Francesco Costanzo Professional Site
Francesco Costanzo Professional Site

Francesco Costanzo, Ph.D.

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Publications

Dr. Costanzo has authored and co-authored numerous books, papers, and other publications throughout his career. Please visit the links below to explore his work:

  1. Refereed Papers
  2. Books & Parts of Books
  3. Conference Presentations
  4. Conference Proceedings

Conference Proceeedings

  1. Roy, S., Heltai, L., Drapaca, C., and F. Costanzo (2012), “An Immersed Finite Ele- ment Method Approach to Brain Biomechanics”, to appear in the Proceedings of SEM XII, International Congress & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Costa Mesa, CA, USA, June 11–14, 2012.

  2. Litzinger, T., C. Firetto, L. Passmore, K. Higley, P. Van Meter, C. Masters, F. Costanzo, G. Gray, S. Turns, and J. Kulikowich (2008), “Using Parametric Analy- sis to Incorporate Design into Sophomore-Level Dynamics”, Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Session N. 402, conference held in Pittsburgh, PA, June 22–25, 2008. Available on CD ROM, 18 pages, no page numbers.

  3. Gray, G. L. and F. Costanzo (2008), “A Problem-Centered Approach to Dynamics”, Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Session N. 2295, conference held in Pittsburgh, PA, June 22–25, 2008. Available on CD ROM, 14 pages, no page numbers.

  4. Costanzo, F. and G. L. Gray (2008), “A Structured Approach to Problem Solving in Statics and Dynamics: Assessment and Evolution”, Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Session N. 2283, conference held in Pittsburgh, PA, June 22–25, 2008. Available on CD ROM, 10 pages, no page numbers.

  5. Khalmanova, D. K. and F. Costanzo (2006) “Discontinuous Space-Time Galerkin Fi- nite Element Method in Linear Dynamic Fully Coupled Thermoelastic Problems with Strain and Heat Flux Discontinuities”, proceedings of ECCM-2006—III European Conference on Computational Mechanics, 6 pages, no page numbers, conference held in Lisbon, Portugal, June 5–9.

  6. Gray, G. L., F. Costanzo, D. L. Evans, P. Cornwell, B. Self, and J. L. Lane (2005) “The Dynamics Concept Inventory Assessment Test: A Progress Report and Some Results”, Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Session N. 3268, 13 pages, no page numbers. Conference held in Portland, OR, June 12–15. Awarded "Best Paper Award" in the Mechanics Division of ASEE.

  7. Gray, G. L., F. Costanzo, and M. E. Plesha (2005) “Problem Solving in Statics and Dy- namics: A Review and a Proposal for a Structured Approach”, Proceedings of the 2005 Amer- ican Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Session N. 3268, 16 pages, no page numbers. Conference held in Portland, OR, June 12–15.

  8. Gray, G. L., F. Costanzo, P. C. Andia, D. L. Evans, B. Self, and P. Cornwell (2005) “The Dynamics Concept Inventory Test as a Means of Assessing Curricular Innova- tions”, Proceedings of McMat2005, the Joint ASME/ASCE/SES Conference on Mechanics and Materials, Session: 694, 6 pages, no page numbers, conference held in Baton Rouge (LA) June 1–3.

  9. Andia, P. C., T. J. Yurick, F. Costanzo, and G. L. Gray (2004) “Average Stresses in Simulated Thin Films”, in Surfaces and Interfaces in Nanostructured Materials and Trends in LIGA, Miniaturization, and Nanoscale Materials: Fifth MPMD Global Innovations Sym- posium, S. M. Mukhopadhyay, S. Seal, N. Dahotre, A. Agarwal, J. E. Smugeresky, and N. Moody, eds., 2004, p. 343. Proceedings of the 5th Global Innovations Symposium held at the 2004 TMS Annual Meeting, March 14–18, 2004, Charlotte, NC.

  10. Randow, C. L., G. L. Gray, and F. Costanzo (2004) “A Polar Continuum Model of a Columnar Thin Film,” in ECCOMAS 2004—European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, Jyväskylä, Finland, July 24–28. Paper No. 195, 12 pages, no page numbers, published on CD-ROM only, ISBN 951-39-1869-6.

  11. Evans, D. L., G. L. Gray, F. Costanzo, P. Cornwell, and B. P. Self (2004) “Rigid Body Dynamics: Student Misconceptions and Their Diagnosis,” in the XXI International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Warsaw, Poland, August 15–21, 2 pages, no page numbers.

  12. Arvin, A. C., S. T. Miller, and F. Costanzo (2003) “Delivering Lectures in Introductory Graduate-Level Continuum Mechanics Courses using Mathematica.” Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Session 2793, Nashville. TN, June 22–25, available on CD ROM, 17 pages, no page numbers.

  13. Gray, G. L., D. L. Evans, P. Cornwell, F. Costanzo, and B. Self (2003) “Toward a Nationwide Dynamics Concept Inventory Assessment Test,” in Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Session 1168, Nashville, TN, June 22–25, available on CD ROM, 12 pages, no page numbers. 

  14. Randow, C. L., A. J. Miller, F. Costanzo, and G. L. Gray (2003) “Mathematica Notebooks for Classroom Use in Undergraduate Dynamics: Demonstration of Theory and Examples,” in Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Session 3268, Nashville, TN, June 22–25, available on CD ROM, 22 pages, no page numbers.

  15. Andia, P. C., F. Costanzo, G. L. Gray, and T. J. Yurick (2001) “Calculation of Intrinsic Stresses and Elastic Moduli in Nonhomogeneous Thin Films,” in Multiscale Modeling of Materials–2000 (L. Kubin, R. L. B. Selinger, J. L. Bassani, and K. Cho, eds.), vol. 653 of Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, PA, pp. Z10.3.1–Z10.3.6.

  16. Andia, P. C., F. Costanzo, and G. L. Gray (2000) “On the Estimation of Intrinsic Stresses and Elastic Moduli in Thin Films,” in Complex Mediums (A. Lakhtakia, W. S. Wei- glhofer, and R. F. Messier, eds.), vol. 4097 of Proceedings of SPIE, SPIE—The International Society for Optical Engineering, Bellingham, WA, pp. 280–290, proceedings of SPIE’s 45th Annual Meeting, 30 July–1 August, 2000, San Diego, CA.

  17. Caiazzo, A. A. and F. Costanzo (2000) “Finite Element Implementation of Effective Constitutive Relations for the Macroscopic Analysis of Elastic Structural Components with Evolving Microcracking,” in EM2000, Fourteenth Engineering Mechanics Conference of the American Society of Civil Engineers (J. L. Tassoulas, ed.), The University of Texas at Austin, May 21–24, Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin on CD-ROM only, Austin, TX, 6 pages, no page numbers.

  18. Costanzo, F. and G. L. Gray (1999) “Collaborative Learning in Undergraduate Dynam- ics Courses: Some Examples,” in 1999 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Charlotte, North Carolina, June 10–13, CD-ROM only, 12 pages, no page numbers. Available electroni- cally at: <http://www.asee.org/conferences/search/>.

  19. Yaeger, P. M., R. M. Marra, G. L. Gray, and F. Costanzo (1999) “Assessing New Ways of Learning Undergraduate Dynamics: An Ongoing Program to Improve Teaching,” in 1999 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Charlotte, North Carolina, June 10–13, CD-ROM only, 10 pages, no page numbers. Available electronically at: <http://www.asee. org/conferences/search/>.

  20. Gray, G. L. and F. Costanzo (1999) “Interactive Dynamics: A Collaborative Approach to Learning Undergraduate Dynamics,” in 1999 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Charlotte, North Carolina, June 10–13, CD-ROM only, 13 pages, no page numbers. Available electronically at: <http://www.asee.org/conferences/search/>.

  21. Yaeger, P. M., R. M. Marra, F. Costanzo, G. L. Gray, and D. Sathianathan (1999) “Interactive Mechanics: Effects of Student-Centered Activities on Learning,” in 1999 Frontiers in Education Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 10–13, pp. 11a2-12– 11a2-17, paper 1290. Print Version of the proceedings: IEEE Catalog Number: 99CH37011; ISBN: 0-7803-5643-8; Library of Congress: 79-640910; ISSN: 0190-5848. CD-ROM Version of the proceedings: IEEE Catalog Number: 99CH37011C; ISBN: 0-7803-5646-2.

  22. Costanzo, F. and G. L. Gray (1999) “Mechanics Reform: A Report from the Trenches,” in 1999 Frontiers in Education Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 10–13, pp. 12c5- 7–12c5-12, paper 1172. Print Version of the proceedings: IEEE Catalog Number: 99CH37011; ISBN: 0-7803-5643-8; Library of Congress: 79-640910; ISSN: 0190-5848. CD-ROM Version of the proceedings: IEEE Catalog Number: 99CH37011C; ISBN: 0-7803-5646-2.

  23. Caiazzo, A. A. and F. Costanzo (1998) “On the Effective Elastic Properties of Composites with Evolving Microcracking,” in Proceedings of the Eighth Japan-U.S. Conference on Com- posite Materials (G. M. Newaz and R. F. Gibson, eds.), September 24–25, 1998, Baltimore (MD), Technomic Publishing Co., Lancaster (PA), pp. 275–284.

  24. Costanzo F. and G. L. Gray (1998), “Interactive Dynamics.” Proceeding of the Workshop on Reform of Undergraduate Education, hosted by the Engineering Mechanics Faculty of The Pennsylvania State University, August 16–18, University Park, (PA), 8 pages, no page numbers.

  25. Lo, D. C., F. Costanzo, and D. H. Allen (1995) “Delamination Evolution in Compos- ites using a Cohesive Zone Model,” in Proceedings of ICES-95: International Conference on Computational Engineering Science (S. N. Atluri, G. Yagawa, and T. A. Cruise, eds.), Mauna Lani, Big Island of Hawai‘i, July 30–August 3.

  26. F. Costanzo, J. G. Boyd, and D. H. Allen (1993), “Homogenization of Inelastic Compos- ite Materials With Growing Cracks,” in Proceedings of The Fourth International Symposium on Plasticity and its Current Applications, Baltimore MD, July 1993. 

     

Numerical prediction of the longitudinal component of the velocity of interstitial fluid flowing through brain tissue in response to the peristaltic motion of the wall of a typical penetrating artery in brain.

 The details of the numerical framework used for this calculation are in F. Costanzo and S. T. Miller, "An arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian finite element formulation for a poroelasticity problem stemming from mixture theory," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 323 (2017), pp. 64–97. DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2017.05.006.

 

Office Location

Francesco Costanzo, Ph.D.
Center for Neural Engineering
W-315 Millenium Science Complex
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802

 
 

Contact

Phone: 1-814-863-2030
Fax: 1-814-865-9974
Email: fmcostanzo@psu.edu