Gioacchino Viggiani

7.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
150 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Gioacchino Viggiani is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Gioacchino Viggiani has authored 150 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 96 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 65 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 61 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Gioacchino Viggiani's work include Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics (66 papers), Landslides and related hazards (65 papers) and Rock Mechanics and Modeling (44 papers). Gioacchino Viggiani is often cited by papers focused on Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics (66 papers), Landslides and related hazards (65 papers) and Rock Mechanics and Modeling (44 papers). Gioacchino Viggiani collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Italy. Gioacchino Viggiani's co-authors include Edward Andò, Jacques Desrues, Stephen A. Hall, José E. Andrade, Pierre Bésuelle, Reid Kawamoto, Nicolas Lenoir, Claudio Tamagnini, Michael A. Mooney and Richard J. Finno and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Gioacchino Viggiani

144 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

All you need is shape: Predicting shear banding in sand with LS-DEM

2017 274 citations Edward Andò, Gioacchino Viggiani et al. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids profile →
Level set discrete element method for three-dimensional computations with triaxial case study

2016 232 citations Edward Andò, Gioacchino Viggiani et al. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gioacchino Viggiani France	39	3.4k	1.9k	1.8k	1.3k	651	150	5.4k
Frédéric‐Victor Donzé France	35	1.9k 0.6×	2.2k 1.1×	1.3k 0.7×	982 0.8×	483 0.7×	95	4.0k
Itai Einav Australia	35	2.9k 0.9×	1.6k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	1.4k 1.1×	556 0.9×	143	4.6k
Jacques Desrues France	27	2.4k 0.7×	1.8k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	755 0.6×	584 0.9×	81	4.0k
Edward Andò France	33	2.2k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	948 0.7×	433 0.7×	110	3.6k
José E. Andrade United States	34	2.3k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	1.5k 1.2×	341 0.5×	134	4.2k
Masanobu Oda Japan	29	3.9k 1.2×	1.8k 0.9×	1.9k 1.0×	1.6k 1.3×	501 0.8×	71	5.7k
A. Munjiza United Kingdom	40	2.6k 0.8×	2.8k 1.5×	983 0.5×	1.8k 1.4×	920 1.4×	146	5.8k
Catherine O’Sullivan United Kingdom	48	5.5k 1.6×	1.7k 0.9×	2.6k 1.4×	2.5k 1.9×	517 0.8×	190	7.5k
Jidong Zhao Hong Kong	51	5.1k 1.5×	2.5k 1.3×	2.9k 1.6×	2.8k 2.2×	596 0.9×	206	8.2k
Nasser Khalili Australia	46	5.0k 1.5×	1.8k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	552 0.4×	575 0.9×	162	6.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Gioacchino Viggiani

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gioacchino Viggiani

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Richefeu, Vincent, et al.. (2025). Analysis of two-dimensional displacement fluctuations in granular media. EPJ Web of Conferences. 340. 7015–7015.

Komodromos, Michael, Vincent Richefeu, Gioacchino Viggiani, & Gaël Combe. (2025). A Glimpse Over Particle Displacement Fluctuations in an Isochoric Shear Test. IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science. 1480(1). 12012–12012. 1 indexed citations

Karapiperis, Konstantinos, et al.. (2025). Deciphering necking in granular materials: Micromechanical insights into sand behavior during cycles of triaxial compression and extension. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 196. 106022–106022. 1 indexed citations

Perrotta, Laura, Enza Vitale, Emmanuel Roubin, et al.. (2024). X-ray microstructural insight into the mechanical behaviour of ligth-weight cemented soils. Géotechnique Letters. 14(3). 87–93. 2 indexed citations

Modoni, Giuseppe, et al.. (2024). Effect of fibre orientation on the mechanical response of reinforced sand, detected with x-ray tomography. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 544. 11017–11017.

Pinzón, Gustavo, Edward Andò, Jacques Desrues, & Gioacchino Viggiani. (2023). Fabric evolution and strain localisation in inherently anisotropic specimens of anisometric particles (lentils) under triaxial compression. Granular Matter. 25(1). 10 indexed citations

Barés, Jonathan, Gustavo Pinzón, Edward Andò, et al.. (2023). Compacting an assembly of soft balls far beyond the jammed state: Insights from three-dimensional imaging. Physical review. E. 108(4). 6 indexed citations

Andò, Edward, et al.. (2021). Deformation and failure mechanisms of granular soil around pressurised shallow cavities. Géotechnique. 73(3). 265–280. 5 indexed citations

Viggiani, Gioacchino, et al.. (2020). Simulating spatial heterogeneity through a CT-FE mapping scheme discloses boundary effects on emerging compaction bands. International Journal of Solids and Structures. 206. 247–261. 10 indexed citations

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Wu, Huanran, Athanasios Papazoglou, Gioacchino Viggiani, Christophe Dano, & Jidong Zhao. (2019). Compaction bands in Tuffeau de Maastricht: insights from X-ray tomography and multiscale modeling. Acta Geotechnica. 15(1). 39–55. 30 indexed citations

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Rubino, V., Ares J. Rosakis, José E. Andrade, et al.. (2019). Monitoring Laboratory Hydraulic Fractures in Pre-Fractured Shale Using High-Resolution Optical and Neutron Imaging Techniques. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 1 indexed citations

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Richefeu, Vincent, et al.. (2019). An assessment of discrete element approaches to infer intergranular forces from experiments on 2D granular media. International Journal of Solids and Structures. 187. 48–57. 4 indexed citations

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Desbois, Guillaume, et al.. (2017). Deformation in cemented mudrock (Callovo–Oxfordian Clay) by microcracking, granular flow and phyllosilicate plasticity: insights from triaxial deformation, broad ion beam polishing and scanning electron microscopy. Solid Earth. 8(2). 291–305. 48 indexed citations

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Desbois, Guillaume, et al.. (2016). Cataclastic deformation of triaxially deformed, cemented mudrock (Callovo Oxfordian Clay): an experimental study at the micro/nano scale using BIB-SEM. 6 indexed citations

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Walker, David M., Antoinette Tordesillas, Jie Zhang, et al.. (2014). Structural templates of disordered granular media. International Journal of Solids and Structures. 54. 20–30. 5 indexed citations

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Andò, Edward, et al.. (2011). Observing strain localisation processes in bio-cemented sand using x-ray imaging. Granular Matter. 13(3). 247–250. 73 indexed citations

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Lenoir, Nicolas, Michel Bornert, Jacques Desrues, Pierre Bésuelle, & Gioacchino Viggiani. (2007). Volumetric digital image correlation applied to X-Ray microtomography images form triaxial compression tests on argillaceaous rocks. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 273 indexed citations

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Rampello, Sebastiano, G. Calabresi, & Gioacchino Viggiani. (1996). Observed land subsidence due to the consolidation of a mine waste. Cambridge University Engineering Department Publications Database. 1 indexed citations

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Mooney, Michael A., et al.. (1996). Issues of Uncertainty Regarding Localized Strains in Granular Soils. 312–325. 4 indexed citations

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Rampello, Sebastiano, V. N. Georgiannou, & Gioacchino Viggiani. (1993). Strength and dilatancy of natural and reconstituted Vallericca clay. IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome). 1 indexed citations

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