Paulo M. S. Tavares de Castro Report 2014
PhD thesis in 2014
Daniel Filipe Coutinho Peixoto, ‘Wheel/rail materials fatigue crack propagation behaviour’, Feb. 17, 2014; supervisor: P.M.S.T. de Castro; co-supervisor: L.A. Ferreira
Current Phd students
Carlos M. C. Albuquerque; supervisor: Rui Calçada; co-supervisor: P.M.S.T. de Castro
MSc theses in 2014
Ricardo Emanuel da Rocha Teixeira, ‘Fatigue analysis of wind turbine blades’, tese MIEM FEUP, 2014; supervisor: Sérgio M.O. Tavares; co-supervisor: P.M.S.T. de Castro
Tiago Ramos Lima, Determinação do campo de tensões residuais e distorções resultantes de processos de soldadura recorrendo ao Sysweld’, tese MIEM FEUP, 2014; supervisor: Sérgio M.O. Tavares; co-supervisor: P.M.S.T. de Castro
R&D projects in 2014
FCT, PTDC/EME-PME/100204/2008 ‘Railways’, with IST and FCT Univ. Coimbra; P.M.S.T. de Castro, project coordinator.
QREN, 23032, ‘Cross Car Beam 360 - CCB 360’, SODECIA; P.M.S.T. de Castro, coordinator of FEUP participation.
QREN, 21526, LighTRAIN - Estrado em Aluminio para Carruagens de
Passageiros’; ALSTOM; project coordinator at INEGI: PMGP Moreira; P.M.S.T. de Castro, participant.
Publications Books
Albertino Arteiro, Paulo M.S. Tavares de Castro, ‘Mecânica da Fratura e Fadiga: Exemplos de Cálculo e Aplicação’, Edições FEUP, 2014; ISBN: 9789727521593
Periodicals
S.M.O. Tavares, P.M.S.T. de Castro, ‘Fatigue crack growth of aircraft structures: Sensitivity to material parameters’, International Journal of Terraspace Science and Engineering, vol. 6, (2), 2014, pp.71-75
Daniel F.O. Braga, S.M.O. Tavares, Lucas F.M. da Silva, P.M.G.P. Moreira, Paulo M.S.T. de Castro, ‘Advanced design for lightweight structures: Review and
prospects’, Progress in Aerospace Sciences, vol. 69, August 2014, pp.29-39 A.C. Batista, J.P. Nobre, D.F.C. Peixoto, L.A.A. Ferreira, P.M.S.T. de Castro, L.
Coelho, ‘X-ray diffraction residual stress measurements for assessment of rolling contact fatigue behaviour of railway steels’, Advanced Materials Research, vol. 996, 2014, pp.782-787
L. Reis, V. Infante, M. de Freitas, F.F. Duarte, P.M.G. Moreira, P.M.S.T. de Castro, ‘Fatigue behaviour of Aluminium lap joints produced by laser beam and friction stir welding’, XVII International Colloquium on Mechanical Fatigue of Metals - ICMFM17, in: Procedia Engineering, vol. 74, 2014, pp.293–296
Conferences
A.C. Batista, J.P. Nobre, D.F.C. Peixoto, L.A.A. Ferreira, P.M.S.T. de Castro, L. Coelho, ‘X-ray diffraction residual stress measurements for assessment of rolling contact fatigue behaviour of railway steels’, 9th European Conference on Residual Stresses - ECRS9, Université de Technologie, Troyes, France, July 7-10, 2014. Published in: Advanced Materials Research, vol. 996, 2014, pp.782-787
S.M.O. Tavares, P.M.S.T. de Castro, ‘Fatigue crack growth of aircraft structures: Sensitivity to material parameters’, 2nd International Conference on Airworthiness and Fatigue, ICAF-2014 – 8th ICSAELS, Patras, Greece, July 14-18, 2014.
Published in: International Journal of Terraspace Science and Engineering, vol. 6, (2), 2014, pp.71-75
Francisco Duarte, Virginia Infante, P.M.S.T. de Castro, P.M.G.P. Moreira, ‘The effect of welding direction in the fatigue life of aluminium FS welded lap joints’, International Conference of the International Journal of Structural Integrity,
September, 1-4, 2014. Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.
André Pinto, S.M.O. Tavares, J.M.A. César de Sá, P.M.S.T. de Castro, ‘Structural analysis of a cross car beam using finite element models’, International Conference of the International Journal of Structural Integrity, September, 1-4, 2014. Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.
P.M.S.T. de Castro, D.F.C. Peixoto, ‘Remarks on fatigue crack propagation in steels, emphasizing threshold behaviour’ (not written – oral communication only), The First Multi-Lateral Workshop on “Fracture and Structural Integrity related Issues”, (Grupo Español de Fractura, Gruppo Italiano Frattura, SPM-Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais-Fracture Division), Catania, Italy, September 15-17, 2014.
S.M.O. Tavares, P.M.S.T. de Castro, ‘Calculation of load capacity of cylindrical gears: review of different approaches and calculation tools’, 5th European
Conference on Mechanism Science EUCOMES 2014, Universidade do Minho and IFToMM-International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science, Guimarães, Portugal, September 16-20, 2014. Published in: Paulo Flores, Fernando Viadero, eds., ‘New Trends in Mechanism and Machine Science’, 2015, Springer, ISBN: 978-3-319-09410-6 (Print) 978-3-319-09411-3 (online)
V. Infante, F. Duarte, P.M.G. Moreira, M. de Freitas, P.M.S.T. de Castro, ‘Study of the fatigue behaviour of dissimilar aluminium joints produced by friction stir welding’, International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials – X, September 21-26, 2014, The Resort and Conference Center at Hyannis, MA, USA http://www.fatiguedamageconference.com/
Other Guest editor
P.M.S.T. de Castro, co-guest-editor, with Manuel de Freitas, Antonio Martín-Meizoso, and Jesús Toribio, of Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, International Journal of the Italian Group of Fracture, ISSN 1971-9883, 30, 2014.
Consulting
Fernando Miguel de Sousa Marques, Sérgio Manuel Oliveira Tavares, Elsa de Sá Caetano, Álvaro Alberto de Matos Ferreira da Cunha, António Augusto Fernandes, Paulo Manuel Salgado Tavares de Castro, ‘Avaliação da vida residual à fadiga de dois pórticos de carga e descarga do porto de Leixões’, 6 de Abril de 2014
Referee
Ciência e Tecnologia dos Materiais Engineering Fracture Mechanics Experimental Techniques
Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures
International Journal of Management Science and Engineering Management Materials and Design
Soldagem & Inspeção (ABS Brasil) The Journal of Adhesion
Evaluations
Avaliador relatórios finais de projectos FCT
Avaliador para a União Europeia do progresso de projecto LOCOMACHS, coord. SAAB; FP7
Avaliador para a Agência de Inovação do progresso do projecto Bettersky, coord. CEIIA.
Júris de doutoramento
Fábio Reis, doutoramento, FEUP, 17-4-2014, presidente do júri;
António Carneiro Araújo, doutoramento, FEUP, Julho 2014, presidente do júri; Catarina Vidal, IST, 17 de Dezembro de 2014, arguente.
Conferences organization
XIV Portuguese Conference on Facture – PCF 2014, SPM-Portuguese Society of Materials-Fracture Division, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro-UTAD, Hotel Régua Douro, February 6-7, 2014. P.M.S.T. de Castro, membro da comissão científica. http://pcf2014.utad.pt/
2nd International Conference on Airworthiness and Fatigue, ICAF-2014 – 8th ICSAELS, Patras, Greece, July 14-18, 2014. P.M.S.T. de Castro, member of scientific committee. http://ltsm.mead.upatras.gr/lab/lang_en/conference/view/5
The First Multi-Lateral Workshop on “Fracture and Structural Integrity related Issues”, (Grupo Español de Fractura, Gruppo Italiano Frattura, SPM-Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais-Fracture Division), September 15-17, 2014, Catania, Italy. P.M.S.T. de Castro, conference chairman together with Manuel de Freitas, Francesco Iacoviello, Antonio Martín-Meizoso, Luca Susmel, and Jesús Toribio.
http://www.gruppofrattura.it/sito/en/aboutus/activities/multilateral-2014
9º Congresso Nacional de Mecânica Experimental CNME 2014, Associação
Portuguesa de Análise Experimental de Tensões (APAET), Universidade de Aveiro, 15-17 Out. 2014. P.M.S.T. de Castro, membro da comissão científica. http://cnme2014.web.ua.pt/ 1º Congresso Doutoral de Engenharia (Doctoral Congress in Engineering - DCE),
FEUP, 11-13 de Junho de 2015. P. M. S. T. de Castro, membro da comissão científica. MATERIAIS 2015 June 21-23, 2015 at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade
do Porto. P.M.S.T. de Castro, membro da comissão científica.
Conference on Structural Integrity supported/organized by the ESIS (European Structural Integrity Society) Portuguese National Committee, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 1-4 September 2015. P.M.S.T. de Castro, membro da comissão científica nacional. 21st European Conference on Fracture ECF21, Catania, Italy, June 20-24, 2016.
1st International Conference on Materials Design and Applications 2016, Porto, Portugal, 30 June - 1 July 2016. P.M.S.T. de Castro, member of the scientific committee.
Other presentations
March 20, 2014 – presentations of progress of MIEM theses by Ricardo Teixeira, and Tiago Ramos Lima.
Missions
Catania, Italy, The First Multi-Lateral Workshop on “Fracture and Structural Integrity related Issues”, (Grupo Español de Fractura, Gruppo Italiano Frattura, SPM-Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais-Fracture Division), Catania, Italy, September 15-17, 2014
Toulouse, France, second year plenary meeting of LOCOMACHS project, FP7; October 1-2, 2014
