Name: João António Teixeira de Freitas.
Date of birth: 23 November 1951.
Status: Married, one son.
Nationality: Portuguese.
Address: Departamento de Engenharia Civil,
Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa,
1096 Lisboa Codex, Portugal.
Tel.:+351-1-841 8236; Fax.:+351-1-849 7650
e-mail: freitas@civil2.ist.utl.pt
Academic degrees: Degree in Civil Engineering (Structures), Instituto Superior
Técnico (IST), Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (UTL), 1974,
awarded a distinction;
Master of Science in Concrete Structures and Technology,
Imperial College of Science and Technology (ICST),
University of London (UL), 1975, awarded a distinction;
Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering, ICST-UL, 1979,
awarded the Unwin Postgraduate Research Prize;
Aggregation in Civil Engineering, IST-UTL, 1984, awarded a
distinction.
Other diplomas: Diploma of Imperial College, ICST, 1975;
Doctor in Civil Engineering, IST-UTL, 1979.
Current academic and Full Professor (since 1985), Department of Civil Engineering
research positions: Co-ordinator (since 1980), Research line in Computer Aided
Analysis of Structures, Instituto da Construção, Centro de
Mecânica e Engenharia de Estruturas.
Area of teaching: Structural Analysis, Civil Engineering Degree;
Computer Methods in Structural Analysis,
Master of Science Degree.
Domain of research: Non-linear Analysis of Structures;
Mathematical Programming in Structural Analysis;
Hybrid-Mixed, Hybrid and Hybrid-Trefftz Finite Element
Formulations.
Current research Digital Hybrid-Mixed Elements for Elastic-Plastic
projects: Structural Analysis: Assessment of the implementation
hybrid-mixed elements using digital interpolation
functions (Walsh functions and Wavelets) in the elastic
and elastoplastic analysis of laminar structures.
Hybrid-Trefftz Elements for Shape Optimisation:
Implementation of analytical sensitivities in the shape
optimisation of laminar structures using stress and
displacement boundary integral (Trefftz) elements.
Hybrid-Trefftz Elements for Elastodynamic Analysis of
Two-Phase Media: Modelling of the dynamic (frequency
domain) response of saturated soils using stress and
displacement Trefftz elements based on exponential and
Bessel solutions of the wave equation.
Hybrid Elements for Gradient Dependent Elastoplasticity:
Assessment of the performance of hybrid-mixed, hybrid and
hybrid-Trefftz elements in quasi-static and dynamic (time
domain) modelling of plastic localisation in laminar
structures.
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