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Contacts
CHIARA GIULIA FONTANELLA
Position
Professoressa Associata
Address
VIA VENEZIA, 1 - PADOVA
Telephone
0498276754
Notices
Teachings
- COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS FOR CLINIC AND SURGERY, AA 2024 (INQ3103420)
- COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS FOR CLINIC AND SURGERY, AA 2024 (INQ3103420)
- ENGINEERING METHODS IN THE DESIGN OF DEVICES AND CLINICAL-SURGICAL PROCEDURES, AA 2023 (INQ0092859)
- ENGINEERING METHODS IN THE DESIGN OF DEVICES AND CLINICAL-SURGICAL PROCEDURES, AA 2023 (INQ0092859)
- ENGINEERING METHODS IN THE DESIGN OF DEVICES AND CLINICAL-SURGICAL PROCEDURES, AA 2022 (INQ0092859)
- ENGINEERING METHODS IN THE DESIGN OF DEVICES AND CLINICAL-SURGICAL PROCEDURES, AA 2022 (INQ0092859)
- ENGINEERING METHODS IN THE DESIGN OF DEVICES AND CLINICAL-SURGICAL PROCEDURES, AA 2021 (INQ0092859)
- ENGINEERING METHODS IN THE DESIGN OF DEVICES AND CLINICAL-SURGICAL PROCEDURES, AA 2021 (INQ0092859)
- MECHANICS OF BIOLOGICAL TISSUES, AA 2020 (INL1001846)
- MECHANICS OF BIOLOGICAL TISSUES, AA 2020 (INL1001846)
- MECHANICS OF BIOLOGICAL TISSUES, AA 2020 (INL1001846)
- MECHANICS OF BIOLOGICAL STRUCTURES, AA 2019 (INP5071738)
Publications
1. A.N. Natali, E.L. Carniel, C.G. Fontanella (2020), Investigation of interaction phenomena between lower urinary tract and artificial urinary sphincter in consideration of urethral tissues degeneration, Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, doi.org/10.1007/s10237-020-01326-3.
2. A.N. Natali, C.G. Fontanella, E.L. Carniel (2020), Biomechanical analysis of the interaction phenomena between artificial urinary sphincter and urethral duct, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, 36(3): e3308.
3. C.G. Fontanella, C. Salmaso, I. Toniolo, N. de Cesare, A. Rubini, G.M. De Benedictis, E.L. Carniel (2019). Computational models for the mechanical investigation of stomach tissues and structure, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 47(5): 1237-1249.
4. C.G. Fontanella, E. Belluzzi, M. Rosssato, E. Olivotto, G. Trisolino, P. Ruggieri, A. Rubini, A. Porzionato, A. Natali, R. De Caro, R. Vettor, R. Ramonda, V. Macchi, M. Favero (2019). Quantitative MRI analysis of infrapatellar and suprapatellar fat pads in normal controls, moderate and end-stage osteoarthritis, Annals of Anatomy. 221:108-114.
5. V. Macchi, E.E. Picardi, C.G. Fontanella, A. Porzionato, C. Stecco, C. Tortorella, A.N. Natali , R. De Caro (2019). The characteristics of the lobular arrangement indicate the dynamic role played by the infrapatellar fat pad in knee kinematics, Journal of Anatomy. 235: 80-87.
6. A.N. Natali, E.L. Carniel, C.G. Fontanella (2019). Interaction phenomena between a cuff of an artificial urinary sphincter and a urethral phantom, Artificial Organs. 43: 888-896.
7. C.G. Fontanella, E. L. Carniel, A. Frigo, V. Macchi, A. Porzionato, E.E.E. Picardi,, M. Favero, P. Ruggeri, R. De Caro, A.N. Natali (2018) Biomechanical bevhaior of Hoffa’s fat pad in healthy and osteoarthritic conditions, Australasian physical & engineering sciences in medicine. 41(3): 657-667.
8. C.G. Fontanella, E.L. Carniel, V. Macchi, A. Porzionato, R. De Caro, A.N. Natali (2017). Biomechanical response of the plantar tissues of the foot in healthy and degenerative conditions, Muscles, Ligaments and Tendons Journal. 7(4): 503-509.
9. A.N. Natali, C.G. Fontanella, S. Todros, E.L. Carniel (2017). Urethral lumen occlusion by artificial sphincteric device: evaluation of degraded tissues effects, Journal of Biomechanics. 65: 75-81.
10. A. Frigo, M. Costantini, C.G. Fontanella, S. Merigliano, E.L. Carniel (2017). A procedure for the automatic analysis of high resolution manometry data to support the clinical diagnosis of esophageal motility disorders. IEEE translaction on biomedical Engineering. 65(7): 1476-1485.
11. C.G. Fontanella, E.L. Carniel, A.N. Natali (2017). Numerical analysis of the foot in healthy and degenerative conditions. Journal of Mechanics in medicine and biology. 17 (6) 1750095.
12. M. Favero,H. El Hadi, E. Belluzzi, M. Granzotto, A. Porzionato, G. Sarasin, C. Iacobellis, A. Cigolotti, C.G. Fontanella, A.N. Natali, R. Ramonda, P. Ruggieri, R. De Caro, M. Rossato, V. Macchi (2017). Infrapatellar Fat Pad features in osteoarthritis: a histopathological and molecular study. Rheumatology. 56 (10):1784-1793.
Research Area
Research activity is carried out in the fields of biomechanics, mechanics of biological tissues and biomaterials. In detail, current research activity is developed in the framework of experimental and computational biomechanics, and pertains to the analysis of mechanical behaviour of biological materials and structures. Constitutive models are developed in the framework of a theory that is capable to account for coupled geometrical and material non-linearity. Anisotropic characteristics are analysed accounting for the micro-structural configuration of the tissue. Dissipative phenomena are deeply investigated, with regard to time-dependent effects, irreversible strain and damage. Experimental tests are planned and designed for the constitutive parameters identification. Specific procedures are implemented for the evaluation of constitutive parameters, based on the minimization of discrepancy between experimental and model results by coupled deterministic-stochastic optimization methods. Virtual solid models are developed starting from histomorphometric data and biomedical images from MRI and CT through segmentation software. Computational models are achieved by finite element discretization. The coupled experimental and computational approach allows evaluating the mechanical functionality of biological materials and structures, considering both physiological loads and interaction phenomena with surgical and biomedical devices.
