Affiliated faculty

Maurício V. Donadon (Professor, ITA)

Mariano Andrés Arbelo (Professor, ITA)

Rafael M Lins (Professor, ITA)

André V. G. Cavalieri (Professor, ITA)

Flavio L. de S. Bussamra (Professor, ITA)

Rafael Thiago (Professor, ITA)

Alfredo R. de Faria (Professor, ITA)

Roberto Gil Annes da Silva (Professor, ITA)

Flavio J. Silvestre (Professor, TUBerlin)

Ramesh Talreja (Professor, Texas A&M - USA)

Lorenzo Iannucci (Professor, Imperial College London - UK)

Brian G. Falzon (Professor, Queen´s University of Belfast - UK)

Robin Olsson (Professor, SICOMP - Sweden)

Saullo G. P. Castro (Professor, TUDelft)

Christos Kassapoglou (Professor, TUDelft)

Richard Loendersloot (Professor, UTwente)

Ragnar Larsson (Professor, Chalmers Un. - Sweden)

Gefferson Cleuber (Doctor, Collaborating researcher, ITA)

Thiago Versiani (Doctor, Collaborating researcher, ITA)

Sérgio Augusto Capasciutti de Oliveira (Doctor, Collaborating researcher, ITA)

Rafael Quelho (Doctor, Collaborating researcher, ITA)

Lucas Amaro de Oliveira (Doctor, Collaborating researcher, ITA)

Students

Dante Krivtzoff De' Grandis (Doctoral student, ITA)

Felipe Ruivo Fuga (Doctoral student, ITA)

Plinio Ricardo dos Santos (Doctoral student, ITA)

Átila Lupim Cruz (Doctoral student, ITA)

Funding source

EMBRAER, FAPESP, CAPES, FUNDEP-ROTA 2030, FINEP, CNPq,

Description

Damage in composite structures is a very complex phenomenon which can occur through a different number of failure mechanisms such as fibre breakage, fibre buckling, matrix cracking, fibre-matrix debonding and delamination either combined or individually. The increasing computational resources have allowed reliable prediction of such phenomenon with a certain degree of accuracy by using the finite element method. The ASRG-ITA has been working on the development of a Finite Element based virtual testing platform that enables design of damage tolerant and damage resistant composite structures.