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Professor Zenon J.G.N. del Prado

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Federal University of Goias (UFG), Portugal

Selected Publications (For more see the link Prof. Zenon J.G.N. del Prado):
Goncalves, P.B., Del Prado, Z.J.G.N., 2000. The role of modal coupling on the nonlinear response of cylindrical shells subjected to dynamic axial loads. In: Proceedings of the Symposium on Nonlinear Dynamics of Shells and Plates. ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Expo. (AMD vol. 238), Orlando, USA, pp. 105–116.
Del Prado, Z. J. G. N., ‘Modal Coupling and Interaction in the Dynamic Instability of Cylindrical Shells’, PhD thesis, Catholic University, PUC-Rio, Brazil, 2001
Paulo B. Gonçalves and Zenón J.G.N. Del Prado, “Nonlinear Oscillations and Stability of Parametrically Excited Cylindrical Shells”, Meccanica, Vol. 37, No. 6, 2002, pp. 569-597, doi: 10.1023/A:1020972109600
Gončalves, P. B. and Del Prado, Z. J. G. N., ‘Influence of modal interaction on the parametric instability of cylindrical shells’, in Structural Dynamics, EURODYN 2002, Grundmann and Schuëller (eds.), A. A. Balkema Publishers, Lisse, The Netherlands, 2002, pp. 869–874.
Silva, F. M., Gonçalves, P. B., Del Prado, Z. J. G. N., 2004a, "Analysis of the parametric instability of imperfect cylindrical shells
with internal fluid ". Proceedings of Third DINCON, Vol. 3, Ilha Solteira, Brazil, pp. 1665-1672
Silva, F. M., Gonçalves, P. B., Del Prado, Z. J. G. N., 2004b, "Global instability of imperfect cylindrical shells with internal fluid". Proceedings of XXV Iberian-Latin American Congress on Computational Methods in Engineering, Recife, Brazil.
P.B. Gonçalves and Z.G. del Prado, “Effect of non-linear modal interaction on the dynamic instability of axially excited cylindrical shells”, Computers & Structures, Vol. 82, Nos. 31-32, December 2004, pp. 2621-2634, Special Issue: Nonlinear Dynamics of Continuous Systems, doi:10.1016/j.compstruc.2004.04.020
Paulo Gonçalves and Zenón del Prado (Civil Engineering Department, Catholic University, PUC-Rio, 22453-900, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), “The Non-Linear Dynamics of Thin Walled Shell Structures”, IUTAM Symposium on Chaotic Dynamics and Control of Systems and Processes in Mechanics, Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, 2005, Vol. 122, No. III., pp. 213-222, doi: 10.1007/1-4020-3268-4_20
Paulo B. Gonçalves and Zenón J. G. N. Del Prado, “Low-Dimensional Galerkin Models for Nonlinear Vibration and Instability Analysis of Cylindrical Shells”, Nonlinear Dynamics, Vol. 41, Nos. 1-3, 2005, pp. 129-145, doi: 10.1007/s11071-005-2802-3
Gonçalves, P. B., Del Prado, Z. J. G N., Silva, F. M., 2005, "Global instability of empty and fluid-filled imperfect cylindrical shells", Proceedings of Third MIT Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, Massachusetts, USA, pp.235-238.
Paulo B. Goncalves, Frederico M.A. da Silva and Zenon J.G.N. del Prado, “Transient Stability of Empty and Fluid-Filled Cylindrical Shells”, Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Science & Engineering, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp 331-338, July-September 2006

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