Selected Publications 





Giovanni Romano,

Electrodynamics without Lorentz force

arXiv:1209.5960v3 [physics.gen-ph]

November 10, 2021.


Giovanni Romano and Marina Diaco,

On formulation of nonlocal elasticity problems

Meccanica (2021) 56:1303–1328

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11012-020-01183-5


Giovanni Romano, Raffaele Barretta, Marina Diaco,

Iterative methods for nonlocal elasticity problems

Continuum Mech. Thermodyn. (2019) 31: 669

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00161-018-0717-8


Giovanni Romano, Raimondo Luciano, Raffaele Barretta, Marina Diaco,

Nonlocal integral elasticity in nanostructures, mixtures, boundary effects and limit behaviours

Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics (First Online 14 February 2018), 1-15


Giovanni Romano, Raffaele Barretta, Marina Diaco,

The notion of elastic state and application to nonlocal models

Proceedings AIMETA 2017 vol. III, 1156–1156.


Giovanni Romano, Raffaele Barretta, Marina Diaco,

A geometric rationale for invariance, covariance and constitutive relations.

Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics 30(1) 175--194 (2018).

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00161-017-0595-5


Giovanni Romano, Raffaele Barretta, Marina Diaco,

On the role of control windows in continuum dynamics.

Acta Mechanica. First Online 23 December 2017.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00707-017-2050-x 


Giovanni Romano, Raffaele Barretta, Marina Diaco,

On nonlocal integral models for elastic nano-beams 

International Journal of Mechanical Sciences 131–132 (2017) 490–499 

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2017.07.013 


Giovanni Romano, Raffaele Barretta,

Nonlocal elasticity in nanobeams: the stress-driven integral model

International Journal of Engineering Sciences 115 (2017) 14–27.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijengsci.2017.03.002


Giovanni Romano, Raffaele Barretta,

Stress-driven versus strain-driven nonlocal integral model for elastic nano-beams

Composites Part B (2017)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesb.2017.01.008 


Giovanni Romano, Raffaele Barretta, Marina Diaco, Francesco Marotti de Sciarra,

Constitutive boundary conditions and paradoxes in nonlocal elastic nanobeams.

International Journal of Mechanical Sciences 121 (2017) 151–156.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2016.10.036 


Giovanni Romano, Raffaele Barretta, Marina Diaco, 

Solid–fluid interaction: a continuum mechanics assessment 

Acta Mechanica 228 (2017) 851–869.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00707-016-1738-7 


Giovanni Romano, Raffaele Barretta, Marina Diaco, 

Comment on the paper “Exact solution of Eringen’s nonlocal integral model for bending of Euler–Bernoulli and Timoshenko beams” by Meral Tuna & Mesut Kirca.

International Journal of Engineering Science 109 (2016) 240–242.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijengsci.2016.09.009


Giovanni Romano, Raffaele Barretta, Marina Diaco, 

Micromorphic continua: non-redundant formulations.

Continuum Mechanics and Thermodyninamics (2016) 28:1659–1670.

DOI 10.1007/s00161-016-0502-5.


Giovanni Romano, Raffaele Barretta, Marina Diaco, 

Geometric Action Principles in Classical Dynamics.

Atti Accademia Nazionale Scienza Lettere ed Arti in Napoli, 1–45, January 2015.


Giovanni Romano,

Geometry & Continuum Mechanics.

Short Course in Innsbruck, 24–25, November 2014.


Giovanni Romano,

On Time and Length in Special Relativity.

Atti Accademia Nazionale Scienza Lettere ed Arti in Napoli, 1–26, May 2014.


Giovanni Romano,

Beyond Feynman troubles in Electromagnetics.

Atti Accademia Nazionale Scienza Lettere ed Arti in Napoli, 1–31, April 2014.


Giovanni Romano,

On natural derivatives and the curvature formula in fibre bundles.

Atti Accademia Nazionale Scienza Lettere ed Arti in Napoli, 1–13, June 2014.

arXiv:1107.1705


Giovanni Romano, Raffaele Barretta, Marina Diaco,

The geometry of nonlinear elasticity. 

Acta Mech. 225(11), 3199–3235 (2014). DOI: 10.1007/s00707-014-1113-5


Giovanni Romano, Raffaele Barretta, Marina Diaco,

Geometric Continuum Mechanics.

Meccanica, 49(1) 111–133 (2014). DOI: 10.1007/s11012-013-9777-9


Giovanni Romano, Raffaele Barretta, Marina Diaco,

Rate formulations in nonlinear continuum mechanics. 

Acta Mech. 225(6) 1625–1648 (2013). DOI: 10.1007/s00707-013-1002-3


Giovanni Romano, Raffaele Barretta,

On Euler stretching formula in continuum mechanics. 

Acta Mech. 224(1) 211–230 (2013). DOI: 10.1007/s00707-012-0746-5


Giovanni Romano, Raffaele Barretta,

Geometric Constitutive Theory and Frame Invariance.

Int. J. Non-Linear Mech.(51)75–86. (2013) DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2012.12.006

 

Giovanni Romano,

On Electromagnetic Entanglements under Changes of Frame.

Atti Accademia Nazionale Scienza Lettere ed Arti in Napoli, 1–20, February 2013.


Giovanni Romano, Annalisa Barretta, Raffaele Barretta,

On Torsion and Shear of Saint-Venant Beams.

Eur. J. Mech. A-Solids (35) 47–60 (2012) DOI:10.1016/j.euromechsol.2012.01.007


Giovanni Romano, Raffaele Barretta,

Covariant Hypo-elasticity.

Eur.J.Mech.A-Solids(30)1012–1023(2011)DOI:10.1016/j.euromechsol.2011.05.005


Giovanni Romano,

On the Laws of Electromagnetic Induction.

67 (2011) arXiv:1105.3340


Giovanni Romano, Raffaele Barretta and Marina Diaco,

Algorithmic tangent stiffness in elastoplasticity and elastoviscoplasticity:

A geometric insight

Mech.Res.Com. 37(6) 289292 (2010).DOI: 10.1016/j.mechrescom.2010.02.002


Giovanni Romano, Marina Diaco and Raffaele Barretta,

Variational Formulation of the First Principle of Continuum Thermodynamics.

Cont. Mech. Thermodyn. 22(3) 177–187 (2010). DOI: 10.1007/s00161-009-0119-z


Giovanni Romano, Raffaele Barretta and Marina Diaco,

On Continuum Dynamics.

J. Math. Phys. (50)102903 1–26 (2009). DOI: 10.1063/1.3215979


Giovanni Romano, Raffaele Barretta and Marina Diaco,

On the general form of the law of dynamics.

Int.J.Non-Linear Mech.44(6) 689–695. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2009.02.011


Giovanni Romano, Raffaele Barretta and Annalisa Barretta, 

On Maupertuis principle in dynamics.

Reports on Mathematical Physics 63(3) 331346 (2009).

DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4877(09)00015-9


Giovanni Romano, Raffaele Barretta and Marina Diaco,

The general law of dynamics in nonlinear manifolds and Noether theorem.

Memorie Accademia di Scienze Fisiche e Matematiche,

Mathematical Physics Models and Engineering Sciences,

Liguori, Napoli (2008) 439–453, ISBN-13978-88-207-4057-3


Giovanni Romano, Raffaele Barretta and Marina Diaco,

Basic issues in phase transition theory and fracture mechanics

Variational Formulations in Mechanics: Theory and Applications, 

Taroco , E.A. de Souza Neto and A.A. Novotny (eds), 

CIMNE Barcelona (2007) 263-279, ISBN 978-84-96736-32-0


Giovanni Romano, Carmen Sellitto, Raffaele Barretta,

Nonlinear shell theory: a duality approach.

Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures (2)7 1207–1230 (2007)


Giovanni Romano, Raffaele Barretta and Marina Diaco, 

On the theory of material inhomogeneities.

Mechanics Research Communications 33(6) 758–763 (2006)

DOI:10.1016/j.mechrescom.2006.05.003


Giovanni Romano, Carmen Sellitto,

Tangent stiffness of polar shells undergoing large displacements.

Trends and Applications of Mathematics to Mechanics, S. Rionero and G. Romano (eds), Springer, Milano (2005) 203–214, ISBN 88-470-0269-9


Giovanni Romano, Alessandra Romano,

Basic issues in convex homogenization.

Trends and Applications of Mathematics to Mechanics, S. Rionero and G. Romano (eds), Springer, Milano (2005) 185–202, ISBN 88-470-0269-9


Giovanni Romano, Marina Diaco, Carmen Sellitto,

Tangent stiffness of elastic continua on manifolds.

Trends and Applications of Mathematics to Mechanics, S. Rionero and G. Romano (eds), Springer, Milan (2005) 155–184, ISBN 88-470-0269-9


Giovanni Romano, Marina Diaco,

A Functional Framework for Applied Continuum Mechanics.

New Trends in Mathematical Physics, World Scientific, Singapore (2004) 193–204, ISBN 981-256-077-7


Giovanni Romano, Francesco Marotti de Sciarra, Marina Diaco,

Well-posedness and numerical performances of the strain gap method.,

Int. J. Num. Meth. Eng. (51) 283–306 (2001)


Giovanni Romano, Marina Diaco,

The Strain Gap Method Existence Uniqueness and Convergence Properties.

Trends in Applications of Mathematics to Mechanics, P.E. O Donoghue and J.N. Flavin (eds), Elsevier, Paris (2000) 174–179, ISBN 2-84299-245-8


Giovanni Romano,

On the necessity of Korn's inequality

Trends in Applications of Mathematics to Mechanics, P.E. O Donoghue and J.N. Flavin (eds), Elsevier, Paris (2000) 166–173, ISBN 2-84299-245-8


Giovanni Romano, Luciano Rosati, Marina Diaco,

Well-Posedness of Mixed Formulations in Elasticity

ZAMM, Z. Angew. Math. Mech. 79 (1999) 7, 435--454


Giovanni Romano,

New Results in Subdifferential Calculus with Applications to Convex Optimization.

Appl. Math. Optim. 32, 3 (1995) 213–234. DOI: 10.1007/BF01187900


Giovanni Romano, Luciano Rosati, Francesco Marotti de Sciarra, 

A variational theory for finite-step elasto-plastic problems, Letter to the editor.

Int. J. Solids Structures 32(10) 14771478 (1995)

A variational theory for finite-step elasto-plastic problems, Authors closure.

Int. J. Solids Structures 32(10) 14791480 (1995).


Giovanni Romano, Luciano Rosati, Francesco Marotti de Sciarra, 

A variational theory for finite-step elasto-plastic problems.

Int. J. Solids Structures, 30 (17) (1993) 23172334.


Giovanni Romano, Luciano Rosati, Francesco Marotti de Sciarra, Paolo Bisegna,

A potential theory for monotone multi-valued operators.

Quart. Appl. Math. LI, 4 (1993) 613–631.


Giovanni Romano, Luciano Rosati, Francesco Marotti de Sciarra, 

An internal variable theory of inelastic behaviour 

derived from the uniaxial rigid-perfectly plastic law.

Int. J. Engng. Sci. 31, 8 (1993) 1105–1120. DOI: 10.1016/0020-7225(93)90085-9


Giovanni Romano, Luciano Rosati, Giuseppe Ferro,

Shear deformability of thin-walled beams with arbitrary cross sections.

Int. J. Num. Meth. Eng. (35)283–306 (1992) DOI: 10.1002/nme.1620350205


Manfredi Romano,

Scritti Scelti di Manfredi Romano

Edited by Institute of Scienza delle Costruzioni, Catania University 1990.


Giovanni Romano, Elio Sacco,

Analisi limite e collasso plastico per materiali non standard ben posti.

Rivista Italiana di Geotecnica 1:37-41(1985)


Giovanni Romano, Manfredi Romano

Sulla soluzione di problemi strutturali in presenza di legami costitutivi unilaterali.

Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. Rendiconti, Serie 8, Vol. 67 (1979), n.1-2, p. 104–113.


Giovanni Romano,

Postcritical Behaviour of Elastic Structures: Part I: Incremental uniqueness and Stability. Univ. of Calabria Dept. of Structures, Report 8 April 1975.


Giovanni Romano,

Postcritical Behaviour of Elastic Structures: Part II: Postcritical Analysis and Imperfection sensitivity. Univ. of Calabria Dept. of Structures, Report 9 April 1975.


Giovanni Romano,

On the energy criterion for the stability of continuous elastic structures.

 10(3) 198–202 (1975) DOI: 10.1007/BF02149034


Giovanni Romano,

On the minimum of the potential energy functional at a critical point.

Meccanica 9(4) 198–202 (1974) DOI: 10.1007/BF02175805


Giovanni Romano,

Potential operators and conservative systems,

Meccanica 7(3)141–146 (1972) DOI: 10.1007/BF02128759


Giovanni Romano,

Limiti di collasso rigido plastico di piastre rettangolari soggette a carichi simmetrici rispetto alle mediane.

Ingegneria Civile, 30 (1969) 1–19.https://inbox.unina.it/horde/index.phGiovanni Romano,