
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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Physically-based reduction function to model unsaturated flow associated with plant transpiration Roberts-Self Eve, Tarantino Alessandro E3S Web of Conferences Vol 382 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202338220003 Transpiration in the water-limited regime : soil-plant-atmosphere interactions Tarantino Alessandro, Roberts-Self Eve E3S Web of Conferences Vol 382 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202338213001 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 Mechanical behaviour of compacted Kaolin clay stabilised via alkali activated calcium-rich fly ash binder Coudert Elodie, Deneele Dimitri, Russo Giacomo, Tarantino Alessandro Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment Vol 32 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gete.2022.100404 Pre-failure suction-induced deformation to inform early warning of shallow landslides : proof of concept at slope model scale Coppola L, Reder A, Tarantino A, Mannara G, Pagano L Engineering Geology Vol 309 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2022.106834 Climate change adaptation of Elbe River flood embankments via suction-based design Beber Raniero, Tarantino Alessandro, Becker Patrick International Journal of Geomechanics (2022)
Publications
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Geotechnical and Geological Engineering (Journal) Guest editor 2008 Géotechnique (Journal) Editorial board member 1/2011 Geotechnique (Journal) Editorial board member 2009 University of Naples Federico II Visiting researcher 28/8/2023 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
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 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 THE MICROMECHANICS OF COMPACTED CLAYS Tarantino, Alessandro (Principal Investigator) Pedrotti, Matteo (CoPI) Beber, Raniero (Post Grad Student) Xray Compute Tomography of compacted clays at Neutron and X-ray Tomography in Grenoble (France). Equivalent funding value of £40k. 01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2020
Professional Activities
Projects
Total Funding: £166,200
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Professor
Alessandro
Tarantino
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Email: alessandro.tarantino@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted