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Federico Ciardo

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Contact

2145 Sheridan Road
Tech A132
Evanston, IL 60208-3109

847-491-3201 Email Federico Ciardo

Departments

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Education

Ph.D. in Mechanics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

M.Sc. in Structural Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy.

B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy.

Research Interests

We aim to understand the behavior of brittle rocks and, more broadly, geomaterials under various loading conditions at the reservoir scale. My group combines advanced numerical and theoretical models to investigate how in-situ and external forces, such as fluid injection at depth, can induce inelastic deformation instabilities that may lead to dynamic rupture events. Our goal is to improve predictive models for subsurface behavior, which can be applied to facilitate geo-engineering operations, such as deep-geothermal energy extraction and CO2 sequestration.

Significant Recognition

EPFL Doctoral Program Thesis distinction award - EDME Mechanics (2020).

Selected Publications

Ciardo, F. and Lecampion, B. (2023). Injection-induced aseismic slip in tight fractured rocks. Rock Mech. Rock Eng., 56, 7027-7048.

Ciardo, F. and Rinaldi, A. P. (2022). Impact of injection rate ramp-up on nucleation and arrest of dynamic fault slip. Geomech. Geophys. Geo-energ. Geo-resour. 8, 28.

Ciardo, F., Lecampion, B., Fayard, F. and Chaillat, S. (2020). A fast boundary element based solver for localized inelastic deformations. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 121, 5696-5718.

Ciardo, F. and Lecampion, B. (2019). Effect of dilatancy on the transition from aseismic to seismic slip due to fluid injection in a fault. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124(4), 3724-3747.