Professor Fabrizio Scarpa
Laurea, Ph.D.(Torino)
Current positions
Professor of Smart Materials & Structures
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering
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Research interests
My research interests are in the field of mechanical metamaterials - negative Poisson's ratio and negative stiffness materials. I design, model and manufacture auxetic foams, composites and cellular structures for structural integrity, vibration damping, vibroacoustiics and multifunctional applications. I also develop predictive micromechanical and structural models for energy dissipation performance in composite and polymeric structures.
I am also involved in the modelling, manufacturing and characterizatio of natural fibre reinforcements for composites (sisal, agave, cactus), and recycled polymers (originated from rubber tyres). Other works include the development of biocomposites with fossil and bio-based matrices. Activities are also carried out to develop structural materials using synthetic biology and biomimetics.
Another set of research activities I carry out is about nanostructures modelling and design, with particular emphasis on graphene, CNTs, BN, ZnO and GaN nanostructures. Special focus of the nanostructures-related activities is about the mechanical characterisation of the nanomaterials for applications ranging between nanocomposites to NEMS.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
NeuroMeta Project
Principal Investigator
Role
Principal Investigator
Description
4D printing of biomaterials, hydrogel electronicsManaging organisational unit
School of Cellular and Molecular MedicineDates
13/03/2023 to 13/03/2026
Mechanical Metamaterials Databas
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design EngineeringDates
01/11/2022 to 31/03/2023
Improving Quality of Life for People Living with EB: Developing an interdisciplinary network to evaluate requirements and engineering solutions for a second skin technology
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
The aim of this project is exchanging ideas between academics from the University of Bristol and collaborators from Cure EB, where design and development of a soft wearable artificial skin…Managing organisational unit
Department of Engineering MathematicsDates
01/03/2022 to 31/07/2022
8034 BrisEngBio - Exemplar Project 4
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Aerospace EngineeringDates
31/01/2022 to 30/01/2024
Thesis supervisions
Nanostructure modelling for nanocomposite materials
Supervisors
Flexible polyurethane foams with nanocomposite coatings
Supervisors
Cactus Based Solids
Supervisors
Multiscale natural fibres and architected reinforced thermoplastics
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Exploiting stiffness matrix based methods for the design and analysis of tensegrity structures
Supervisors
Mechanical Metastructures with Integrated Flexible Electronics Systems
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The Use of Auxetic Laminates as a Construction Material
Supervisors
Pulsed-DC plasma-assisted CVD
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A multi-scale reinforced natural composite sandwich panel concept for vibroacoustic applications
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Towards creating multi-matrix continuous fibre polymer composites using an out-of-vacuum bag process
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
23/08/2024Energy Barriers Measurement for Efficient Shape-Shifting in Multistable Lattice Metamaterials
Castor-oil biobased foam
RSC Sustainability
Design, analysis and optimization of the uniaxial properties of a new auxetic anti-chiral parallelogram metamaterial
Thin-Walled Structures
Flax fibre reinforced alginate poloxamer hydrogel
Soft Matter
Green and sustainable devulcanization of ground tire rubber using choline chloride-urea deep eutectic solvent
RSC Sustainability