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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Italy
2023

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
55
Citations
7905
World Ranking
927
National Ranking
16

Raffaele Barretta publication distribution in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Raffaele Barretta sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 131 publications — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 659 publications or more.

Raffaele Barretta D-index placement in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Raffaele Barretta sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 83 scientists 31 D-Index: 113 scientists 32 D-Index: 144 scientists 33 D-Index: 153 scientists 34 D-Index: 189 scientists 35 D-Index: 158 scientists 36 D-Index: 139 scientists 37 D-Index: 127 scientists 38 D-Index: 130 scientists 39 D-Index: 126 scientists 40 D-Index: 104 scientists 41 D-Index: 100 scientists 42 D-Index: 107 scientists 43 D-Index: 101 scientists 44 D-Index: 103 scientists 45 D-Index: 79 scientists 46 D-Index: 88 scientists 47 D-Index: 70 scientists 48 D-Index: 83 scientists 49 D-Index: 44 scientists 50 D-Index: 64 scientists 51 D-Index: 56 scientists 52 D-Index: 50 scientists 53 D-Index: 48 scientists 54 D-Index: 58 scientists 55 D-Index: 52 scientists 56 D-Index: 48 scientists 57 D-Index: 42 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 42 scientists 60 D-Index: 37 scientists 61 D-Index: 42 scientists 62 D-Index: 44 scientists 63 D-Index: 22 scientists 64 D-Index: 33 scientists 65 D-Index: 29 scientists 66 D-Index: 23 scientists 67 D-Index: 29 scientists 68 D-Index: 24 scientists 69 D-Index: 19 scientists 70 D-Index: 34 scientists 71 D-Index: 26 scientists 72 D-Index: 19 scientists 73 D-Index: 18 scientists 74 D-Index: 19 scientists 75 D-Index: 14 scientists 76 D-Index: 19 scientists 77 D-Index: 8 scientists 78 D-Index: 18 scientists 79 D-Index: 16 scientists 80 D-Index: 12 scientists 81 D-Index: 17 scientists 82 D-Index: 11 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 7 scientists 85 D-Index: 9 scientists 86 D-Index: 8 scientists 87 D-Index: 6 scientists 88 D-Index: 6 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 10 scientists 91 D-Index: 4 scientists 92 D-Index: 4 scientists 93+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more.

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

  • Nonlocal elasticity in nanobeams: the stress-driven integral model

    Giovanni Romano;Raffaele Barretta

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

    Giovanni Romano;Raffaele Barretta

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

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

  • Functionally graded Timoshenko nanobeams: A novel nonlocal gradient formulation

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

  • On nonlocal integral models for elastic nano-beams

    Giovanni Romano;Raffaele Barretta;Marina Diaco

  • Constitutive boundary conditions for nonlocal strain gradient elastic nano-beams

    Raffaele Barretta;Francesco Marotti de Sciarra

  • Free vibrations of elastic beams by modified nonlocal strain gradient theory

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

  • Stress-driven modeling of nonlocal thermoelastic behavior of nanobeams

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

  • Longitudinal vibrations of nano-rods by stress-driven integral elasticity

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

  • Stress-driven nonlocal integral elasticity for axisymmetric nano-plates

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

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

    Raffaele Barretta;Marko Čanadija;Luciano Feo;Raimondo Luciano

  • 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

  • Stress-driven nonlocal integral model for Timoshenko elastic nano-beams

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Application of an enhanced version of the Eringen differential model to nanotechnology

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

  • Variational nonlocal gradient elasticity for nano-beams

    Raffaele Barretta;Francesco Marotti de Sciarra

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

    Giovanni Romano;Raimondo Luciano;Raffaele Barretta;Marina Diaco

  • Buckling loads of nano-beams in stress-driven nonlocal elasticity

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

  • Stress-driven integral elastic theory for torsion of nano-beams

    Raffaele Barretta;Marina Diaco;Luciano Feo;Raimondo Luciano

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

    Raffaele Barretta;Raimondo Luciano

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesco Marotti de Sciarra
Francesco Marotti de Sciarra University of Naples Federico II
Raimondo Luciano
Raimondo Luciano Parthenope University of Naples
Luciano Feo
Luciano Feo University of Salerno
Francesco Fabbrocino
Francesco Fabbrocino Pegaso University
Giuseppe Mensitieri
Giuseppe Mensitieri University of Naples Federico II
John R. Willis
John R. Willis University of Cambridge

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