A Tribute to Prof. Renato Olivito’s Career

The special session, in which this paper is submitted, is dedicated to stimulate scientific discussion in the research fields in which Professor Renato Sante Olivito worked for many years giving his innovative and indisputable contribution. Professor Olivito's research involved civil engineering and structural mechanics. His research fields over the years are: Eco-sustainable composite materials for reinforcing modern and historic masonry constructions; experimentation on Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Matrix (FRCM); monitoring of structures; fracture analysis in brittle materials; structural health monitoring systems based on the IoT paradigm; Artificial Intelligence for structural health monitoring; mechanical and physical characterization of traditional masonry techniques; numerical analysis; micro-tomography; 3-D printing; Genetic Algorithm, Mathematical Modeling and Mathematical Physics applied to modeling and analysis of structures.