihiko Shimamoto
Toshihiko Shimamoto China Earthquake Administration
Alexandre Schubnel
Alexandre Schubnel École Normale Supérieure
Cristiano Collettini
Cristiano Collettini Sapienza University of Rome
Andrea Billi
Andrea Billi National Research Council (CNR)
André R. Niemeijer
André R. Niemeijer Utrecht University
Yan Lavallée
Yan Lavallée Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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