Stefano
Zapperi
Researcher
Recent
publications:
C. B. Picallo, J. M. Lopez, S. Zapperi and M. J. Alava, "Optimization
and Plasticity in Disordered Media" Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 225502 (2009).
R. Capozza, A. Vanossi,
A. Vezzani and S. Zapperi,
"Suppression of friction by mechanical vibration", Phys. Rev. Lett.
103, 085502 (2009) 
F. Leoni and S. Zapperi, "Slip line growth as a critical phenomenon",
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102,
115502 (2009)
A. Magni, G. Durin, J. P. Sethna and S.
Zapperi, "Visualization
of
avalanches in magnetic thin films: temporal processing",
J. Stat. Mech. (2009) P01020 
M.
J. Alava, P. K. V. V. Nukala and S. Zapperi, "Role of disorder in the
size scaling of materials strength”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100,
0555502 (2008) 
Review
articles:
M. J. Alava, P. K. V. V. Nukala and S.
Zapperi, "Statistical models
for fracture", Adv. Phys. 55, 349-476 (2006).
G. Durin and S. Zapperi,
“The Barkhausen effect" in The Science of
Hysteresis", edited by G. Bertotti and I. Mayergoyz, vol. II pp 181-267
(Academic Press, Amsterdam, 2006).
Perspectives:
M.-C. Miguel and S.
Zapperi, Fluctuations in
plasticity at the microscale", Science 312, 1151
(2006).
Commentaries:
F. Sylos Labini and
S. Zapperi, "Reverse age
discrimination" Nature Physics 3,
582 (2007)
Contact:
IENI-CNR
Via R. Cozzi 53,
I-20125,
Milano, Italy.
Phone:+39 02 66173 385
Fax: +39 02 66173 320
e-mail:
stefano.zapperi
_at_ cnr.it

