structural analysis - Programa de Doctorat en Anàlisi Estructural - UPC

Coordinator
Prof. Alex H. Barbat
Tel: + 34 934 016 496
e-mail: alex.barbat@upc.edu
Secretary
Rosa Maria Olea Sanchis
C. Jordi Girona 1-3
Edificio C1 (Campus Norte)
Despacho 113B, 1ª planta
08034 Barcelona - Spain
Tel: + 34 934 016 497
Fax: + 34 934 011 048
e-mail: rosa.maria.olea@upc.edu
STRUCTURAL
ANALYSIS
Department of Strength of Materials
and Structural Engineering
Direcció de Comunicació. DL: B-XXXX-2009
http://www.rmee.upc.edu/
DOCTORAL DEGREE

Introduction
The Doctoral Degree in Structural Analysis is taught at the
Department of Strength of Materials and Structural Engineering
(RMEI) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, in collaboration
with researchers
from the International Centre
for Numerical Methods
in Engineering. The Department
carries out research in
computational mechanics.
Students who enrol in the
Degree are assigned to one
of the Department’s research
lines.
Aims and structure of the Degree
The aim of the Doctoral Degree in Structural Analysis is to
produce excellent researchers in this broad field, which itself
lies within the field continuum mechanics and the treatment
of these problem using finite element techniques. The Degree
is divided into two basic areas:
a) Methods. Students will become familiar with the following:
- Numerical treatment of the most common structural systems:
continua in 2 and 3 dimensions, laminates, plates and beams.
- Constitutive laws that describe the behaviour of materials
to be analysed.
- Numerical approaches to the differential equations that
govern structural behaviour.
- Analysis of techniques for numerically solving the problems,
which will include coupling and interaction problems.
b) Applications. Students should choose an area of specialisation
that corresponds with the subject of their doctoral
theses from the areas listed below:
- Structural engineering: numerical analysis of composite materials,
seismic analysis, structural pathologies, experimental
tests, monitoring of structures, etc.
- Numerical simulation of processes: lamination, forging, solidification,
mould filling, etc.
- Parallelisation of computation.
- Incorporation of new materials for structural applications:
composites, fibres.
- Experimental analysis of structural components.
Research lines
- Analysis of structural problems in continuum mechanics
using advanced numerical methods.
- Advanced structural analysis using experimental and numerical
methods.
- Study of strengthening elements and manufacturing processes
using experimental and simulation techniques.
- Structural analysis of composite materials.
- Fluid-structure integration.
- Earthquake engineering and structural dynamics.
- Calculations methods for estimating structural safety.
- Constitutive laws of new materials.
Research groups working on these lines
- LITEM - Technological Innovation in Materials and Structures
Laboratory
- REMM - Research Group in Structures and Mechanics
of Materials
- (MC)2 - Computational Mechanics of Continuous Media
Group
- GIES - Geophysics and Earthquake Engineering
- CIMNE - International Centre for Numerical Methods
in Engineering
General information
50 available inscriptions per academic year.
Main entry requirements
A degree in civil engineering, industrial engineering or architecture.
Other academic backgrounds wil be considered by the
Doctoral Committee.
Official master’s degrees that include bridging
courses for this programme
- MASTER’S DEGREE IN STRUCTURAL AND CONSTRUCTI-
ON ENGINEERING
- MASTER’S DEGREE IN NUMERICAL METHODS IN EN-
GINEERING
Quality awards
MCD2005-00341 (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
Facilities and computer systems for students
Laboratories
- Elasticity and Strength of Materials Laboratory (LERMA)
- Technological Innovation in Materials and Structures Laboratory
(LITEM)
Computer systems
- Department of Strength of Materials and Structural Engineering.
- International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering
Professors of the Department
Carlos Agelet de Saracibar Bosch
Santiago I. Badia Rodriguez
Alex H. Barbat
Gabriel Bugeda Castelltort
Juan Carlos Cante Teran
Miquel Casafont Ribera
Miguel Cervera Ruiz
Michele Chiumenti
Ramon Codina Rovira
Daniel Di Capua
Miquel Ferrer Ballester
Lluis Gil Espert
Alfredo Edmundo Huespe
Frederic Marimon Carvajal
Juan Miquel Canet
Xavier Oliver Olivella
Sergio Horacio Oller Martinez
Eugenio Oñate Ibañez de Navarra
M. Magdalena Pastor Artigues
Riccardo Rossi
Francesc Roure Fernandez
Montserrat Sanchez Romero
Benjamin Suarez Arroyo
Jose Francisco Zarate Araiza
Other professors
R. L. Taylor (University of Berkeley, USA)
S. Idelsohn (Univerisidad de Rosario, ARGENTINA)
R. Löhner (Univeristy of Wanshington, USA)
F. Flores (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, ARGENTINA)
C. Felippa (University of Colorado at Boulder USA)
J. Rojek (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research.
Academy of Sciences (POLONIA)