USA-Brazil Workshop on
Applied Mechanics
National Science Foundation
NSF Delegation
Eveline Baesu
Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering Mechanics
Education:
Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics, University of California at Berkeley, (1998)
Research Area:
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Continuum Mechanics
Piezoelectric Materials
Mechanics of Fiber Networks
Plasticity
Mechanics of Living Cells
Teaching:
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Nonlinear Mechanics
Analytic methods in Engineering
Vicki B. Booker
Program Manager
Americas Program
Office of International Science and Engineering (INT)
Education:
Support of international cooperation in science and engineering is an integral part of
NSF's mission. The Office of International Science and Engineering (INT)
promotes and coordinates international cooperation by supporting new partnerships
between U.S. scientists and engineers and their foreign colleagues, or new
cooperative projects between established collaborators.
Robert H. Dodds
Professor
M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Chair
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Education:
Ph.D. University of Illinois (1978)
Research Area:
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Applications Driving Research:
Computational Mechanics
Fracture Mechanics
Teaching:
 Computer methods in civil engineering
 Steel structures, fatigue and fracture
 Matrix Analysis of framed Structures
Reusable Launch Vehicle
Naval Surface Ships, Submarines
Petro-Chemical
Industry (HSS,
welding, pipelines)
Frederico Furtado
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
Education:
Ph.D., Mathematics, Courant Institute - NYU, 1989
Research Area:
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Flow in Porous Media
Hyperbolic Systems of Conservations Laws, Riemann Problems
Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Teaching:
 Calculus I
 Partial Differential Equations II
Jorn Larsen-Basse
Program Director
Solid Mechanics and Materials Engineering (SMME)
Division of Civil and Mechanical Systems
Education:
Research Area:
 Nano- and micro-scale science and engineering
 Model-based simulation - integration of experiment and analysis
 Environmental design and technologies - materials and sensors
 Hazards and extreme events research
 Infrastructure Systems - IT and SES
Khalid M. Mosalam
Assistant Professor
Structural Engineering, Mechanics, and Materials (SEMM)
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Education:
Ph.D, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA (1996)
Research Area:
 Probabilistic models for seismic fragility of structural components & systems
 Stochastic fiber element models for reinforced concrete component & systems
 Computational modeling of prestressed bridges
Teaching:
 Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures
 Structural Analysis: Theory and Applications
 Prestressed Concrete Structures
Radha Nandkumar
Assistant Director
Office of Campus relations
Senior Research Scientist
Scientific Computing Division
Education:
Ph.D, Physics, University of Illinois (1985)
Responsibilities:
 Managing and coordinating all aspects of resources/data
 Customer relations and information management
on supercomputing research projects
 Resource allocations, peer review processes
and technology transfer
Research Area:
 Astrophysics
 Vortex creep theory and the internal temperature of neutron stars
Kamran Nemati
Associate Professor
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Department of Construction Management
Education:
Ph.D (Civil) , University of California at Berkeley, (1994)
Research Area:
 Experimental and analytical work associated with plain and reinforced concrete
 Application of scanning electron microscopy to microstructure of concrete
 Expansion of innovative experimental techniques to fracture behavior of materials
Teaching:
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Computer Applications in Construction
Soils and Foundations
Concrete Technology
Temporary Construction Structures
Advanced Construction Techniques
Marek-Jerzy Pindera
Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Education:
Ph.D (Civil) , Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech)
Research Area :
 Analytical and experimental methodologies of thermomechanical response
of composite materials and structural components.
 Micromechanics of multi-phased and functionally graded composites
 Micromechanical modeling of processing of high temperature composites
Teaching:
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Glaucio H. Paulino
Associate Professor
Burton and Erma Lewis Faculty Scholar
Education:
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1995
Research Area:
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Functionally Graded Materials
Fracture Mechanics
Boundary Element Methods
Nonlinear Structural Mechanics
Teaching:
Applications Driving Research:
 Superheat-resistant materials
 Biomedical materials
 Military: Vehicles and personal body armor
 Electro-magnetic and MEMS
 Graded refractive index materials
 Finite Element Methods
 Boundary Element Methods
 Matrix Analysis of framed Structures
J. N. REDDY
Distinguished Professor
Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Education:
Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics, University of Alabama (Huntsville), 1973
Research Areas:
Teaching:
 Continuum mechanics, Solid and structural mechanics
 Computational fluid mechanics
 Computational heat transfer
 Computational solid mechanics
 Applied mathematics
 Composite materials and structures
 Plate and shell theories
 Energy and variational principles and methods
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Dulce Rufino
Ph.D. Student
Transportation Engineering
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research Area:
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Pavement modeling and Design methods
Analysis of Pavement responses to Aircraft and
environmental loading at International Airports
Elisa Sotelino
Associate Professor
School of Civil Engineering
Education:
Ph.D., Brown University, 1990
Research Area :
Teaching:
 Structural Engineering Concurrent Software
Development Environment
 Parallel Algorithms for Transient Finite
Element Analysis
 Strengthening Highway Bridges
 Concrete Materials constitutive modeling
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Finite Element Analysis
Parallel Processing in Structural Mechanics
Finite Elements in Elasticity
Numerical Methods in Civil Engineering
Structural Dynamics
Structural Analysis I
Introductory Structural Mechanics
N. Sukumar
Assistant Professor
Computational Solid Mechanics
Department of Civil & Environmental Engg
Education:
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1998
Research Interest:
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Computational mechanics
Fracture and failure mechanisms
Meshfree Galerkin methods
Computational geometry
Motion of moving interfaces
Teaching:
 Finite Element Procedures in Applied Mechanics
 Mechanics of Materials
Nicholas J. Zabaras
Professor
Material Process Design & Control Laboratory
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Education:
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1987
Research Interest:
 Mathematical techniques for
realistic engineering simulation
 Design of manufacturing processes.
 Kinematics and constitutive behavior of growing bodies.
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Mechanical Properties and Processing of Engineering Materials
Materials Processing: Theory and Applications
Lecture Notes on the Finite Element Method
Computational Sensorics: Information Technologies for the Design and
Control of Complex Continuum Systems
Acknowledgements
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COPPE: Prof. Rochinha
PUC: Prof. Dumont
LNCC: Dr. Murad
USP: Prof. Ruggieri and Prof. Silva
UnB: Prof. Mamiya