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Professor Rotta Loria works at the intersection of geomechanics, energy, and environmental sustainability. In this context, he develops with his group theoretical and experimental investigations to understand, characterize, and predict the impact of energy transfers on the structure, properties, and behavior of geological materials: soils, rocks, concrete, and systems thereof. This work aims to unravel how structural modifications caused by perturbations that include thermal and electric fields affect the capability of geological materials to sustain mechanical forcing, to transfer heat, or to allow fluids permeation, from depths of meters to kilometers. Rotta Loria's overarching goal is to understand geological materials at their most fundamental – structural – level and to investigate the essential features of their properties and behavior (e.g., thermo-hydro-chemo-mechanical).
The aim of this basic research is threefold: (1) Inspire new, environmentally friendly techniques to engineer geomaterials via minimal and renewably generated energy; (2) Invent novel geotechnologies to help conserve or develop the natural and built environments via the harvesting or storage of energy; (3) Conceptually develop geosystems with reconfigurable capabilities to cope with environmental forcing and general human activity needs. The theories and results developed by Rotta Loria's group serve unprecedented interactions with the subsurface, with the aim to revolutionize the sustainability and quality of our lives.
Education/Academic qualification
Mechanics, PhD, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
… → 2017
Building Engineering, MSc, Politecnico di Torino
… → 2013
Building Engineering, BSc, Politecnico di Torino
… → 2011
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Improving the engineering performance of coarse-grained soils with direct current electric fields
Rotta Loria, A. & Rotta Loria, A.
10/1/22 → 9/30/25
Project: Research project
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CAREER: The mechanics of subsurface urban heat islands
Rotta Loria, A. & Rotta Loria, A.
8/1/21 → 7/31/26
Project: Research project
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Off-Campus Subproject for CAREER: The Mechanics of Subsurface Urban Heat Islands
8/1/21 → 7/31/26
Project: Research project
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Designing Sustainable & Just Communities: Developing an undergraduate curriculum around innovation, climate action and social justice
Gray, K. A., Blomberg Stathopoulos, A. I., Buscarnera, G., Corr, D. J., Cusatis, G., Durango-Cohen, P. L., Hambleton, J. P., Rotta Loria, A. & Wells, G.
National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance, Inc.
6/30/21 → 12/31/24
Project: Research project
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Thermal cycling effects on the properties of coarse-grained soils: numerical and experimental investigation
1/8/21 → 10/7/21
Project: Research project
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A Constitutive Model to Simulate Cementation Effects in Sands
Macias, A. L. & Rotta Loria, A. F., 2023, Geotechnical Special Publication. Rathje, E., Montoya, B. M. & Wayne, M. H. (eds.). GSP 338 ed. American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), p. 393-401 9 p. (Geotechnical Special Publication; vol. 2023-March, no. GSP 338).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Computed Tomography of Sand Subjected to Heating: Analysis of Particle Displacements
Pan, Y., Seo, D., Rivers, M., Buscarnera, G. & Rotta Loria, A. F., 2023, In: Geotechnical Special Publication. 2023-March, GSP 340, p. 435-444 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review
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Effects of electrodeposition in concrete mediated by electric currents of variable polarity
Shirole, D., Volpatti, G., Guerini, A., Zampini, D., Cusatis, G. & Rotta Loria, A. F., Oct 2023, In: Cement and Concrete Research. 172, 107254.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Engineering concrete properties and behavior through electrodeposition: a review
Rotta Loria, A. F., Shirole, D., Volpatti, G., Guerini, A. & Zampini, D., Feb 2023, In: Journal of Applied Electrochemistry. 53, 2, p. 193-215 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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SANISAND-C*: Simple ANIsotropic constitutive model for SAND with Cementation
Landivar Macias, A. & Rotta Loria, A. F., Oct 25 2023, In: International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics. 47, 15, p. 2815-2847 33 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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