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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Lucia Mele

Citation names

  • Mele, Lucia

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
3C1E-CAA1-306D
ORCID iD
0000-0002-6789-610X

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Italian (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2017/02/01 - 2020/04/03
Concluded
 Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (Doctor of Philosophy)
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
"Experimental and theoretical investigation on cyclic liquefaction mechanisms and on the effects of some mitigation measures " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/12/16 - Current Researcher (Research) Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2017/02/01 - 2020/01/31 LIQUEFACT PROJECT
700748
PhD Student Fellow
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Flora, Alessandro; Chiaradonna, Anna; Bilotta, Emilio; Fasano, Gianluca; Mele, Lucia; Lirer, Stefania; Pingue, Luca. "Field tests to assess the effectiveness of ground improvement for liquefaction mitigation.". Paper presented in 7th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, 2019.
  2. Mele, Lucia; Lirer, stefania; Flora, Alessandro. "The specific deviatoric energy to liquefaction in saturated cyclic triaxial tests.". Paper presented in 7th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, 7ICEGE,, 2019.
  3. Mele, Lucia; Lirer, Stefania; Flora, Alessandro. "A liquefaction surface to describe liquefaction phenomena in unsaturated sandy soils.". 2019.
  4. Mele, Lucia; Lirer, Stefania; Flora, Alessandro. "The effect of confinement in liquefaction tests carried out in a cyclic simple shear apparatus.". 2019.
  5. Mele, Lucia; Lirer, Stefania; Flora, Alessandro. "The Effect of Densification on Pieve di Cento Sands in Cyclic Simple Shear Tests.". 2019.
  6. Mele, Lucia; Flora, Alessandro; Lirer, Stefania; d'Onofrio, Anna; Bilotta, Emilio. "Experimental study of the injectability and effectiveness of laponite mixtures as liquefaction mitigation technique.". Paper presented in 5th Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and soil dynamics, GEESDV, 2018.
  7. Flora, Alessandro; Gargano, Sara; Lirer, Stefania; Mele, Lucia. "Effect of Electro-kinetic consolidation on fine grained dredged sediments". 2016.
Journal article
  1. Mele, Lucia. "An experimental study on the apparent viscosity of sandy soils: from liquefaction triggering to pseudo-plastic behaviour of liquefied sands". Acta Geotechnica 17 2 (2021): 463-481. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11440-021-01261-2.
    10.1007/s11440-021-01261-2
  2. Mele, Lucia; Chiaradonna, Anna; Lirer, Stefania; Flora, Alessandro. "A robust empirical model to estimate earthquake-induced excess pore water pressure in saturated and non-saturated soils". Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10518-020-00970-5.
    10.1007/s10518-020-00970-5
  3. Lirer, Stefania; Chiaradonna, Anna; Mele, Lucia. "Soil liquefaction: from mechanisms to effects on the built environment.". Rivista Italiana di Geotecnica (2020):
    Published
  4. Flora, A.; Bilotta, E.; Chiaradonna, A.; Lirer, S.; Mele, L.; Pingue, L.. "A field trial to test the efficiency of induced partial saturation and horizontal drains to mitigate the susceptibility of soils to liquefaction". Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10518-020-00914-z.
    10.1007/s10518-020-00914-z
  5. Mele, Lucia; Flora, Alessandro. "On the prediction of liquefaction resistance of unsaturated sands". Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 125 (2019): 105689. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soildyn.2019.05.028.
    Open access • 10.1016/j.soildyn.2019.05.028
  6. Lirer, Stefania; Mele, Lucia. "On the apparent viscosity of granular soils during liquefaction tests". Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering 17 11 (2019): 5809-5824. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10518-019-00706-0.
    10.1007/s10518-019-00706-0
  7. Mele, L.; Tian, J. Tan; Lirer, S.; Flora, A.; Koseki, J.. "Liquefaction resistance of unsaturated sands: experimental evidence and theoretical interpretation". Géotechnique 69 6 (2019): 541-553. http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/jgeot.18.p.042.
    Published • 10.1680/jgeot.18.p.042
  8. Flora, A.; Gargano, S.; Lirer, S.; Mele, L.. "Experimental Evidences of the Strengthening of Dredged Sediments by Electroosmotic Consolidation". Geotechnical and Geological Engineering 35 6 (2017): 2879-2890. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10706-017-0286-9.
    10.1007/s10706-017-0286-9
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2019/06/26 The effect of confinement in liquefaction tests carried out in a cyclic simple shear apparatus 7th International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials, IS-Glasgow 2019,
(Glasgow, United Kingdom)
2019/06/17 A liquefaction surface to describe liquefaction phenomena in unsaturated sandy soils 7th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, 7ICEGE
(Italy)
2017/06 Mitigazione della suscettibilità alla liquefazione di sabbie sciolte con iniezioni di miscele plastiche: primi risultati sperimentali XXVI Convegno Nazionale di Geotecnica (CNG) "L'ingegneria geotecnica nella conservazione e tutela del patrimonio costruito"
(Italy)
Distinctions

Award

2021 Best PhD Thesis in Civil Engineering Systems
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy

Other distinction

2021 Star Plus 2 - mobilita Giovani
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy