Current Students
DSc Students
Felipe Augusto da Silva Barbosa, MSc
Laboratory of Computational Mechanics
Room: S-123
email: felipe.asb92@usp.br
Interest: Ultra-high performance fiber reinforced concrete
Januário Pellegrino Neto, MSc
Laboratory of Materials and Structures
Room:
email: jneto@usp.br
Interest: Shear behavior of steel fiber reinforced concrete beams
Marcus Vinicius Gil Silveira, MSc
Laboratory of Materials and Structures
Room:
email: marcosvgs@usp.br
Interest: Optimization of concrete structural members: design,
experimental tests, and numerical analyses
Paulo Eduardo Nogueira, MSc
Laboratory of Computational Mechanics
Room: S-123
email: pauloe.nogueira@usp.br
Interest: Ultra-high performance computing and fracture
modeling of bone structures
Paulo Vitor Calmon Nogueira da Gama, MSc
Laboratory of Computational Mechanics
Room: S-123
email: calmon@usp.br
Interest: Numerical modeling of prestressed concrete structures
MSc Students
André Peres da Silva, BEng
Laboratory of Computational Mechanics
Room: S-123
email: andre.peres.silva@usp.br
Interest: Algorithms for distribution and orientation of
short fibers in multiscale numerical analysis
Bruno Toledo de Vasconcelos, BEng
Laboratory of Computational Mechanics
Room: S-123
email: bruno_vasconceloss@usp.br
Interest: Fracture modeling in SFRC using CSDA
Gabriel Emídio Lage, BEng
Laboratory of Computational Mechanics
Room: S-123
email: gabriel.lage@usp.br
Interest: Shear strength prediction of SFRC beams using
machine learning
Giuliano Rosman Balsamo, BEng
Laboratory of Computational Mechanics
Room: S-123
email: giuliano.balsamo@usp.br
Interest: SFRC beams subjected to torsion
Kennedy Leandro de Souza Neves, BEng
Laboratory of Computational Mechanics
Room: S-123
email: kennedyneves@usp.br
Interest: Digital Twin for predicting structural failures
in FPSO
Rodolfo Bascopé Careaga, BEng
Laboratory of Computational Mechanics
Room: S-123
email: rodolfobascopecareaga@usp.br
Interest: Tension stiffening and rebar pullout on
steel fiber recycled aggregate concrete
Undergraduate Research Students
Gabriel Fernandes Dias
Laboratory of Computational Mechanics
Room: S-123
email: diasgfernandes@usp.br
Interest: Compressive behavior of SFRC and Micro-CT
Heloísa Apulcro do Nascimento
Laboratory of Computational Mechanics
Room: S-123
email:
Interest: Numerical simulation of 3D concrete printing
Former Students
- [2023] Noemi Ayumi Nishiye Umezak
- [2023] Ludmily da Silva Pereira, MSc
Postgraduate Program in Civil Engineering, Polytechnic School, University of São Paulo
Date of defense:
Master’s dissertation (in Portuguese): Predição do comportamento pós-fissuração do CRFA utilizando o ensaio DEWS simplificado e sua correlação com o ensaio de flexão
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Luís A.G. Bitencourt Jr
Co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Renata Monte (University of São Paulo – USP)
- [2022] Felipe Pereira Santos, MSc
Postgraduate Program in Civil Engineering, Polytechnic School, University of São Paulo
Date of defense:
Master’s dissertation (in Portuguese): Avaliação do ensaio de duplo puncionamento aplicado para o controle do concreto projetado reforçado com fibras de aço
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Antonio Domingues de Figueiredo (University of São Paulo – USP)
Co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Luís A.G. Bitencourt Jr
- [2022] Tiago Haddad Maum, MSc
Postgraduate Program in Civil Engineering, Polytechnic School, University of São Paulo
Date of defense: 27th June 2022
Master’s dissertation (in English): Analytical and numerical study on concrete local behavior in thrust phase of TBM-constructed tunnels
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Antonio Domingues de Figueiredo (University of São Paulo – USP)
Co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Luís A.G. Bitencourt Jr
- [2022] Guilherme Gianotti de Andrade, MSc
Postgraduate Program in Civil Engineering, Polytechnic School, University of São Paulo
Date of defense: 24th June 2022
Master’s dissertation (in Portuguese): Estudo analítico-computacional do comportamento à flexão de segmentos com reforço híbrido para obras de túneis
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Luís A.G. Bitencourt Jr
Co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Antonio Domingues de Figueiredo (University of São Paulo – USP)
- [2022] Maria Luísa Ribeiro Mineiro, MSc
Postgraduate Program in Civil Engineering, Polytechnic School, University of São Paulo
Date of defense: 18th February 2022
Master’s dissertation (in Portuguese): Comportamento ao arrancamento de fibras de aço: ensaios experimentais, previsões analíticas e modelagem numérica
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Luís A.G. Bitencourt Jr
- [2022] Livia Fernanda Araujo Borges, MSc
Postgraduate Program in Civil Engineering, Polytechnic School, University of São Paulo
Date of defense: 8th December 2021
Master’s dissertation (in English): An embedded discrete fracture model based on the use of coupling finite elements for modeling fluid flow in naturally fractured porous media
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Luís A.G. Bitencourt Jr
Co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Osvaldo Luís Manzoli (São Paulo State University – UNESP)
- [2020] Marcos André Margalho de Barros, MSc
Postgraduate Program in Civil Engineering, Polytechnic School, University of São Paulo
Date of defense: 04th February 2020
Master’s dissertation (in Portuguese): Modelagem do processo de fissuração em osso cortical através da técnica de fragmentação de malha de elementos finitos
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Luís A.G. Bitencourt Jr - [2019] Marco Tosati, MSc
Postgraduate Program in Mechanical Engineering, São Paulo State University (UNESP)
Date of defense: 25th February 2019
Master’s dissertation (in Portuguese): Estudo sobre a aplicabilidade de um novo método de acoplamento para malhas não conformes de elementos finitos em projetos mecânicos
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Osvaldo Luís Manzoli (São Paulo State University – UNESP)
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Luís A.G. Bitencourt Jr
- [2018] Yasmin Teixeira Trindade, MSc
Postgraduate Program in Civil Engineering, Polytechnic School, University of São Paulo
Date of defense: 18th November 2018
Master’s dissertation (in English): Numerical modeling of the post-cracking behavior of SFRC and its application on design of beams according to fib Model Code 2010
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Luís A.G. Bitencourt Jr
- [2018] André Del Negro Tayer, MSc
Postgraduate Program in Civil Engineering, Polytechnic School, University of São Paulo
Date of defense: 06th June 2018
Master’s dissertation (in Portuguese): Modelagem numérica de juntas de argamassa em estruturas de alvenaria utilizando elementos finitos com alta razão de aspecto
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Luís A.G. Bitencourt Jr