Materials & Manufacturing Processes
Materials & Manufacturing Processes (MMP)
Advances on materials formulation, processing and characterization.
Research Topics
Materials Processing and Advanced Characterization
Materials Modelling
Manufacturing Processes
Process Modelling and Simulation
Materials Processing and Advanced Characterization
- Multifunctional Materials: engineering materials based on their combination, functionalization or microstructural control (e. g. advanced composites, nanostructured cementitious hydraulic binders)
- Extended materials characterization (cellular materials, metallic, ceramic, composite, metallic matrix nanocomposites, cork agglomerate, natural, phase change materials, waste-based and biomaterials), including fracture, fatigue under multiaxial loading, tribology, reaction to high-temperature and solar radiation
- Components characterization: reliability and maintainability of complex devices, (e.g. biomedical - dental implants, contact lenses, hip prostheses-, transports)
- Materials for Additive Manufacturing (AM) techniques and subsequent surface and heat treatments, and role in AM-Product Development.
Materials Modelling
- Constitutive models of materials’ systems, using multi-scale (micro-/meso-/macroscopic) methods to consider the effect of microstructure and interfaces in the macro-scale mechanical, acoustic and hydrothermal behaviour.
Manufacturing Processes
- Innovative, flexible, environmental-friendly manufacturing processes with emphasis on metal forming, casting, joining and polymer, composite and stone processing
- Integration of new materials and optimization of existing manufacturing processes, by deeper understanding of the fundamental phenomena playing a key role in their performance.
R&D Projects
Featured Publications
Teixeira, P. et al. Influence of the cure state on mechanical properties of an epoxy-based adhesive: Experimental characterization and numerical simulation (2021) Polymers for Advanced Technologies.
DOI: 10.1002/pat.5589
DOI: 10.1002/pat.5589
View publication
Santos, R.F. et al. Seedless Cu Electroplating on Co-W Thin Films in Low pH Electrolyte: Early Stages of Formation (2021) Nanomaterials, 11(8), art. no. 1914.
DOI: 10.3390/nano11081914
DOI: 10.3390/nano11081914
View publication
Pragana, J.P.M. et al. Formability of wire-arc deposited AISI 316L sheets for hybrid additive manufacturing applications (2021) Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part L: Journal of Materials: Design and Applications, 235(12), pp. 2839-2850.
DOI: 10.1177/14644207211037033
DOI: 10.1177/14644207211037033
View publication
Global Coordinator
Maria de Fátima Reis Vaz
Other Institutional Coordinators
Manuel Fernando Gonçalves Vieira
Team
Abel Dias dos Santos
Abílio Manuel Pinho de Jesus
Alireza Akhavan-Safar
Ana Rosanete Lourenço Reis
Ana Sofia Oliveira Queirós Ferreira Barbosa
António Manuel Relógio Ribeiro
António Torres Marques
Barbara Perry Pereira Alves Gouveia Almeida
Carlos Manuel Alves da Silva
Catarina da Silva Pereira Borges
Cláudio Araújo Monteiro dos Santos
Elsa Maria Pires Henriques
Erfan Azinpour
Fernando Jorge Lino Alves
Filipe Gonçalo Andrade da Silva
Filomena Maria da Conceição Viana
Ines da Fonseca Pestana Ascenso Pires
Inês Ribeiro
Ivo Manuel Ferreira Bragança
José Carlos Magalhães Duque da Fonseca
Jose Jorge Lopes Da Cruz Fernandes
José Manuel de Almeida César de Sá
Laura Maria Melo Ribeiro
Lucas Filipe Martins Silva
Luis Filipe Galrão dos Reis
Luis Manuel Guerra Silva Rosa
Luis Manuel Machado Amorim
Luís Manuel Mendonça Alves
Manuel Afonso da Fonte
Manuel Fernando Gonçalves Vieira
Manuel José Moreira Freitas
Marcelo Francisco S. F. Moura
Marco Alexandre de Oliveira Leite
Maria Beatriz Cipriano de Jesus Silva
Maria Cristina Santos Ribeiro
Maria de Fátima Reis Vaz
Maria Isabel Morais Torres
Maria Luisa Coutinho Gomes Almeida Quintino
Nuno André Curado Mateus Correia
Nuno Miguel Marques Pereiro Rocha
Omid Emadínia
Paulo António Firme Martins
Paulo Jorge Matos Fernandes Martins Ferreira
Paulo Miguel Nogueira Peças
Pedro Alexandre Rodrigues Carvalho Rosa
Pedro Miguel Gomes Abrunhosa Amaral
Raquel Miriam Barbosa dos Santos
Raul Domingos Ferreira Moreira
Reza Beygi
Ricardo João Camilo Carbas
Ricardo Miguel Gomes Simões Baptista
Rogério Anacleto Cordeiro Colaço
Rúben Filipe da Silva Santos
Rui Jorge de Lemos Neto
Rui Ricardo Loureiro Amaral
Sonia Luísa dos Santos Simões
Tiago Emanuel Fraga da Silva
Virginia Isabel Monteiro Nabais Infante