Francesco Baldi

Francesco Baldi is Assistant Professor in the field of Materials Science and Technology. F. Baldi took a degree in Chemical Engineering in 1998 (full marks “cum laude”), worked in R&D department of an Italian company (Ceast SpA, Turin (I)) that produces instruments for the mechanical and rheological characterization of polymers and composites, and in 2002 he moved to the University of Brescia (Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering). His research activity mainly concerns:

1) Mechanics of polymeric materials: development of fracture mechanics testing methodologies; mechanical failure under static and dynamic loads; structure-property relationships in micro- and nanocomposites.

2) Rheology of polymeric materials: development of new testing methodologies; rheological behaviour at high strain rates of micro- and nano-filled polymer melts; instability phenomena in capillary flows.

F. Baldi is member of the executive council of the Italian Associacion of Rheology, and is coordinator of the "J-testing" work area of the Technical Committee “Polymers and Polymer Composites” of ESIS (“European Structural Integrity Society”).

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