Publications ReabOP research project

Journal Publications

[J_01] Silva, T.A.N., Loja, M.A.R. (2013). "An Educational Platform in Structural Mechanics", International Journal of Online Engineering, vol. 9, pp.10-12, 2013. (http://online-journals.org/i-joe/article/view/3319)

[J_02] Loja, M.A.R., Mota Soares , C. M., Barbosa, J. I. (2014). "Optimization of Magneto-Electro-Elastic Composite Structures Using Differential Evolution", Composite Structures, 107, pp. 276-287, 2014. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2013.08.005)

[J_03] Loja, M.A.R. (2014). "On the Use of Particle Swarm Optimization to Maximize Bending Stiffness of Functionally Graded Structures", Journal of Symbolic Computation, 61-62, pp. 12-30, 2014. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsc.2013.10.006)

[J_04] Loja, M.A.R., Barbosa, J. I., Mota Soares, C. M. (2015). "Analysis of Sandwich Beam Structures Using Kriging Based Higher Order Models", Composite Structures, 119, pp. 99-106, 2015. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2014.08.019)

[J_05] Bernardo, G.M.S., Damásio, F.R., Silva, T.A.N., Loja, M.A.R. (2015). “A Study on the Structural Behaviour of FGM Plates: Static and Free Vibrations Analyses”. Composite Structures, 136, 124-138, 2016. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263822315008636)

[J_06] Loja, M.A.R., Barbosa, J.I., Mota Soares, C.M (2015). “Dynamic Behaviour of Soft Core Sandwich Structures using Kriging-Based Layerwise Models”. Composite Structures, 134, 883-894, 2015. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263822315007928)

[J_07] G.M.S. Bernardo, M.A.R. Loja (2015). “3D Surface Reconstruction using Compactly-Supported Radial Basis Functions: a Parametric Study”. Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture Research, Vol. 2 (11), November 2015. Print ISSN:2333-911X. Online ISSN:2333-9128 Link

[J_08] Silva, T. A. N., Loja, M. A. R., Maia, N. M. M.,Barbosa, J. I.(2015). “A Hybrid Procedure to Identify the Optimal Stiffness Coefficients of Elastically Restrained Beams”, International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Vol. 25(2), 245-257 (2015). DOI:10.1515/amcs-2015-0019

[J_09] Damásio, F.R., Carvalho, A., Silva, T.A.N., Loja, M.A.R. (2016). "Assessing the influence of material and geometrical uncertainty on the mechanical behavior of FGM plates". Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structure (accepted)

[J_10] Costa, D.M.S., Bernardo, G.M.S., Loja, M.A.R. (2016). "A Symbolic Simulator Platform for the Static Analysis of Thin Plates". International Journal of Online Engineering (accepted)

[J_11] Barbosa, M., Pauwels, P. Ferreira, V., Mateus, L. (2016). "Towards increased BIM usage for existing building interventions". Structural Survey: Journal of Building Pathology and Refurbishment (accepted)

[J_12] Bernardo, G.M.S., Loja, M.A.R.(2016). “An integrated methodology for the reconstruction and analysis of shell structures using meshless methods”. Advances in Engineering Software (submitted).

[J_13] Silva, T.A.N., Loja, M.A.R., Carvalho , A., Maia N.M.M., Barbosa, J.I.(2016). "Adaptive Empirical Distributions in the Framework of Inverse Problems". International Journal for Computational Methods in Engineering Science & Mechanics. (submitted)

Conference Publications

[C_01] Silva, T.A.N., Loja, M.A.R., Maia, N.M.M., Barbosa, J.I (2013). "Optimal Identification of Elastic Support Parameters on Bernoulli- Euler Beams", in Proc. of SYMCOMP 2013, ECCOMAS Thematic International Conference on Algebraic and Symbolic Computation, 9-10 September, IST, Lisbon, Portugal, 2013, pp. 291-310, ISBN 978-989-96264-5-4. Link

[C_02] Mateus, L., Barbosa, M., Mota Ferreira, V. (2013). "An expeditious methodology to correct the closure error of point clouds registration", in Proc. of SYMCOMP 2013, ECCOMAS Thematic International Conference on Algebraic and Symbolic Computation, 9-10 September, IST, Lisbon, Portugal, 2013, pp. 422-431, ISBN: 978-989-96264-5-4. Link

[C_03] Amaral M., Rodrigues, J.A., Loja ,M.A.R., Mota Ferreira, V., Mateus, L. (2013). "Characterization and modeling of building cracks using 3d laser scanning as rehabilitation support", in proceedings of the 1stInternational Conference on Algebraic and Symbolic Computation (SymComp2013). 9-10 September, IST: Lisbon, Portugal. ISBN: 978-989-96264-5-4. pp. 386-399 Link

[C_04] Bazargani, M., Mateus, L.,Loja , M.A.R. (2014). "Logarithmically Proportional Objective Function for Planar Surfaces Recognition in 3D Point Cloud", IEEE, NaBIC 2014 - Sixth World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing, Porto, July 30 - August 1, 2014, pp. 275-280, ISBN 978-1-4799-5936-5 (c)2014 IEEE. (DOI:10.1109/NaBIC.2014.692189)

[C_05] G.M.S. Bernardo, M.A.R. Loja (2014). "Optimization of structures modeled using a meshfree approach", IEEE, NaBIC 2014 - Sixth World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing, July 30 - August 1, 2014 pp. 220-225, ISBN 978-1-4799-5936-5 (c)2014 IEEE. (DOI:10.1109/NaBIC.2014.6921881)

[C_06] Loureiro, D.,Loja, M.A.R., Silva, T.A.N.(2014). "Optimal Location of Supports in Beam Structures Using Genetic Algorithms", IEEE, NaBIC 2014 - Sixth World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing, Porto, July 30 - August 1, 2014, pp. 293-298, ISBN 978-1-4799-5936-5 (c)2014 IEEE. (DOI:10.1109/NaBIC.2014.6921894)

[C_07] Silva, T. A. N., Loja, M. A. R., Carvalho, A., Maia, N. M. M., Barbosa, J. I. (2015). "A global optimization approach based on adaptive populations". SYMCOMP 2015, 2nd International Conference on Numerical and Symbolic Computation: Advances and Applications, Faro, Portugal, 26-27 March 2015. Link

[C_08] Bernardo, G.M.S., Loja, M.A.R. (2015). "Static and Free Vibrations Analysis of Particulate Composite Plates using Radial Basis Functions". SYMCOMP 2015, 2nd International Conference on Numerical and Symbolic Computation: Advances and Applications, Faro, Portugal, 26-27 March 2015. Link

[C_09] Costa, D.M.S., Trindade, J.M.F., Loja, M.A.R. (2015). "Optimization of Desalination Heat Exchanger’s Geometries Using Bat-Inspired Techniques". SYMCOMP 2015, 2nd International Conference on Numerical and Symbolic Computation: Advances and Applications, Faro, Portugal, 26-27 March 2015. Link

[C_10] Bernardo, G.M.S., Loja, M.A.R. (2015). "Reconstruction of Surfaces from Unstructured Points Clouds, Using Compactly-Supported Radial Basis Functions". SYMCOMP 2015, 2nd International Conference on Numerical and Symbolic Computation: Advances and Applications, Faro, Portugal, 26-27 March 2015. Link

[C_11] Lemos R., Loja, M.A.R., Rodrigues, J., Rodrigues, J. A. (2015). Photogrammetric Techniques to Health Monitoring Control of Breakwater’s Structure Using SCILAB. SYMCOMP 2015, 2nd International Conference on Numerical and Symbolic Computation: Advances and Applications, Faro, Portugal, 26-27 March 2015. Link

[C_12] Bazargani, M., Mateus, L., Loja, M.A.R. (2015). "Planar Surfaces Recognition in 3D Point Cloud Using a Real-Coded Multistage Genetic Algorithm". EvoApplications, 18th European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, Copenhagen, Denmark, 8-10 April 2015. Link

[C_13] Bernardo, G.M., Damásio, F.R.,Silva, T.A.N.,Loja, M.A.R.(2015). “A Study on the Dynamic Behaviour of Functionally Graded Plates”. Vibrations 2015, Porto, March 30 – April 1, 2015.

[C_14] Bernardo, G.M.S., Loja, M.A.R. (2015). “An efficient RBF interpolation method to reconstruct and analyze structures represented through unstructured data”. RehabStructures 2015, International Conference on Recent Advances in Rehabilitation and Sustainability of Structures, S. Miguel, Azores, 1-2 June 2015. Link

[C_15] Rodrigues, J. A., Loja, M.A.R. (2015). “Surface Reconstruction from Unorganized PointCloud via Virtual Structured Mesh”. RehabStructures 2015, International Conference on Recent Advances in Rehabilitation and Sustainability of Structures, S. Miguel, Azores, 1-2 June 2015. Link

[C_16] Loja, M.A.R., Barbosa, J.I., Mota Soares, C.M. (2015). “Dynamic Analysis of Soft Core Sandwich Structures Using Kriging Models”. ICCS 18, 18th International Conference on Composite Structures. Lisbon, 15-18 June, 2015. Link

[C_17] Damásio, F. R., Silva, T. A. N., Carvalho, A., Loja, M. A. R. (2015). “On the characterization of parametric uncertainty on FGM plates”. ICCST10, 10th International Conference on Composite Science and Technology. Lisbon, 2-4 September, 2015. Link

[C_18] Covas, J., Mota Ferreira, V., Mateus, L. (2015). "3D Reconstruction with Fisheye Images. Strategies to Survey Complex Heritage Buildings", in Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress on Digital Heritage 2015, Granada, Spain, IEEE Catalog Number: CFP1508W-USB, 28sep-2oct 2015. ISBN: 978-1-5090-0047-0. Link

Books

[B_01] Book of Abstracts (+ CD Proceedings), SYMCOMP2013: 1st ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Algebraic and Symbolic Computation. Edited by APMTAC - Associação Portuguesa de Mecânica Teórica, Aplicada e Computacional, Editors: Amélia Loja, Joaquim Infante Barbosa, José Alberto Rodrigues. IST, Lisboa, 9-10 September, 2013. ISBN 978-989-96264-5-4 . Link

[B_02] Book of Abstracts (+ Pen Proceedings), SYMCOMP2015: 2nd ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Numerical and Symbolic Computation: Developments and Applications. Edited by APMTAC – Associação Portuguesa de Mecânica Teórica, Aplicada e Computacional, Editors: Amélia Loja, Joaquim Infante Barbosa, José Alberto Rodrigues. IST, Lisboa, 26-27 March, 2015. Pen Proceedings ISBN 978-989-96264-7-8 , Book of Abstracts ISBN 978-989-96264-6-1. Link

[B_03] Book of Abstracts (+ Pen Proceedings), RehabStructures2015: ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on International Conference on Recent Advances in Rehabilitation and Sustainability of Structures. Edited by APMTAC – Associação Portuguesa de Mecânica Teórica, Aplicada e Computacional, Editors: Helena Barros (DEC/UC, INESC-C), Amélia Loja (IDMEC, ISEL), Carla Ferreira (DEC/UC, INESCC), J. Infante Barbosa (IDMEC, ISEL), Jose M. Adam (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain), Massimo Fragiacomo (University of Sassari, Italy), Antonio R. Marí, (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) and Nuno Silvestre (IST/UL, IDMEC/LAETA). Ponta Delgada, Açores, 1-2 Junho, 2015. Pen Proceedings ISBN 978-989-96264-8-5, Book of Abstracts ISBN 978-989-96264-9-2. Link

[B_04] Book of abstracts, ICCST/10: International Conference on Composite Science and Technology. Edited by IDMEC. Editors: A.L. Araújo, J.R. Correia, C.M. Mota Soares, F.M. Duarte, J. Folgado, V.M. Franco Correia, M.A.R. Loja, J.F.A. Madeira, J.V.A. Santos. Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal, 2-4 September 2015. ISBN: 978-989-99424-1-7. Link

[B_05]Silva, T.A.N., Loja, M.A.R. "Optimization of hygrothermal residual stresses in functionally graded composites". Eds Book on Online Experimentation: Emerging Technologies and IoT, Ch.24 (Book chapter - in press)

Others

[O_01] Poster: Reconstrução de superfícies obtidas por varrimento laser (Reconstruction of surfaces obtained via laser scanning). G.M.S. Bernardo, J.A. Rodrigues, M.A.R. Loja. “Innovation for Volkswagen 2015”, 20 Novembro 2015

[O_02] [53] Poster: A Engenharia Inversa em Componentes Automóveis (Reverse Engineering in Automotive Parts). D.M.S. Costa, M.A.S. Venâncio, M.A.G. Marques, M.A.R. Loja. “Innovation for Volkswagen 2015”, 20 Novembro 2015

[O_03] Honorable Mention Award for the paper "Mechanics of Homogeneous and Non-homogeneous Thin Plates: a Symbolic Simulation Platform" co-authored by D.M.S. Costa, M.A.R. Loja. Exp’at.15: 3rd Experiment@ International Conference, S. Miguel, Azores, 2-4 June 2015.

[O_04] Maplesoft Award SYMCOMP 2015 - Young Researcher Award, attributed to the work “A global optimization approach based on adaptive populations”, Tiago A. N. Silva, Maria A. R. Loja, Alda Carvalho, Nuno M. M. Maia, Joaquim I. Barbosa, in Proc. of the ECCOMAS Thematic 2nd International Conference on Numerical and Symbolic Computation: Advances and Applications (SYMCOMP 2015), 26-27 March, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal, 2015