Diogo Ribeiro won a scholarship to the individual in the program Fulbright Teachers and Researchers with a Phd
A professor at the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP) will participate in a project that is american about high-speed rail lines, which aims to unite the cities of Los Angeles and san Francisco, in the United States until 2022.
The researchers aim to create “numerical models advanced include the bridge, the railroad and railway vehicles, and the interaction between these subsystems”, to simulate the “dynamic response” in terms of displacements, accelerations and other quantities”, said to Lusa the professor Diogo Ribeiro, is selected to join in this project.
according To the also director of the undergraduate program in Civil Engineering of ISEP, the dynamic effects on railway bridges “are relevant to speeds of circulation greater than 200 kilometers per hour.”
These effects may “put at risk the structural safety, stability of the via and the contact wheel-rail, as well as the comfort of the passengers”, phenomena that can “aggravate due to the frequency of actions in the seismic zone of California”.
the activities of The project “Methodologies and numerical advanced evaluation of the dynamic behavior of railway bridges on high speed lines” take place in the premises of the University of California, San Diego, california, USA, between 16 November 2016 and 1 march 2017.
Diogo Ribeiro won a scholarship to the individual in the program Fulbright, intended for teachers and researchers holding a phd degree.
According to the professor, this grant and the project associated with it constitute “an excellent opportunity for the Civil Engineering Department of ISEP (DEC-ISEP) strengthen ties with a research centre of reference at the global level, in relation to Engineering Structures, and projects and publications at the level of the Earthquake Engineering”.
“The experience of DEC-ISEP-level modelling of the dynamic interaction between railway vehicles and bridges is a valencia still little explored by the research group of the USA and, therefore, the aggregation of the competencies of each of the sides can be a surplus value to the possible success of the project,” he added.
Since 2005, Diogo Ribeiro has participated in or coordinated studies numerical and experimental bridges under the action of rail traffic, in the framework of national and international projects.
In 2004 and 2005, the professor collaborated in the technical partnership established between the RAVE (High Speed Network) and the Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto (FEUP), in the scope of the definition of design basis and technical specifications for the railway infrastructure of the future network of high-speed Portuguese.
he Made the part, in 2008, of the technical team responsible for the study of the derailment of the locomotive LRV on the railway line of Tua, specifically in the studies numerical and experimental of the dynamic interaction between the damaged vehicle and the rail.
The Fulbright Commission came in 1960, the result of a diplomatic agreement between Portugal and the United States. Since then, the program has provided educational exchange and, to date, grants were awarded for study and research approximately 1300 students and scholars of Portuguese and 750 american, reads a briefing note of the ISEP.
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