Computational efficient models for inelastic large displacement analysis of structural frames under extreme loading, including fire situation

The researcher will work at the Graduate Program in Civil Engineering (PROPEC) from the Department of Civil Engineering/UFOP. In particular, he (or she) will work on the research line of Computational Mechanics, whose objective is the study and development of methods and techniques that enable advances in computer simulation of engineering systems. In general, the Finite Element Method (FEM) is the numerical technique considered in structural modeling. In fact, this line of research is at the interface with the other lines of the graduate program, providing technical support on many projects.

Host: Prof. 

Ricardo Azoubel da Mota Silveira

Email address: 

ricardo@ufop.edu.br

CV: 

http://lattes.cnpq.br/0296617280721911

Federal University of Ouro Preto

Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto - Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP) is a higher education and research institution located in Minas Gerais State, southeastern Brazil. It was founded on August 21st, 1969, as a consolidation of two significant preexisting institutions:

Escola de Farmácia - School of Pharmacy (1839), the first School of Pharmacy in Latin America, and Escola de Minas - School of Mines (1876), founded by the French mineralogist Henry Gorceix and the first Brazilian institution aimed to teach Mining, Metallurgy, and Geology.

In addition to Escola de Minas and the Escola de Farmácia, UFOP covers all areas of knowledge in 13 academic units, distributed across four campi (located in the cities of Ouro Preto, Mariana, and João Monlevade). The main campus is located in Ouro Preto, a multicultural city with a vast calendar with some of the biggest cultural and artistic events in Brazil. It was the first place in Brazil to be considered by UNESCO as a World Cultural Heritage. UFOP comprises 142 research laboratories (in 2018 its patent number130 was registered), approximately 300 outreach projects (community engagement), 12 libraries (including a rare books library from 18th and 19th centuries), a Center of Arts and Conventions, a Movie Theater, and some museums, as the Museum of Pharmacy and the Museum of Mineralogy.