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Michele Ciavarella is affiliated with the Polytechnic University of Bari in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with a significant concentration in mechanics of materials. Additional areas of study include mechanical engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, biomedical engineering, and computational mechanics.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Adhesion, friction, and surface interactions
  • Force microscopy techniques and applications
  • Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis
  • Tribology and lubrication engineering
  • Mechanical behavior of composites
  • Gear and bearing dynamics analysis
  • Tribology and wear analysis

Their recent publications reflect this focus. Selected papers include:

  • "A comparison of crack propagation theories in viscoelastic materials," 2021, Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics
  • "Detachment of a Rigid Flat Punch from a Viscoelastic Material," 2023, Tribology Letters
  • "A Numerical Study on Roughness-Induced Adhesion Enhancement in a Sphere with an Axisymmetric Sinusoidal Waviness Using Lennard-Jones Interaction Law," 2020, Lubricants
  • "On the Degree of Irreversibility of Friction in Sheared Soft Adhesive Contacts," 2020, Tribology Letters
  • "A Simplified Theory of Electroadhesion for Rough Interfaces," 2020, Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering

Ciavarella has published extensively in several scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Tribology Letters
  • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Tribology International
  • Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Collaboration has been an important part of their research output. Frequent coauthors include:

  • A. Papangelo
  • Michele Tricarico
  • Robert M. McMeeking
  • Francesc Pérez-Ràfols
  • G. Cricrì

Best Publications

  • Contact mechanics

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  • Modeling and simulation in tribology across scales: An overview

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

  • A generalized Paris' law for fatigue crack growth

    Nicola Pugno;M. Ciavarella;Pietro Cornetti;Alberto Carpinteri

  • The generalized Cattaneo partial slip plane contact problem. I—Theory

    Michele Ciavarella

  • Linear elastic contact of the Weierstrass profile

    M. Ciavarella;G. Demelio;J. R. Barber;Yong Hoon Jang

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

    Michele Ciavarella;J.A. Greenwood;Marco Paggi

  • The indentation modulus of elastically anisotropic materials for indenters of arbitrary shape

    Joost J. Vlassak;Michele Ciavarella;James Barber;X. Wang

  • The influence of rounded edges on indentation by a flat punch

    M Ciavarella;D A Hills;G Monno

  • The role of adhesion in contact mechanics

    Michele Ciavarella;Michele Ciavarella;J. Joe;Antonio Papangelo;Antonio Papangelo;J. R. Barber

  • A “re-vitalized” Greenwood and Williamson model of elastic contact between fractal surfaces

    Michele Ciavarella;V. Delfine;Giuseppe Pompeo Demelio

  • The state of stress induced by the plane frictionless cylindrical contact. I. The case of elastic similarity

    Michele Ciavarella;Paolo Decuzzi

  • A review of analytical aspects of fretting fatigue, with extension to damage parameters, and application to dovetail joints

    M Ciavarella;G Demelio

  • The generalized Cattaneo partial slip plane contact problem. II—Examples☆

    Michele Ciavarella

  • Incipient sliding of rough surfaces in contact: a multiscale numerical analysis

    M. Borri-Brunetto;B. Chiaia;M. Ciavarella

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

    Marco Paggi;Michele Ciavarella

  • 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

  • Shakedown in elastic contact problems with Coulomb friction

    Anders Klarbring;M. Ciavarella;J. R. Barber

  • Elastic contact stiffness and contact resistance for the Weierstrass profile

    M. Ciavarella;G. Murolo;G. Demelio;J.R. Barber

  • On fatigue limit in the presence of notches: classical vs. recent unified formulations

    Michele Ciavarella;Giovanni Meneghetti

  • Tangential loading of general three-dimensional contacts

    M. Ciavarella

  • The state of stress induced by the plane frictionless cylindrical contact. II. The general case (elastic dissimilarity)

    Michele Ciavarella;Paolo Decuzzi

Frequent Co-Authors

Norbert Hoffmann
Norbert Hoffmann Hamburg University of Technology
Paolo Decuzzi
Paolo Decuzzi Italian Institute of Technology
Nicola Pugno
Nicola Pugno University of Trento
Anders Klarbring
Anders Klarbring Linköping University
D.A. Hills
D.A. Hills University of Oxford
Marco Paggi
Marco Paggi IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
Alberto Carpinteri
Alberto Carpinteri Shantou University
Daniele Dini
Daniele Dini Imperial College London
Joost J. Vlassak
Joost J. Vlassak Harvard University
James R. Rice
James R. Rice Harvard University

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