Professor

  • Alfredo R. de Faria (resume)

Postdoctoral fellows

  • Francisco K. Arakaki
    Numerical analysis of kink band failure on unidirectional composites under longitudinal compression

  • Rodrigo Martins Farias
    Design for additive manufacturing: integration of procedures and simulation tools

Doctoral candidates

  • Fernando Carlos Magalhães Carneiro da Silva
    Development of digital twins for the design and simulation of stamping processes

  • Guilherme Fernandes Guimarães
    Design for residual stress: an additive manufacturing approach for gear fabrication

  • Renan Miranda Portela (co-supervision)
    Manufacturing of thick complex-shaped fiber-reinforced composite parts by wet compression molding process

  • Sergio Luiz Moni Ribeiro Filho (co-supervision)
    Characterization and modelling of milling induced damage in composite laminates

Master candidates

  • Felipe de Sá Carneiro
    Shot peening modeling for superficial densification of gears fabricated by additive manufacture

  • Lucas de Landa Couto (part time)
    A local discrete material optimization method using shape functions and penalization

  • Luiza Emília Vila Nova Mazzoni
    Influence of material modeling on simulation accuracy for cold stamped aluminum alloys

Master of engineering candidates

  • Amanda Correia Gonçalves (part time)
    Conceptual design of an adaptive NACA air intake using shape memory alloy

  • Beatriz Balbuena Blat (part time)
    Topology optimization and definition of the best technology and materials for the main fittings of the pylon-wing connection of a commercial aircraft

  • Eloi Antonio Triaca (part time)
    Probabilistic buckling analysis of composite stiffened panels under axial compression and shear loads

  • Gabriel Mora Haring (part time)
    Assessment of analysis techniques towards local buckling of composite structures

  • Gustavo Ferreira Rocha Vilela (part time)
    Topology optimization with shape preserving design applied for aircraft cargo door

  • Juliano Silva Rodrigues (part time)
    A numerical model for strength assessment of reinforced carbon/epoxy panels under longitudinal compression and shear

  • Marcelo Franco Magalhães (part time)
    Software Assessment of Thermomechanical Simulation for LPBF Process of Ti-6Al-4V

  • Marcos Oliveira Pelic (part time)
    A micromechanical nonlinear model for kink band failure of unidirectional composites under longitudinal compression

  • Murilo Henrique Dias Scofoni (part time)
    Assessment and validation of simulation tools for the L-PBF process applied to an aircraft structural element

  • Róger Ghedin Pereira (part time)
    Computational assessment of different strategies for ply drop-offs in laminates