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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Listed among the most influent researchers in Civil Engineering (2 per cent percentile), based on citations received in the years 2022, 2023 and in the Career. Research conducted by Prof. John P.A. Ioannidis, Stanford University: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/6 and /7. Citation index H=29 Web of Science and H=32 Scopus. Member of the Executive Committee of IASSAR (International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability). Researcher Level 1 from CNPq since 2013. Member of the CNPq Civil Engineering Advisory Committee (2021-2024).Graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil, 1996), obtained a masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil, 1998). Obtained a Doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in Civil Engineering from University of Newcastle (Australia, 2003). Works as Associate Professor at the Department of Structural Engineering, São Carlos School of Engineering, University of São Paulo. Member of the Brazilian Association of Computational Methods in Engineering (ABMEC) and of the Uncertainty Quantification and Stochastic Mechanics Committee of the Brazilian Association of Mechanical Sciences (ABCM). Serves as a peer-reviewer for the main Brazilian Research agencies FAPESP, CAPES and CNPq. Research interests include Structural Mechanics and Structural Safety, in particular: structural reliability, stochastic processes, structural optimization. Member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, Reliability Engineering and System Safety and Structural Safety. Chair of the São Paulo School of Advanced Science on Structural Safety, and its role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by the built environment. São Carlos, SP, May 3 to 16, 2025. https://SPSchoolStructuralSafety.eesc.usp.br (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Performance-Based Engineering (PBE) is a modern design paradigm which targets the significant uncertainties in the design of structures subject to environmental loads, such as wind, wave, and earthquakes. In the usual design procedure, a single representative value of these actions is used to verify the ultimate limit state: typically, the wind speed with Mean Recurrence Interval (MRI) of…
This project aims to partially fund the visit to Brazil of Prof. Michael Faber, Department of Built Environment at Aalborg University, Denmark. Prof. Faber has an extensive list of research achievements in the areas of probabilistic modeling and analysis of systems with applications to governance and management of risks, resilience and sustainability in the built environment. Prof. Faber …
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Fatigue is responsible for 50 to 90% of all structural failures, with significant impact on operation, inspection, maintenance and failure costs. In complex structural systems, fatigue failure is managed by way of safety margins, redundancy and Inspection and Maintenance (I&M) operations. The later are costly and subject to error, as existing fatigue cracks may be difficult to identify. R…
This research project aims to investigate different reinforcement strategies for reinforced concrete structures, simultaneously addressing threats of progressive collapse under exceptional actions, and horizontal actions such as earthquakes and extreme winds. Risk optimization techniques will be employed to explore conflicting tradeoffs between these actions with vertical and horizontal e…
The following project aims to study the optimal design under uncertainties of truss systems considering the progressive collapse. This phenomenon has raised engineers' and researchers' awareness in recent years. In general, the causes of progressive collapse in structures are related to the existence of uncertainties, which are classified as aleatory and epistemic. In this context, optimi…
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Transmission lines (TL) are a very important part of our infrastructure. Their design is still mainly based on a single extreme value wind speed, evaluated from synoptic or mixed wind speed records, whereas non-synoptic (e.g. tornado and downbursts) winds are responsible for up to 80% of weatherrelated TL collapses. The proposed research project aims to fill this gap, employing the Perfor…
Nowadays, the design process of wind-excited buildings is based on design codes and standards that are mostly prescriptive in nature. This approach limits the flexibility and creativity of the engineer by focusing on a prescribed range of materials or methods chosen to meet the design criteria, which stands in the way of solutions that may be more cost-effective. In contrast, the performa…
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The safety of structural systems depends on non-structural factors, including human errors, illegal loads, sabotage, misuse, and various social, financial, and political factors. Thesefactors, characterized by their epistemic nature, can be broadly classified as non-technical. Recently, the latent failure probability concept was introduced to incorporate the effects of non-technical facto…
This research project is associated with PhD project number 2020/14072-7 entitled "Performance-Based optimization of RC structures subjected to seismic actions". The project aims to investigate and implement techniques to reduce the computational effort necessary to solve Performance-Based Risk Optimization problems proposed in the associated research project, considering the Performance-…
The design of reinforced concrete (RC) frames considering progressive collapse is a complex problem due to the large impact of element removal on structural loads, hence also on strengthening costs, in spite of its low probability of occurrence. The candidate and his supervisor in Brazil are pioneering the development of novel reliability-based cost-benefit analysis for such designs, as d…
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