International Conference on Engineering - Engineering for Society (ICEUBI 2015) 04-12-2015 in IST - CENTEC
The International Conference ICEUBI 2015 took place in 2-4 December 2015 in Covilhã, Portugal.
Dr. J. Sobral from CENTEC presented the paper “Overall Service Efficiency (OSE) of a Condition Monitoring Service through Gap Analysis” by J. Sobral and A. Roque.
13th National Congress of Maintenance 20-11-2015 in IST - CENTEC
The 13th National Congress of Maintenance took place in 19-20 November 2015 in Aveiro, Portugal.
Dr. J. Sobral from CENTEC presented 3 papers: “Maintenance optimization based on a dynamic simulation model (in Portuguese)” by J. Santos and J. Sobral; “Selection of a company providing maintenance service by using the AHP method for decision making (in Portuguese)” by J. Cassiano, M. Calvário, D. Constante, F. Amado and J. Sobral and “Determination of the number of rotators to have in storage based on risk criteria” by J. Almeida, J. Fernandes, R. Rodrigues, F. Cardoso and J.Sobral.
49th ESReDA Seminar - Innovation through Human Factors in Risk Assessment and Maintenance 30-10-2015 in IST - CENTEC
The 49th ESReDA Seminar took place in October 29-30 of 2015 in Brussels, Belgium.
CENTEC team has presented a paper entitled “Methods, techniques and tools to understand human error in industrial activities: a review” by J. Sobral, E. Serrano and L. Ferreira.
Offshore Wind and other Marine Renewable Energies in Mediterranean and European Seas - 8th European Seminar OWEMES 2015 09-10-2015 in IST - CENTEC
The 8th European Seminar OWEMES 2015 took place from 8-9 October 2015 in Rome, Italy.
CENTEC was represented by A. Sinha who presented 2 papers: "Shallow water effects on a hydraulic power take-off WEC with reactive control" by A. Sinha, D. Karmakar and C. Guedes Soares and "Hydrodynamic behaviour of concentric arrays of point absorbers attached to a bottom-mounted platform" by A. Sinha, D. Karmakar and C. Guedes Soares.
16th Congress of International Maritime Association of the Mediterranean (IMAM 2015) 24-09-2015 in IST - CENTEC
The 16th Congress of International Maritime Association of the Mediterranean took place from 21-24 September 2015 in Pula, Croatia.
It had the CENTEC presence of Prof. C. Guedes Soares, Prof. José Gordo, Prof. Manuel Ventura, Prof. Yordan Garbatov, Prof. Tiago Santos, Yan Dong, Saad Eldeen and Liliana Rusu with presentation of a total of 15 papers.
MARSIM 2015 Conference 11-09-2015 in IST - CENTEC
The MARSIM 2015 Conference took place from 8-11 September 2015 at Newcastle University, UK.
It was attended by Dr. S. Sutulo who presented the paper: "Offline system identification of ship manoeuvring mathematical models with a global optimization algorithm" by S. Sutulo and C. Guedes Soares.
European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC 2015) 11-09-2015 in IST - CENTEC
The European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference took place from 6-11 September 2015 in Nantes, France.
CENTEC was represented by Prof. Sérgio Silva and Ashank Sinha, who presented the paper: “Hydrodynamic analysis of array of wave absorbers combined with a floating platform” by A. Sinha, D. Karmakar and C. Guedes Soares.
Annual European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2015) 10-09-2015 in IST - CENTEC
The annual European Safety and Reliability conference took place from 7-10 September 2015 in Zurich, Switzerland, and CENTEC was represented by Dr. José Sobral and Bruno Gaspar.
The presented papers were: "Fire safety barrier availability analysis" by J. Sobral and C. Guedes Soares; "A study on a stopping criterion for active refinement algorithms in Kriging surrogate models" by B. Gaspar, A.P. Teixeira and C. Guedes Soares; and the "Maritime risk assessment in inland waterways: The past and the future" by X. P. Yan, D. Zhang, J. Wang and C. Guedes Soares.
19th International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC) – 6-10 September 2015 – Hotel Cascais Miragem, Cascais 06-09-2015 in IST - CENTEC
The 19th International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC) will be held at the Hotel Cascais Miragem, Cascais from 6th to 10th September 2015 and is being organized by CENTEC, Instituto Superior Técnico.
The Congress, which takes place every three years, is the most prestigious meeting in the area of ship and offshore structures, bringing together the best specialists and experts worldwide. They are invited to be members of technical committees and who during three years prepare reports evaluating the current state-of-the-art in the various related areas, and then submit the reports for discussion during the Congress.
http://www.issc2015.org/programme
International Workshop on Nautical Traffic Models (IWNTM 2015) 29-08-2015 in IST - CENTEC
The International Workshop on Nautical Traffic Models took place on 26-29 August 2015 in Espoo, Finland.
CENTEC was represented by Prof. Ângelo Teixeira, who presented the paper: "Evaluation of near-collisions in the Tagus River Estuary using a marine traffic simulation model", by H. Rong, A.P. Teixeira and C. Guedes Soares.
55th ERSA Congress 28-08-2015 in IST - CENTEC
The 55th ERSA Congress took place from 25-28 August 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal, and CENTEC was represented by Prof. Tiago Santos and Pedro Monteiro.
The presented paper was: "The ‘Portuguese Range’ as the Western most Maritime Region of Europe", by T.A. Santos, A.M.P Santos and C. Guedes Soares.
5th International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance and Safety Engineering (QR2MSE 2015) 24-07-2015 in IST - CENTEC
The 5th International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance and Safety Engineering took place from July 21 to July 24 of 2015 in Beijing, China.
Prof. C. Guedes Soares gave an invited keynote presentation on: Simulation methods for Structural Reliability Assessments.
Summer School Rogue and Shock Waves in Nonlinear Dispersive Media 17-07-2015 in IST - CENTEC
The Rogue and Shock Waves in Nonlinear Dispersive Media Summer School took place from 6 to 17 July 2015 in Cargèse, France.
CENTEC was represented by Huidong Zhang.
12th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP12) 15-07-2015 in IST - CENTEC
The 12th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering took place from 12 June to 15 July 2015 in Vancouver, Canada.
CENTEC was represented by Bruno Gaspar, who presented the paper: “Adaptive surrogate model with active refinement combining Kriging and a trust region method”, by B. Gaspar, A.P. Teixeira and C. Guedes Soares.
Coastal Meteorology and Oceanography Summer School 03-07-2015 in IST - CENTEC
The Coastal Meteorology and Oceanography Summer School took place from 6 July 2015 to 13 July 2015 in Almada, Portugal.
CENTEC was represented by Roberto Vettor.
Congress on Numerical Methods in Engineering (CMN 2015) 02-07-2015 in IST - CENTEC
The Congress on Numerical Methods in Engineering took place from 29 June to 2 July 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal, being attended by Prof. J. Sobral.
The papers presented were: “Maintenance optimization based on a dynamic simulation model (in Portuguese)” by J. Santos and J. Sobral; “Selection of a company providing maintenance service by using the AHP method for decision making (in Portuguese)” by J. Cassiano, M. Calvário, D. Constante, F. Amado and J. Sobral; and “Determination of the number of rotators to have in storage based on risk criteria” by J. Almeida, J. Fernandes, R. Rodrigues, F. Cardoso and J. Sobral.
3rd International Conference on Transportation Information and Safety (ICTIS – 2015) 28-06-2015 in IST - CENTEC
The international conference ICTIS 2015 was held in Wuhan, China, from 25-28 June of 2015.
CENTEC was represented by Prof. C. Guedes Soares who gave a keynote presentation on improving safety levels from the analysis of accidents. Two other papers were presented: “A Sequential Barrier-based Model to Evaluate Human Reliability in Maritime Accident Process” by B. Wu, X. P. Yan, Y. Wang, D. Zhang and C. Guedes Soares and “A Bayesian Network Modelling and Risk Analysis on LNG Carrier Anchoring System” by S. Zhao, H. H. Zhu and C. Guedes Soares.
European Conference on Shipping and Intermodalism – ECONSHIP 2015 27-06-2015 in IST - CENTEC
The European conference ECONSHIP 2015 took place from 24 June 2015 to 27 June in Chios, Greece.
CENTEC was represented by Prof. Tiago Santos who presented the paper: "Port regionalization in the Portuguese range" by T.A. Santos and C. Guedes Soares.
18th International Conference on Ships and Shipping Research – NAV 2015 26-06-2015 in IST - CENTEC
The international conference NAV 2015 took place from 24 to 26 June 2015 in Lecco, Italy.
CENTEC was represented by Prof. Yordan Garbatov, who presented the paper: “Fatigue strength analysis of longitudinal bulkheads of passenger ships with large openings” by G. Risso, C. Cau, Y. Garbatov, and C. Guedes Soares.
Meeting of European project MOSAIC, Materials On-Board: Steel Advancements and Integrated Composites 25-06-2015 in IST - CENTEC
The MOSAIC workshop took place on 25 June 2015 in Lecco, Italy.
CENTEC was represented by Prof. C. Guedes Soares and Prof. Y. Garbatov.
11th Int. Conf. TRANSNAV 2015 on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation 22-06-2015 in CENTEC - IST
The PhD Student, Roberto Vettor has participated in the TRANSNAV2015 Conference, held in Gdynia, Poland from 17 to 19 June 2015, where he also presented a paper that was published in Conference Proc.
Vettor, R. and Guedes Soares, C. (2015), “Multi-objective Route Optimization for Onboard Decision Support System”, Information, Communication and Environment: Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation, A. Weintrit & T. Neumann (Eds.), CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 99-106.
Third Symposium on OpenFOAM® in Wind Energy 20-06-2015 in CENTEC - IST
Saman Tarbiat, Research student of CENTEC has attended the 3rd Symposium on OpenFOAM® in Wind Energy on 15/16 June in Milan, Italy, where he presented a paper.
S. Tarbiat e C. Guedes Soares, "Wind shear effect on aerodynamic performance of wind turbine”, Third Symposium on Open FOAM in Wind Energy, Milan, June 2015.
Marinet Project at Tecnalia 17-06-2015 in IST - CENTEC
A team of CENTEC led by Dr. José Gaspar has visited Tecnalia in Bilbao, Spain, from 15 June 2015 to 17 June 2015.
The aim was to develop a study of Generic Hydraulic Power Take-Off System for Wave Energy Converters, funded by the Marinet project.
Keynote Lecture at WREC XIV - WORLD RENEWABLE ENERGY CONGRESS 14 15-06-2015 in CENTEC - IST
Prof. C. Guedes Soares has delived an invited keynote lecture presentation at the plenary session of the World Renewable Energy Congress that took place in Bucarest, Romania, 8-12 June 2015.
The presentation was on Risk Assessment and Reliability of Wind Turbines
34th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE2015) 08-06-2015 in CENTEC - IST
Researchers of CENTEC have participated in the 34th International Conference OMAE2015 that took place in St. Johns Newfoundland in Canada from 31 May to 5 June 2015.
5 papers that are published in the Proceedings of the Conference, were presented at the conference by S. Rajendran, D. Karmakar and C. Guedes Soares.
15th International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2015) 03-06-2015 in IST - CENTEC
ICCS 2015 took place in Reykjavik (Iceland) on 1-3 June of 2015.
This event included two papers from CENTEC: Vettor, R., Guedes Soares, C., "Computational system for planning search and rescue operations at sea" and J. M. Varela, J. M. Rodrigues, C. Guedes Soares, "3D simulation of ship motions to support the planning of rescue operations on damaged ships".
Elsevier Editors' Conference 17-05-2015 in IST - CENTEC
Prof. Carlos Guedes Soares participated in Elsevier Editors' Conference - Berlin 2015 that took place from 15 to 17 May 2015
Prof. Carlos Guedes Soares, as Editor-in-chief of the Reliability Engineering and System Safety Journal, participated in Elsevier Editors' Conference - Berlin 2015 that took place from 15 to 17 May 2015 in Berlin, Germany.
Official Visit of the President of the Portuguese Republic to Norway 15-05-2015 in CENTEC - IST
Prof. C. Guedes Soares, representing CENTEC, has participated in the workshop in Oslo on May 5th, integrated in the Official Visit of the President of the Portuguese Republic to Norway on 4-6 May 2015
One of the main objectives of this visit was promoting the next call of collaborative project proposals in the area of the Sea being supported by the Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology (FCT) and the Research Council of Norway (RCN).
Meeting of the Ship Risk Project in Trondheim 15-05-2015 in IST - CENTEC
Prof. Carlos Guedes Soares participated in the annual meeting of the Ship Risk project that took place from 7 May 2015 to 9 May 2015 in Trondheim, Norway.
The Norwegian Research Council is funding this research project aimed at developing a new ship risk model for the Norwegian Maritime Authority and Prof. Guedes Soares is a consultant to the Norwegian project team.
Meeting of project Marine Renewable Energies (Maren 2) 07-05-2015 in IST - CENTEC
The meeting of the Marine Renewable Energy (Maren 2) project took place in Cardiff (UK) from 5 May 2015 to 7 May 2015 .
CENTEC was represented by Ana Rute Bento.
37th Motorship Propulsion & Emissions Conference (Motorship 2015) 01-05-2015 in IST - CENTEC
CENTEC has co-authored a paper presented at the 37th Motorship Propulsion & Emissions Conference (Motorship 2015) took place in 4-5 March of 2015 in Hamburg, Germany.
The paper presented was “Minimum Propulsion and Steering Requirements for Efficient and Safe Operation (SHOPERA)”, by Papanikolaou, A., Zaraphonitis, G., Bitner-Gregersen , E., Shigunov, V., El Moctar, O., Guedes Soares, C., Reddy, D.N. and Sprenger, F. (2015)
MARSTRUCT 2015 02-04-2015 in CENTEC - IST
CENTEC has participated in the 5th International Conference on Marine Structures (MARSTRUCT2015) that took place in Southampton from 25 to 27 March 2015. 7 Researchers have presented 9 communications.
The papers have been published in the book: Guedes Soares, C. and Shenoi, R.A. (Eds.), (2015), Analysis and Design of Marine Structures, Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK, 800 pages, ISBN: 978-1-138-027893.
SHOPERA FP7 Project Meeting 26-03-2015 in CENTEC - IST
The FP7 SHOPERA (http://shopera.org/) meeting was organized by the German partner, University Duisburg/Essen on 16th and 17th March to discuss the work developed and the correspondent results.
CENTEC was represented by Prof. C. Guedes Soares and Dr. Serge Sutulo.
FP7 CYCLADES Project Assembly Meeting 25-03-2015 in CENTEC-IST
The FP7 CYCLADES (http://www.cyclades-project.eu/) Assembly Meeting took place on 12th-13th March 2015 in Brussels to discuss the project progress and present the results to the EU project officcer.
CENTEC was represented by Prof. Ângelo P. Teixeira.
9º Symposium of Meteorology and Geophysics (APMG) 20-03-2015 in CENTEC - IST
Mariana Bernardino, Researcher at CENTEC has participated in the 9º Symposium of Meteorology and Geophysics (APMG), that was held in Tavira, Portugal, on 16-18 March 2015 and has presented the paper:
M. Bernardino, C. Guedes Soares, H. Cabrera, A. Semedo. "Assessing the North Atlantic present and future climates- The Clibeco project".
International Navigation Conference (RIN - INC 2015) 26-02-2015 in CENTEC - IST
Roberto Vettor, PhD student and research assistant at CENTEC has participated in the International Navigation Conference that was held in Manchester on 24-26th February 2015 and has presented the paper:
The paper rpesented was: Vettor, R. and Guedes Soares, C. (2015), “A Ship Weather Routing Tool to Face the Challenges of an Evolving Maritime Trade”, RIN International Navigation Conference 2015 (RIN-INC 2015), 24-26 February, Manchester, UK.
Atlantic Stakeholder Conference 21-01-2015 in CENTEC - IST
The CENTEC Team has participated with a stand representing the MAREN2 project in the Atlantic Stakeholder Conference, in Porto, on the 20th of January 2015.
The successful outputs of MAREN projects were presented in the parallel session on Blue Economy.
CENTEC classified by FCT as EXCELLENT 07-01-2015 in IST-CENTEC
FCT has announced the results of the National Evaluation of Research Centres and CENTEC have been classified as EXCELLENT having a total of 23.5/25 points.
These results reflect the work done during the last 5-year period and are valid for the next 5 years. CENTEC, the Centre for Marine Technology and Ocean Engineering, is a multidisciplinary Centre affiliated to the FCT areas of “Mechanical Engineering & Engineering Science” and of “Marine Sciences & Technologies”. For more information follow the link:
http://www.centec.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/centec_public/CENTEC-FCT.pdf
Paper on Composite Structures in the group of the 1% most cited papers in Materials Science in the Web of Science 06-01-2015 in Fonte: Essential Science Indicators
Mantari, J. L. and Guedes Soares, C. Optimized sinusoidal higher order shear deformation theory for the analysis of functionally graded plates and shells. Composites Part B. 2014; 56:126-136.
As of November/December 2014, this highly cited paper received enough citations to place it in the top 1% of the academic field of Materials Science based on a highly cited threshold for the field and publication year.