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Steel and Mixed Construction Technologies

The Steel and Mixed Construction Technologies (SMCT) group is coordinated by Luรญs Simรตes da Silva from the University of Coimbra and consists of 25 PhD members. SMCT addresses the societal challenges of security, industry 4.0, blue economy, energy, cities of the future and climate change effects, focusing on buildings, bridges and infrastructures, wind towers and offshore structures.

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Group SMCT - Steel and Mixed Construction Technologies

Security covers the resilience of infrastructures to accidental actions (e.g. fire and seismic) and new risks (climate change or terrorist attacks). Industry 4.0 aims to develop disruptive products/solutions using a multidisciplinary holistic approach covering the characterization and improvement of material properties, integration of technologies and production processes and assembling.

Energy and the blue economy use the sea resources with new and improved solutions for the exploitation of renewable energy/safe extraction of fossil fuels and the quantification of the risk of exceptional hazards on offshore structures. Cities of the Future and Climate Change effects aim to develop adaptive housing and building solutions in line with the demography/well-being of populations.

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Group Coordinator
Luรญs Alberto Proenรงa Simรตes da Silva
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Alberto Belarmino dos Santos Simรตes
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Aldina Maria da Cruz Santiago
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Aleksa Miliฤ‡eviฤ‡
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Aleksandra Simovic
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Alfredo Manuel Pereira Geraldes Dias
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Amanda Carla Santos de Mendonรงa
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Name: 3DJOINTS
ID: 336
3DJOINTS โ€“ Three-dimensional behavior of steel joints
Project IR at ISISE: Luรญs Alberto Proenรงa Simรตes da Silva
Start Date: 05/01/2012
End Date: 04/30/2015
Institution: UC
Group: SMCT
Funding entity: FCT
Status: FINISHED
Name: 3LEVEL-UP
ID: 659
3LEVEL-UP – System-level, sustainable, and artificial intelligence-aided design of steel structures
Project IR at ISISE: Luรญs Alberto Proenรงa Simรตes da Silva
Start Date: 09/01/2026
End Date: 02/28/2030
Institution: UC
Group: SMCT
Cluster: DAD
Funding entity: EU
Status: ONGOING
Name: AdaptiHand
ID: 556
AdaptiHand – Soluรงรฃo adaptativa e automatizada para manipulaรงรฃo em sistemasย deย produรงรฃo
Project IR at ISISE: Artur Jorge dos Santos Mateus
Start Date: 09/01/2024
End Date: 08/31/2027
Institution: UC
Group: SMCT
Cluster: DAD
Funding entity: P2030
Status: ONGOING
Name: AMConstruction
ID: 384
Additive Manufacturing in Steel Construction
Project IR at ISISE: Luรญs Alberto Proenรงa Simรตes da Silva
Start Date: 01/01/2020
End Date: 12/31/2023
Institution: UC
Group: SMCT
Cluster: DAD
Funding entity: Outros INT
Status: ONGOING
Name: ADDLIFE
ID: 584
ADDLIFE- Desenvolvimento de um sistema mรณvel de reparaรงรฃo aditiva por laser para a reabilitaรงรฃo de estruturas de aรงo degradadas
Project IR at ISISE: Sree Sabari
Start Date: 07/01/2025
End Date: 06/30/2028
Institution: UC
Group: SMCT
Cluster: DAD
Funding entity: P2030
Status: ONGOING
Name: ADHESIVESTEEL
ID: 113
ADHESIVESTEEL – Generalizaรงรฃo do uso de adesivos estruturais em pontes metรกlicas
Project IR at ISISE: Joรฃo Pedro Simรตes Cรขndido Martins
Start Date: 07/26/2018
End Date: 07/25/2022
Institution: UC
Group: SMCT
Cluster: DAD
Funding entity: FCT
Status: FINISHED

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๐๐ž๐ฐ ๐๐ฎ๐›๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐Ÿ—๏ธ

๐Ÿ“– Cyclic behaviour of point fixed glass faรงade systems: Benchmark model
๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿปโ€๐ŸŽ“ Seyed Amin Hosseini, Sandra Jordรฃo, Carlos Rebelo, Chiara Bedon, Eliana Inca Cabrera and Rohola Rahnavard
๐Ÿ—ž๏ธJournal of Structures
๐Ÿ”—https://buff.ly/T8qzy7T

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How can the behaviour of the face plate component in tension be predicted in I-beam to concrete-filled tubular column steel joints?
This study proposes a ๐ ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐๐ž๐ฅ to describe the nonlinear behaviour of the face plate component, validated through experimental tests and finite element analyses. The results show that a ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐ž๐ ๐›๐ž๐š๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ฉ ๐ฆ๐จ๐๐ž๐ฅ ๐จ๐ง ๐š๐ง ๐ž๐ฅ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐œ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง can accurately capture the full forceโ€“displacement response of the component for different connection configurations.

๐Ÿ“– ๐…๐š๐œ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ฆ๐จ๐๐ž๐ฅ ๐ข๐ง ๐ˆ-๐›๐ž๐š๐ฆ ๐ญ๐จ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐ญ๐ž-๐Ÿ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ฎ๐›๐ฎ๐ฅ๐š๐ซ ๐œ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ง ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ž๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐จ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ
๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿปโ€๐ŸŽ“ Ana Francisca Santos, Melaku Seyoum Lemma, Jorge Conde, Luรญs Simรตes da Silva
๐Ÿ—ž๏ธ ๐‰๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐’๐ญ๐ž๐ž๐ฅ ๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐œ๐ก
๐Ÿ”— buff.ly/lubIxaS

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๐Ÿ”ฉ๐Ÿค– ๐€๐ˆ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐„๐ฎ๐ซ๐จ๐œ๐จ๐๐ž ๐Ÿ‘: ๐„๐ฎ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ž๐š๐ง ๐€๐-๐ก๐จ๐œ ๐†๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฉ (๐€๐‡๐†๐Ÿ“) ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ž๐ฅ ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐›๐ฒ ๐€๐ˆ

The second meeting of the CEN/TC250/SC3 Ad-hoc Group on AI Design of Steel Structures took place on 26 February 2026 in Barcelona, hosted by the Universitat Politรจcnica de Catalunya.

This initiative brings together leading experts from across Europe to explore how Artificial Intelligence can support the future development of Eurocode 3, helping enable AI-assisted structural design that is reliable, transparent, and scientifically sound.

The University of Coimbra/ISISE played an active role in the meeting, represented by:
โ€ข Filip Ljubinkoviฤ‡, Assistant Researcher โ€“ Convenor of the Ad-hoc Group
โ€ข Luรญs Simรตes da Silva, Professor โ€“ Leader of Task Group 2 (Data)
โ€ข Aleksa Miliฤeviฤ‡, PhD Candidate โ€“ who presented his research on Physics-Informed Neural Networks for structural engineering applications

The meeting provided an opportunity to review the latest progress of the group and continue the work launched at the kick-off meeting held in Coimbra in October 2025.

Five Task Groups (TGs) are currently working on key aspects of the AI lifecycle in structural design:
๐Ÿ”น TG1 โ€“ When and why AI?
๐Ÿ”น TG2 โ€“ Data
๐Ÿ”น TG3 โ€“ AI Model Development
๐Ÿ”น TG4 โ€“ Verification and Validation
๐Ÿ”น TG5 โ€“ Agentic EC3

Together, these groups aim to establish the scientific foundations and methodological framework needed to integrate AI into future generations of Eurocode 3.

๐Ÿ“ The next meeting of the Ad-hoc Group will take place on 1 October 2026 in Salerno, Italy, continuing the collaborative effort to shape the future of digital and AI-supported structural engineering in Europe.

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Additive Manufacturing offers unmatched freedom in manufacturing.
But with so much freedom, what is the best strategy to produce thick, solid components by WAAM?

In our latest paper, we systematically compared 11 infill strategies and demonstrate that deposition path geometry directly controls thermal behaviour, microstructure, defect formation, and hardness. In WAAM, strategy is not just geometry.

๐Ÿ“„ Characterisation of infill strategies in WAAM for solid components fabricated with ER100S-G wire
DOI: buff.ly/0K76ZBx
๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŽ“ Authors: David Gomes Andrade, Carlos Zhu, Hagar El Bamby, Kaike Monteiro, Sree Sabari, Ramesh Babu, Luรญs Simรตes da Silva, Trayana Tankova.

This work was developed within the European project
IAMFat - ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐€๐๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐Œ๐š๐ง๐ฎ๐Ÿ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ ๐…๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ ๐ฎ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ฅ๐๐ž๐ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ง๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ
๐Ÿ”— buff.ly/7ZoZU6j
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How can sustainability be integrated into the design of steel buildings?
This study introduces a ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง๐š๐›๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐ฆ๐ž๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ, enabling the evaluation of environmental performance in a framework compatible with standard structural safety principles. By defining โ€˜๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐œ๐žโ€™ ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ as target values for acceptable environmental impact, the methodology guides designers in making informed, sustainable choices. Demonstrated using the Global Warming Potential (GWP) indicator for pitched-roof steel industrial buildings, this approach can be extended to other environmental metrics and building types.

๐Ÿ“– ๐“๐š๐ซ๐ ๐ž๐ญ ๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ž๐ฅ ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐›๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐š๐ฆ๐ž๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐š๐œ๐ก
๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿปโ€๐ŸŽ“ Milena Jankoviฤ‡, Luรญs Simรตes da Silva, Filip Ljubinkoviฤ‡, Helena Gervรกsio
๐Ÿ—ž๏ธ ๐’๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ˆ๐ง๐Ÿ๐ซ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐„๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  (Taylor & Francis)
๐Ÿ”— buff.ly/dtWuIi7

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