Structural Composites
The Structural Composites research group (SC) is leaded by Prof. Joaquim Barros and has the following main research areas: fibre reinforced concrete and fibre reinforced polymers for new construction and for the retrofitting of the built environmental; bituminous materials, road infrastructures and their conditions for connected and autonomous vehicles, including systems for safe protection of pedestrians; computational mechanics; BIM and digital processes in construction.
Overview
Group SC - Structural Composites
This research involves multidisciplinary and complementary fields and has been supported by the high capacity of SC to get projects funded by FCT, EU, in co-promotion and demonstration with the industry, and from specialized consultancy. SC has members in several technical committees of fib, ACI and RILEM, and has organized regularly national and international events, some of them of highest reputation in SC’s key-research areas.
The SC coordinates the European Master BIM A+ and FRP++. SC has had an excellent record on forming PhD and MSc students, with a high percentage supported by PhD-grants obtained in competitive regime. Since SC formation, the publication per staff member in ISI journals varied between 1.7 to 4.
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🌟 NEW PAPER 🌟
📝 Designing Safer Pedestrian Interactions with Autonomous Vehicles: A Virtual Reality Study of External Human-Machine Interfaces in Road-Crossing Scenarios
📓 applied sciences
👩🏫 Raul Almeida; Frederico Pereira; Dário Machado; Emanuel Sousa; Susana Faria; Elisabete Freitas
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🌟 NEW PAPER 🌟
📝 Eurocode Core Ontology: Building the semantic framework for structural design assistants
📓 Advanced Engineering Informatics
👩🏫 Agnieszka Jędrzejewska; Maria Laura Leonardi; Carlos Ramonell Cazador; José Granja; Rolando Chacón; Daniel V. Oliveira; Miguel Azenha
The paper presents the Eurocode Core Ontology (ECO), a modular and extensible semantic framework that formalizes key Eurocode concepts to enable machine-readable interpretation, automated reasoning, and intelligent compliance checking within digital engineering workflows. ECO captures core notions from Eurocode 0 (EN 1990) and models actions and partial factors from Eurocode 1 (EN 1991) through declarative rules, supporting semantic interoperability with BIM and other engineering tools. The approach is demonstrated through a practical case study—the design and verification of a reinforced concrete floor slab—showing how rule-based inference can support standards-based checks and BIM integration.
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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐝𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 (𝐓𝐚𝐲𝐥𝐨𝐫 & 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐬)
After being presented at 𝐀𝐁𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 – 𝟖𝐭𝐡 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐝𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠, this work is now available in The Journal of Adhesion (Taylor & Francis).
The study examines how distinct surface treatment strategies modify adhesion performance in galvanised steel substrates, which is essential for achieving durable bonded joints in civil and structural engineering applications.
#ISISE #SC #FRP #StructuralEngineering #AdhesivelyBonded #CompositeStructures #Research #CivilEngineering
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ISISE/ IB-S was present at the Future Battery Forum (buff.ly/6a9BUnj), a key international event where leading European and global battery industry representatives met to discuss current and future challenges in raw material sourcing, recycling, and sustainability, among others.
This forum also served as an excellent opportunity to strengthen connections with several Portuguese partners present at the event, Battery Cluster Portugal, b.again, and CENTI, to explore new avenues for collaboration within the national and European battery ecosystem.
Norma Gaibor attended the event representing ISISE/ IB-S and the New Generation Storage (NGS) PPR Project (buff.ly/Cl7znrl). Together with Prof. Eduardo Pereira (Project Coordinator – UM), they are part of the NGS team contributing to:
· BP1. Sustainable Refinery
· BP2. Monitoring and Modelling for Sustainable Lithium Refining / Recycling of End-of-Life Batteries
· BP3. Valorization and Prospecting
Their work reinforces ISISE/IB-S’s commitment to advancing innovative and sustainable solutions for the next generation of energy storage technologies.
#ISISE #SC #CAMES #Innovation #Sustainability #BatteryTechnology #EnergyStorage #ISISE #NGS#NewGenerationStorage #FutureBatteryForum
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New paper published in Waste and Biomass Valorization!
“Turning Invasive Cortaderia Selloana into Sustainable Building Insulation: A Biomass Valorization Approach”
Authors: Livia Cosentino, Diana Ferreira, Jorge Fernandes, Ricardo Mateus
In this work, we show that stems of the invasive pampas grass (Cortaderia selloana) can be transformed into low-density insulation panels with thermal performance comparable to cork and wood fibre, while maintaining good mechanical resistance. This approach helps turn a problematic invasive species into a sustainable resource for low-carbon building envelopes.
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#ISISE #FP #SCon #sustainableconstruction #biobasedmaterials #invasivespecies #insulation #circulareconomy
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