USA-Brazil Workshop on Applied Mechanics

1. USA-Brazil Workshop on Applied Mechanics National Science Foundation

2. NSF Delegation

3. Eveline Baesu Assistant Professor Department of Engineering Mechanics Education: Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics, University of California at Berkeley, (1998) • Research Area: • Continuum Mechanics • Piezoelectric Materials • Mechanics of Fiber Networks • Plasticity • Mechanics of Living Cells • Teaching: • Nonlinear Mechanics • Analytic methods in Engineering

4. Vicki B. Booker Program Manager Americas Program Office of International Science and Engineering (INT) Education: Support of international cooperation in science and engineering is an integral part of NSF's mission. The Office of International Science and Engineering (INT) promotes and coordinates international cooperation by supporting new partnerships between U.S. scientists and engineers and their foreign colleagues, or new cooperative projectsbetween established collaborators.

5. Robert H. Dodds Professor M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Chair Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Education: Ph.D. University of Illinois (1978) • Research Area: • Computational Mechanics • Fracture Mechanics Teaching: • Computer methods in civil engineering • Steel structures, fatigue and fracture • Matrix Analysis of framed Structures Applications Driving Research: Reusable Launch Vehicle Naval Surface Ships, Submarines Petro-Chemical Industry (HSS, welding, pipelines)

6. Frederico Furtado Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics Education: Ph.D., Mathematics, Courant Institute - NYU, 1989 • Research Area: • Flow in Porous Media • Hyperbolic Systems of Conservations Laws, Riemann Problems • Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations • Computational Fluid Dynamics Teaching: • Calculus I • Partial Differential Equations II

7. Jorn Larsen-Basse Program Director Solid Mechanics and Materials Engineering (SMME) Division of Civil and Mechanical Systems Education: Research Area: • Nano- and micro-scale science and engineering • Model-based simulation - integration of experiment and analysis • Environmental design and technologies - materials and sensors • Hazards and extreme events research • Infrastructure Systems - IT and SES

8. Khalid M. Mosalam Assistant Professor Structural Engineering, Mechanics, and Materials (SEMM) Civil & Environmental Engineering Education: Ph.D, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA (1996) Research Area: • Probabilistic models for seismic fragility of structural components & systems • Stochastic fiber element models for reinforced concrete component & systems • Computational modeling of prestressed bridges • Teaching: • Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures • Structural Analysis: Theory and Applications • Prestressed Concrete Structures

9. Radha Nandkumar Assistant Director Office of Campus relations Senior Research Scientist Scientific Computing Division Education: Ph.D, Physics, University of Illinois (1985) • Responsibilities: • Managing and coordinating all aspects of resources/data • Customer relations and information management on supercomputing research projects • Resource allocations, peer review processes and technology transfer • Research Area: • Astrophysics • Vortex creep theory and the internal temperature of neutron stars

10. Kamran Nemati Associate Professor Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Department of Construction Management Education: Ph.D (Civil) , University of California at Berkeley, (1994) • Research Area: •   Experimental and analytical work associated with plain and reinforced concrete • Application of scanning electron microscopy to microstructure of concrete • Expansion of innovative experimental techniques to fracture behavior of materials   • Teaching: • Computer Applications in Construction • Soils and Foundations • Concrete Technology • Temporary Construction Structures • Advanced Construction Techniques

11. Marek-Jerzy Pindera Professor Department of Civil Engineering Education: Ph.D (Civil) , Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) • Research Area : • Analytical and experimental methodologies of thermomechanical response of composite materials and structural components. • Micromechanics of multi-phased and functionally graded composites • Micromechanical modeling of processing of high temperature composites • Teaching:

12. Glaucio H. Paulino Associate Professor Burton and Erma Lewis Faculty Scholar Education: Ph.D., Cornell University, 1995 • Research Area: • Functionally Graded Materials • Fracture Mechanics • Boundary Element Methods • Nonlinear Structural Mechanics Teaching: • Finite Element Methods • Boundary Element Methods • Matrix Analysis of framed Structures Applications Driving Research: • Superheat-resistant materials • Biomedical materials • Military: Vehicles and personal body armor • Electro-magnetic and MEMS • Graded refractive index materials

13. J. N. REDDY Distinguished Professor Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair Department of Mechanical Engineering Department of Civil Engineering Education: Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics, University of Alabama (Huntsville), 1973 • Teaching: • Research Areas: • Continuum mechanics, Solid and structural mechanics • Computational fluid mechanics • Computational heat transfer • Computational solid mechanics • Applied mathematics • Composite materials and structures • Plate and shell theories • Energy and variational principles and methods

14. Dulce Rufino Ph.D. Student Transportation Engineering Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering • Research Area: • Pavement modeling and Design methods • Analysis of Pavement responses to Aircraft and environmental loading at International Airports

15. Elisa Sotelino Associate Professor School of Civil Engineering Education: Ph.D., Brown University, 1990 • Teaching: • Finite Element Analysis • Parallel Processing in Structural Mechanics • Finite Elements in Elasticity • Numerical Methods in Civil Engineering • Structural Dynamics • Structural Analysis I • Introductory Structural Mechanics • Research Area : • Structural Engineering Concurrent Software Development Environment • Parallel Algorithms for Transient Finite Element Analysis • Strengthening Highway Bridges • Concrete Materials constitutive modeling

16. Teaching: • Finite Element Procedures in Applied Mechanics • Mechanics of Materials N. Sukumar Assistant ProfessorComputational Solid Mechanics Department of Civil & Environmental Engg Education: Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1998 Research Interest: • Computational mechanics • Fracture and failure mechanisms • Meshfree Galerkin methods • Computational geometry • Motion of moving interfaces

17. Nicholas J. Zabaras Professor Material Process Design & Control LaboratorySibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Education: Ph.D., Cornell University, 1987 Research Interest: • Mathematical techniques for realistic engineering simulation • Design of manufacturing processes. • Kinematics and constitutive behavior of growing bodies. Teaching: • Mechanical Properties and Processing of Engineering Materials • Materials Processing: Theory and Applications • Lecture Notes on the Finite Element Method • Computational Sensorics: Information Technologies for the Design and Control of Complex Continuum Systems

18. Acknowledgements • COPPE: Prof. Rochinha • PUC: Prof. Dumont • LNCC: Dr. Murad • USP: Prof. Ruggieri and Prof. Silva • UnB: Prof. Mamiya