Fernando Fraternali

9.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
181 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Fernando Fraternali is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Fernando Fraternali has authored 181 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 67 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 35 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Fernando Fraternali's work include Structural Analysis and Optimization (62 papers), Advanced Materials and Mechanics (28 papers) and Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies (22 papers). Fernando Fraternali is often cited by papers focused on Structural Analysis and Optimization (62 papers), Advanced Materials and Mechanics (28 papers) and Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies (22 papers). Fernando Fraternali collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and India. Fernando Fraternali's co-authors include Luciano Feo, Rupinder Singh, Ada Amendola, Ilenia Farina, Narinder Singh, Gerardo Carpentieri, Inderpreet Singh Ahuja, David Hui, Francesco Fabbrocino and Chiara Daraio and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Applied Physics Letters and Construction and Building Materials.

In The Last Decade

Fernando Fraternali

169 papers receiving 6.8k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Recycling of plastic solid waste: A state of art review and future applications

2016 862 citations Narinder Singh, Luciano Feo et al. Composites Part B Engineering profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fernando Fraternali Italy	48	2.8k	2.2k	1.6k	1.5k	1.5k	181	6.9k
Alireza Kashani Australia	30	2.5k 0.9×	2.5k 1.1×	2.7k 1.6×	2.3k 1.5×	4.2k 2.9×	59	8.9k
Kate Nguyen Australia	28	1.1k 0.4×	2.6k 1.2×	2.1k 1.3×	2.2k 1.5×	4.2k 2.9×	82	8.1k
Luciano Feo Italy	54	4.0k 1.4×	1.1k 0.5×	3.4k 2.1×	569 0.4×	626 0.4×	162	7.8k
Phuong Tran Australia	43	2.0k 0.7×	4.0k 1.8×	1.2k 0.8×	1.4k 1.0×	2.0k 1.4×	114	7.2k
António Torres Marques Portugal	36	1.1k 0.4×	1.9k 0.9×	580 0.4×	1.2k 0.8×	284 0.2×	202	5.1k
Rashid K. Abu Al‐Rub United Arab Emirates	67	4.4k 1.6×	7.2k 3.3×	1.3k 0.8×	2.6k 1.8×	3.1k 2.1×	262	14.3k
Shiwei Zhou Australia	43	3.0k 1.0×	2.9k 1.3×	436 0.3×	2.5k 1.7×	1.2k 0.8×	178	8.0k
R. Byron Pipes United States	48	1.6k 0.6×	3.4k 1.6×	1.0k 0.6×	843 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	232	8.7k
Charles E. Bakis United States	31	2.7k 1.0×	985 0.5×	2.3k 1.4×	583 0.4×	229 0.2×	219	4.9k
Danny Van Hemelrijck Belgium	39	2.5k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	690 0.4×	382 0.3×	575 0.4×	241	5.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fernando Fraternali

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Petrillo, Antonella, et al.. (2025). Innovative Solidification and Stabilization Techniques Using Industrial By-Products for Soil Remediation. Applied Sciences. 15(7). 4002–4002. 4 indexed citations

Carpentieri, Gerardo, et al.. (2025). Deployability, mechanical response, and energy harvesting capacity of a novel solar roof for sports stadiums. Developments in the Built Environment. 24. 100771–100771.

Fraternali, Fernando, et al.. (2024). Rarefaction pulses on tensegrity lattices are just $$\text {sech}^2$$-solitary (dark) waves. Meccanica. 60(10-11). 3429–3438. 2 indexed citations

Fraternali, Fernando, et al.. (2023). Mechanical response of tensegrity-origami solar modules. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 17. 100174–100174. 22 indexed citations

Amendola, Ada, et al.. (2022). Limit analysis of strut nets. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids. 28(8). 1760–1775. 7 indexed citations

Fraternali, Fernando, Narinder Singh, Ada Amendola, Gianmario Benzoni, & Graeme W. Milton. (2021). A biomimetic sliding–stretching approach to seismic isolation. Nonlinear Dynamics. 106(4). 3147–3159. 18 indexed citations

Miniaci, Marco, Matteo Mazzotti, Ada Amendola, & Fernando Fraternali. (2021). Effect of prestress on phononic band gaps induced by inertial amplification. International Journal of Solids and Structures. 216. 156–166. 48 indexed citations

Fraternali, Fernando, et al.. (2020). Tensegrity Modelling and the High Toughness of Spider Dragline Silk. Nanomaterials. 10(8). 1510–1510. 22 indexed citations

Failla, Giuseppe, et al.. (2020). Free and forced vibrations of damped locally-resonant sandwich beams. European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids. 86. 104188–104188. 23 indexed citations

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Amendola, Ada, Anastasiia O. Krushynska, Chiara Daraio, Nicola M. Pugno, & Fernando Fraternali. (2018). Tuning frequency band gaps of tensegrity mass-spring chains with local and global prestress. International Journal of Solids and Structures. 155. 47–56. 76 indexed citations

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Colangelo, Francesco, Ilenia Farina, Rosa Penna, et al.. (2017). Use of MSWI fly ash for the production of lightweight artificial aggregate by means of innovative cold bonding pelletization technique. Chemical and morphological characterization. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6 indexed citations

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Colangelo, Francesco, Pietro Russo, Francesca Cimino, et al.. (2017). Epoxy/glass fibres composites for civil applications: Comparison between thermal and microwave crosslinking routes. Composites Part B Engineering. 126. 100–107. 38 indexed citations

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Amendola, Ada, Gianmario Benzoni, & Fernando Fraternali. (2016). Non-linear elastic response of layered structures, alternating pentamode lattices and confinement plates. Composites Part B Engineering. 115. 117–123. 47 indexed citations

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Amendola, Ada, C.J.M. Smith, Russell Goodall, et al.. (2016). Experimental response of additively manufactured metallic pentamode materials confined between stiffening plates. Composite Structures. 142. 254–262. 99 indexed citations

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Fabbrocino, Francesco, Ilenia Farina, Ada Amendola, Luciano Feo, & Fernando Fraternali. (2016). OPTIMAL DESIGN AND ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF NOVEL REINFORCING ELEMENTS FOR COMPOSITE MATERIALS. CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (Parthenope University of Naples). 1893–1908. 25 indexed citations

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Ferreira, A.J.M., et al.. (2016). Composite solar façades and wind generators with tensegrity architecture. Composites Part B Engineering. 115. 275–281. 46 indexed citations

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Farina, Ilenia, Francesco Fabbrocino, Gerardo Carpentieri, et al.. (2015). On the reinforcement of cement mortars through 3D printed polymeric and metallic fibers. Composites Part B Engineering. 90. 76–85. 138 indexed citations

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Fabbrocino, Francesco, Ilenia Farina, Valentino Paolo Berardi, A.J.M. Ferreira, & Fernando Fraternali. (2015). On the thrust surface of unreinforced and FRP-/FRCM-reinforced masonry domes. Composites Part B Engineering. 83. 297–305. 45 indexed citations

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Castaldi, Maria Antonietta, Fernando Fraternali, L Mosca, et al.. (2013). Bidirectional Barbed Suture in Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy and Lymph Node Dissection for Endometrial Cancer: Technical Evaluation and 1-Year Follow-Up of 61 Patients. Journal of Laparoendoscopic & Advanced Surgical Techniques. 23(4). 347–350. 18 indexed citations

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Raney, Jordan R., Fernando Fraternali, & Chiara Daraio. (2013). Rate-independent dissipation and loading direction effects in compressed carbon nanotube arrays. Nanotechnology. 24(25). 255707–255707. 23 indexed citations

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