Portuguese researcher honored by the Italian Society for Structural Integrity and Fracture

José António Correia, researcher at the Institute for Research and Development in Structures and Construction (CONSTRUCT) at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) and funded by FCT, received the IGF Manson-Coffin Medal 2021, an award from the Italian Society for Fracture and Structural Integrity (IGF), which has been presented since 2019.

The award recognizes the researcher's contributions in the field of material fatigue and engineering structures. The award was presented during the 26th International Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity in Turin and recognizes the work of teachers and researchers in the formalization, implementation, and validation of new theories and methodologies designed to model phenomena related to material fatigue and engineering structures. It also distinguishes research focused on the development of phenomenological models that allow multiple damage variables to be executed 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 sub-areas of fatigue, namely: S-N curves, fatigue models, accumulated damage, metal bridges, and riveted connections. He was promoted to Co-Chair of Technical Committee TC3 – Fatigue of Engineering Materials and Structures of the European Society for Structural Integrity (ESIS); and he combines 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 Delft University of Technology (Netherlands). Throughout his career, he has held various positions in renowned publications in this field, such as the International Journal of Fatigue, the Smart Infrastructure and Construction, Structural Integrity – Series (Springer), in the journal Modeling MDPI, and the International Journal of Ocean Systems Management (InderScience).

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