Filippo Berto
Prof. Berto has considerable experience in materials science, fatigue of metals, fracture, and mechanical testing related to steels, aluminum alloys, hard metals, ceramics, and polymers, together with a good metallurgical knowledge of their microstructures and properties. He has significant expertise in fatigue design for machine components and welded structures (plus welding processes and metallurgy), fatigue life prediction, engineering defect assessment, failure analysis, stress analysis, fractography, and materials selection. He has been involved in numerous projects funded both by the University of Padova, by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, and by private companies. He is participating as the main investigator to several EU projects and all together in his career, he was able to attract huge funding for research activities. The main ongoing projects are related to industrial collaborations with Cimolai, Zincherie Valbrenta, Omera, Officine Meccaniche Zanetti, Rolls Royce, Sintef, Nexans, and many others.