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Gianluca Cusatis

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering

Contact

2145 Sheridan Road
Tech A134
Evanston, IL 60208-3109

847-491-4027Email Gianluca Cusatis

Website

Research Group Website

Centers

SPREE Center

Departments

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Affiliations

Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Graduate Program

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Education

Ph.D. in Structural Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

Laurea degree in Structural Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy


Research Interests

Mechanics of infrastructure materials and constitutive modeling of concrete and cementitious composites


Significant Recognition

  • ASCE/EMI Fellow
  • Member, American Society of Civil Engineers

Significant Professional Service

  • ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI), Board of Governors, Member, October 2017 - October 2020
  • IA-ConCreep, Board of Directors, Secretary, October 2008 - September 2012; President, October 2015 - November 2021.
  • IA-FraMCoS, Board of Directors, Treasurer, March 2013 - June 2019
  • ACI 446, Fracture Mechanics, Chair, March 2010 – President
  • ACI 209, Creep and Shrinkage in Concrete, Chair, April 2016 -- August 2021; Member, May 2008 -- Present

Selected Publications

  • Zhu, Zhongfeng; Wang, Chengming; Cusatis, Gianluca; Guo, Menghuan; Zhou, Yingwu; Wang, Wenwei, Unveiling the cyclic behavior of FRP-SHCC confined concrete, Construction and Building Materials (2025).
  • Zhou, Yingwu; Shamim, Arslan; Zhu, Zhongfeng; Cusatis, Gianluca; Xing, Feng, Integrated cyclic fiber-bridging model encompassing buckling characteristics of both steel and PE fibers, Engineering Structures (2025).
  • Huang, Cheng; Shen, Lei; Yu, Wenyan; Alkayem, Nizar Faisal; Han, Yan; Tian, Zhenghong; Yin, Hao; Cusatis, Gianluca, High-fidelity SPH-DEM framework for mesoscopic rheological behavior of fresh fiber-reinforced concrete, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences (2025).
  • Eliáš, Jan; Cusatis, Gianluca, Macroscopic stress, couple stress and flux tensors derived through energetic equivalence from microscopic continuous and discrete heterogeneous finite representative volumes, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (2025).
  • Pathirage, Madura; Pijaudier-Cabot, Gilles; Grégoire, David; Cusatis, Gianluca, Transformation and regression statistics of the size-effect method for determining fracture energy and process zone size in quasi-brittle materials, Materials and Structures/Materiaux et Constructions (2025).
  • Yang, Lifu; Troemner, Matthew; Cusatis, Gianluca; Su, Huaizhi, A novel analytical model of particle size distributions in granular materials, Engineering with Computers (2025).
  • Troemner, Matthew; Lale, Erol; Cusatis, Gianluca, Lattice discrete particle model simulations of energetic size effect and its implications for shear design specifications of reinforced concrete squat walls, Engineering Structures (2025).
  • Yin, Hao; Cibelli, Antonio; Brown, Susan Alexis; Yang, Lifu; Shen, Lei; Alnaggar, Mohammed; Cusatis, Gianluca; Di Luzio, Giovanni, Flow Lattice Model for the simulation of chemistry dependent transport phenomena in cementitious materials, European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering (2024).