Theses

Ph.D. Theses

  • Maísa Milanez Ávila Dias Maciel
    • Title: Exploring Manufacturing Defects and Damage in Filament Wound Variable Angle Tow Composite Structures: Experimental Tests and Multiscale Analysis
    • Year: 2024
  • Jailto Antonio Prado da Silva
    • Title: Mechanical behavior of adhesive joints in composite materials: Evaluation of the influence of manufacturing process uncertainties
    • Year: 2022
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  • Fernando Madureira
    • Title: Investigation of methodologies employed for obtaining the strain energy release rate of adhesive joints in Mode I and II
    • Year: 2022
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  • Denys Eduardo Teixeira Marques
    • Title: Fatigue life evaluation via frequency-domain approach: a new method for SHM systems
    • Year: 2021
  • Bruno Guilherme Christoff
    • Title: Asymptotic Homogenization Method combined to the Finite Element Method to determine effective coefficients of constitutive tensor: formulation, implementation, applications and multiscale analyses
    • Year: 2021
  • Gregório Felipe Oliveira Ferreira
    • Title: Implementation and evaluation of finite element unified formulations for composite plate structures and progressive failure analyses
    • Year: 2019
  • Murilo Sartorato
    • Title: Micro and macroscale analyses for prognosis of composite structures: A new physics based multiscale methodology
    • Year: 2018
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  • Marcus Vinícius Angelo
    • Title: Quasi-static analysis of composite materials tapered structures through a phenomenological failure model and extended finite elements: development of a computacional tool
    • Year: 2018
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  • Ricardo de Medeiros
    • Title: Development of a criterion for predicting residual strength of composite structures damaged by impact loading
    • Year: 2016
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  • Mauricio Francisco Caliri Júnior
    • Title: Contribution to the theory of plates: structural analyses of laminated composites and sandwich structures via unified formulations
    • Year: 2015
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  • Ricardo Afonso Angélico
    • Title: Study of welded composite joints: from the manufacturing process to the mechanical behavior
    • Year: 2013
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  • Marcelo Leite Ribeiro
    • Title: Damage and progressive failure analysis for aeronautic composite structures with curvature
    • Year: 2013
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  • Volnei Tita
    • Title: Contribution to the study of damage and progressive failure on composite structures
    • Year: 2003
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Master’s Theses

  • Dilki Dias Somanatha Arachchige
    • Title: Optimization and analysis of UAV fuselage for medical deliveries
    • Year: 2023
  • Douglas Rodriguez Nascimento
    • Title: Optimization and analysis of UAV wing for medical delivery
    • Year: 2023
  • Pedro Paulo Carneiro Ferreira
    • Title: Prediction of free edge delamination in inspection holes of a composite wing-box for civil transport aircraft via global-local analysis
    • Year: 2023
  • Guilherme Teixeira Moreira Fernandez
    • Title: Failure prediction in composite wing-box for civil transport aircraft via global-local analysis: With focus on skin-stringer certification
    • Year: 2023
  • Mário Rui Dias Miranda
    • Title: Assessment of composite fuselage crashworthiness: A virtual testing methodology
    • Year: 2023
  • Gabriel Sales Candido Souza
    • Title: Evaluation of the behavior of laminated composite plates under shear-after-impact loading conditions: a proposed methodology
    • Year: 2021
  • Mateus Nasser Silva
    • Title: A junction analysis of adhesive bonding between coating and reinforcement via computational modeling
    • Year: 2020
  • Eduardo Shoiti Sato
    • Title: Manufacturing and experimental analyses of biocomposites: comparative study focus on aeronautical structures applications
    • Year: 2018
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  • Matheus Vilar Mota Santos
    • Title: Analysis of delamination of composite laminates through the XFEM based on the Layerwise displacement theory
    • Year: 2018
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  • Fernando Madureira
    • Title: Manufacture and thickness control of single lap joints: mechanical properties characterization of adherents and adhesive
    • Year: 2018
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  • Jorge David Aveiga Garcia
    • Title: A delamination propagation model for glass fiber reinforced laminated composite materials
    • Year: 2018
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  • Felipe Rendeiro Flor
    • Title:  Damage monitoring in composite structures via vibration-based method: Metal-composite bonded joints and sandwich structures
    • Year:2016
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  • Gregório Felipe Oliveira Ferreira
    • Title: Composite material structures under tensile and impact loading: evaluation of a material model
    • Year: 2014
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  • Murilo Sartorato
    • Title: Development of a finite element for analysis of piezoelectric smart composite materials: formulation, implementation and evaluation
    • Year: 2013
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  • Rômulo Vinicius Vera
    • Title: Aeronautical interior structures in natural composite: manufacturing, structural and flammability analyses
    • Year: 2012
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  • Ricardo de Medeiros
    • Title: Development of a computational methodology for determining effective coefficients of the smart composites
    • Year: 2012
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  • Emanuel Nunes Borges
    • Title: Manufacturing, computational modeling and experimenting evaluation of hybrid bonded joints monitored through smart composites
    • Year: 2012
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  • Giovani Sacchetto Daniel
    • Title: Damage in composite materials: SAFECom (System of Analysis of Fatigue for Composites)
    • Year: 2011
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  • Sílvio Venturini Neto
    • Title: Study of aeronautic hybrid mechanical joints (metal-composite)
    • Year: 2010
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  • Mauricio Francisco Caliri Junior
    • Title: Material models for polymeric foams applied to aircraft structures in sandwich composite materials
    • Year: 2010
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  • Ricardo Afonso Angélico
    • Title: Evaluation of progressive failure models for composite material structures
    • Year: 2009
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  • Marcelo Leite Ribeiro
    • Title: Software for analyses of bonded joints: composite-composite and metal-composite
    • Year: 2009
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  • Volnei Tita
    • Title: Theoretical and experimental dynamic analysis of beams manufactured from polymer reinforced composites.
    • Year: 1999
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