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Contact data

Associate Professor
Department of Environment, Health and Safety
Via J.H. Dunant, 3 – 21100 Varese
Tel: 0332/421390 (temporary)
Fax: 0332/421390 (temporary)
E-mail: enrico.papa@uninsubria.it
 

Biography

 Born in Milan, Italy, June 10, 1961; married, one daughter (1991), two sons (1995 and 2001).

- April 1986: graduation summa cum laude in Civil Engineering (option: Structures) at Politecnico di Milano; title of the degrre thesis: On several mathematical models for the analysis of the masonry wall;

- October 1990: PhD in Structural Engineering; title of the thesis: On the damage mechanics with particular reference to the masonry;

- October 1991 – January 1994: Research Associate , Department of Structural Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy;

- February 1994 – October 1998: Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering Leonardo, Politecnico di Milano;

- November 1998 – October 2005: Associate Professor in Structural Mechanics at the Faculty of Engineering Leonardo, Politecnico di Milano.

-Since November 2005: Associate Professor in Structural Mechanics at the Faculty of MM.FF.NN. of the University of Insubria.
 

Research interests

 The main research fields are the theoretical and experimental study of the behavior of brittle materials as concrete and masonry and the simulation of the mechanical behavior of ancient masonry structures.

The 'mechanical theory of damage' can be usefully employed to describe the nonlinear behavior of brittle materials under monotonic, sustained or cyclic stresses. The microcracking induced in the material can be accounted for through suitable internal variables, either scalar or tensorial in nature.

Using the damage models proposed by the writer, several numerical simulations of the nonlinear behavior of masonry ancient structures (Torrazzo of Cremona, Noto cathedral) have been performed . In particular several linear and non-linear stress analysis of a masonry structure collapsed in 1989 (the Civic Tower in Pavia, Italy) have been made, with an attempt to interpreting the reasons of failure by employing the theoretical damage models.
 

Teaching experience and appointments

 Courses on Strength of Materials, Finite Elements and , Computational Mechanics at the Faculty of Engineering Leonardo, Politecnico di Milano and at the Faculty of MM.FF.NN. of the University of Insubria.
 

Representative  publications

1 Maier G., Papa E., Nappi A.
On damage and failure of brick masonry.
Experimental and Numerical Methos in Earthquake Engineering, J. Donea and P.M. Jones, Eds., Kluwer Academic Publ., Dodrecht, 223-245, 1991

2 Papa E., Nappi A.
A numerical approach for the analysis of masonry structures.
Masonry International, 7 (1), 18-24, 1993

3 Papa E.
A damage model for concrete subjected to fatigue loading.
European Journal of Mechanics, A/Solids, 12 (3), 429-440, 1993

4 Papa E., Nappi A.
A test rig for the application of biaxial cyclic loads to structural models.
Materials and Structures, 28, 299-307, 1995

5 Papa E., Taliercio A.
Anisotropic damage model for the multiaxial static and fatigue behaviour of plain concrete.
Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 55 (2), 163-179, 1996

6 Papa E.
A unilateral damage model for masonry based on a homogenization procedure
Mechanics of Cohesive-Frictional Materials, 1, 349-366, 1996

7 Papa E., Nappi A.
Numerical modelling of masonry: a material model accounting for damage effects and plastic strains.
Applied Mathematical Modelling, 21, 319-335, 1997

8 Papa E., Taliercio A., Gobbi E.
Triaxial creep behaviour of plain concrete at high stresses:
a survey of theoretical models.
Materials and Structures, 31, 487-493, 1998

9 Papa E., Taliercio A.
Anisotropic damage model for the triaxial creep behaviour of
plain concrete.
Damage Mechanics in Engineering Materials, G.Z. Voyiadjis, J.-W. W. Ju and J.-L. Chaboche Eds., Elsevier Science, 337-350, 1998

10 Callerio A., Papa E., Nappi A.
Analysis of masonry structures subject to variable loads: a
numerical approach based on damage mechanics.
Inelastic Analysis of Structures under Variable Loads. Theory
and Engineering Applications, D. Weichert and G. Maier Eds.,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 121-134, 2000

11 Papa E.
Damage and failure models.
Computational modelling of masonry, brickwork and
blockwork structures, J.W. Bull Ed., Saxe-Coburg
Publications, 1-27, 2000

12 Rizzi E., Papa E., Corigliano A.
Mechanical behaviour of a syntactic foam: experiments and
modeling.
Int. J. Solids & Structures, 37, 5773-5794, 2000

13 Corigliano A., Rizzi E., Papa E.
Experimental characterization and numerical simulations of a
syntactic foam/glass fibre composite sandwich.
Composite Science and Technology, 60, 2169-2180, 2000

14 Papa E., Corigliano A., Rizzi E.
Mechanical behaviour of a syntactic foam/glass fibre
composite sandwich: experimental results.
Structural Engineering & Mechanics, 12(2), 169-188, 2001

15 Corigliano A., Papa E., Pavan A.
Study of the mechanical behaviour of a macroscopic glass-
polyester composite by ESPI method and numerical
simulations.
Composite Science Technology, 64, 1829-1841, 2004

16 Papa E.
Damage and failure models for masonry.
Progress in Computational Structures Technology, B.H.V.
Topping and C.A. Mota Soares Eds., Saxe-Coburg
Publications, 201-229, 2004

17 Papa E., Taliercio A.
A visco-damage model for brittle materials under monotonic
and sustained stresses.
Int. J. for Numerical and Analytical Meth. in Geomechanics,
29, 287-310, 2005

 
 
   
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