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Overview

Roberto Ballarini is affiliated with the University of Houston in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of engineering, with a particular focus on civil and structural engineering, mechanics of materials, and mechanical engineering. They have also contributed to areas related to ocean engineering and building and construction.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including numerical methods in engineering, structural response to dynamic loads, concrete properties and behavior, fire effects on concrete materials, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, drilling and well engineering, and geotechnical engineering and underground structures.

Ballarini has published extensively in several academic venues. They have contributed notably to the Journal of Engineering Mechanics with seven publications, as well as to the Journal of Applied Mechanics, which features four of their papers. Other frequent publication outlets include the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids with three papers, Engineering Fracture Mechanics with two, and the International Journal of Solids and Structures with one.

Their recent papers include:

  • "Crack kinking in isotropic and orthotropic micropolar peridynamic solids," 2020, International Journal of Solids and Structures
  • "Coupled Creep-Damage-Plasticity Model for Concrete under Long-Term Loading," 2020, Journal of Engineering Mechanics
  • "Damage-plasticity modeling of shear failure in reinforced concrete structures," 2023, Engineering Fracture Mechanics
  • "The effects of proppant on the near-front behavior of a hydraulic fracture," 2020, Engineering Fracture Mechanics
  • "A Multifield Model for Early-Age Massive Concrete Structures: Hydration, Damage, and Creep," 2020, Journal of Engineering Mechanics

Frequent collaborators in Ballarini's research include Jia-Liang Le, Zheren Baizhikova, Xiaodan Ren, Egor Dontsov, and Alena Bessmertnykh. These collaborators have coauthored multiple papers with Ballarini, indicating active partnerships across various projects.

Best Publications

  • Structural basis for the fracture toughness of the shell of the conch Strombus gigas

    S. Kamat;X. Su;R. Ballarini;A. H. Heuer

  • Coupled quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical modeling of the fracture of defective carbon nanotubes and graphene sheets

    Roopam Khare;Steven L. Mielke;Jeffrey T. Paci;Sulin Zhang

  • Stress-Strain Experiments on Individual Collagen Fibrils

    Zhilei L. Shen;Mohammad Reza Dodge;Harold Kahn;Roberto Ballarini

  • Nano measurements with micro-devices: mechanical properties of hydrated collagen fibrils.

    Steven J. Eppell;B. N. Smith;H. Kahn;R. Ballarini

  • Brittle‐to‐Ductile Transition in Uniaxial Compression of Silicon Pillars at Room Temperature

    Fredrik Östlund;Karolina Rzepiejewska-Malyska;Klaus Leifer;Lucas M. Hale

  • Viscoelastic properties of isolated collagen fibrils.

    Zhilei Liu Shen;Harold Kahn;Roberto Ballarini;Steven J. Eppell

  • Fracture toughness of polysilicon MEMS devices

    H. Kahn;N. Tayebi;R. Ballarini;R. L. Mullen

  • Fatigue failure in polysilicon not due to simple stress corrosion cracking.

    H. Kahn;R. Ballarini;J. J. Bellante;Arthur Heuer

  • Electrostatically actuated failure of microfabricated polysilicon fracture mechanics specimens

    H. Kahn;R. Ballarini;R. L. Mullen;A. H. Heuer

  • Effect of Rim Thickness on Gear Crack Propagation Path.

    David G. Lewicki;Roberto Ballarini

  • Fracture mechanisms of the Strombus gigas conch shell: implications for the design of brittle laminates

    L. T. Kuhn-Spearing;H. Kessler;E. Chateau;R. Ballarini

  • Deformation micromechanisms of collagen fibrils under uniaxial tension

    Yuye Tang;Roberto Ballarini;Markus J. Buehler;Steven J. Eppell

  • The fracture toughness of polysilicon microdevices: A first report

    R. Ballarini;R. L. Mullen;Y. Yin;H. Kahn

  • Fracture mechanisms of the Strombus gigas conch shell: II-micromechanics analyses of multiple cracking and large-scale crack bridging

    Shekhar Kamat;Hannes Kessler;Roberto Ballarini;Maissarath Nassirou

  • Monte Carlo simulation of effective elastic constants of polycrystalline thin films

    R. L. Mullen;R. Ballarini;Y. Yin;Arthur Heuer

  • Scale effects for strength, ductility, and toughness in “brittle” materials

    William W Gerberich;J. Michler;W. M. Mook;R. Ghisleni

  • Dynamic fatigue of silicon

    H Kahn;R Ballarini;A.H Heuer

  • Crack growth in cement-based composites

    R. Ballarini;S.P. Shah;L.M. Keer

  • Interface Toughness of Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Epoxy Composites

    Yogeeswaran Ganesan;Cheng Peng;Yang Lu;Phillip E. Loya

  • In Vitro Fracture Testing of Submicron Diameter Collagen Fibril Specimens

    Zhilei Liu Shen;Mohammad Reza Dodge;Harold Kahn;Roberto Ballarini

  • Journal of Engineering Mechanics

    Roberto Ballarini;Kaspar Willam;Ross B. Corotis

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur H. Heuer
Arthur H. Heuer Case Western Reserve University
William W Gerberich
William W Gerberich University of Minnesota
Leon M. Keer
Leon M. Keer Northwestern University
Surendra P. Shah
Surendra P. Shah Northwestern University
Johann Michler
Johann Michler Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Susanne Stemmer
Susanne Stemmer University of California, Santa Barbara
Jun Lou
Jun Lou Rice University
Yang Lu
Yang Lu University of Hong Kong
Christian A. Zorman
Christian A. Zorman Case Western Reserve University

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