SALOMONI VALENTINA

NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS AND DISSEMINATION:
189 Publications among which 60 in International Refereed Journals, 15 keynote lectures and 27 invited papers
H-INDEX 19 in ISI Web of Knowledge, 19 in SCOPUS, 1039 SCOPUS citations, 90 citations for the most cited paper.

- Editorial Advisory Board Member of the International Journal of Plasticity,
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/international-journal-of-plasticity/about/editorial-board
- Scientific Coordinator of Project PRIN 2020 "Sustainable modelling of materials, structures and urban spaces including economic-legal implications"
- Local Unit Coordinator in Project PRIN 2017 "Modelling of constitutive laws for traditional and innovative building materials"
- Guest Editor of Special Issue "Sustainable Modelling of Materials, Structures and Urban Spaces including Economic-legal Implications",
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/sustai_urbanspaces
- Guest Editor of Special Issue "Hydrodynamics in Materials Science: Experimental and Modeling", https://www.mdpi.com/journal/materials/special_issues/Hydro_Mater
- OA papers
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S2047684122500038
https://doi.org/10.3390/fractalfract6010021
https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13214988
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CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITION AND AFFILIATIONS:
Full Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics at the Department of Management and Engineering of the University of Padua, Italy
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
• 2017-2020: Associate Professor, Department of Management and Engineering of the University of Padua, Italy
• 2006-2017: Assistant Professor/Lecturer, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Padua, Italy
• 2003-2006: Research Grant Fellow, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Padua, Italy
• 1999-2001: Post-Doc student, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Padua, Italy
• 1995: Tempus-Phare Grant Fellow, Technical University of Lodz, Poland.
EDUCATION
• 1995-1998: PhD student of Structural Mechanics, University of Bologna, Italy.
• 1989-1994: Master Degree in Civil Engineering, University of Padua, Italy (110/110 cum laude)
POSITION IN OTHER ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS:
• 2002-2003: Marie Curie Fellow, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
REVIEWER FOR INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS
Open Physics - International Journal of Lightweight Materials and Manufacture - Journal of Hydrologic Engineering - Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering - Applied Sciences - AIMS Energy - Applied Thermal Engineering - Materials and Design - Advances in Engineering Software - Applied Mathematical Modelling - Construction & Building Materials - Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment - Applied Mathematics and Computation - Nuclear Science and Techniques - Physica E - Advances in Engineering Software - Annals of Nuclear Energy - Computers & Structures - Engineering Structures - Hydrogeology Journal - Tribology International - Engineering Computations - Transport in Porous Media - International Journal of Geomechanics - Journal of Engineering Mechanics - International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics - International Journal of Science Education - International Journal of Thermal Sciences - Computer Applications in Engineering Education - Computers & Education - The Open Petroleum Engineering Journal
COMMITTEES AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (selection):
• 2017- : Member of the Academic Board of the PhD Course in “Civil, Environmental and Architectural Sciences”, University of Padua, Italy.
• 2017-: Examination Committee Member of the PhD Course in “Civil and Environmental Sciences”, University of Padua, Italy.
• 2015-2018 : Member of the Commission for Lifelong Learning Courses, Macroarea 1, University of Padua, Italy.
• 2010-2017: Member of the Academic Board of the PhD Course in “Civil and Environmental Sciences”, University of Padua, Italy.
• 2009: Examination Committee Member of the PhD Course in “Geotechnical Engineering”, University of Catania, Italy.
CURRENT FUNDINGS FOR THE RESEARCH:
• PRIN 2020 “Sustainable modelling of materials, structures and urban spaces including economic-legal implications” (Scientific Coordinator), Prot. 20209F3A37.
• PRIN 2017 “Modelling of constitutive laws for traditional and innovative building materials” (Local Unit Coordinator; Scientific Coordinator Prof. A. Carpinteri), Prot. 2017HFPKZY_005.
CONSULTING ACTIVITIES:
2010-2011 ITER Project - C. Majorana, V. Salomoni, P. Sonato
EDITORIAL ROLES
• C. Majorana, V. Salomoni, T. S. Lok (Eds.), “Proceedings of the 3^ Int. Conf. on Protection of Structures Against Hazards”, Sept. 28-29, Venice, Italy; CI-Premier Pte Ltd Pub., Singapore, 2006 (ISBN: 981-05-5561-X).
• Editorial Board Member of “The Open Petroleum Engineering Journal”, Bentham OPEN. ISSN: 1874-8341 https://benthamopen.com/TOPEJ/editorial-board/ (01/01/2007 - 01/01/2019)
• Editorial Board Member of “The Open Numerical Methods Journal”, Bentham OPEN. ISSN: 1876-3898. (01/01/2009 - 01/01/2019)
• M. Grantham, C. Majorana, V. Salomoni, (Eds.), “Concrete Solutions”, Taylor & Francis Group Pub., London, 2009 (ISBN: 978-0-415-55082-6).
• Guest Editor for the Special Issue “Modeling of Constitutive Laws for Traditional and Innovative Building Materials”, Sect. “Construction and Building Materials”, Materials (ISSN 1996-1944) (15/09/2019-31/03/2023).
• Guest Editor for the Special Issue: Hydrodynamics in Materials Science: Experimental and Modeling, Materials (2022-23).
TEACHING ACTIVITIES:
• Solid Mechanics, Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering, 2022-2023
• Solid Mechanics, Bachelor in Chemical and Material Engineering, 2021-2022
• Solid and Structural Mechanics, Bachelor in Civil Engineering, from 2021 (co-holder)
• Structural Dynamics, Master in Civil Engineering, 2009-2021
• Solid Mechanics, Bachelor in Product Innovation Engineering, from 2018
• Solid and Structural Mechanics, Master in Architectural Engineering, from 2019 (co-holder)
• Advanced Solid Mechanics, Master in Mathematical Engineering, 2016-2017
• Solid Mechanics, Master in Environmental Engineering, 2004-2008
RESEARCH TOPICS:
• Geometrical and material non-linear problems for saturated and partially saturated geomaterials, including fractional approaches
• Fully coupled chemo-thermo-hydro-mechanical analysis of structures and structural elements subjected to high temperature conditions
• Heat and mass coupled transport and mechanical behaviour of concrete and geomaterials
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES (last 10 years):
• SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE MEMBER within the “XVII International Conference on Computational Plasticity. Fundamentals and Applications - COMPLAS 2023”, September 5 - 7, Barcelona, Spain, 2023.
• ORGANIZER (with Prof. R. Fincato, Osaka University) of the Invited Session “Ductile damage under non-proportional loading conditions” within the “XVII International Conference on Computational Plasticity. Fundamentals and Applications - COMPLAS 2023”, September 5 - 7, Barcelona, Spain, 2023.
• SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE MEMBER within the “XVI International Conference on Computational Plasticity. Fundamentals and Applications - COMPLAS 2021”, September 7 - 10, Barcelona, Spain, 2021.
• MINISYMPOSIUM ORGANIZER (with Prof. W.C. Sun, Columbia University, NY, USA) "Multiscale modeling of concrete and other porous materials" within the World Conference WCCM14, “14th World Congress on Computational Mechanics”, July 19-24, Paris, France, 2020.
• MINISYMPOSIUM ORGANIZER (with Prof. F. Marotti de Sciarra, University of Naples Federico II) “Nonlinear modelling of multiphase materials”, within the Conference “Plasticity, Damage and Fracture 2019”, January 3-9, Panama City, Panama, 2019.
• SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZER (with Prof. C. Majorana, University of Padua, Italy) “Multiscale, Multiphase and Multiphysics Modelling of Geomaterials”, within the 16^ International Conference on Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering Computing CIVIL-COMP 2019, Sept. 16-19, Riva del Garda, Italy, 2019.
• INVITED SESSION ORGANIZER (with Prof. K. Hashiguchi, Daiichi University, Japan) of the Session “Unconventional Plasticity for Coupled Modelling”, within the “5th International Conference on Computational Methods for Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering”, June 17-19, Ibiza Island, Spain, 2013.
• SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE MEMBER within the “5th International Conference on Computational Methods for Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering”, June 17-19, Ibiza Island, Spain, 2013.
INTERNATIONAL AWARDS AND OTHER HONORS:
• EMERALD HIGHLY COMMENDED PAPER 2013: “Thermo-hygro-mechanical meso-scale analysis of concrete as a viscoelastic-damaged material”, autori G. Xotta, V.A. Salomoni, C.E. Majorana, Engrg. Comp., 30(5), 728-750, 2013.
• EMERALD LITERATI AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE 2012: “Highly Commended Award” per l’articolo “Three-dimensional modelling of bond behaviour between concrete and FRP reinforcement”, autori G. Mazzucco, V.A. Salomoni, C. Pellegrino, C.E. Majorana, Engrg. Comp., 28(1), 5-29, 2011;
• IMACS AWARD 2011: 8th Imacs 2011 most successful papers award for the paper “An approach for modeling concrete spalling in finite strains” authors Majorana C.E., Salomoni V.A., Mazzucco G., Khoury G.A., Math. Comp. Sim. (Special Issue), 80(8), 1694-1712, 2010;
• EMERALD LITERATI AWARD 2008: Outstanding papers – Engineering Computations, “Highly Commended Award” for the paper “Mechanical and durability behaviour of growing concrete structures”, authors Salomoni V.A., Mazzucco G., Majorana C.E., Engrg. Comp. 24(5), 536-561, 2007.
PRINCIPAL SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS (last 20)
• V.A. Salomoni, N. De Marchi, “A fractional approach to fluid flow and solute transport within deformable saturated porous media”, International Journal of Computational Materials Science and Engineering, 2250003, 2022 (DOI: 10.1142/S2047684122500038).
• V.A. Salomoni, N. De Marchi, “Numerical Solutions of Space-Fractional Advection–Diffusion–Reaction Equations”, Fractal and Fractional, 6, 21, 2022 (DOI: 10.3390/fractalfract6010021).
• B. Pomaro, G. Xotta, V. Salomoni, C. Majorana, “A thermo-hydro-mechanical numerical model for plain irradiated concrete in nuclear shielding”, Materials and Structures, 55, 14, 2022 (DOI: 10.1617/s11527-021-01844-1).
• G. Mazzucco, B. Pomaro, G. Xotta, E. Garbin, V.A. Salomoni, N. De Marchi, “Experimental-numerical characterization of normal weight concrete at the meso-scale”, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 2022 (in press) (DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)MT.1943-5533.0004262).
• R. Fincato, S. Tsutsumi, A. Zilio, G. Mazzucco, V. Salomoni, “Fully implicit numerical integration of the Yoshida-Uemori two-surface plasticity model with isotropic hardening stagnation”, Frattura e Integrità Strutturale, 57, 114-126, 2021 (DOI: 0.3221/IGF-ESIS.57.10).
• G. Mazzucco, V.A. Salomoni, C. Majorana, “A cohesive contact algorithm to evaluate the mechanical behaviour of concrete ITZ at different roughness conditions”, Construction and Building Materials, 294, 123479, 2021 (DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2021.123479).
• N. De Marchi, W.C. Sun, V. Salomoni, “Shear wave splitting and polarization in anisotropic fluid-infiltrating porous media: a numerical study”, Materials, 13, 4988, 2020 (DOI: 10.3390/ma13214988).
• G. Mazzucco, B. Pomaro, G. Xotta, V. Salomoni, C. Majorana, “An efficient geometric reconstruction of mesoscale concrete structures accounting for confinement scenarios”, International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering, 18(1), 129-139, 2020 (DOI: 10.1615/IntJMultCompEng.2019030675).
• G. Mazzucco, B. Pomaro, G. Xotta, C. Majorana, V. Salomoni, “Tomography Reconstruction of Concrete Materials for Mesoscale Modelling”, Engineering Computations, 37(7), 2275-2291, 2020 (DOI: 10.1108/EC-10-2019-0448).
• G. Mazzucco, G. Xotta, V.A. Salomoni, C. Majorana, “Integral-type regularization of non-associated softening plasticity for quasi brittle materials”, Computers and Structures, 224, 106120, 2019 (DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2019.106120).
• B. Pomaro, F. Gramegna, R. Cherubini, V. De Nadal, V. Salomoni, F. Faleschini, “Gamma-ray shielding properties of heavyweight concrete with EAF aggregates: an experimental and numerical study”, Construction and Building Materials, 200, 188-197, 2019 (DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2018.12.098).
• G. Mazzucco, B. Pomaro, V.A. Salomoni, C.E. Majorana, “Apex control within an elasto-plastic constitutive model for confined concretes”, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 162, 221-232, 2019 (DOI: 10.1016/j.matcom.2018.12.017).
• N. De Marchi, V.A. Salomoni, N. Spiezia, “Effects of finite strains in fully coupled 3D geomechanical simulations”, International Journal of Geomechanics, 19(4), 04019008, 2019 (DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)GM.1943-5622.0001362).
• V.A. Salomoni, “A mathematical framework for modelling 3D coupled THM phenomena within saturated porous media undergoing finite strains”, Composites Part B: Engineering, 146, 42-48, 2018 (DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2018.03.038).
• G. Mazzucco, B. Pomaro, V.A. Salomoni, C.E. Majorana, “Numerical modelling of ellipsoidal inclusions”, Construction and Building Materials, 167, 317-324, 2018 (DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2018.01.160).
• G. Mazzucco, T. D’Antino, C. Pellegrino, V. Salomoni, “Three-dimensional finite element modelling of inorganic-matrix composite materials using a mesoscale approach”, Composites Part B: Engineering, 143, 75-85, 2018 (DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2017.12.057).
• G. Mazzucco, G. Xotta, B. Pomaro, V.A. Salomoni, F. Faleschini, “Elastoplastic-damaged meso-scale modelling of concrete with recycled aggregates”, Composites Part B: Engineering, 140, 145-156, 2018 (DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2017.12.018).
• G. Mazzucco, G. Xotta, V.A. Salomoni , C.E. Majorana, G.M. Giannuzzi, A. Miliozzi, “Modeling techniques of storage modules with PCM micro-capsules: case study”, Journal of Energy Engineering, 144(1), 05017005-1-11, 2018 (DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2017.05.142).
• G.M. Giannuzzi, R. Liberatore, D. Mele, G. Mazzucco, G. Xotta, V.A. Salomoni, C.E. Majorana, R. Di Maggio, “Experimental campaign and numerical analyses of thermal storage concrete modules”, Solar Energy, 157, 596-602, 2017 (DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2017.08.041).
• G. Mazzucco, G. Xotta, V.A. Salomoni, G.M. Giannuzzi, C.E. Majorana, “Solid thermal storage via PCM materials. Numerical investigations”, Applied Thermal Engineering, 124, 545-559, 2017 (DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2017.05.142).