BSc, MSc, DPhil
Dr Simone Falco is a Senior Researcher in Computational Mechanics in the department of Engineering science and College Lecturer at Oriel college.
He studied Aerospace Engineering (BSc and MSc) at the university “Federico II” of Naples, and then moved to Oxford for his DPhil in Engineering Science. He has been Research Assistant at Oxford, Queen Mary University of London, and Imperial College London, before returning to Oxford as Senior Researcher to continue his research on the micro-mechanics of materials at high rates.
Dr Falco’s research interests are in the mechanics of materials at different rates, with particular focus on developing computational tools for modelling the response of materials under complex loading conditions.
He is particularly interested on the effect of statistical variability within the material (e.g. due to microstructural features) on the mechanical response of materials to help design new materials tailored to the specific applications.
S. Falco, J. Jiang, F. De Cola, N. Petrinic. “Generation of 3D polycrystalline microstructures with a conditioned Laguerre-Voronoi tessellation technique”. Computational Material Science (2017)
S. Falco, F. De Cola, N. Petrinic. “A method for the generation of 3D representative models of granular based materials”. International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering (2017).
A. Norton, S. Falco, N. Young, J. Severs, and R. I. Todd. “Microcantilever investigation of fracture toughness and subcritical crack growth on the scale of the microstructure in Al2O3”. Journal of the European Ceramic Society (2015).
F. De Cola, S. Falco, E. Barbieri, N. Petrinic. “New 3D geometrical deposition methods for close packing of spheres based on tangency”. International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering (2015).
S. Falco, P. Siegkas, E. Barbieri, N. Petrinic. “A new method for the generation of arbitrarily shaped 3D random polycrystalline domains”. Computational Mechanics (2014) 1447-1460.