Editorial Board for section 'Engineering'
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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.
Members
Interests: modeling of offshore structures and offshore structural components; structural theories of plates and applied mathematical modeling; mechanics of solids and structures; study of composite laminated structures and advanced composite materials; fracture mechanics and crack propagation and initiation; applied numerical methods such as finite element method and mesh-free element method
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Interests: scale-coupling numerical methods; material models; multiphase steels; textile membranes; soft biological tissues; fiber-concrete composites; hardmetal composites; uncertainties at different scales
Interests: durability of reinforced concrete structures, i.e., material aspects and durability testing, service life modelling, design and specification, reinforcement corrosion initiation and propagation; performance assessment of concrete structures; repair systems for concrete structures damaged by reinforcement corrosion; bonded concrete overlays, i.e., bond strength issues, stresses due to differential volume changes, specification and performance of concrete patch repair systems; innovative concrete materials
Interests: model verification & validation (error estimation, updating); model reduction (multiscale coupling, PGD); dialogue between simulations and experiments (data assimilation, real time applications, optimal control)
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Interests: numerical modeling of engineering structures and structural components (offshore applications, steel bridges, pressure vessels, pipelines, wind turbine towers, etc.); mathematical problems in fatigue and fracture; mechanics of solids and structures; metals materials and structures; numerical fracture mechanics and crack growth; local approaches; finite element methods in structural mechanics applications; computer-aided structural integrity
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Interests: Lagrangian approaches; fluid flows; fluid structures interaction
Interests: scientific computing; finite elements; mixed-dimensional coupling; fluid mechanics
Interests: high-order numerical methods and time integration algorithms for fluids- and solids-related phenomena; fluid interfaces, free surfaces, and contact line dynamics; neural network-based numerical methods, data-driven scientific computing, scientific machine learning; computational partial differential equations; two-phase and multiphase flows, and their interactions with wall surfaces; open boundary problems, open boundary conditions and related problems; turbulent pattern formation; bio-fluids and bio-structural simulations; flow-structure interaction, vortex-induced vibrations; turbulence at high Reynolds numbers in complex geometries; high performance computing, parallel computing
Interests: semi-analytical modeling (e.g., equivalent circuits, subdomain technique) of electromagnetic devices (e.g., electrical machines, fuel cells, electrolyzers); design of electrical machines; reduction and modeling of eddy-current loss in permanent-magnets
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Interests: finite element analysis (FEA); explicit finite element analysis; adaptive finite elements; spectral element method; fictitious domain method; immersed-boundary method; embedded domain method; finite cell method; spectral cell method; Petrov-Galerkin discretization; extended finite element method (XFEM)
Interests: composite materials; masonry structures; numerical modeling; mechanical engineering; bridge engineering; modal analysis; dynamics; civil engineering; materials engineering; experimental characterization; concrete durability
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2. LASI—Intelligent Systems Associate Laboratory, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal
Interests: cork composites; manufacturing; sustainability
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Interests: solid mechanics; material modeling; model reduction and computer-aided simulation
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Interests: acoustic and elastic waves; inverse problems; RBF-based meshless methods; Trefftz method; boundary element method
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Interests: aerospace structures; buckling; vibration; optimization; composite materials
Interests: control applications; optimization; LMIs; Takagi–Sugeno; fault diagnosis
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Interests: evolutionary computing; machine learning; swarm intelligence; optimization
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Interests: composite materials; composite structures; anisotropy; mechanics of solid; optimization; genetic algorithms; topology optimization; NURBS curves and surfaces; reverse engineering; curve and surface fitting; inverse problems; homogenisation
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Interests: numerical methods; computational mechanics; plates and shells; laminated and functionally graded materials
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Interests: computational techniques applied for solution of continuous and discontinuous dynamical problems and control; experimental investigations and measurements; control of linear and nonlinear dynamical systems; theory of automation and control; systems of mechatronics
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2. IDMEC, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: numerical modeling and simulation of composite structures; smart structures analysis; stochastic optimization; reconstruction of 3D surfaces; reverse engineering
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Interests: linear and nonlinear finite element analysis; variational methods; plate and shell theories; composite structures; numerical heat transfer; computational fluid dynamics; non-local theories; applied mathematics
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Interests: computational methods in structural mechanics (model reduction of non-linear systems, hyper-reduction, incremental proper orthogonal decomposition, contact and parallel computations); multiphysic modeling of thermomechanical processes; inverse problems
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Interests: biomechanics: computational cardiac mechanics with application to rheumatic heart disease; multiscale methods with applications to soft tissue, reinforced concrete and soil mechanics; multiscale methods considering continua with micro structure: cosserat, micromorphic and generalised continua and their application to heterogeneous materials; smart structures, electro- and magnetomechanical coupling: electro- and magneto-active polymers, electro- and magnetostrictive materials; meshfree methods and high-performance computing
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Interests: predictive control; optimization; LPV systems; fault detection and isolation
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Interests: Bayesian optimization; multi-objective optimization; variational quantum algorithms; benchmarking; machine learning
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Interests: nonlinear dynamics; vibration control; fluid structure interaction; shells and meta-structures; biomechanics
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Interests: applied mathematics; linear and non-linear mechanics of composite structures at macro, micro, and nano scale; non-local continuum mechanics; smart materials and structures; composite materials
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