Alessandro Fascetti
Dr. Alessandro Fascetti received his bachelor and master degrees in Civil Engineering from the Sapienza University of Rome. He obtained his Ph.D. from the same institution in 2016. He then joined the Multiscale Computational Mechanics Laboratory (MCML) in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of Vanderbilt University as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. After 2 years as a Lecturer for the School of Engineering at The University of Waikato, he joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh in 2021. Dr. Fascetti conducts research on digital twin modeling of horizontal and vertical infrastructure for large-scale resilience assessment and maintenance optimization. His work focuses on failure mechanics as well as durability aspects, combining multiscale numerical simulations with in-situ and remote sensing techniques for the real-time assessment of complex interconnected infrastructure systems. He has been a contributor of the Julia ecosystem for almost a decade.
Session
This talk will present the latest developments in JuLDPM.jl, a Julia package for the Lattice Discrete Particle Model (LDPM), in the context of mechanics of porous media. The talk will first present the main features of the LDPM approach, highlighting several computational advantages in the description of discontinuities and localized phenomena. Three applications will be presented, with emphasis on the computational advantages granted by Julia in performing large-scale simulations.