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Alberto Carpinteri (born 23 December 1952) is an Italian, now he is a chair professor of Shantou University, China.

Biography

Alberto Carpinteri is professor in science of construction, Chair Professor at the Shantou University - College of Engineering and former professor at the Polytechnic University of Turin. Alberto Carpinteri was also director of the National Institute of Metrological Research (2011-2013), member of the New York Academy of Sciences and President of many scientific institutions as the International Congress on Fracture, ICF (2009-2013), the European Structural Integrity Society, ESIS (2002-2006), the International Association of Fracture Mechanics for Concrete and Concrete Structures, the IA-FraMCoS (2004-2007), the Italian Group for Fracture (1998-2005).

Carpinteri was also member of the executive committees of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, IUTAM (2004-2012) and the Society for Experimental Mechanichs, SEM (2012-2014). He was also Editor-in-Chief of the Italian magazine "Meccanica".

He is mainly known for his contribution in the study of piezonuclear fission, which is the purported theory that "compressing solids can provoke nucleus-splitting reactions without emitting gamma-rays or producing nuclear waste".

In 2013 INRiM was set in temporary receivership and Carpinteri dismissed after the resignation of two-thirds of the board of directors in objection of Carpinteri's support in the purported theory of piezonuclear fission.

Alberto Carpinteri conducted many lectures worldwide and published books and academic papers on the piezonuclear theory. On the same topic Carpinteri is also currently contributing to the "Clean Energy from Hydrogen-Metal Systems" project financed by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 plan.

Prizes and honours

• Odone Belluzzi Prize for Science of Constructions, University of Bologna (1976)
• Medal Robert L'Hermite, RILEM (1982)
• NATO Senior Scholarship – Lehigh University, Pennsylvania (1982) – Northwestern University, Illinois (1985)
• Medal of Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (1993)
• Honorary degree in physics, Constantinian University, Rhode Island (1994)
• Honoris Causa Professor, Nanjing University, China (1996)
• Honoris Causa Professor, Albert Schweitzer University of Ginevra, Switzerland (2000)
• Wessex Institute of Technology International Prize, Southampton, UK (2000)
• Griffith Medal for Fractural Mechanics, ESIS (2008)
• Giuliano Preparata Award, assigned by the Condensed Matter Nuclear Science (ISCMNS) for the studies on Low Energy Nuclear Reactions published in the book "Acoustic, Electromagnetic, Neutron Emissions from Fracture and Earthquakes" (2015)

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18. "Clean Energy from Hydrogen-Metal Systems".
19. "CleanHME - Clean Energy from Hydrogen-Metal Systems - Politecnico di Torino".
20. "ISCMNS Prizes".

• 1952 births
• Living people
• Engineers from Bologna
• 20th-century Italian physicists