Research Coordinator
Research team
Graduate students
Research Topics
- Creep and high temperature creep-fatigue
- Fatigue behaviour of welded structures
- Fatigue damage analysis in structures
- Multiaxial fatigue
- Variable amplitude fatigue crack growth
- Mixed mode delamination in composite materials
- Flexure behaviour of sandwich structures
Strategy
- High temperature crack growth of materials
- Fatigue behaviour of welded structures including the study of weld toe improvement techniques
- Failure analysis area to predict the fatigue damage in the structures
- Numerical analysis using FE 3 dimension and non linear analysis including contact modelling
- Fatigue strength of thin plate material considering different cutting methods
- Multiaxial fatigue behaviour of materials
- Fracture of laminated composite materials
- Sandwich materials
- Product Design and Development
Publications
- F. Romeiro, M. de Freitas, M. da Fonte, Interaction Effects due to overloads, underloads on fatigue crack growth, Key Engineering Materials, Vols 348-349 (2007) pp. 333-336
- M. Fonte, F. Romeiro, M. Freitas, Environment effects, surface roughness on fatigue crack growth at negative R-ratios, International Journal of Fatigue, 29 (2007) pp. 1971-1977
- Freitas, M., Carvalho, R., “Residual Strength of a Repaired Laminated CFRP under Compressive Fatigue Stresses”, Composites Science, Technology, 66, 373 – 378, 2006
- Araujo dos Santos, J. V., Lopes, H.M.R., Vaz, M., Mota Soares, C.M., Mota Soares, C.M.M., Freitas, M., “Damage Localization in Laminated plates using Mode Shapes Measured by Pulsed TV Holography”, Composite Structures, 76, 272 – 281, 2006
- Li, B., Reis, L., Freitas, M.,”Simulation of Cyclic Stress/Strain Evolutions for Multiaxial Fatigue Life Prediction”, International Journal of Fatigue, 28, 451 – 458, 2006
- Fonte, M., Reis, L., Romeiro, F., Li, B., Freitas, M., “The effect of steady torsion on fatigue crack growth in shafts”, International Journal of Fatigue, 28, 609 – 617, 2006
- Freitas, M., Reis, L., Li, B., “Multiaxial Mixed Mode Cracking, Small Crack Initiation, Propagation”, Material Prufung, 1-2, 36 – 43, 2006
- Reis, L., Li, B., Freitas, M., “Analytical, Experimental Studies on Fatigue Crack Path under Complex Multiaxial Loading”, Fatigue, Fracture of Engineering Materials, Structures, 29, 282 – 289, 2006
- Freitas, M., Reis, L., Li, B., “Comparative Study on Biaxial Low-Cycle Fatigue Behaviour of Three Structural Steels”, Fatigue, Fracture of Engineering Materials, Structures, 29, 992 – 999, 2006
- Reis, L., Li, B., Freitas, M., “Comparative Study of the Additional Hardening Effects of Three Structural Steels”, Materials Science Forum, 514-516, 534-538, 2006
- Li, B., Reis, L., Freitas, M., “Simulations of Cyclic Plasticity, Fatigue Behavior of Structural Steels under Multiaxial Loading”, Materials Science Forum, 514-516, 1414-1418, 2006
- Martins, R.F., Branco, C.M., Gonçalves-Coelho, A., Gomes, E.C., “Metallurgical study of a AISI 316L stainless steel used in a gas turbine exhaust system”, Materials Science Forum, pp.1521-1525, 2006
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