Ph.D. Theses
- Pedro Bührer Santana
- Title: Probabilistic Analysis of Composites: Investigation of Damage Models with Uncertainty Identification
- Year: 2026
- Gabriel Sales Candido Souza
- Title: Contributions to the analysis of variable-angle tow filament-wound composite cylinders: computational and experimental advances
- Year: 2025
- Access
- 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
- Access
- 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
- António José Freitas Machado Dórdio Gomes
- Title: Low-Velocity Impact Damage Assessment and Numerical Modelling of Glass/PPS Laminated Composites Using Commercial Finite Element Tools
- Year: 2026
- Mateus Carpena Neto
- Title: Non-Destructive Damage Evaluation in Composite Material Structures Using Novel Types of Piezoelectric Sensors
- Year: 2025
- Ruben Leandro Ferreira de Sousa
- Title: Wing-fuselage joint design and structural analysis
- Year: 2025
- Catarina Gonçalves Rodrigues da Silva
- Title: Design and analysis of hybrid composite shields for military aircraft
- Year: 2025
- Caio Lins Adler
- Title: Algorithm-based material characterization methods for virtual certification and approval processes
- Year: 2025
- Ricardo Urbano Silva
- Title: Machine learning-accelerated development of piezoelectret sensors for structural health monitoring in aerospace applications
- Year: 2025
- Pedro Miguel Costa Carvalho
- Title: On-ground test for static load cases: A design based on a semi-wing of an EVTOL UAV
- Year: 2025
- João Rodrigues Salvador Gonçalves
- Title: Design, structural analysis and optimization of a composite cargo compartment of a UAV
- Year: 2024
- Diogo Pinheiro Rodrigues
- Title: Design, analysis and optimization of a tail for a civil UAV
- Year: 2024
- Dinis Lopes dos Santos Pires
- Title: Design, analysis and optimization of a joint wing-tail boom for a civil UAV
- Year: 2024
- José Carlos Carneiro Ribeiro
- Title: Structural design and analysis of a composite post-buckled monocoque winglet for a light aircraft
- Year: 2024
- André Rocha
- Title: Development of Ballistic Protection for Military Aircraft: An investigation on material models with strain rate effects
- Year: 2024
- 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
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- 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
- Access
- 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
- Access
- Murilo Sartorato
- Title: Development of a finite element for analysis of piezoelectric smart composite materials: formulation, implementation and evaluation
- Year: 2013
- Access
- 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
- Access