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Professor Giulio Alfano

Dept. of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Brunel University London

Education:
Ph.D. in Structural Engineering, University of Naples ‘Federico II’, September 1997.
5-year degree in Civil Engineering (summa cum laude), University of Naples ‘Federico II’, Italy, 1993.

Selected Publications:
Alfano, G., Marotti de Sciarra, F., Rosati, L. (1996), Automatic analysis of multicell thin-walled sections, Computers & Structures, V. 59, N. 4, pp. 641-655.
Alfano G., Auricchio F., Rosati L., Sacco E., MITC finite elements for laminated composite plates, Int. Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 50, 2001, 707–738
Alfano, G and Crisfield, M.A., "Finite Element Interface Models for the Delamination Analysis of Laminated Composites: Mechanical and Computational Issues." International Journal for Numerical Method in Engineering, London, U.K, 2001, Vol. 50, pp. 1701-1736
Y. Qiu, M. A. Crisfield and G. Alfano, “An interface element formulation for the simulation of delamination with buckling”, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol. 68, No. 16, November 2001, pp. 1755-1776
Alfano G, Crisfield MA (2003) Solution strategies for the delamination analysis based on a combination of local-control arc-length and line searches. Int J Numer Methods Eng 58:999–1048
Rabee Shamass, Giulio Alfano and Federico Guarracino, “A numerical investigation into the plastic buckling paradox for circular cylindrical shells under axial compression”, Engineering Structures, Vol. 75, pp 429-447, 15 September 2014
Rabee Shamass, Giulio Alfano and Federico Guarracino, “An investigation into the plastic buckling paradox for circular cylindrical shells under non-proportional loading”, Thin-Walled Structures, Vol. 95, pp 347-362, October 2015
M.T. Rahmati, H. Bahai and G. Alfano, “An accurate and computationally efficient small-scale nonlinear FEA of flexible risers”, Ocean Engineering, Vol. 121, pp 382-391, July 2016
Rabee Shamass, Giulio Alfano and Federico Guarracino, “On elastoplastic buckling analysis of cylinders under nonproportional loading by differential quadrature method”, International Journal of structural stability and dynamics, September 2016

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