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

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.

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