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Giuseppe Puglisi

Politecnico di Bari - Department of Civil Environmental Land Building Engineering and Chemistry

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

6

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207

TOTAL CITATIONS

1

Scholarly Papers (6)

1.

Thermal Fluctuations Effects on Crack Nucleation and Propagation

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 13 Nov 2024
Politecnico di Bari, Politecnico di Bari, University of Trento - Laboratory of Bioinspired, Bionic, Nano, Meta, Materials & Mechanics, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Politecnico di Bari - Department of Civil Environmental Land Building Engineering and Chemistry
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fracture mechanics, Griffith's criterion, temperature effects, Statistical Mechanics, phase transitions, spin variables approach

2.

Driving forces for interface and bulk defects in elastic bodies: a unified configurational approach

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 22 Sep 2025
Politecnico di Bari - Department of Civil Environmental Land Building Engineering and Chemistry, Politecnico di Bari, Politecnico di Bari and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Configurational forces, energy release rate, Eshelby, defect propagation

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Modeling Spider Silk Supercontraction as a Hydration-Driven Solid-Solid Phase Transition

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 29 Jul 2024
University of Trento - Laboratory of Bioinspired, Bionic, Nano, Meta, Materials & Mechanics, Politecnico di Bari, Politecnico di Bari - Department of Civil Environmental Land Building Engineering and Chemistry and University of Trento - Laboratory of Bioinspired, Bionic, Nano, Meta, Materials & Mechanics
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phase transition, statistical mechanics, spider silk, humidity, supercontraction

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Supercontraction-Induced Twist in Spider Silk Is a Dual Poynting Effect

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 07 Mar 2026
Giuseppe Puglisi, Vincenzo Fazio and Giuseppe Saccomandi
Politecnico di Bari - Department of Civil Environmental Land Building Engineering and Chemistry, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Perugia
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Spider silk, Supercontraction, Humidity, Torsion, Dual Poynting effect

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Hierarchical Physically Based Machine Learning in Material Science: The Case Study of Spider Silk

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 24 Jul 2023
University of Trento - Laboratory of Bioinspired, Bionic, Nano, Meta, Materials & Mechanics, University of Trento - Laboratory of Bioinspired, Bionic, Nano, Meta, Materials & Mechanics, Politecnico di Bari - Department of Civil Environmental Land Building Engineering and Chemistry and Politecnico di Bari - Department of Civil Environmental Land Building Engineering and Chemistry
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Multiscale modelling, Data modelling, Materials Science, Spider silk, Evolutionary Polynomial Regression approaches

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A Predictive Microstructure-Based Approach for Anisotropic Damage, Residual Stretches and Hysteresis in Biodegradable Sutures

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 06 Oct 2022
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Politecnico di Bari - Department of Civil Environmental Land Building Engineering and Chemistry and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Absorbable sutures threads, Biodegradable copolymers, micromechanically-based models