Research
Themes, methods and ongoing projects
From survey data to structural models
Point clouds, CT scans and photogrammetric surveys describe what a structure looks like, not how it behaves. Bridging the two requires meshing strategies that tolerate noise, occlusions and non-manifold geometry.
- Automatic voxel- and slice-based mesh generation from unstructured 3D data
- Registration and clustering of large point clouds
- Ontology-driven organisation of digital-twin data
- CT-based characterisation of small-scale and biological materials
Masonry and historical constructions
Masonry is discontinuous, anisotropic and history-dependent. I work on models that keep the texture visible where it matters and homogenise it where it does not.
- Texture-aware modelling of walls and vaults
- Interface and shell-interface formulations for block assemblies
- Damage, plasticity and frost-induced deterioration
- Seismic assessment of towers and monumental buildings
Numerical methods
- Locking-free shell and beam finite elements
- Virtual element methods (VEM) on general polytopal meshes
- A-priori and a-posteriori error estimation
- Hybrid and physics-informed neural network surrogates
Selected ongoing work
Questa sezione è pensata per essere aggiornata spesso: una riga per progetto, con link al paper o al repository quando disponibile.
| Project | Focus | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud2FEM (improved) | Point cloud → FE pipeline | In preparation |
| Garisenda tower | Monitoring and structural assessment | Ongoing |
| VEM for beams and shells | Polytopal formulations | In preparation |
| Hybrid INN | Neural surrogates for structural response | Ongoing |