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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: 11/01/2026
End Date: 04/30/2030
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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๐Ÿง ๐Ÿ“š ๐๐ž๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐š๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐›๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก๐ž๐!

Can ๐€๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž support faster and more efficient structural design by reducing the need for time-consuming finite element analyses?

This study presents a ๐๐š๐ญ๐š-๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ง ๐€๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐๐ž๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ฅ ๐๐ž๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค ๐ฆ๐จ๐๐ž๐ฅ for predicting the ๐›๐ž๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž of built-up cold-formed steelโ€“lightweight concrete composite beams.

The model was trained using ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ”๐ŸŽ ๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ž ๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ and achieved excellent predictive accuracy, while reducing the need for computationally expensive numerical analyses. The work also includes ๐ก๐ฒ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐š๐ฆ๐ž๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐จ๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง, ๐’๐‡๐€๐ ๐š๐ง๐š๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ, and the development of a ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ-๐Ÿ๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ฉ๐ก๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐Ÿ๐š๐œ๐ž for practical engineering applications.

This work highlights the growing potential of ๐€๐ˆ-๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ฅ ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  for the preliminary design of innovative composite structural systems.

๐Ÿ“– Data-driven modelling of bending resistance in built-up cold-formed steel lightweight concrete (CFS-LWC) composite beams using artificial neural networks
๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ Authors: Rohola Rahnavard, Adriano Silva de Carvalho, Hรฉlder D. Craveiro and Filip Ljubinkoviฤ‡
๐Ÿ“˜ Advances in Engineering Software
๐Ÿ”— 10.1016/j.advengsoft.2026.104273

#ISISE #SMCT #ucoimbra #Dec #fctuc #ArtificialIntelligence #structuralengineering #machinelearning #compositestructures #ColdFormedSteel #LightweightConcrete #finiteelementanalysis #ArtificialNeuralNetworks #engineeringsoftware #research #Innovation ... See MoreSee Less

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๐ŸŽ“ Congrats to Cesare Fiorini for completing his PhD!

๐Ÿงพ Title: Safety and Enhancement of Resilience of the Built Environment in the Wildland-Urban Interface
๐Ÿ“… Defence date: July 24th, 2026
๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿปโ€๐ŸŽ“ Supervisors: Prof. Aldina Santiago (ISISE, Departamento de Engenharia Civil - Universidade de Coimbra) and Researcher Hรฉlder David Silva Craveiro (ISISE, Departamento de Engenharia Civil - Universidade de Coimbra)
โš–๏ธ Jury:
โ€ข Prof. Elsa Pastor Ferrer (Barcelona East School of Engineering, Universitat Politรจcnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech, Spain)
โ€ข Prof. Nuno Filipe Ferreira Soares Borges Lopes (Universidade de Aveiro)
โ€ข Prof. Adรฉlia Jesus Nobre Nunes (Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra)
โ€ข Prof. Antรณnio Manuel Gameiro Lopes (Faculdade de Ciรชncias e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra)
โ€ข Researcher Hรฉlder David Silva Craveiro (Faculdade de Ciรชncias e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra)

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๐Ÿ—๏ธ ๐ˆ๐’๐ˆ๐’๐„ ๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐œ๐ก ๐๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ญ ๐’๐ญ๐š๐ก๐ฅ๐›๐š๐ฎ-๐Š๐š๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ-๐“๐š๐  ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ”

On 3 July, ๐…๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ฉ ๐‹๐ฃ๐ฎ๐›๐ข๐ง๐ค๐จ๐ฏ๐ขฤ‡ represented ISISE at the ๐’๐ญ๐š๐ก๐ฅ๐›๐š๐ฎ-๐Š๐š๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ-๐“๐š๐  ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ”, one of Germany's leading events in ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ž๐ฅ ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ , held in Fellbach. The event brought together 169 experts from academia and industry to discuss the latest developments in structural steel research, standardisation, and engineering practice.

๐ŸŽค Filip presented the lecture:
๐Ÿ“– ๐‚๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฏ๐ž๐ ๐’๐ญ๐ž๐ž๐ฅ ๐๐š๐ง๐ž๐ฅ๐ฌ: ๐†๐ฎ๐ข๐๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ, ๐๐š๐œ๐ค๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐„๐ฑ๐š๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ
German: โ€œ๐†๐ž๐ค๐ซรผ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐Ÿรถ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ข๐ ๐ž ๐๐š๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž๐ข๐ฅ๐ž: ๐๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ง๐ , ๐‡๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐๐ž๐ข๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ข๐ž๐ฅ๐žโ€
๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ Authors: Luรญs Simรตes da Silva, Filip Ljubinkoviฤ‡, Joรฃo Pedro Martins and Sara Uszball.

The presentation addressed the ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง ๐›๐š๐œ๐ค๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐, ๐ฉ๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐ž๐ฑ๐š๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ, and ๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž for curved steel plate elements, contributing to the dissemination of recent research and engineering developments in ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ž๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ.

๐Ÿค Special thanks to the University of Stuttgart, and particularly to Prof. Ulrike Kuhlmann and Prof. Markus Knobloch, for the kind invitation and the excellent organisation of this prestigious event.

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1 week ago
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๐Ÿ“Œ ๐ˆ๐’๐ˆ๐’๐„ ๐š๐ญ ๐‚๐ก๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐†๐ฅ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ

๐Ÿ“ From 15-17 June 2026, ISISE researchers Eliana Inca Cabrera, Rohola Rahanvad and Amin Hosseini participated in the 10th edition of ๐—–๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—š๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐—–๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ (#cgc10), held at TU Delft, Netherlands.

๐ŸŒ The conference brought together leading researchers, engineers, and industry professionals from across the ๐—ด๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐˜† providing valuable insights into emerging trends and future research directions in ๐—ด๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด. It also offered an excellent platform to present ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—œ๐—ฆ๐—œ๐—ฆ๐—˜, exchange ideas with international experts, engage with the wider glass community, and strengthen collaborations within the field.

๐Ÿ“„ The conference proceedings are available here: lnkd.in/eEftHZiT

#ISISE #SMCT #dad #Dec #ucoimbra #fctuc #cgc10 #structuralglass #GlassEngineering #research ... See MoreSee Less

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๐ŸŒฒ ๐ˆ๐’๐ˆ๐’๐„ ๐š๐ญ #๐ˆ๐‘๐†๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ• ๐ŸŒฒ

ISISE researcher Fernando Jรบnior Resende Mascarenhas participated in the 57th Annual Meeting of the International Research Group on Wood Protection โ€” ๐ˆ๐‘๐†-๐–๐ ๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ•, held in Beijing, China.

The conference provided an excellent platform for scientific exchange on ๐ฐ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐ฌ๐œ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž, ๐ฐ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ญ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง, and ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ, bringing together researchers and professionals from around the world.

๐Ÿ“„ During the event, Fernando presented the paper โ€œ๐ˆ๐ง๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐Œ๐ข๐œ๐ซ๐จ๐ฐ๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐“๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ƒ๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐›๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐„๐ฎ๐œ๐š๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฉ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐ ๐ฅ๐จ๐›๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐‡๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐„๐ฑ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐š ๐–๐ก๐ข๐ญ๐ž ๐‘๐จ๐ญ ๐…๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐ขโ€ and received the ๐‘๐‚๐€ ๐€๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐, recognising the quality and relevance of his research.

#ISISE #SMCT #TImber #UCoimbra #DEC #FCTUC #SerQ #ARISE
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โœ”๏ธ This study presents an innovative approach for the development of ๐ก๐ข๐ ๐ก-๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ฐ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ for construction applications, using ๐ฆ๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐ž (๐๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ) modified through a two-step process combining ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ-๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ข๐œ๐ซ๐จ๐ฐ๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ and ๐ฆ๐ž๐ญ๐ก๐ฒ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ž๐ญ๐ก๐š๐œ๐ซ๐ฒ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง.

๐Ÿ’  The research investigates the influence of the combined MW + MMA treatment on ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ ๐ข๐ง๐œ๐จ๐ซ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง, ๐ฐ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฉ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ฒ, ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ข-๐ฌ๐ฐ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ฒ, ๐ฆ๐ž๐œ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž, ๐๐ข๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐›๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ, and ๐ฆ๐ข๐œ๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐จ๐๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ.

๐ŸŒฒ The results show that microwave pre-treatment enhances wood permeability, facilitating MMA penetration and leading to improved polymer incorporation. This combined treatment significantly improves the dimensional stability, water repellency, and overall technological performance of maritime pine, highlighting its potential as a ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ ๐ก-๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐š๐๐ฏ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ.

๐Ÿ“– Two-Step Modification of Maritime Pine via Microwave and Methyl Methacrylate Treatments to Develop High-Performance Wood Polymer Composites for Construction Applications
๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ Fernando Jรบnior Resende Mascarenhas, Andrรฉ Luis Christoforo, Rogรฉrio Manuel Santos Simรตes, Alfredo Manuel Pereira Geraldes Dias, Andrรฉ Eduardo Palos Cunha and Francisco Antonio Rocco Lahr
๐Ÿ“˜ Polymers
๐Ÿ”— buff.ly/DJIxD4i

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