Cláudio Carlos da Silva Horas (6F12-AB5F-1250)

Curriculum Vitae

Cláudio Carlos da Silva Horas is a Structural Engineer, currently developing his scientific activity as a post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) as member of the Institute of R&D in Sctructures and Construction (CONSTRUCT). The researcher has several publications in international peer-reviewed journals, focusing his investigation on the structural analysis of railway bridges, metallic materials and fatigue assessment, proposing global-local fatigue approaches to predict the remaining service life of aging bridges. Such tools have had a real impact in the industry and have been adopted by the Portuguese Infrastructure Manager as guideline to analyse the country’s railway bridge stock. Currently, He is developing two lines of research focused on: i) integrating multiscale approaches leveraged by Artificial Intelligence techniques for implementing local fatigue methods in digital twins; and ii) researching on 3D printing using additive manufacturing as a green strengthening technology, evaluating fatigue resistance models to be incorporated in i). The researcher has a PhD degree from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), obtained with the defence of the dissertation entitled "Integrated methodology for fatigue life prediction of existing metallic railway bridges" (2021), approved with distinction (Cum Laude). In 2011, after concluding the MSc in Civil Engineering at FEUP with a final grade of 17 (out of 20), with the presentation of his MSc thesis entitled "Dynamic behaviour of bridges with precast decks on high-speed railways" classified with 19 (out of 20), the researcher worked as Structural Engineer at Adão da Fonseca, Eng. Consultores (AdF). This period in industry, between 2011 and 2015, allowed him to develop diversified skills, working on the design of high-rise buildings, bridges and special structures. Specializations: Structural Analysis, Dynamic Analysis of Special Structures, High-Rise Buildings, Steel Structures, Mixed Structures and Reinforced Concrete Structures.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Cláudio Carlos da Silva Horas

Citation names

Horas, Cláudio S.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 6F12-AB5F-1250
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9868-3270

Email addresses

claudiohoras@fe.up.pt (Professional)

Websites

https://sigarra.up.pt/feup/pt/func_geral.formview?p_codigo=585413 (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Engineering and Technology - Civil Engineering

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian	Intermediate (B1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Intermediate (B1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Intermediate (B1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2015/09/15 - 2021/07/20 Concluded	Engenharia Civil (Doutoramento) Major in Estruturas Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal "Integrated methodology for fatigue life prediction of existing metallic railway bridges" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Approved (Cum Laude)
2008/09/15 - 2011/07/27 Concluded	Engenharia Civil (Mestrado integrado) Major in Estruturas Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal "Dynamic behaviour of railway bridges with precast deck for high speed traffic" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17
2005/09/15 - 2008/07/15 Concluded	Engenharia Civil (Licenciatura) Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal	18

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/07/21 - Current	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2015/09/15 - 2021/07/20	Researcher (Research)	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2011/09/15 - 2015/09/15	Engenheiro de Estruturas	Adão da Fonseca, Engenheiros Consultores, Lda., Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2021/05/04 - 2022/01/19	Research into enhanced track and switch and crossing system 3 (IN2TRACK3) 101012456 Research Fellow Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal	Concluded
2020/10/01 - 2021/05/03	Research into enhanced track and switch and crossing system 2 (IN2TRACK2) 826255 Research Fellow Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal	Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2023/06/01 - Current	SMART WAGONS - Desenvolvimento de capacidade produtiva em Portugal de vagões inteligentes para mercadorias PRR - C644940527-00000048 Post-doc Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2022/01/20 - 2023/05/30	Research into enhanced track and switch and crossing system 3 (IN2TRACK3) 101012456 Post-doc Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal	Concluded
2021/10/13 - 2021/12/31	Ensaios para a caracterização experimental do comportamento monotónico de ligações aparafusadas e rebitadas IC NE006721 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal	Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31	Instituto de I&D em Estruturas e Construções UID/ECI/04708/2019 Universidade do Porto Instituto de I e D em Estruturas e Construção, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book	Ana Ramos; Carolina Furtado; Aires Colaço; Albertino Arteiro; André Furtado; Cláudio Horas; Igor Lopes; Rodrigo Carvalho; Sérgio Pereira. Proceedings of the 7th ECCOMAS Young Investigators Conference (ECCOMAS YIC 2023). Zenodo. 2023. 10.5281/ZENODO.8393048
Conference paper	Horas, Cláudio S.; Correia, José A.F.O.; De Jesus, Abilio Manuel Pinho; Calçada, Rui; Aenlle, M.L.; Kripakaran, P.; Pelayo, F.; Fernandez-Canteli, A.. "Application of Modal Superposition Technique in the Fatigue Analysis Using Local Approaches". Paper presented in XVIII International Colloquium on Mechanical Fatigue of Metals (ICMFM XVIII), Gíjon, 2016. 10.1016/j.proeng.2016.08.861
Journal article	Gao, Qinglin; Xin, Haohui; Horas, Cláudio S.; Mosallam, Ayman S.; Liu, Yuqing; Berto, Filippo; Ma, Jianxun; Sun, Qing; Correia, José A.F.O.. Corresponding author: Horas, Cláudio S.. "Probabilistic fatigue stiffness variation of angle-ply GFRP composites considering stress ratio effect". Engineering Structures 304 (2024): 117622. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2024.117622. Published • 10.1016/j.engstruct.2024.117622 Mendes, Paulo; Monteiro, Mário; Correia, José A.F.O.; Vieira, Manuel; Reis, Ana; Horas, Cláudio S.; de Jesus, Abílio. Corresponding author: Horas, Cláudio S.. "High-cycle rotating-bending fatigue performance of S690QL welded joints". Journal of Constructional Steel Research 214 (2024): 108488. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcsr.2024.108488. Published • 10.1016/j.jcsr.2024.108488 Idilson Nhamage; Ngoc-Son Dang; Claúdio Horas; João Poças Martins; José Matos; Rui Calçada. "Performing Fatigue State Characterization in Railway Steel Bridges Using Digital Twin Models". Applied Sciences (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/app13116741. 10.3390/app13116741 Horas, Cláudio S.; De Jesus, Abilio Manuel Pinho; Calçada, Rui. "New multiphase methodology for fatigue damage screening of aging metallic railway bridges". International Journal of Fatigue 169 (2023): 107498-107498. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2022.107498. 10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2022.107498 Horas, Cláudio S.; De Jesus, Abilio Manuel Pinho; Calçada, Rui. "Efficient progressive global-local fatigue assessment methodology for existing metallic railway bridges". Journal of Constructional Steel Research 196 (2022): 107431-107431. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcsr.2022.107431. 10.1016/j.jcsr.2022.107431 Horas, Cláudio S.; De Jesus, Abilio Manuel Pinho; Ribeiro, Diogo; Calçada, Rui. "Efficient multiscale methodology for local stress analysis of metallic railway bridges based on modal superposition principles". Engineering Failure Analysis 138 (2022): 106391-106391. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.engfailanal.2022.106391. 10.1016/j.engfailanal.2022.106391 Horas, Cláudio S.; De Jesus, Abilio Manuel Pinho; Calçada, Rui. "Efficient computational approach for fatigue assessment of riveted connections". Journal of Constructional Steel Research 153 (2019): 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcsr.2018.10.005. 10.1016/j.jcsr.2018.10.005 Horas, Cláudio S.; Alencar, Guilherme; De Jesus, Abilio Manuel Pinho; Calçada, Rui. "Development of an efficient approach for fatigue crack initiation and propagation analysis of bridge critical details using the modal superposition technique". Engineering Failure Analysis 89 (2018): 118-137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfailanal.2018.03.009. 10.1016/j.engfailanal.2018.03.009 Horas, Cláudio S.; Correia, José António Fonseca De Oliveira; De Jesus, Abilio Manuel Pinho; Kripakaran, P.; Calçada, Rui. "Application of the modal superposition technique combined with analytical elastoplastic approaches to assess the fatigue crack initiation on structural components". Engineering Fracture Mechanics 185 (2017): 271-283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfracmech.2017.06.001. 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2017.06.001
Thesis / Dissertation	"Integrated methodology for fatigue life prediction of existing metallic railway bridges". PhD, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/136063. Horas, Cláudio Carlos da Silva. "Dynamic Behaviour of Bridges with Precast Decks on High-Speed Railways". Master, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/66380.

Other

Technical standard

Development of methodology for evaluating the remaining useful life of railway bridges. Member of the Work Team for the development of a Manual of Recommendations on ¿Development of methodology for evaluating the remaining useful life of railway bridges¿ to be used by entities contracted by Infraestruturas de Portugal for the assessment of existing metallic bridges.. 2020. Horas, Cláudio S.; Montenegro, Pedro Aires; Correia, José; Abilio Manuel Pinho De Jesus; Calçada, Rui.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/02/02	Advanced Two-Phase Fatigue Analysis in Railway Engineering	Portuguese Conference on Fracture (Setúbal, Portugal)
2023/11/14	Enhanced Fatigue Life Prediction in Ancient Riveted Metallic Railway Bridges	XLIV Ibero-Latin American Congress on Computational Methods in Engineering (CILAMCE2023) Universidade do Porto - Faculdade de Engenharia; Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2023/07/03	New Multiphase Methodology for Fatigue Damage Screening of Aging Metallic Railway Bridges	XII International Conference on Structural Dynamics (Eurodyn 2023) Delft University of Technology (Delft, Netherlands)
2022/11/23	Integrated methodology for fatigue life prediction of existing metallic railway bridges	XLIII Congresso Ibero-Latino-Americano em Métodos Computacionais em Engenharia (CILAMCE 2022) ABMEC (Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil)
2022/08/23	Integrated methodology for fatigue assessment of existing metallic railway bridges	The Fifth International Conference on Railway Technology (Railways, 2022) (Montpellier, France)
2022/07/13	Advanced numerical analysis of fatigue-critical details of existing metallic railway bridges	Maintenance, Safety, Risk, Management and Life-Cycle Performance of Bridges (IABMAS 2022) UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya/IABMAS (Barcelona, Spain)
2021/09/16	Advanced numerical modelling combined with analytical tools to implement local fatigue methods	XX International Colloquium on Mechanical Fatigue of Metals (ICMFM XX) University of Wroclaw (Wroclaw, Poland)
2019/02/20	Validation of the numerical model of the Várzeas Bridge based on a dynamic test	TESTE 2019 - Monitorizar e Preservar (Porto, Portugal)
2018/09/06	Development of an efficient approach for fatigue cracking assessment of bridge riveted details	XIX International Colloquium on Mechanical Fatigue of Metals (ICMFM XIX) (Porto, Portugal)
2018/09/05	Assessment of total fatigue life in complex bridge welded connections	The Fourth International Conference on Railway Technology (Railways, 2018) (Barcelona, Spain)
2018/07/11	Evaluation of fatigue crack propagation considering the modal superposition technique	Maintenance, Safety, Risk, Management and Life-Cycle Performance of Bridges (IABMAS 2018) IABMAS (Melbourne, Australia)
2017/09/06	Development of an efficient approach for fatigue analysis of bridge critical details using modal superposition of stress intensity factors	2nd International Conference on Structural Integrity (ICSI) (Funchal, Portugal)
2017/09/06	Fatigue crack propagation analysis of bridge details by parallel computation of modal stress intensity factors	2nd International Conference on Structural Integrity (ICSI) (Funchal, Portugal)
2016/05/16	Application of modal superposition technique in the fatigue analysis using local approaches	XVIII International Colloquium on Mechanical Fatigue of Metals (ICMFM XVIII) (Gijón, Spain)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/02 - Current	Ponte sobre o rio lima em Viana do Castelo - estudo de soluções alternativas Supervisor of Mafalda Ramos de Carvalho	Engenharia Civil (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2024/02 - Current	Pavimentos mistos aço-betão - estudo comparativo de soluções Supervisor of João Manuel Alves Tavares	Engenharia Civil (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/11 - Current	Application of high strength structural steels in freight wagon structures. A fatigue perspective Co-supervisor of Amirhossein Baraati	Engenharia Mecânica (PhD) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2022/09/19 - Current	Probabilistic multimechanical fatigue modelling of railway vehicles engineered details Co-supervisor of João Nuno Silva	Programa Doutoral em Engenharia Civil (PhD) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2021/09 - Current	Integration of Digital Twins Models in Fatigue Assessment of Steel Railway Bridges Co-supervisor of Idilson António Nhamage	Engenharia Civil (PhD) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/02/20 - 2023/09/29	Strengthening for improved fatigue capacity of railway bridges Supervisor of Ana Isabel Carvalho Almeida	Mestrado em Engenharia Mecânica (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/02/20 - 2023/09/29	Structural analysis of a freight wagon Co-supervisor of Ana Leonor de Oliveira Ribeiro	Mestrado em Engenharia Mecânica (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/02/20 - 2023/09/28	Multi-body Dynamic Analysis of a Railway Passenger Car Co-supervisor of Jorge Afonso Hora de Carvalho Martins	Mestrado em Engenharia Mecânica (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/02/20 - 2023/09/28	Multibody Dynamic Analysis of a Freight Wagon Co-supervisor of Francisca Cerqueira Manso	Mestrado em Engenharia Mecânica (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/02 - 2023/06	Modelação e análise de estruturas de material circulante ferroviário Co-supervisor of Henrique Ribeiro Oliveira	Engenharia Mecânica (Degree) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2023/11/13 - 2023/11/16	XLIV Ibero-Latin American Congress on Computational Methods in Engineering (CILAMCE 2023) (2023/11/13 - 2023/11/16) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
2023/11/13 - 2023/11/16	XLIV Ibero-Latin American Congress on Computational Methods in Engineering (CILAMCE 2023) (2023/11/13 - 2023/11/16) Conference (Member of the Scientific Committee)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
2023/11/13 - 2023/11/16	Numerical and Experimental Approaches Applied to Railway Infrastructure (CILAMCE2023) (2023/11/13 - 2023/11/16) Symposium (Co-organisor)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
2023/06/19 - 2023/06/21	ECCOMAS 7th Young Investigators Conference (YIC2023) (2023/07/19 - 2023/07/21) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/06/19 - 2023/06/21	ECCOMAS 7th Young Investigators Conference (YIC2023) (2023/07/19 - 2023/07/21) Conference (Member of the Scientific Committee)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/06/19 - 2023/06/21	Advanced numerical approaches applied to the analysis of railway infrastructures (YIC2023) (2023/06/19 - 2023/06/21) Symposium (Co-organisor)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/06/19 - 2023/06/21	Challenges on the numerical simulation from small to large-scale Civil Engineering structures (YIC2023) (2023/06/19 - 2023/06/21) Symposium (Co-organisor)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2017/06/08 - 2017/06/09	2nd Doctoral Congress of Engineering (DCE2017), FEUP, Porto. (2017/06/08 - 2017/06/09) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2017/06/08 - 2017/06/08	Symposium on Civil and Environmental Engineering (DCE 2017) (2017/06/08 - 2017/06/08) Symposium (Co-organisor)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2023/12/07	Characterization of fatigue in bolts for wind turbines. (Thesis) Main arguer	Afonso Miguel Antunes Gabriel (Master) Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
2023/12/04	A Methodology for Fatigue Performance Analysis of Leaf Springs Suspensions in Freight Wagons (Thesis) Arguer	Vítor Manuel Godinho Gomes (PhD) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/08/08	Evaluation of the dynamic behavior of integral railway bridges with soil-structure interaction (Thesis) Main arguer	David Queirós Moreira Baldaia (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2022/11/07	Fatigue assessment based on several damage methods and design curves of a railway bridge (Thesis) Main arguer	João Nuno Silva (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Consulting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2023/09 - 2024/01/29	Evaluation of the effects caused by the introduction of a new CT vehicle on the bridges of the common trunk and lines B and C of the light metro system in the Porto metropolitan area	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/09 - 2024/01/29	Evaluation of the effects on Porto Metro bridges of the Lines D and F related to the introduction of the new vehicle TT	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/03/09 - 2023/04/24	Evaluation of the effects on Porto Metro bridges of the Lines D and F related to the introduction of the new vehicle CT	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2019/03/15 - 2020/11/13	Methodology for assessing the remaining service life of railway bridges - Part 1: methodology definition	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2020/02/18 - 2020/07/21	Methodology for assessing the remaining service life of railway bridges - Part 2: calculation example	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2024/02/14 - 2024/07	Physics I/Newtonian physics	Engenharia Informática e Computação (Licenciatura)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/09/11 - 2024/02/16	Mechanics 2/Structural Mechanics	Engenharia Civil (Licenciatura)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2022/09/11 - 2023/02/17	Mechanics 2/Structural Mechanics	Bachelor in Civil Engineering (Licenciatura)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2024/02/07 - 2024/02/07	Applied Sciences	MDPI
2024/01/24 - 2024/01/24	Electronics	MDPI
2023/12/18 - 2024/01/08	Applied Sciences	MDPI
2023/12/21 - 2023/12/21	IBRACON Structures and Materials Journal
2023/11/09 - 2023/12/20	AEJ - Alexandria Engineering Journal	Elsevier
2023/11/30 - 2023/12/06	Applied Sciences	MDPI
2023/10/26 - 2023/11/04	Applied Sciences	MDPI
2023/10/16 - 2023/10/16	Journal of Marine Science and Engineering	MDPI
2023/09/25 - 2023/09/25	Applied Sciences	MDPI
2023/09/08 - 2023/09/08	Designs	MDPI
2023/08/29 - 2023/08/29	Sustainability	MDPI
2023/08/08 - 2023/08/08	Applied Sciences	MDPI
2023/07/20 - 2023/07/20	Applied Sciences	MDPI
2022/11/25 - 2022/11/25	Engineering Fracture Mechanics	Elsevier
2022/10/15 - 2022/10/15	AEJ - Alexandria Engineering Journal	Elsevier
2021/12/25 - 2021/12/25	Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Smart Infrastructure and Construction	ICE Proceesings
2021/10/27 - 2021/10/27	Advances in Materials Science and Engineering	Hindawi

Distinctions

Award

2023	Prof. Doutor Joaquim Sarmento Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal Fundação Engenheiro António de Almeida, Portugal
2021	2nd place in the "Best Student Paper Award" in the International Colloquium on Mechanical Fatigue of Metals (2021)
2012	Secil Universities Award 2011 Secil Companhia Geral de Cal e Cimento SA, Portugal Ordem dos Engenheiros, Portugal