Domenico Capuani is researcher of Design of Structures at the University of Ferrara. In 1990, he graduated with Awarded Honours in Civil Engineering at the University of Bologna and, in 1994, he received the Ph.D. degree in Structural Mechanics. In 1993-1994 he was visiting researcher at the Institut für Angewandte Mechanik of Braunschweig Technische Universität (Germany). In 1995 he was Visiting Research Associate at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics of Cambridge University (UK) and in 1998 he was Research Associate at the Department of Engineering of Cambridge University. As a researcher, he participated in the European research network "Mechanics of Composite Materials and Structures" (1994-1996), within the program "Human Capital and Mobility", and also in Italian-German programs (Vigoni Program, 1993, 1994) and Italian-British programs (supported by The British Council, MURST and CRUI, 1999, 2000) of scientific cooperation. From 2002 to 2004, he was co-ordinator of Ferrara research team for the national research program "Reinforced concrete structures for buildings and infrastructures: diagnostics, modelization and rehabilitation" (Cofin). From 2005 to 2008, he was the coordinator for the national research program (PRIN) "Diagnostics and protection of reinforced concrete structures for infrastructures with environmental damage" with the University of Ferrara, the Polytechnic University of Milan and the Polytechnic University of Marche.
His research activity is in the mechanics of solids and structures. Some research topics are: models for the static and dynamic analysis of thin-walled beams and stiffening systems for high-rise buildings, such as multi-cell perforated cores; effects of dynamic soil-structure interaction; integral equation formulation, and related boundary element technique, for incremental analysis of non-linear elastic behaviour of solids; ultrasonic non-destructive testing techniques and models for the dynamic behaviour of materials with distributed micro-cracks.
His research activity is in the mechanics of solids and structures. Some research topics are: models for the static and dynamic analysis of thin-walled beams and stiffening systems for high-rise buildings, such as multi-cell perforated cores; effects of dynamic soil-structure interaction; integral equation formulation, and related boundary element technique, for incremental analysis of non-linear elastic behaviour of solids; ultrasonic non-destructive testing techniques and models for the dynamic behaviour of materials with distributed micro-cracks.
