Professor Alessandro Tarantino
Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Qualifications
I hold an MEng degree in Civil Engineering from the Università di Napoli Federico II in Italy (1993) and a PhD in Geotecnical Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino in Italy (1998).
I was awarded the title of Professional Engineer in Italy in 1993.
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Publications
- A micro-mechanical insight into the thermo-mechanical behaviour of clays
- Di Donna Alice, Casarella Angela, Tarantino Alessandro
- Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment Vol 38 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gete.2024.100549
- Evaluation and improvement of Gay-Berne interaction potential to simulate 3D DLVO interaction of clay particles
- Casarella Angela, Tarantino Alessandro, Richefeu Vincent, Di Donna Alice
- Computers and Geotechnics (2024)
- Drying-induced volumetric behaviour of clays interpreted via binary pore-scale modelling
- Pedrotti Matteo, Xu Long, Murray Ian William, Tarantino Alessandro
- Computers and Geotechnics Vol 165 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2023.105911
- Establishing computer-based engineering analysis tools in existing civil engineering curriculum: a case study
- Moghaddasi Kelishomi Hamed, Tarantino Alessandro, Bylja Olga, Krishnamurthy Bhaskaran, Bridget Bridget, Shirsath Ravindra
- UK and Ireland Engineering Education Research
Network Annual Symposium (2024) - Revisiting DLVO theory to inform particle-scale modelling of clays
- Casarella Angela, Tarantino Alessandro, di Donna Alice
- Computers and Geotechnics (2023)
- An experimental setup to investigate the effect of mycorrhizal fungi inoculation on plant water uptake in unsaturated soils
- Roberts-Self Eve, Tarantino Alessandro
- E3S Web of Conferences Vol 382 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202338220004
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Professional Activities
- Geotechnical and Geological Engineering (Journal)
- Guest editor
- 2008
- Géotechnique (Journal)
- Editorial board member
- 1/2011
- Geotechnique (Journal)
- Editorial board member
- 2009
- Bringing vegetation-based solutions into geotechnical engineering design: how do we make it happen?
- Speaker
- 5/3/2024
- Department of Agricultural Sciences - University of Naples Federico II
- Visiting researcher
- 5/2022
- External Examiner of PhD Dissertation at Université Grenoble Alpes
- Examiner
- 28/1/2022
Projects
- Foundations - improving risk assessment and prioritisation processes for management of scour at structures”
- Tubaldi, Enrico (Principal Investigator) Tarantino, Alessandro (Principal Investigator)
- Funder: National Highways
Total Funding: £166,200 - 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
- Mechanisms of stress transfer in clayey materials at the scale of the clay particle
- Pedrotti, Matteo (Principal Investigator) Tarantino, Alessandro (Co-investigator) Migliorelli, Maria Giulia (Academic)
- Xray Compute Tomography of mechanisms of stress transfer in clayey materials on beamline I13-2 at Diamond Light Source. Project Proposal No MG31709. Equivalent funding value of £60k.
- 01-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2023
- EPSRC IAA: PE/ citizen science additional allocation
- Tarantino, Alessandro (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2025
- Plants: climate-smart and carbon-efficient nature based solution to mitigate ‘diffuse’ climate-induced landslide hazard
- Tarantino, Alessandro (Principal Investigator) Pedrotti, Matteo (Co-investigator)
- 14-Jan-2021 - 13-Jan-2023
- Carbon geological storage: understanding micro-mechanisms of CO2 capillary breakthrough and localized pathways to assess caprock CO2 leakage hazard”
- Pedrotti, Matteo (Principal Investigator) Tarantino, Alessandro (Co-investigator) Allsop, Craig (Post Grad Student)
- 4-year fully funded PhD studentship awarded by CDT Geoscience and its Role in the Low Carbon Energy Transition 2020. Equivalent value £85k
- 04-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2025
- Unveiling processes at particle/aggregate scale controlling hydro-mechanical behaviour of compacted clays
- Tarantino, Alessandro (Principal Investigator) Pedrotti, Matteo (CoPI) Beber, Raniero (Post Grad Student)
- Xray Compute Tomography to investigate the processes at particle/aggregate scale controlling hydro-mechanical behaviour of compacted clays. Neutron and X-ray Tomography in Grenoble (France) . Equivalent funding value of £60k.
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2021
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Contact
Professor
Alessandro
Tarantino
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Email: alessandro.tarantino@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3273