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Giuseppe Buscarnera

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Director of Graduate Studies

Contact

2145 Sheridan Road
Tech A124
Evanston, IL 60208-3109

847-491-5884Email Giuseppe Buscarnera

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Departments

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Affiliations

Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Graduate Program

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Education

Ph.D. Geotechnical Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

M.S. Geotechnical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

B.S. Civil Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

Research Interests

Constitutive modeling of geomaterials; mechanics of unsaturated soils; chemo-mechanics of porous rocks; theory of material stability and its application to geo-engineering problems; fracture and crushing in granular materials; natural hazards; slope stability analyses; landslide forecasting.

Significant Recognition

• NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
• ALERT PhD Prize by the ALERT Geomaterials Association
• Rocca Fellowship (MIT and Politecnico di Milano)
• Gold medal for best student in Civil Engineering (Politecnico di Milano)
• Luciano Varischi Scholarship (Politecnico di Milano)

Significant Professional Service

• Reviewer for the Int. J. Numer. Anal. Meth. Geomech. and Géotechnique Letters
• Member, Italian Geotechnical Association (AGI)
• Member, ISSMGE

Selected Publications

1. Xue, D., Buscarnera, G. (2025). Numerical Quantification of Shear Band–Induced Scale Effects in Physical Models. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 151(11), 04025137.
2. Lal, D., Buscarnera, G. (2025). A Constitutive Model Allowing for Particle Size‐Shape Coevolution. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 49(14), 3123-3136.
3. Song, P., Buscarnera, G. (2025). SANICLAY-RD: A model for rate-dependent effects under complex loading paths. Computers and Geotechnics, 187, 107457.
4. Wu, H., Buscarnera, G. (2025). Unraveling the controls of rock permeability change during volatile‐consuming reactions. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(22), e2025GL115461.
5. Yang, Y., Buscarnera, G. (2025). A Poromechanical Framework for Internal Interactions Induced by Solid Inclusions. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 49(7), 1804-1819.
6. Li, Y., Singh, S., Buscarnera, G. (2025). X-Ray Microtomography Measurements of Coevolving Particle Size and Shape. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 151(10), 04025110.
7. Singh, S., Buscarnera, G. (2024). Deciphering how the particle shape modulates the elastic anisotropy of granular media. Computers and Geotechnics, 176, 106773.
8. Singh, S., Buscarnera, G. (2024). Examining the adaptive elastic anisotropy of granular materials. Géotechnique, 1-40, https://doi.org/10.1680/jgeot.23.00190.
9. Chen, Y., Buscarnera, G. (2024). A closed-form criterion to identify high-mobility flowslides. Géotechnique, https://doi.org/10.1680/jgeot.23.00171.
10. Seo, D., Tengattini, A., Viggiani, G., Buscarnera, G. (2024). Experimental and analytical assessment of fracture criteria for non-spherical sand grains. Granular Matter, 26(1), 1.