Paulo M. S. Tavares de Castro home-page

· Sérgio M. O.Tavares, João A. Ribeiro, Bruno A. Ribeiro, Paulo M. S. T. de Castro, ‘Aircraft structural design and life-cycle assessment through digital twins’, Designs, 8, no. 2: 29, 2024, https://doi.org/10.3390/designs8020029

· P. M. S. T. de Castro, ‘No risk no progress - a quick tour focusing on materiais and structures’, invited lecture, MDA2024 conf., Porto, Portugal, 4 5 July 2024 (abstract)

· P. M. S. T. de Castro, 'Engenharia e sociedade - uma visão baseada na prevenção de falhas', comunicação à Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2023-11-30 (slides de apoio)

· Filipe A. C. da Silva, Paulo M. S. T. de Castro, ‘Redesign of a failed hoisting shaft of a vertical transfer device’, Eng, 4(3), pp.1981-2002, 2023

· P. M. S. T. de Castro, Seven lectures at UNISA - Università degli Studi di Salerno. May 22-24, 2023. Abstracts (2 lectures for BSc and 5 for MSc students).

· P. M. S. T. de Castro, Sérgio M. O. Tavares, ‘Problemas de fractura em modo misto’, Memórias da Academia das Ciências de Lisboa. Classe de Ciências. Tomo XLIX, Lisboa, 2023

· Sérgio M. O. Tavares, Paulo M. S. T. de Castro, ‘Equivalent stress intensity factor: the consequences of the lack of a unique definition’, Applied Sciences, 13(8), 4820, 2023

· Tomás Carneiro, J. Oliveira, A. J. Baptista, P. M. S. T. de Castro, ‘Enhancement of the LeanDfX product development framework and application to the design of an AGV structure’, Designs, 6(6), 114, 2022

· P. M. S. T. de Castro, ‘Bi-material flywheels and Castigliano’s theorems: a case study’, Journal on Mechanics of Solids, vol.1, No.1, pp.39-59, 2022

· Nuno Graça, Paulo M. S. T. de Castro, 'Fatigue behaviour of a spring: a case study', MATEC Web of Conferences 349, 04009, 2021

· Roberto Citarella, Paulo M. S. T. de Castro, Angelo Maligno, Eds., ‘Fatigue and Fracture Behaviour of Additively Manufactured Mechanical Components’, MDPI, 2021

· Roberto Citarella, Paulo M. S. T. De Castro, Angelo Maligno, Editorial on special issue “Fatigue and Fracture Behaviour of Additive Manufacturing Mechanical Components”, Applied Sciences, 10(5), 1652, 2020

· Luís D. C. Ramalho, Paulo M. S. T. de Castro, ‘Parametric study of fatigue crack growth’, Anales de Mecánica de la Fractura. nº 37. (Texto de las comunicaciones presentadas en el 1st Virtual Iberian Conference on Structural Integrity. 25, 26 y 27 de marzo de 2020), pp.81-85, 2020

· Lucas F. R. C. da Silva, Paulo M. S. T. de Castro, ‘Neuber's rule: a numerical analysis’, Anales de Mecánica de la Fractura. nº 37. (Texto de las comunicaciones presentadas en el 1st Virtual Iberian Conference on Structural Integrity. 25, 26 y 27 de marzo de 2020), pp.110-114, 2020

· Bernardo Furtado de Mendonça, Paulo M. S. T. de Castro, ‘Rupture of the girth gear / kiln shell connection at an expanded clay factory’, Anales de Mecánica de la Fractura. nº 37. (Texto de las comunicaciones presentadas en el 1st Virtual Iberian Conference on Structural Integrity. 25, 26 y 27 de marzo de 2020), pp.321-325, 2020

· Luís M.C. Seixas, S.M.O. Tavares, P.M.S.T. de Castro, ‘Finite element models for structural design of power transformers’, Anales de Mecánica de la Fractura. nº 37. (Texto de las comunicaciones presentadas en el 1st Virtual Iberian Conference on Structural Integrity. 25, 26 y 27 de marzo de 2020), pp.350-354, 2020

· Paulo M. S. T. de Castro, seminar ‘Um sobrevoo do problema da fadiga’, FEUP / Órgãos de Máquinas I, November 6, 2020 (Zoom)

· Paulo M. S. T. de Castro, Sérgio M. O. Tavares, ‘Fadiga de materiais e de estruturas – com enfoque na aeronáutica’, Memórias da Academia das Ciências, Classe de Ciências, tomo XLVII, vol. 2, pp.313-324, 2020

Outros – sociedade, políticas públicas, … / Other – society, public policies, … (recent)

· P. M. S. T. de Castro, introduction to keynote lecture by Prof. V. Senner, 20th Int. Conf. on Experimental Mechanics (ICEM20), Porto, Portugal, July 4, 2023

· P. M. S. T. de Castro, ‘Contexto social da Engenharia: uma escolha de tópicos’, palestras para alunos da Licenciatura em Engenharia Mecânica, FEUP 2023-03-27 e 31

· P. M. S. T. de Castro, ‘Transparency and development’, in: “Elimination and Prevention of Corruption at State, Public and Personal Level”, Nov. 17-18, 2022, Dnipro, Ukraine

· P. M. S. T. de Castro, ‘Inflation, nuclear energy and Ukraine’s reconstruction’, in: "Russia-Ukraine War: Consequences for the World", Dnipro, Ukraine, Oct. 20-21, 2022

· Eduardo Marçal Grilo, José António Sarsfield Cabral, Paulo Tavares de Castro, Rui Guimarães, ‘Riscos do enviesamento informativo : o recente exemplo sobre a educação em Portugal’, Público, October 18, 2022, p.9

· P. M. S. T. de Castro, ‘Portugal 2022: Human Capital, Economic Development and Migrations’, in: “International Migration and Development of Human Potential”, Dnipro, Ukraine, Sept. 14-15, 2022

· P. M. S. T. de Castro, ‘Enginering and society: prospective remarks’, invited talk at 5th Meeting of the Young Researchers of LAETA, 5-6 May 2022, IST, Lisbon. PPT slides; (full paper accepted on 2022-10-10 for publication in Journal on Teaching Engineering)

· P. M. S. T. de Castro, ‘Remarks on 40+ years of Mechanical Engineering teaching’, Journal on Teaching Engineering, vol. 1, no. 1, pp.2-39, 2021

· P. M. S. T. de Castro, ‘ ‘Thank you’ words at Málaga, 15th March 2018´, in: Anuario 2018, Grupo Español de Fractura, pp.41-42, 2018

· P. M. S. T. de Castro, ‘Ensinar Engenharia: Profissão e Ética’, 1996; no site da Comissão de Ética da UP: https://sigarra.up.pt/up/pt/conteudos_service.conteudos_cont?pct_id=10203&pv_cod=43hYLPa4rsIL

Proceedings of organized events (sample)

· 1st Int. Conf. of the International Journal of Structural Integrity, FEUP, Porto, Portugal, June 25-28, 2012.

Book of abstracts

Proceedings (80 MB). Proceedings compressed (13 MB)

· Conferência Ibérica de Fractura e Integridade Estrutural 2010 / Conferencia Ibérica de Fractura e Integridad Estructural 2010 (CIFIE 2010): XXVII Encuentro del Grupo Español de Fractura / 12.as Jornadas de Fractura da SPM. 17-19 March 2010, FEUP, Porto, Portugal. Anales de Mecánica de la Fractura, 2010.

Volume I (44 MB)

Vol.-I cover

Volume II (49 MB)

Vol.-II cover

· 8th Int Conf of Mesomechanics under the auspices of the International Society of Mesomechanics, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal, 19-22 July, 2006.

Proceedings book:

o George C. Sih, Paulo M. S. T. de Castro, ‘Multiscale Behavior of Materials and Structures: Analytical, Numerical and Experimental Simulation’, Porto, Publindústria, 2006. ISBN: 972-8953-07-0

cover

front matter

contents (96 MB)

Relatórios de actividade anuais / Annual reports of activity (recent)

Paulo de Castro and Sérgio Tavares report 2017

Paulo de Castro and Sérgio Tavares report 2016