Home Page of J.P. Moitinho de Almeida

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Last modified: Fri Jan 9 12:30:48 WET 1998

My Curriculum Vitae is in another page:

Where am I?

• In Lisbon, Portugal.
• My University is the Technical University of Lisbon.
• The Institute within the University is the Instituto Superior Técnico.
• The Departement is the Departement of Civil Engineering.
• The Research Center is the Instituto da Construção.
• Within this Research Center I belong to the Structural Analysis Research Group
• Do you find this organization tricky? So do I!

Fields of interest:

• Non Conventional Finite Element Formulations.
  By this I mean finite elements for which nodes don't need to exist, curious approximation functions can be used and the field conditions are imposed a posteriori in a way that is similar to that used in "conventional" hybrid elements.
  So far we have "played" (at least) with: polynomial, exponential, rational and digital approximation functions in static elatic, elasto-plastic and dynamic problems. Some work has also been carried out relating to dual error indicators and adaptive analysis.
  A good reference to these formulations can be found in ???.
• Procedures for graphic processing of results in Computational Mechanics.
  In the course of my work I developed a set of routines for visualization of results "Janela".
• Finite Element Mesh Generation Algoritms.
  Marco Piteri is preparing his PhD on Mesh Genartion under my supervision

Recent papers:

• To do.

Projects I am involved in:

• Human Capital and Mobility Network "Advanced Finite Element Solution Techniques on Innovative Computer Architectures".
• Human Capital and Mobility Network "... "

Things I would like to do:

• Improve Janela (see above). The idea is to use Tcl/Tk as the frontend , within which a canvas item of type Janela is defined. It works, but needs lots of work. I would like to hear other opinions.
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