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

José António Correia, a 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 2021a distinction from the Italian Society of 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 prize was awarded during the 26th International Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity, in Turin, and recognizes the work of teachers and researchers in formalizing, implementing and validating new theories and methodologies designed to model phenomena related to the fatigue of materials and engineering structures. It also distinguishes research focused on the development of phenomenological models that make it possible to perform multiple damage variables, for all material fatigue regimes.

The Portuguese researcher was also considered one of the most outstanding academic personalities in the period 2015-2019 in various scientific subfields of fatigue, namely: S-N curves, fatigue models, accumulated damage, steel 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 accumulates his research activity at CONSTRUCT and 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 various positions in renowned publications in this field, such as the International Journal of Fatiguein the journal Smart Infrastructure and Constructionin Structural Integrity - Series (Springer), in the journal Modelling MDPI and International Journal of Ocean Systems Management (InderScience).

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