Lo Monte Francesco
Docente a contratto
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale del Politecnico di Milano
PhD student at the School of Structural, Seismic and Geotechnical Engineering (January 2011 - March 2014; XXVI Cycle) and then Post-doctoral Researcher (since March 2014) at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DICA). Main activities:
Teaching assistant in the courses of:
1. Structural Design (Civil Engineering, Politecnico di Milano; SSD: ICAR/09; since 2011)
2. Structures and Seismic Design module within the Laboratory of Design and Construction of Architecture
(Architecture, Politecnico di Milano; SSD: ICAR/09; since 2017)
3. Structural Design module within the Laboratory of Technological and Structural Design (Architecture, Politecnico di Milano; SSD: ICAR/09; from 2014 to 2016)
4. Structural Design (Architecture, Politecnico di Milano; SSD: ICAR/09; since 2014)
- Lectures at Ordine degli Ingegneri (in Milan and Verona) in courses on Fire Engineering organized by ATE.
- Researcher in the fields of (1) Fire Engineering (experimental investigations, and linear/non-linear Finite Element analyses) and (2) structural diagnosis (development of new techniques).
Main funded projects (for a total amount of about 100 000 €):
1. "Continuous Deformation Monitoring under Coring for Stress State Identification in Tunnels", financed by Fondazione Lombardi Ingegneria (Switzerland)
2. "High-Performance Concrete in Tunnels: the spalling sensitivity in case of fire", financed by Fondazione Lombardi Ingegneria (Switzerland)
3. "Test Monitoring of Concrete Elements Exposed to Fire", partly financed by CSTB (France)
4. "Concrete Behaviour in Fire: Interaction between Explosive Spalling and Stress, and Evaluation of Permeability at High Temperature", financed by Italcementi Group (Italy)