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Gianluca Cusatis

Northwestern University

2001 Sheridan Road

Evanston, IL Ilocos Norte 60208

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

8

DOWNLOADS

453

TOTAL CITATIONS

1

Scholarly Papers (8)

1.

Dissipation Mechanisms of Crack-Parallel Stress Effects on Fracture Process Zone in Concrete

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 13 Jul 2023
Northwestern University, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Brown University, Northwestern University and Northwestern University
Downloads 122 (592,433)

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Gap test, Fracture parameters, Fracture mechanism, Fracture energy, Energy dissipation, Lattice discrete modeling, Material particle models, Frictional slip, Numerical simulation of fracture.

2.

Modeling of the Interaction between Hydration and Carbonation on Reaction Kinetics at Early Age

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 09 Apr 2025
Lifu Yang, Giovanni Di Luzio, Jian-Guo Dai and Gianluca Cusatis
Hunan University, Polytechnic University of Milan, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and Northwestern University
Downloads 63 (933,592)

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CO2 curing, reaction kinetics, exothermic process, chemically bound water, water retention

3.

Confinement and Alkali-Silica Reaction in Concrete: Review and Numerical Investigation

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 29 Mar 2023
Northwestern University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Government of the United States of America - Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Northwestern University
Downloads 62 (942,565)

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Alkali-Silica Reaction, Multi-axial confinement, Lattice Discrete Particle Model, Multi-physics modeling, Crack distribution, Concrete cores

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Macroscale damage model calibrated from discrete mesoscale data with a consistent description of fracture

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 28 Aug 2025
Julien Khoury, Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot and Gianluca Cusatis
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Northwestern University
Downloads 56 (1,010,164)

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Lattice Discrete Particle Model, Continuum-based models, Coarse graining, Multiscale analysis, Nonlocal damage

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Micro-Scale Poly-Material Lattice Discrete Particle Model for the Prediction of Cement Paste Aging Properties

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 17 Apr 2024
Elham Ramyar, Matthew Troemnner and Gianluca Cusatis
Northwestern University, Northwestern University and Northwestern University
Downloads 55 (1,020,567)

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μP-LDPM, cement paste, CSH, CEMHYD3D, Indentation

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Effects of Electrodeposition in Concrete Mediated by Currents of Variable Polarity

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 09 Nov 2022
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwestern University and Northwestern University
Downloads 46 (1,109,210)

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Concrete, rehabilitation, electrodeposition, low-voltage, direct current, polarity reversal

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An Interprocess Communication-Based Two-Way Coupling Approach for Implicit-Explicit Multiphysics  Lattice Discrete Particle Model Simulations

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 20 Jul 2024
Northwestern University, Northwestern University, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwestern University, Hunan University, Hohai University, Government of the United States of America - Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Polytechnic University of Milan
Downloads 36 (1,236,159)
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Two-way coupling, Interprocess communication, Hydro-mechanical coupling, Lattice Discrete Particle Model, Dual lattice

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Comparison of numerical schemes for integration of tractions in discrete models for fracture

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 23 May 2026
Monika Středulová, Gianluca Cusatis and Jan Eliáš
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwestern University and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 13 (1,534,404)

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Lattice Discrete Particle Model, Concrete, Fracture, volumetric strain, integration