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MIRCO ZACCARIOTTO

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Position

Professore Associato

Address

VIA VENEZIA, 1 - PADOVA

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0498276801

Dr. Mirco Zaccariotto, PhD degree in “Mechanical measurements for engineering science”. He was responsible for the Cisas “G. Colombo” laboratories for the period 2006-2011, since 2008 he is a member of the academic board of the PhD school in Science, Technology and space Measurements. The scientific activity of Prof. Zaccariotto concerns both applied structural design and new computational methods. He was involved on the thermo-structural design of instruments and mechanisms that must operate in hostile environments as the space. The studies were aimed at optimizing the structures for minimizing the mass of the system, the determination of the loads expected at the interfaces, the development of mathematical models for performing static and dynamic analyses, and the design of experimental setup for validation of models. He has participated at the development of scientific payloads for some space missions (Rosetta, Mars Express, BepiColombo). He was key-person for technological projects funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) and developed by industrial partners and Cisas “G.Colombo” (European Precision Landing GNC Test Facility, Demonstration of the deployment of a highly integrated low power ice-penetrating radar antenna, Mars Sample Canister mechanism).
He is working on computational mechanics for the study of damage mechanisms in materials and the related numerical simulation techniques. He is studying alternative theories to those of the continuum mechanics (peridynamics) to investigate crack propagation and fragmentation problems. He proposed efficient methods to couple the Peridynamics solution strategy with the more conventional Finite Element Method. He is member of AIDAA, the European Mechanics Society and the Nafems MultiBody Working Group.

Notices

Office hours

  • Thursday from 12:00 to 13:30
    at Dipartimento Ingegneria Industriale, v. Venezia 1, 6 piano, stanza 021 (in fondo al corridoio sulla destra)
    In ogni caso contattare preventivamente il docente via mail (in questo modo si ridurranno i tempi di attesa).

Publications

Selected papers:

Scabbia, F., Zaccariotto, M., Galvanetto, U., A New Surface Node Method to Accurately Model the Mechanical Behavior of the Boundary in 3D State-Based Peridynamics, J. of Peridynamics and Nonlocal Mod., 2023.

Ni, T., Zaccariotto, M., Galvanetto, U., A peridynamic approach to simulating fatigue crack propagation in composite materials, Phil. Trans. of the Royal Society A, 2023.

Ni, T., Sanavia, L., Zaccariotto, M., Galvanetto, U., Schrefler, B.A., Fracturing dry and saturated porous media, Peridynamics and dispersion, Computers and Geotechnics, 2022.

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, Int. J. for Num. Meth in Eng 122(20), 2021.

G. Ongaro, P. Seleson, U. Galvanetto, T. Ni, M. Zaccariotto, Overall equilibrium in the coupling of peridynamics and classical continuum mechanics, Comp. Meth Appl Mech and Eng, 381, 2021.

T. Ni, F. Pesavento, M. Zaccariotto, U. Galvanetto, Q.Z. Zhu,B.A. Schrefler, Hybrid FEM and peridynamic simulation of hydraulic fracture propagation in saturated porous media, Comp. Meth Appl Mech and Eng, 366,2020.

T. Ni,M. Zaccariotto,Q.Z. Zhu,U. Galvanetto, Static solution of crack propagation problems in Peridynamics, Comp. Meth Appl Mech and Eng, 346, 2019.

M. Zaccariotto, T. Mudric, D. Tomasi, A. Shojaei and U. Galvanetto,Coupling of FEM meshes with Peridynamic grids, Comp. Meth Appl Mech and Eng,330, 2018.

M. Zaccariotto, D. Tomasi, U. Galvanetto, An enhanced coupling of PD grids to FE meshes, Mech Res Comms, 84, 2017, pp. 125-135.

M. Zaccariotto, A. Francesconi, U. Galvanetto, A contribution to the definition of a new method to predict the catastrophic disintegration of spacecraft after collision with large orbital debris, Acta Astronautica 127, 2016, pp. 95-102

M. Zaccariotto, F. Luongo, G. Sarego, U. Galvanetto, Examples of applications of the peridynamic theory to the solution of static equilibrium problems, Aeronautical Journal, 2015, vol 119, 1-24

D. Dipasquale, M. Zaccariotto, M.,U. Galvanetto Crack propagation with adaptive grid refinement in 2D peridynamics, Int. J. of Fracture, 2014, 190(1-2), 1-22.

M. Thiene, M. Zaccariotto, U. Galvanetto,Application of proper orthogonal decomposition to damage detection in homogeneous plates and composite beams,In press, Journal of Engineering Mechanics . 2013, 139, 1539–1550.

Francesconi A., Giacomuzzo C., Grande A.M., Mudric T., Zaccariotto M., Etemadi E., Di Landro L., Galvanetto U.,Comparison of self-healing ionomer to aluminium-alloy bumpers for protecting spacecraft equipment from space debris impacts, Advances In Space Research, 2012.

Flamini E, Capaccioni F, Colangeli L, Cremonese G, Doressoundiram A, Josset J., Langevin Y, Debei S., et. al., Zaccariotto M,...,"SIMBIO-SYS: The spectrometer and imagers integrated observatory system for the BepiColombo planetary orbiter", Planetary And Space Science,2010,58, 125-143.

Contributions in book

Zaccariotto M., Galvanetto U.,"Crack Propagation Simulations Using Peridynamics",In: Bytes and Science. p. 225-237, International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), (2012)

Zaccariotto M., Shojaei A., Galvanetto U., Coupling of CCM and PD in a meshless way, in Peridynamic modeling, numerical techniques, and applications, edited by E. Oterkus, S. Oterkus, E., Madenci, Elsevier series in Mechanics of advanced materials, 2021.

Research Area

Analysis of alternative theories to those of continuum mechanics for the study of the effects of discontinuities on the strength of materials.
Development of models for the study of static and dynamic crack propagation in isotropic and anisotropic materials.
Thermo-structural design of instruments and mechanisms that must operate in hostile environments, particularly in the space environment;
Study of damage mechanisms in composite materials, of the relative numerical simulation techniques, and development of numerical models and damage indices.

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