Research projects

The Rockmech research team has been active in many national and international research projects related to the research topics of the group (tunnelling, slope stability, geothermal energy and geomechanics). Below is a selection of the most intriguing ones.

2004

Trenchless technology for sustainable cities: reduction of jacking forces in clays

Period: 2004-2005

Participants: Marco Barla

   

2011

PRIN 2009 - Monitoring by ground based interferometric radar and modelling of large rock landslides 

Period: 2011-2013

Participants: Marco Barla, Francesco Antolini

   

2014

ENERTUN - Metro tunnels as geothermal energy sources

Period: 2014-2015

Participants: Marco Barla, Alice Di Donna, Alessandra Insana

   

2015

COST Action GABI, European network for shallow geothermal energy applications in buildings and infrastructures

Period: 2015-2019

Participants: Marco Barla, Matteo Baralis, Alice Di Donna, Alessandra Insana

ENERWALL - Diaphragm walls as geothermal energy sources

Period: 2015

Participants: Marco Barla, Alice Di Donna

 

2017

rOGER, Optimisation of GEothermal Resources in urban areas

Period: 2017-2019

Participants: Marco Barla, Matteo Baralis

   

2019

GEOTHERMSKIN - Energy Wall Modular System

Period: 2019

Participants: Marco Barla, Matteo Baralis

   

2021

ARV, Climate positive, circular communities

Period: 2021-2025

Participants: Marco Barla, Alessandra Insana, Simone De Feudis

OPTIALP - a new frontier for optical fiber sensing for landslide/avalanche risk mitigation

Period: 2021-2025

Participants: Marco Barla, Alessandra Insana

TUNREFIT - Retrofitting di gallerie esistenti con energie rinnovabili per la mitigazione dei cambiamenti climatici

Period: 2021-2024

Participants: Marco Barla, Alessandra Insana, Simone De Feudis

2022

PNRR NODES, Spoke 4 Montagna digitale e sostenibile - Climate change impacts on infrastructures in Alpine areas

Period: 2022-2025

Participants: Marco Barla, Alessandra Insana, Amirreza Pourfatollah

PNRR NEST, Spoke 2 Energy harvesting and off-shore renewable

Period: 2022-2025

Participants: Marco Barla, Alessandra Insana, Maria Romana Alvi, Simone De Feudis, Juan Sebastian Escobar Nino, Juliana Lopez Ochoa

COST Action FOLIAGE, FOstering Large scale ImplementAtion of energy GEostructures

Period: 2022-2026

Participants: Marco Barla, Alessandra Insana, Maria Romana Alvi, Simone De Feudis, Martina Scerbo

2023

GEOREFIT - Closing knowledge gaps on energy GEOstructures for REtroFITting of buildings and infrastructures

Period: 2023-2025

Participants: Marco Barla (PI), Alessandra Insana, Maria Romana Alvi, Simone De Feudis, Martina Scerbo

   

2024

Reuse of existing tunnels for energy storage

Period: 2024-2027

Participants: Marco Barla, Alessandra Insana

DUT - REgENEraTE - REuse for ENergy Exploitation and storage of existing urban Tunnels in Europe

Period: 2024-2027

Participants: Alessandra Insana (PI), Marco Barla