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Laura De Lorenzis

Laura De Lorenzis

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Switzerland
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
62
Citations
16956
World Ranking
596
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Laura De Lorenzis is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has a substantial publication record in the field of Engineering. Their research primarily centers on Mechanics of Materials, Computational Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Materials Chemistry. The work spans several specialized topics, including Numerical methods in engineering, Elasticity and Material Modeling, Model Reduction and Neural Networks, Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design, Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques, Composite Material Mechanics, and Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics.

De Lorenzis has contributed extensively to academic journals and conferences, with frequent publications in the following venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Computational Mechanics

Their recent papers include:

  • Unsupervised discovery of interpretable hyperelastic constitutive laws, 2021, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • NN-EUCLID: Deep-learning hyperelasticity without stress data, 2022, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • Data-driven fracture mechanics, 2020, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • Automated discovery of generalized standard material models with EUCLID, 2023, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • Discovering plasticity models without stress data, 2022, npj Computational Materials

Frequent co-authors in De Lorenzis' body of work are:

  • Moritz Flaschel
  • Siddhant Kumar
  • Pietro Carrara
  • M. Manav
  • Hamza Oudich

In addition to journal articles, De Lorenzis has contributed to book publications. One notable contribution is to the book Modeling in Engineering Using Innovative Numerical Methods for Solids and Fluids, published by Springer Vienna in 2020.

Best Publications

  • A review on phase-field models of brittle fracture and a new fast hybrid formulation

    Marreddy Ambati;Tymofiy Gerasimov;Laura Lorenzis

  • Near-surface mounted FRP reinforcement: An emerging technique for strengthening structures

    L. De Lorenzis;Jinguang Teng

  • Phase-field modeling of ductile fracture

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  • Comparative Study of Models on Confinement of Concrete Cylinders with Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites

    Laura De Lorenzis;Ralejs Tepfers

  • BOND OF FRP LAMINATES TO CONCRETE

    Laura De Lorenzis;Brian Miller;Antonio Nanni

  • A framework to model the fatigue behavior of brittle materials based on a variational phase-field approach

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  • Shear Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete Beams with Near-Surface Mounted Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Rods

    Laura De Lorenzis;Antonio Nanni

  • Bond between Near-Surface Mounted Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Rods and Concrete in Structural Strengthening

    Laura De Lorenzis;Antonio Nanni

  • A phase-field model for ductile fracture at finite strains and its experimental verification

    Marreddy Ambati;Roland Kruse;Laura Lorenzis

  • An extended isogeometric thin shell analysis based on Kirchhoff-Love theory

    N. Nguyen-Thanh;N. Valizadeh;M. N. Nguyen;H. Nguyen-Xuan

  • A modified pull-out test for bond of near-surface mounted FRP rods in concrete

    Laura De Lorenzis;Andrea Rizzo;Antonio La Tegola

  • Bond of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Laminates to Concrete

    Laura De Lorenzis;Brian Miller;Antonio Nanni

  • A large deformation frictional contact formulation using NURBS‐based isogeometric analysis

    L. De Lorenzis;I. Temizer;P. Wriggers;G. Zavarise

  • A line search assisted monolithic approach for phase-field computing of brittle fracture

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  • Debonding Failures of RC Beams Strengthened with Near Surface Mounted CFRP Strips

    J. G. Teng;L. De Lorenzis;Bo Wang;Rong Li

  • Behavior and capacity of RC beams strengthened in shear with NSM FRP reinforcement

    Andrea Rizzo;Laura De Lorenzis

  • Characterization of FRP Rods as Near-Surface Mounted Reinforcement

    Laura De Lorenzis;Antonio Nanni

  • A mortar formulation for 3D large deformation contact using NURBS-based isogeometric analysis and the augmented Lagrangian method

    L. Lorenzis;P. Wriggers;G. Zavarise

  • Unsupervised discovery of interpretable hyperelastic constitutive laws

    Moritz Flaschel;Siddhant Kumar;Siddhant Kumar;Laura De Lorenzis

  • A phenomenological approach to fatigue with a variational phase-field model: The one-dimensional case

    Roberto Alessi;Stefano Vidoli;Laura De Lorenzis

  • Isogeometric contact: a review

    Laura De Lorenzis;Peter Wriggers;Thomas J.R. Hughes

  • Failure of masonry arches under impulse base motion

    Laura De Lorenzis;Matthew DeJong;John Ochsendorf

  • Phase-field description of brittle fracture in plates and shells

    Josef Kiendl;Marreddy Ambati;Laura De Lorenzis;Hector Gomez

  • Analysis of laminated composite plates integrated with piezoelectric sensors and actuators using higher-order shear deformation theory and isogeometric finite elements

    P. Phung-Van;P. Phung-Van;L. De Lorenzis;Chien H. Thai;M. Abdel-Wahab

  • Isogeometric large deformation frictionless contact using T-splines

    R. Dimitri;L. De Lorenzis;M.A. Scott;P. Wriggers

  • Isogeometric collocation: Neumann boundary conditions and contact

    L. De Lorenzis;J. A. Evans;Thomas J Hughes;A. Reali

Frequent Co-Authors

Giorgio Zavarise
Giorgio Zavarise Polytechnic University of Turin
Josef Kiendl
Josef Kiendl Bundeswehr University Munich
Rossana Dimitri
Rossana Dimitri University of Salento
Antonio Nanni
Antonio Nanni University of Miami
Peter Wriggers
Peter Wriggers University of Hannover
Dario Pisignano
Dario Pisignano University of Pisa
Roger A. Sauer
Roger A. Sauer Ruhr University Bochum
Alessandro Reali
Alessandro Reali University of Pavia
Hermann G. Matthies
Hermann G. Matthies Technische Universität Braunschweig
Jin-Guang Teng
Jin-Guang Teng Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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