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Professor Rodrigo Goncalves

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Prof. Rodrigo Goncalves

Civil Engineering Department
NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal (DEC/FCT/UNL)

Education:
PhD in Civil Engineering, IST/UTL (2007)
MSc in Structural Engineering, IST/UTL (2000)
Licenciatura in Civil Engineering, IST/UTL (1996)

Research Interests:
Steel and steel-concrete composite structures; Structural stability; Thin-walled beams; Generalized beam theory; Geometrically exact beam theories

Awards:
• First place of the 2017 McGuire Award for Junior Researchers Medal Competition, awarded by the Structural Stability Research Council (SSRC), for contributions to structural stability research after obtaining the PhD degree.
• First place in the 2013 Ferry Borges competition category A (best paper published in 2010-12, in the field of Structural Engineering), for the paper “A large displacement and finite rotation thin-walled beam formulation including cross-section deformation”, published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering in 2010. Awarded by the Portuguese Association of Structural Engineering (APEE), LNEC and the Portuguese Order of Engineers.
• Honorable Mention of the 2012 Vinnakota award (Structural Stability Research Council), for the paper "GBT-Based assessment of the buckling behavior of cold-formed steel purlins restrained by sheeting”, authored by the student A. Graça (recipient of the award) and his supervisors, Dinar Camotim (IST/UL) and Rodrigo Gonçalves.

Selected Publications:
Gonçalves R.; Camotim D. (2001), On the allowance of member imperfections in the design/safety checking of steel frames, In: Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Steel Construction Conference, NSCC’2001 (Eds. Mäkeläinen, P.; Kesti, J.; Jutila, A.; Kaitila, O.), Helsinki, Finland
Gonçalves R., Camotim D. and Dinis P., Generalised beam theory to analyse the buckling behaviour of aluminium or stainless steel open and closed thin-walled members, Proc. 4th Int. Conf. Thin-Walled Structures (Loughborough, 22-24/6), 2004.
Dinar Camotim, Nuno Silvestre, Rodrigo Gonçalves and Pedro Borges Dinis, “GBT-Based Analysis and Design of Thin-Walled Metal and FRP Members: Recent Developments”, Proc. Int. Workshop Recent Advances and Future Trends in Thin-Walled Structures Technology (Loughborough, 25/6), 2004.

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