Salvatore CADDEMI

Prof. Salvatore Caddemi is native of Noto (Siracusa), Italy, on 29th of November 1960. He received his master degree in Civil Engineering in 1984, served as Officer in the Italian Navy until 1986 and obtained his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering in 1990, from the University of Palermo. His research activity in the period 1988-1991 has been developed at the ’FRD/UCT Centre for Research in Computational and Applied Mechanics’’ of the University of Cape Town, South Africa, as “Visiting Researcher” and “Postdoctoral Research Fellow” contributing to theoretical advances in the integration of nonliner plastic constitutive laws and formulating iterative procedures for the relevant incremental analysis. Prof. Caddemi was appointed Researcher of Mechanics of Materials in July 1991 at the Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering of the University of Palermo and was “Visiting Researcher” within the program HCM network of the European Community at the Department of Structural Engineering and Materials of the Technical University of Denmark in 1996. In November 1998 he became associate professor of “Strenght of Materials” at the Institute of Structural Engineering of the Engineering Faculty of the University of Catania and since 1 october 2001 he is full professor at the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering of the University of Catania where he is currently conducting his teaching and research activity. His research interest has been oriented to deterministic analysis of elasticplastic and no-tension material structures, stochastic dynamic structural analysis, structural and damage identification, static and dynamic analysis of structures with singularities, seismic vulnerability assessment of masonry structures. Prof.Caddemi is currently involved in the use of generalised functions for thesolution of direct and inverse problems of beam-like and frame structure in presence of strong discontinuites and singularities.