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D-Index
46
Citations
7731
World Ranking
1450
National Ranking
35

Overview

Marco Paggi is affiliated with the IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with significant contributions in mechanics of materials, mechanical engineering, computational mechanics, biomedical engineering, and materials chemistry. The scope of their work covers a range of topics relevant to engineering and applied mechanics.

Among the main topics explored in their research are:

  • Numerical methods in engineering
  • Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions
  • Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization
  • Mechanical Behavior of Composites
  • Fatigue and fracture mechanics
  • Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions
  • Composite Material Mechanics

Marco Paggi has published extensively in various scientific venues. The frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • International Journal of Solids and Structures
  • Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures
  • Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Their recent papers display a focus on advanced composite materials and fracture mechanics. Notable publications include:

  • A multi phase-field fracture model for long fiber reinforced composites based on the Puck theory of failure, 2020, Composite Structures
  • A multi phase-field-cohesive zone model for laminated composites: Application to delamination migration, 2021, Composite Structures
  • SPHERA v.9.0.0: A Computational Fluid Dynamics research code, based on the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics mesh-less method, 2020, Computer Physics Communications
  • Phase field modeling of fracture in Functionally Graded Materials: Γ-convergence and mechanical insight on the effect of grading, 2020, Thin-Walled Structures
  • Failure through crack propagation in components with holes and notches: An experimental assessment of the phase field model, 2022, International Journal of Solids and Structures

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • J. Reinoso
  • Pietro Lenarda
  • Maria Rosaria Marulli
  • Pavan Kumar Asur Vijaya Kumar
  • Aamir Dean

Marco Paggi also has a book publication titled Contact mechanics perspective of tribology, published by Technische Universität Berlin in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Modeling and simulation in tribology across scales: An overview

    A. I. Vakis;V. A. Yastrebov;J. Scheibert;L. Nicola;L. Nicola

  • Revisiting the problem of a crack impinging on an interface: A modeling framework for the interaction between the phase field approach for brittle fracture and the interface cohesive zone model

    Marco Paggi;José Reinoso

  • Inclusion of “interaction” in the Greenwood and Williamson contact theory

    Michele Ciavarella;J.A. Greenwood;Marco Paggi

  • Advances in Carbon Based Nanomaterials for Bio-Medical Applications

    Tejendra Kumar Gupta;Pattabhi Ramaiah Budarapu;Sivakumar Reddy Chappidi;Sudhir Yb Sastry

  • The coefficient of proportionality κ between real contact area and load, with new asperity models

    Marco Paggi;Michele Ciavarella

  • Inkjet printed 2D-crystal based strain gauges on paper

    C. Casiraghi;M. Macucci;K. Parvez;R. Worsley

  • Phase field modeling of brittle fracture for enhanced assumed strain shells at large deformations: formulation and finite element implementation

    J. Reinoso;M. Paggi;C. Linder

  • Fatigue degradation and electric recovery in Silicon solar cells embedded in photovoltaic modules

    Marco Paggi;Irene Berardone;Andrea Infuso;Mauro Corrado

  • One, no one, and one hundred thousand crack propagation laws: A generalized Barenblatt and Botvina dimensional analysis approach to fatigue crack growth

    Michele Ciavarella;Marco Paggi;Alberto Carpinteri

  • On the stress singularities at multimaterial interfaces and related analogies with fluid dynamics and diffusion

    Marco Paggi;Alberto Carpinteri

  • A multi phase-field fracture model for long fiber reinforced composites based on the Puck theory of failure

    A. Dean;A. Dean;P.K. Asur Vijaya Kumar;J. Reinoso;C. Gerendt

  • A multi-physics and multi-scale numerical approach to microcracking and power-loss in photovoltaic modules

    Marco Paggi;Mauro Corrado;Maria Alejandra Rodriguez

  • A consistent interface element formulation for geometrical and material nonlinearities

    J. Reinoso;M. Paggi

  • Strength prediction of notched thin ply laminates using finite fracture mechanics and the phase field approach

    J. Reinoso;A. Arteiro;M. Paggi;P.P. Camanho;P.P. Camanho

  • On the resolution dependence of micromechanical contact models

    Giorgio Zavarise;Mauro Borri-Brunetto;Marco Paggi

  • Self-similarity and crack growth instability in the correlation between the Paris’ constants

    Alberto Carpinteri;Marco Paggi

  • Stiffness and strength of hierarchical polycrystalline materials with imperfect interfaces

    Marco Paggi;Peter Wriggers

  • Contact conductance of rough surfaces composed of modified RMD patches

    Marco Paggi;J.R. Barber

  • Acoustic emission monitoring and numerical modeling of FRP delamination in RC beams with non-rectangular cross-section

    Alberto Carpinteri;Giuseppe Lacidogna;Marco Paggi

  • A nonlocal cohesive zone model for finite thickness interfaces – Part I: Mathematical formulation and validation with molecular dynamics

    Marco Paggi;Peter Wriggers

Frequent Co-Authors

Alberto Carpinteri
Alberto Carpinteri Shantou University
Giorgio Zavarise
Giorgio Zavarise Polytechnic University of Turin
Peter Wriggers
Peter Wriggers University of Hannover
Giuseppe Lacidogna
Giuseppe Lacidogna Polytechnic University of Turin
Timon Rabczuk
Timon Rabczuk Bauhaus University, Weimar
Nicola Pugno
Nicola Pugno University of Trento
Michele Ciavarella
Michele Ciavarella Polytechnic University of Bari
Davide Bigoni
Davide Bigoni University of Trento
Valentin L. Popov
Valentin L. Popov Technical University of Berlin
Alberto Bemporad
Alberto Bemporad IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca

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