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Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering

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Abbreviation
  
ISISE

Vice Director
  
Paulo B. Lourenço

Official language
  
Portuguese, English

Director
  
Luís Simões da Silva

Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering

Type
  
Research and development Institute

Location
  
Coimbra & Braga, Portugal

The Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (ISISE) is a research unit funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia), incorporating University of Coimbra and University of Minho as hosting institutions in Portugal. The Unit is organised in three research groups, addressing the topics of construction technologies in historical materials and masonry, steel and mixed materials, and concrete. In summary, ISISE aims at promoting innovation and sustainability, with a close link to the construction sector industry. The most relevant focus areas include:

  • Characterisation of building materials
  • Constitutive and structural modelling
  • Characterisation of structural behaviour
  • Inspection, assessment and monitoring of existing structures
  • Safety evaluation of structures
  • Development of an integrated life-time structural approach and tools for monitoring of existing structures
  • Design of sustainable structures

    • Evaluation by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology

    In the latest (2014) Evaluation of R&D Units by FCT, ISISE was rated as Excellent.

    References

    Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering Wikipedia
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