29-03-2022
David Manta, PhD student at the Department of Civil Engineering at NOVA School of Science and Technology, received the “Sarada M. and Raju A. Vinnakota” Award, awarded by the Structural Stability Research Council, USA.
This is the second year in a row that the student has been distinguished, this time for the article "Combining the advantages of GBT and shell finite elements: linear/non-linear analyzes and modal decomposition", supervised and co-authored by Professors Rodrigo Gonçalves and Dinar Camotim.This work presents a methodology to combine the advantages associated with bar finite elements based on the Generalized Theory of Beams and traditional shell finite elements, in order to obtain significant computational gains and simultaneously structurally interpret the results obtained.
In 2021, David Manta already received an honorable mention with the work "On the combination of shell and GBT-based beam finite elements", also supervised and co-authored by Professors Rodrigo Gonçalves and Dinar Camotim.
The “Sarada M. and Raju A. Vinnakota” award is given by the Structural Stability Research Council, USA, to reward the best article in the area of structural stability, co-authored and presented by a student at the “SSRC Annual Stability Conference”, which takes place within the scope of the “North American Steel Construction Conference”, of the American Institute of Steel Construction. This year the conference took place in Denver, Colorado, between March 22 and 25.
