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FRANCESCO SCABBIA
Position
Ricercatore a tempo det. art. 24 c.3 lett. A L. 240/2010
Address
VIA VENEZIA, 1 - PADOVA
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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:Feb. 2025 - Present, Assistant Professor, DII, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.Jan. 2024 - Jan. 2025, Research Fellow, DII, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.Oct. 2023 - Dec. 2023, Research Fellow, DII, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.Oct. 2020 - Sep. 2023, Ph.D. in Sciences, Technologies and Measurements for Space, CISAS, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.Nov. 2019 - Sep. 2020, Research Fellow, DII, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------TEACHING EXPERIENCE:Feb. 2025 - Jun. 2025, Lecturer (4 CFU - 32 hours) of the course Complementi di Strutture Aerospaziali, Bachelor's Degree in Aerospace Engineering, DII, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.Mar. 2021 - Dec. 2024, Educational support in 5 courses (totaling 94 hours), DII, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SCIENTIFIC EXPERTISE:- Solid and fracture mechanics: static and dynamic analyses with FEM and peridynamics, fracture modeling in anisotropic materials, imposition of boundary conditions in nonlocal models, coupling between local and nonlocal models, nonlinear analysis of solid bodies subjected to large deformations, hyperelastic constitutive models for soft materials.- Heat and mass transfer: diffusion models for corrosion and oxidation phenomena, anisotropic heat conduction, moving interfaces problems (solidification or phase transition).- Multi-physics phenomena: thermo-mechanical problems involving fracture, piezoelectric materials, poroelastic materials in hydraulic fracturing problems, thermo-electro-mechanical models for dielectric breakdown problems.
Notices
Office hours
Available by appointment by contacting francesco.scabbia@unipd.it
Teachings
STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS AND AEROELASTICITY, AA 2025 (INQ1097441)
COMPLEMENTARY TOPICS IN AEROSPACE STRUCTURES, AA 2024 (INP7079737)
Publications
[1] F. Scabbia, M. Zaccariotto, U. Galvanetto, “A novel and effective way to impose boundary conditions and to mitigate the surface effect in state‑based Peridynamics”, International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering, 122.20:5773‑5811, 2021, doi: 10.1002/nme.6773.
[2] F. Scabbia, M. Zaccariotto, U. Galvanetto, “A new method based on taylor expansion and nearest‑node strategy to impose Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions in ordinary state‑based Peridynamics”, Computational Mechanics, 70:1‑27, 2022, doi: 10.1007/s00466‑022‑02153‑2.
[3] F. Scabbia, M. Zaccariotto, U. Galvanetto, “Accurate computation of partial volumes in 3D Peridynamics”, Engineering with Computers, 39:959‑991, 2023, doi: 10.1007/s00366‑022‑01725‑3.
[4] F. Scabbia, M. Zaccariotto, U. Galvanetto, “A new surface node method to accurately model the mechanical behavior of the boundary in 3D state‑based Peridynamics”, Journal of Peridynamics and Nonlocal Modeling, 5:521‑555, 2023, doi: 10.1007/s42102‑022‑00094‑1.
[5] F. Scabbia, M. Enea, “An improved coupling of 3D state‑based peridynamics with high‑order 1D finite elements to reduce spurious effects at interfaces”, International Journal of Numerical ethods in Engineering, 124.17:3687‑3708, 2023, doi: 10.1002/nme.7297.
[6] F. Scabbia, C. Gasparrini, M. Zaccariotto, U. Galvanetto, A. Larios, F. Bobaru, “Moving interfaces in peridynamic diffusion models and the influence of discontinuous initial conditions: Numerical stability and convergence”, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 151:384‑
396, 2023, doi: 10.1016/j.camwa.2023.10.016.
[7] F. Scabbia, C. Gasparrini, M. Zaccariotto, U. Galvanetto, F. Bobaru, “A peridynamic model for oxidation and damage in zirconium carbide ceramics”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 237:126414, 2025, doi: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2024.126414.
[8] F. Scabbia, M. Zaccariotto, U. Galvanetto, “A general ordinary state‑based peridynamic formulation for anisotropic materials”, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 427:117059, 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.cma.2024.117059.
Research Area
See the research group website: https://research.dii.unipd.it/aerstru/
Thesis proposals
If you are interested in a thesis on numerical methods for solid mechanics, fracture mechanics, diffusion or heat transfer phenomena, multi-physics or aeroelastic phenomena, please send an email to francesco.scabbia@unipd.it
