2026 Raffaele Barretta: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	55	926	848	16	15	131	7905

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Italy Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Raffaele Barretta is affiliated with the University of Naples Federico II in Italy and has contributed extensively to the fields of engineering and materials science, with a particular focus on mechanics of materials and materials chemistry. Their research portfolio encompasses various aspects of micro and nano-scale structural mechanics, emphasizing advanced elasticity theories and numerical methods.

The main research topics covered by Barretta include:

Nonlocal and gradient elasticity in micro/nano structures
Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization
Numerical methods in engineering
Thermoelastic and Magnetoelastic Phenomena
Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications
Elasticity and Material Modeling
Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Barretta are:

Modelling issues and advances in nonlocal beams mechanics, 2024, International Journal of Engineering Science
Variationally consistent dynamics of nonlocal gradient elastic beams, 2020, International Journal of Engineering Science
Finite element method for stress-driven nonlocal beams, 2021, Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements
On the dynamics of nano-frames, 2020, International Journal of Engineering Science
Random vibrations of stress-driven nonlocal beams with external damping, 2020, Meccanica

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Barretta include:

Francesco Marotti de Sciarra
Marzia Sara Vaccaro
Francesco Paolo Pinnola
Raimondo Luciano
Marko Čanađija

The scientist has published predominantly in select academic journals, with notable venues featuring their work as follows:

International Journal of Engineering Science
Acta Mechanica
Nanomaterials
arXiv (Cornell University)
Encyclopedia

Barretta's scope of work spans multiple subfields of study, primarily:

Mechanics of Materials
Materials Chemistry
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Biomedical Engineering
Control and Systems Engineering

Best Publications

Constitutive boundary conditions and paradoxes in nonlocal elastic nanobeams

Giovanni Romano;Raffaele Barretta;Marina Diaco;Francesco Marotti de Sciarra

537
Citations
Nonlocal elasticity in nanobeams: the stress-driven integral model

Giovanni Romano;Raffaele Barretta

438
Citations
Stress-driven versus strain-driven nonlocal integral model for elastic nano-beams

Giovanni Romano;Raffaele Barretta

325
Citations
Free vibrations of Bernoulli-Euler nano-beams by the stress-driven nonlocal integral model

Andrea Apuzzo;Raffaele Barretta;Raimondo Luciano;Francesco Marotti de Sciarra

256
Citations
Functionally graded Timoshenko nanobeams: A novel nonlocal gradient formulation

Raffaele Barretta;Luciano Feo;Raimondo Luciano;Francesco Marotti de Sciarra

231
Citations
On nonlocal integral models for elastic nano-beams

Giovanni Romano;Raffaele Barretta;Marina Diaco

199
Citations
Constitutive boundary conditions for nonlocal strain gradient elastic nano-beams

Raffaele Barretta;Francesco Marotti de Sciarra

190
Citations
Free vibrations of elastic beams by modified nonlocal strain gradient theory

A. Apuzzo;R. Barretta;S.A. Faghidian;R. Luciano

170
Citations
Stress-driven modeling of nonlocal thermoelastic behavior of nanobeams

Raffaele Barretta;Marko Čanađija;Raimondo Luciano;Francesco Marotti de Sciarra

156
Citations
Longitudinal vibrations of nano-rods by stress-driven integral elasticity

R. Barretta;S. Ali Faghidian;R. Luciano

146
Citations
Stress-driven nonlocal integral elasticity for axisymmetric nano-plates

R. Barretta;S. Ali Faghidian;F. Marotti de Sciarra

131
Citations
Exact solutions of inflected functionally graded nano-beams in integral elasticity

Raffaele Barretta;Marko Čanadija;Luciano Feo;Raimondo Luciano

129
Citations
Closed-form solutions in stress-driven two-phase integral elasticity for bending of functionally graded nano-beams

Raffaele Barretta;Francesco Fabbrocino;Raimondo Luciano;Francesco Marotti de Sciarra

127
Citations
Stress-driven nonlocal integral model for Timoshenko elastic nano-beams

Raffaele Barretta;Raimondo Luciano;Francesco Marotti de Sciarra;Giuseppe Ruta

125
Citations
Comment on the paper “Exact solution of Eringen’s nonlocal integral model for bending of Euler–Bernoulli and Timoshenko beams” by Meral Tuna & Mesut Kirca

Giovanni Romano;Raffaele Barretta

122
Citations
Free vibrations of FG elastic Timoshenko nano-beams by strain gradient and stress-driven nonlocal models

R. Barretta;S. Ali Faghidian;R. Luciano;C.M. Medaglia

120
Citations
Application of an enhanced version of the Eringen differential model to nanotechnology

Raffaele Barretta;Luciano Feo;Raimondo Luciano;Francesco Marotti de Sciarra

117
Citations
Variational nonlocal gradient elasticity for nano-beams

Raffaele Barretta;Francesco Marotti de Sciarra

112
Citations
Nonlocal integral elasticity in nanostructures, mixtures, boundary effects and limit behaviours

Giovanni Romano;Raimondo Luciano;Raffaele Barretta;Marina Diaco

102
Citations
Buckling loads of nano-beams in stress-driven nonlocal elasticity

R. Barretta;F. Fabbrocino;R. Luciano;F. Marotti de Sciarra

100
Citations
Stress-driven integral elastic theory for torsion of nano-beams

Raffaele Barretta;Marina Diaco;Luciano Feo;Raimondo Luciano

99
Citations
Analogies between Kirchhoff plates and functionally graded Saint-Venant beams under torsion

Raffaele Barretta;Raimondo Luciano

97
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Raimondo Luciano Parthenope University of Naples

Luciano Feo University of Salerno

Francesco Fabbrocino Pegaso University

Giuseppe Mensitieri University of Naples Federico II

John R. Willis University of Cambridge

External Links

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