Portuguese researcher distinguished by the Italian Society of Fracture and Structural Integrity

José António Correia, Researcher at the Institute for R&D in Structures and Construction (CONSTRUCT) of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) and funded by FCT, received the Manson-Coffin IGF Medal 2021 , a distinction from the Italian Society for Fracture and Structural Integrity (IGF), which has been awarded since 2019.

The award recognizes the researcher's contributions in the area of fatigue of materials and engineering structures. The award was given during the 26th International Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity in Turin and recognizes the work of professors and researchers in formalizing, implementing and validating new theories and methodologies designed to model phenomena related to fatigue of engineering materials and structures. It also distinguishes investigations focused on the development of phenomenological models that allow running multiple damage variables, for all material fatigue regimes.

The Portuguese researcher was also considered one of the most prominent academic figures in the period 2015-2019 in several scientific subareas of fatigue, namely: SN curves, fatigue models, accumulated damage, metal bridges and riveted connections. He was promoted to Co-Chair of the Technical Committee TC3 – Fatigue of Materials and Engineering Structures of the European Society for Structural Integrity (ESIS) ; and accumulates his research activity at CONSTRUCT and at the Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering (INEGI). He also teaches at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra and at the Department of Structures of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences of the Technical University of Delft (Netherlands). Throughout his career he has held different positions in renowned publications in this area such as the International Journal of Fatigue , the Smart Infrastructure and Construction magazine, the Structural Integrity – Series (Springer), the Modelling MDPI magazine and the International Journal of Ocean Systems Management (InderScience).

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