FILIPPO BERTO

Selected publications

1. Berto, F., Lazzarin, P. Recent developments in brittle and quasi-brittle failure assessment of engineering materials by means of local approaches (2014) Materials Science and Engineering R: Reports, 75 (1), pp. 1-48. Impact Factor 36.5
2. Wu, W., Hu, W., Qian, G., Liao, H., Xu, X., Berto, F. Mechanical design and multifunctional applications of chiral mechanical metamaterials (2019) Materials and Design, 180, art. no. 107950. Impact Factor 9.4
3. Benedetti, M., du Plessis, A., Ritchie, R.O., Dallago, M., Razavi, S.M.J., Berto, F. Architected cellular materials: A review on their mechanical properties towards  fatigue-tolerant design and fabrication (2021) Materials Science and Engineering R: Reports, 144, art. no. 100606 Impact Factor 36.5
4. du Plessis, A., Razavi, S.M.J., Benedetti, M., Murchio, S., Leary, M., Watson, M., Bhate, D., Berto, F. Properties and applications of additively manufactured metallic cellular materials (2022) Progress in Materials Science, 125, art. no. 100918, . Impact Factor 48.2
5. Zhang, M., Zhao, N., Yu, Q., Liu, Z., Qu, R., Zhang, J., Li, S., Ren, D., Berto, F., Zhang, Z., Ritchie, R.O. On the damage tolerance of 3-D printed Mg-Ti interpenetrating-phase composites with bioinspired architectures (2022) Nature Communications, 13 (1), art. no. 3247. Impact Factor 17.7
6. W. Wu, R. Xia, G. Qian, Z. Liu, J. Razavi F. Berto H. Gao Mechanostructures: rational mechanical design, fabrication, performance evaluation, and industrial application of advanced structures (2022) Progress in Materials Science, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmatsci.2022.101021, Impact Factor 48.2

Filippo Berto is Chair (full Professor and head of the group) of Mechanics of Materials at La Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Chemical Engineering, Materials and Environment.

He has been international chair in fracture mechanics, fatigue, and structural integrity at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology of Trondheim, Norway, since beginning of 2015. He has been the founder of the mechanical and testing lab in Trondheim and head of the lab from 2015 to 2022.

Berto was visiting professor at Stanford University where he has collaborated with the Nanoscale Prototyping Laboratory. He was also holding some honorary chair professorship at Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Mandela Metropolitan University.

He was a Distinguished Changjiang Chair Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University through the Changjiang Scholars Program from 2020 to 2023

He was professor of machine design at the University of Padua, Italy, between 2006 and 2014. He is chairman of the technical committee ESIS TC15 on Structural Integrity of additive manufactured components of European Structural Integrity Society.

Filippo Berto received several awards and distinctions, such as Award of Merit (2018) and Wohler medal (2020) from the European Structural Integrity Society. He has received the Stephen Timoshenko Fellow (2018) given by University of Stanford (USA).

He belongs to the editorial board of several leading scientific journals in the area of fatigue, fracture and structural integrity, such as, Materials & Design, Materials Science and Engineering: A, Advanced Engineering Materials, Polymer Testing, Strength of Materials, among others.

Filippo Berto is also voting member of ASTM F42 on Additive Manufacturing Technologies and ASTM E08 on Metal Fatigue and Fracture.

As technical Chair of TC15 is also the founder of the series of European conferences on additive manufacturing ESIAM.
In 2020 he has been one of the founders of TC18 of ESIS dedicated to the structural integrity of welded structures.

Filippo Berto has a major role in the Italian Group of Fracture (vice-president from 2018 to 2021, president from 2021 to 2025, vice-president since September 2025, and co-editor in chief of the associated journal).

He is also vice-president of the European Society of Structural Integrity since June 2022.

His main research fields are:

1. Fatigue and fracture of traditional and innovative materials
2. Based on energy approaches for fatigue and fracture design
3. Bio-inspired design of complex multifunctional structures
4. Data-driven methods applied to advanced design of complex, customized structures
5. Mechanical Metallurgy
6. Advanced fatigue design by means of local approaches
7. Design of additively manufactured parts with particular attention to fatigue loading
8. Advanced numerical simulations of complex structures

Selected publications

1. Berto, F., Lazzarin, P. Recent developments in brittle and quasi-brittle failure assessment of engineering materials by means of local approaches
(2014) Materials Science and Engineering R: Reports, 75 (1), pp. 1-48. Impact Factor 36.5

2. Wu, W., Hu, W., Qian, G., Liao, H., Xu, X., Berto, F.
Mechanical design and multifunctional applications of chiral mechanical metamaterials
(2019) Materials and Design, 180, art. no. 107950. Impact Factor 9.4

3. Benedetti, M., du Plessis, A., Ritchie, R.O., Dallago, M., Razavi, S.M.J., Berto, F.
Architected cellular materials: A review on their mechanical properties towards
fatigue-tolerant design and fabrication (2021) Materials Science and Engineering R: Reports, 144, art. no. 100606 Impact Factor 36.5

4. du Plessis, A., Razavi, S.M.J., Benedetti, M., Murchio, S., Leary, M., Watson, M., Bhate, D., Berto, F. Properties and applications of additively manufactured metallic cellular materials
(2022) Progress in Materials Science, 125, art. no. 100918, . Impact Factor 48.2

5. Zhang, M., Zhao, N., Yu, Q., Liu, Z., Qu, R., Zhang, J., Li, S., Ren, D., Berto, F., Zhang, Z., Ritchie, R.O. On the damage tolerance of 3-D printed Mg-Ti interpenetrating-phase composites with bioinspired architectures (2022) Nature Communications, 13 (1), art. no. 3247. Impact Factor 17.7

6. W. Wu, R. Xia, G. Qian, Z. Liu, J. Razavi F. Berto H. Gao
Mechanostructures: rational mechanical design, fabrication, performance evaluation, and industrial application of advanced structures (2022) Progress in Materials Science, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmatsci.2022.101021, Impact Factor 48.2

Awards

Robert Moskovic Award 2025, ESIS TC12 Technical Committee, European Structural Integrity Society (2021)
Neuber Golden Medal (2024, ECF 24 Belgrade)
ESIS Fellowship 2022, European Structural Integrity Society (2022)
Order of the Star of Italy 2021, President of the Republic, Italy (2021)
Robert Moskovic Award 2021, ESIS TC12 Technical Committee, European Structural Integrity Society (2021)
August Wöhler Medal Medal for Fatigue, European Structural Integrity Society (2020)
Structural Integrity Award of Merit, Springer Science+Business Media (2020)
Paolo Lazzarin IGF Medal, Italian Group of Fracture (2019)
Award of Merit, European Structural Integrity Society (2018)
Stephen Timoshenko Fellow, University of Stanford (2018)
Capocaccia award, AIAS (2013)
Sih Gold Medal (Mesomechanics conference 2012)