European Project CYCLADES 19-11-2012 in IST - CENTEC
The EU project "Crew-centered Design and Operations of ships and ship systems", in which CENTEC participates, has started on the 1st October 2012 and will last for 3 years.
The CyClaDes project is designed to promote the consideration of the increased impact of the human element in shipping. It introduces a user-centered perspective in tools and methods that provide the support to the human element in all stages of ship design and operation.
European Project SENSE&REACT 16-11-2012 in IST - CENTEC
The project SENSE&REACT - The context-aware and user-centric information distribution system for manufacturing, in which CENTEC participates, has started on 1st October 2012 and will last for 3 years.
The project objective is to provide an ICT platform with sensors, wireless networks mobile devices, MES, ERP and information management systems to support manufacturing and speed up production processes.
ISSC - International Ship and Offshore Congress 17-09-2012 in CENTEC - IST
During the 2012 ISSC in Rostock (10-13 Sept) Prof C. Guedes Soares has become Chairman of ISSC, a position that will be held for the next 3 years, with Prof Y Garbatov as Secretary of the organization
The International Ship and Offshore Congress is a very prestigious international organization composed of Technical committees and Specialist committees that gather specialists of all over the world to overview the advances made in all scientific areas related with ship and offshore structures.
European Project MOSAIC 01-09-2012 in CENTEC - IST
The EU project MOSAIC - Materials Onboard: Steel Advancements and Integrated Composites, in which CENTEC participates, has started on the 1st September 2012 and will last for 3 years.
The project deals with the introduction of High Strength Low Alloyed Steels (HSLA) in specific structural details in order to deal with the major issue of crack initiation and propagation in critical areas of ships and also with the replacement of specific structural components of steel ships with composite materials.
2012 CEMT Award delivered to Professor Carlos Guedes Soares 30-07-2012 in IST - CENTEC
The 2012 International Award of the Confederation of European Maritime Technology Societies (CEMT) was conferred to Prof. Carlos Guedes Soares.
This Award was conferred in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the promotion and dissemination of knowledge in maritime technology. The award was delivered to him by Trevor Blakeley, the CEMT Chairman (Chief-Executive Officer of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects) in a ceremony that took place at Ordem dos Engenheiros in Lisbon on 27th July 2012.
Visit of Prof. Yordan Garbatov to the Univeristá degli Studi di Trieste, Italy 23-07-2012 in IST - CENTEC
Prof. Garbatov visited the Univeristá degli Studi di Trieste during the week 9-13 July 2012 in the scope of a collaboration agreement between the 2 universities for the interchange of ERASMUS students
This visit allowed the discussion and comparison of the curricular plans of both institutions, as well as the opportunity to plan the future exchange of students .
Visit of Prof. C. Guedes Soares to the University of Ghent, Belgium 28-05-2012 in IST-CENTEC
Prof. C. Guedes Soares visited the University of Ghent from 22 to 24 May 2012 in the scope of a collaboration agreement between the two universities for the interchange of ERASMUS students.
This visit had the additional objective of improving the knowledge about the research activity in both universities and to establish a basis of future collaboration in research.
Visit of Prof. Ana Alvarez from the University of La Coruña, Spain 21-05-2012 in IST-CENTEC
Prof. Ana Alvarez visited CENTEC from 7 to 11 May 2012 in the scope of a collaboration agreement between the two universities for the interchange of ERASMUS students.
This visit had the objective of reinforce the collaboration in the education of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and to improve the prospects of collaboration in research.
Visit of the General Director of the Campus of the Federal University of Santa Catarina at Joinville, Brazil 02-05-2012 in IST - CENTEC
Prof. Acires Dias visited CENTEC on the 26 and 27 April 2012 with the objective of analyzing the possibility of cooperation between the two institutions in the education of Naval Architects.
Professor Acires Dias also presented a seminar about the Center of Mobility Engineering of UFSC.
Visit of Prof. C. Guedes Soares to the University of Pusan, Korea 30-03-2012 in IST / CENTEC
On the 23rd March 2012 Prof C. Guedes Soares delivered a seminar on Strength Assessment of Corroded Structures at the Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering of the University of Pusan.
Visit of Prof C. Guedes Soares to the Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute (KORDI) 29-03-2012 in IST / CENTEC
Prof C. Guedes Soares has visited the Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute (KORDI) on 21-22nd March 2012 and delivered a series of seminars.
Prof C. Guedes Soares has visited the Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute (KORDI) on 21-22nd March 2012 and delivered a series of seminars on prospects on risk based ship design and application of structural reliability approach to ship design to an audience from KORDI, Korean Register of Shipping, Samsung Heavy industries shipyard, Hyunday Shipyards, Kusan National University and Ulsan University, all of which are involved in a Korean funded project on Risk Based Structural Design
Visit of Prof. C. Guedes Soares to Seoul National University 27-03-2012 in IST / CENTEC
On March 20th 2012, Prof C. Guedes Soares has delivered a seminar at the Dep. of Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering on Reliability Assessment of Intact and Damaged Ship Structures.
SIGNIFICANT PAPER OF THE JOURNAL OF SHIP RESEARCH 2011 18-01-2012 in CENTEC-IST
Saad-Eldeen, S., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. , “Corrosion-Dependent Ultimate Strength Assessment of Aged Box Girders Based on Experimental Results”, Journal of Ship Research
The paper co-authored by Saad-Eldeen, S., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. , “Corrosion-Dependent Ultimate Strength Assessment of Aged Box Girders Based on Experimental Results”, published in December issue of the Journal of Ship Research, has been selected as a Significant Paper, one of the best papers published in a SNAME periodical in 2011, and was re-published in the SNAME Transactions of 2011. A copy of the paper can be found at:
http://www.mar.ist.utl.pt/centec_public/3.1.75-JSR_55_(2011).pdf