Lines of Research
AREA OF CIVIL CONSTRUCTION
| Line of Research | Faculty | Research Project / Themes |
| Environmental Comfort and Energy | Enedir Ghisi | Climate adaptation and rational water use in buildings. |
| Rational water use and energy efficiency in social housing. | ||
| Fernando Oscar Rutkay Pereira | Application of renewable environmental energy, natural light, solar radiation and wind to increase energy savings, productivity and life quality in the built environment. | |
| Ricardo Ruther | Application of solar photovoltaic energy. | |
| Roberto Lamberts, Deivis Marinoski and
Saulo Guths |
Environmental comfort and energy efficiency:
– simulation of energy consumption in commercial buildings. – human thermal comfort. |
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| Construction Materials and Processes | Antônio Edésio Jungles | Construction management. Disaster risk management. |
| Fernanda Fernandes Marchiori | Cost management of construction projects. | |
| Information and physical resources management in construction. | ||
| Janaíde Cavalcante Rocha | Reuse of industrial and urban waste for the development of civil construction materials. | |
| Evaluation of contaminants in construction waste and development of decision support systems (DSS). | ||
| Luiz Roberto Prudêncio Jr. | Research and development on Portland cement concretes. | |
| Malik Cheriaf | Development of methodologies for the evaluation of materials containing waste. | |
| Philippe J. P. Gleize and
Fernando Pelisser |
Development of cement materials through the application of nanotechnology concepts. | |
| Wellington L. Repette | Special materials in civil construction. |
AREA OF STRUCTURES
| Line of Research | Faculty | Research Projects / Themes |
| Structural Analysis and Design | Daniel D. Loriggio | Computational analysis for structural design. |
| Leandro Fleck Fadel Miguel | Numerical and experimental analysis of structures submitted to static and dynamic loads. | |
| Otávio Augusto Alves da Silveira | Topology optimization in the design of structures and microstructures. | |
| Rafael Holdorf Lopez | Quantification of uncertainties and optimization. | |
| Wellison José de Santana Gomes | Strategies for the efficient solution of the structural risk optimization problem. | |
| Experimental Analysis and Mechanical Behavior of Structural Elements and Systems | Poliana Dias de Moraes | Bonds and reinforcements in wooden structures particularly wood originated from planted forests. Modeling of structures subjected to fire. |
| Roberto Caldas de Andrade Pinto and
Marcos Lenzi |
Experimental analysis of reinforced concrete structures and composite material structures. | |
| Evaluation of performance and integrity of concrete structures through nondestructive testing. | ||
AREA OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND GEOTECHNICS
| Line of Research | Faculty | Research Project / Themes |
| Geotechnics | Gracielli Diesttmann | Soil mechanics.
Geomechanics and modeling. |
| Paving | Glicério Trichês | New materials used in paving and pavement performance. |
| Functional asphalt mixtures and silent pavements. | ||
| João Victor Staub de Melo | Nanotechnology applied to paving. | |
| Functional asphalt mixtures. | ||
| Liseane P. Thives | Flexible pavements. Pavement Design. | |
| Rheology: binders and asphalt mixtures. |
