GIROLAMO COSTANZA

Girolamo Costanza graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rome Tor Vergata in 1997. He is Associate Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Rome-Tor Vergata where he teaches “Metallurgy” and “Thermomechanical Treatments of Metals”. The experimental activity of research involves measurements optical and SEM, mechanical characterization of materials and techniques of X-ray diffraction.

The main investigated topics are:

1- Improvement of fatigue behaviour in metal matrix composites (Al-based) by means of thin sputtered Ti coating;
2- Effect of fluidized bed machining on surface and mechanical properties of metals, with particolar attention to surface finishing and fatigue;

3- Metal foams: production and characterization (morphological and mechanical);
4- Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) employed as temperature sensors and/or actuators, in particular for self-deployable solar sails;

5- Squeeze casting in high-performance Al-alloy components;
6- Microstructural study on fcc metals subjected to low charge explosions;
7- Superplasticity in Pb-Sn alloys.

Member of the PhD in Industrial Engineering at the University of Rome-Tor Vergata.
Referee of many international scientific journals, he is author of 127 scientific papers published in conference proceedings, italian and international journals. On scopus are indexed 80 articles, 826 citations and H-index 16.
As principal investigator he took part in many base and industrial researches, supported with public and private funds.