Marilena Cardu

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Tenured Associate Professor
Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI)

Profile

Research interests

Demolition techniques
Excavators
Explosives
Mining engineering
Sustainable quarrying and mining

Curriculum

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Scientific branch

CEAR-02/B - Excavation Engineering and Safety
(Area 0008 - Civil engineering and architecture)

Research topics

  • Controlled blasting
  • Rock-tool interaction
  • Scale effect in mechanical excavation
  • Vibration monitoring

Skills

ERC sectors

PE8_3 - Civil engineering, architecture, offshore construction, lightweight construction, geotechnics
PE8_11 - Environmental engineering, e.g. sustainable design, waste and water treatment, recycling, regeneration or recovery of compounds, carbon capture & storage
PE10_10 - Mineralogy, petrology, igneous petrology, metamorphic petrology

SDG

Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals

Fellowships

Conferences

  • WTC 2023 (World Tunnel Congress) (14/5/2023-19/5/2023), Program committee
  • EUROCK 2021 (21/9/2021-24/9/2021), Program committee
  • 28th Annual Meeting and Conference of the Society of Mining Professors (SOMP) (3/7/2017-9/7/2017), Program chair
  • 24th World Mining Congress (18/10/2016-21/10/2016), Program committee
  • 11th International Symposium on Rock Fragmentation by Blasting - FRAGBLAST 11 (24/8/2015-28/8/2015), Invited Speaker
  • II workshop of ISEE (International Society of Explosives Engineers) (23/10/2014-25/10/2014), Invited Speaker
  • 15th International Symposium on Mine Planning and Equipment and Selection (MPES) (20/9/2006-23/9/2006), Program chair
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Other research or teaching roles outside Politecnico

  • Visiting Researcher, presso Universidad nacional de Colombia (5/3/2025-17/3/2025)
  • Visiting Researcher, presso Universidad de Antofagasta (28/2/2024-30/3/2024)
  • Visiting Researcher, presso Escuela Superior Politecnica de Chimborazo (31/3/2023-16/4/2023)
  • Visiting Researcher, presso Escuela Superior Politecnica de Chimborazo (6/5/2022-22/5/2022)
  • Visiting Researcher, presso Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (17/12/2016-31/8/2017)
  • Visiting Researcher, presso Istanbul Technical University (1/5/2015-30/9/2015)
  • Visiting Researcher, presso Universidade de São Paulo, USP (10/10/2014-6/4/2015)
  • Professore Associato confermato, presso Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (2/4/2012-20/4/2012)
  • Professore Associato confermato, presso Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (22/12/2011-24/12/2011)
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Teaching

Collegi of the PhD programmes

  • INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE, 2024/2025 (40. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE, 2023/2024 (39. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE, 2022/2023 (38. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE, 2021/2022 (37. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE, 2020/2021 (36. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • INGEGNERIA PER L'AMBIENTE NATURALE E COSTRUITO, 2012/2013 (28. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • INGEGNERIA PER L'AMBIENTE NATURALE E COSTRUITO, 2011/2012 (27. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • INGEGNERIA PER L'AMBIENTE NATURALE E COSTRUITO, 2010/2011 (26. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • GEOINGEGNERIA AMBIENTALE, 2004/2005 (20. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • GEOINGEGNERIA AMBIENTALE, 2003/2004 (19. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
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Collegi of the degree programmes

Teachings

PhD

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Master of Science

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Research

Research areas

Laboratories

Research projects

Projects funded by commercial contracts

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Supervised PhD students

  • Nestor David Mejia Almeida. Programme in Ingegneria Civile E Ambientale (39th cycle, 2023-in progress)
    Research subject: Analysis the TBM prediction model using numerical and experimental trials.
    Computational Mechanics
    Fracture Mechanics
    Geotechnical Engineering
  • Oveis Farzay. Programme in Ingegneria Civile E Ambientale (38th cycle, 2023-in progress)

Publications

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