HELDER C. RODRIGUES, Ph. D.
IDMEC - Instituto Superior Técnico
Av. Rovisco Pais 
1049-001 Lisboa  
PORTUGAL 
Tel:      +351 218417280
Fax:     +351 218417915
E-mail: hcr@ist.utl.pt

 


Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department / Mechanical Design Division  (DEM /SPM),
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (UTL)

 
Coordinator of the Center for Mechanical Design (CPM) IDMEC - Instituto Superior Técnico

 

Corresponding Member, Lisbon Academy of Sciences (since May 2007)

Short CV (En, Pt)


COURSES

 

SOLID MECHANICS (MECÂNICA DOS SÓLIDOS)  1999-2002

STRUCTURAL MECHANICS (MECÂNICA ESTRUTURAL) 1995-1999, 2003-2004.

COMPUTER AIDED STRUCTURAL MECHANICS (CALCULO AUTOMÁTICO DE ESTRUTURAS) 2002-2006
COMPUTACIONAL METHODS (MÉTODOS COMPUTACIONAIS) 2004-2008

COMPUTER INTEGRATED DESIGN ( PROJECTO INTEGRADO POR COMPUTADOR) 2007-2008

 

RESEARCH FIELDS              

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION

COMPUTATIONAL MATERIAL DESIGN 

COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS AND MICROMECHANICS

BIOMECHANICS

 




RECENT PUBLICATIONS

1.     M. M. Neves, J. M. Guedes and H. Rodrigues, "Optimal design of periodic linear elastic microstructures", Computers and Structures, 76, 421-429, 2000.

2.     H. Rodrigues, J. M. Guedes and M. P. Bendsøe, "Hierarchical optimization of material and structure", Structural Optimization, 24 (1): 1-10, 2002.

3.     J. M. Guedes, H. Rodrigues and M. P. Bendsøe, "A Material Optimization Model to Approximate Energy Bounds for Cellular Materials Under Multiple Load Conditions", Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 25, 446-452, 2003.

4.     J. F. Aguilar Madeira, H. Rodrigues and Heitor Pina, “Genetic methods in multi-objective optimization of structures with an equality constraint on volume”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science , 2632: 767-781, 2003.

5.   J. Folgado, P. R. Fernandes, J. M. Guedes and H. Rodrigues “Evaluation of Osteoporotic Bone Quality by a Computational Model for Bone Remodeling”, Computer & Structures 82 (17-19): 1381-1388 JUL 2004.

6.   J. F. Aguilar Madeira, H. Rodrigues and Heitor Pina, “Multi-Objective Optimization of Structures Topology by Genetic Algorithms”, Advances In Engineering Software, 36, 21-28, 2005.

7.   J. F. Aguilar Madeira, H. Rodrigues and Heitor Pina, “Multi-Objective Topology Optimization of Structures using Genetic Algorithms with Chromosome Repairing”, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization ,32(1),31-39, 2006.

8.     K P Jayachandran, J M Guedes and H C  Rodrigues “Homogenized electromechanical properties of crystalline and ceramic relaxor ferroelectric 0.58Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3–0.42PbTiO3”  Smart Mater. Struct. 16(5) 1534–1541, 2007.

9.     P Coelho, P Fernandes, J M. Guedes, H. C. Rodrigues "A hierarchical model for topology optimization of three-dimensional structures”. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 35 (2), 107-115, 2008.

10.  J. Folgado, P.R. Fernandes and H.C. Rodrigues, “Computational Study on Bone Remodeling and Osseointegration for a Hip Replacement using a Conservative Femoral Stem”, Int. Journal for Computer Vision and Biomechanics, 1(1), 97-106 2008. 

11.  K. P. Jayachandran, J. M. Guedes, and H. C. Rodrigues “The effect of microstructure and texture on the macroscopic piezoelectric response of ferroelectric barium titanate and PZN–PT films” Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 2008 (in print)

12.  K. P. Jayachandran, J. M. Guedes, and H. C. Rodrigues “Piezoelectricity Enhancement in Ferroelectric Ceramics due to Orientation” Applied Physics Letters, 2008 (in print).

13.  K. P. Jayachandran, J. M. Guedes, and H. C. Rodrigues “Homogenization of textured as well as randomly oriented ferroelectric polycrystals” Computational Materials Science, 2008 (in print).  

14.  P.G. Coelho, P.R. Fernandes, H.C. Rodrigues , J.M. Guedes, J.B. Cardoso “Numerical modeling of bone tissue adaptation – A hierarchical approach for bone apparent density and trabecular structure, J. of Biomechanics, 2008 (submitted).

 

 

 

 

NEWS AND LINKS

WCSMO-8, 8th World Congress on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, LNEC, Lisbon, June 1-5, 2009.

 ICCB 2009, 4th International Congress on Computational Bioengineering, Bologna, September 16-18, 2009.

 ESMC 2009, 7th Euromech Solid Mechanics Conference, IST, Lisbon, September 7-11, 2009.

 

 

 

 

                   


 
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