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Cecília Vale received, in 2004, her M.Sc. degree in Structural Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) and her Ph.D degree in Civil Engineering at FEUP, in 2010, with the thesis entitled "Influence of track geometrical quality on the dynamic behaviour of tracks and on scheduling preventive maintenance for high-speed railway lines". Since 2010, she has been an Assistant Professor at the Transport Infrastructures Division at FEUP, giving classes on Railway Engineering, Railway Systems, Rail and Road Infrastructures, Geometrical Design of Roads and Pavement Design. Cecilia Vale is an integrated member of the R&D unit CONSTRUCT - Institute of R&D in Structures and Construction and has been involved in National and International research projects, including SIPAV -Precast solution for High Speed railway lines, PEDDIR, IN2RAIL, IN2TRACK2, FERROVIA 4.0, IN2TRACK3 and Way4SafeRail. From 2012 -2015, she was the General Coordinator of the MAXBE project (Interoperable monitoring, diagnosis and maintenance strategies for axle bearings, www.maxbeproject.eu) funding by the FP7 of the European Commission. From 2021- 2023, she was also the principal responsible for the project WAY4SafeRail - WAYside monitoring system FOR SAFE RAIL transportation, with reference NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-069595, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), through the North Portugal Regional Operational Programme (NORTE2020). Cecília Vale was supervising 20 MSc thesis (concluded), 6 researchers (concluded), and 3 PhD (ongoing) and 7 traineeships in bachelor degree (concluded). Over the last years, she was an evaluator of 7 national research projects from "Agência Nacional de Inovação" and 1 international project from the European Commission. She has organized 4 thematic sessions at relevant international conferences, 2 workshops on railway subjects and participated in 2 roundtables and 3 scientific dissemination participations in social media. Over the last 15 years, she participated in 9 national research projects and 3 international projects from the European Commission. Her main research interests include wayside and onboard condition monitoring; vehicle-track interaction, condition-based maintenance for railway vehicles and rail tracks, asset management and the use of waste materials in transport infrastructures. During the period of 2012-2021, Cecília Vale was on parental leaves and long-term absence due to illness in three different periods: March 2021 to August 2021 (6 months); March 2015 to February 2016 (12 months); September 2012 to April 2013 (8 months), which affected the research productivity in that period. H-Index: 9 (374 citations in 26 papers in Scopus); Scopus: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9834; ORCID: 0000-0003-2470-9834. 1/3/2024
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Cecília Vale

Citation names

  • Vale, Cecília

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
C610-3FD1-0893
ORCID iD
0000-0003-2470-9834

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Civil Engineering - Transport Engineering

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2010
Concluded
 Doutoramento em Engenharia Civil (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Influence of track geometrical quality on the dynamic behaviour of tracks and on scheduling preventive maintenance for high-speed railway lines (in Portuguese)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Aprovada
2004
Concluded
 Mestrado em Estruturas de Engenharia Civil (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Comportamento Estrutural de Pavimentos Rodoviários Flexíveis.Contributos para modelação. (Structural behaviour of road pavements. Contributions for modelling)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Muito Bom
2001
Concluded
 Licenciatura em Engenharia Civil (Licenciatura)
Major in Geotecnia
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
 16 valores
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2016 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2010 - 2016 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2004 - 2009 Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2002 - 2004 Trainee Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2001/10 - 2002/02 Tutor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2022/01/01 - 2025/12/31 NEXUS: Pacto de Inovação – Transição Verde e Digital para Transportes, Logística e Mobilidade
PRR - C645112083-00000059
Researcher
Agência para a Competitividade e Inovação IP
Ongoing
2022/01 - 2025/12 PRODUZIR MATERIAL CIRCULANTE FERROVIÁRIO EM PORTUGAL
Aviso 02/C05-i01/2022
Researcher
Ongoing
2022 - 2025 SMART WAGONS - DESENVOLVIMENTO DE CAPACIDADE PRODUTIVA EM PORTUGAL DE VAGÕES INTELIGENTES PARA MERCADORIAS
Aviso 02/C05-i01/2022
Researcher
Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2023/12/31 IN2TRACK3
GRANT_NUMBER: 101012456
Researcher
European Commission
Concluded
2021/09/01 - 2023/06/30 WAY4SAFERAIL - Wayside monitoring system for safe rail transportation
NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-069595
Principal investigator
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Concluded
2020/07/01 - 2023/06/30 FERROVIA 4.0
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-046111
Researcher
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA, Portugal
Concluded
2018 - 2021 In2Track2 - Research into enhanced track and switch and crossing system 2
826255
Researcher
European Commission
Ongoing
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
2015 - 2018 In2Rail - INNOVATIVE INTELLIGENT RAIL
635900
Researcher
European Commission
Concluded
2015 - 2017 PEDDIR DEMO - Demonstrador do projeto PEDDIR - PEsagem Dinâmica e Deteção de Irregularidades dos Rodados
NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-006397
Researcher
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA, Portugal
Concluded
2012 - 2015 MAXBE - INTEROPERABLE MONITORING, DIAGNOSIS AND MAINTENANCE STRATEGIES FOR AXLE BEARINGS
314408
Principal investigator
European Commission
Concluded
2012 - 2015 PEDDIR - Sistema de Pesagem Dinâmica e Detecção de Irregularidades dos Rodados
SI IDT - 23161/2011
Researcher
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Concluded
2011/01/01 - 2013/12/31 Strategic Project - UI 733 - 2011-2012
PEst-OE/ECI/UI0733/2011
Universidade do Porto Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2009 - 2012 SIPAV- Soluções Inovadoras Pré-fabricadas para vias-férreas de Alta Velocidade
SI IDT - 3440/2008
Researcher
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Vale, Cecília; Diogo Ribeiro. Data-driven Damage Detection in Railways Systems (e book). 2023.
Book chapter
  1. Cecília Vale; Isabel M. Ribeiro. "Intermodal Routing Model for Sustainable Transport Through Multi-objective Optimization". 144-154. Springer International Publishing, 2019.
    10.1007/978-3-030-14757-0_11
  2. Vale, C; Ribeiro, I. "Optimized Intermodal Roundtrips in Transport Networks". 2016.
    10.1002/9781119307822.ch7
Conference abstract
  1. Mosleh, Araliya; Mohammadi, Mohammadreza; Vale, Cecília; Ribeiro, Diogo; Montenegro, P. A.; Meixedo, Andreia. "Railway wheel flats detection using a track-side monitoring system based on an unsupervised learning method". Paper presented in International Conference on Vehicle Body Engineering (VBE2023), Porto, 2024.
    Accepted
  2. Nelson Traquinho; Vale, Cecília; Diogo Ribeiro; Calçada, Rui. "Railway tracks dynamic monitoring using sensors aboard of in-service vehicles: a literature review". Paper presented in 3º Congresso de Ensaios e Experimentação em Engenharia Civil (TEST&E 2022), Lisbon, 2022.
Conference paper
  1. Vale, Cecília; Caló, Manuel. "Laboratory study on Asphalt Concrete containing Polypropylene and Non-selected Construction and Demolition Waste". Paper presented in MAIREPAV10 - 10th International Conference on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Pavements, Guimarães, 2024.
  2. Gonçalves, Vítor; Mosleh, A.; Vale, Cecília; Montenegro, P. A.. "Envelope spectrum analysis with algorithm simulations to detect railway wheel out-of-roundness defects". Paper presented in CILAMCE 2023 - The XLIV Ibero-Latin American Congress on Computational Methods in Engineering, Porto, 2023.
    Accepted
  3. Magalhães, Jorge; Jorge, Tomás; Guedes, António; Silva, Rúben; Ribeiro, Diogo; Meixedo, Andreia; Mosleh, A.; et al. "Application of a Sparse Autoencoder model for OOR damage wheels identification in a passenger train using wayside track responses". Paper presented in XLVI CILAMCE 2023, Porto, 2023.
  4. Guedes, António; Silva, Rúben; Jorge, Tomás; Magalhães, Jorge; Ribeiro, Diogo; Meixedo, Andreia; Mosleh, A.; Vale, Cecília; Montenegro, P. A.. "Clustering-based classification of polygonal wheels in freight trains based on wayside monitoring". Paper presented in XLIV CILAMCE 2023, Porto, 2023.
  5. Silva, Rúben; Bragança, Cássio; Guedes, António; Ribeiro, Diogo; Meixedo, Andreia; Mosleh, A.; Vale, Cecília; et al. "AI-Driven Methodology for Early Detection of Unbalanced Loads in Freight Railway Vehicles using a Wayside System". Paper presented in XLIV CILAMCE 2023, Porto, 2023.
  6. Vale, Cecília; Maria Lurdes Simões; Montenegro, Pedro; Ruben Silva. "Influence of Track and Vehicle Wheel Damages in the Train Running Safety". Paper presented in CILAMCE 2023 - The XLIV Ibero-Latin American Congress on Computational Methods in Engineering, Porto, 2023.
  7. Vale, Cecília; Magalhães, Jorge; Jorge, Tomás; António Guedes; Ruben Silva; Diogo Ribeiro; Meixedo, Andreia; et al. "Application of a Sparse Autoencoder Model for OOR Damage Wheels Identification in a Passenger Train using Wayside Track Responses". Paper presented in CILAMCE 2023 - The XLIV Ibero-Latin American Congress on Computational Methods in Engineering, Porto, 2023.
  8. Guedes, António; Silva, Ruben; Ribeiro, Diogo; Montenegro, P. A.; Mosleh, A.; Meixedo, Andreia; Vale, Cecília. Corresponding author: Guedes, António. "Detection Of Wheel Polygonization In Railway Vehicle¿s Based On Dynamic Responses Of The Track Induced By The Vehicle". Paper presented in EURODYN2023, Delft, 2023.
    Accepted
  9. Ruben Silva; António Guedes; Diogo Ribeiro; Araliya Mosleh; Andreia Meixedo; Vale, Cecília. "Early detection of unbalanced freight traffic loads based on wayside monitoring systems and artificial intelligence". Paper presented in EURODYN 2023 - XII International Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2023.
  10. Vale, Cecília; Diogo Ribeiro; Araliya Mosleh; Pedro Aires Montenegro; Andreia Meixedo; Marreiros, Goreti; Jorge Meira. "Wayside monitoring system for safe rail transportation - the WAY4SafeRail project". Paper presented in ORE 2023 - Conference on Railway Excellence, Melbourne, 2023.
  11. Mohammadreza Mohammadi; Araliya Mosleh; Vale, Cecília; Diogo Ribeiro; Pedro Aires Montenegro; Andreia Meixedo. "Smart detection of wheel defects using artificial intelligence and wayside monitoring system". Paper presented in ICRARE 2023 - 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Railway Engineering, Tehran, 2023.
  12. Ribeiro, Diogo; Silva, Ruben; Guedes, António; Vale, Cecília; Mosleh, Araliya; Montenegro, Pedro; Meixedo, Andreia. "Clustering-based classification of unbalanced freight traffic loads based on wayside monitoring". Paper presented in Conference on Railway Excellence (CORE 2023), 2023.
  13. Jorge, Tomás; Magalhães, Jorge; Ruben Silva; António Guedes; Diogo Ribeiro; Meixedo, Andreia; Araliya Mosleh; et al. "Out-of-Roundness Damage Wheels Identification in a Freight Railway Vehicle using a Stacked Sparse Autoencoder". Paper presented in CILAMCE 2023 - The XLIV Ibero-Latin American Congress on Computational Methods in Engineering, 2023.
  14. Manuel Caló; Vale, Cecília. "Potencialidades e fragilidades na utilização de resíduos em misturas betuminosas". Paper presented in 10º Congresso Rodoferroviário Português, Lisbon, 2022.
  15. Vale, Cecília; Diogo Ribeiro; Araliya Mosleh; Pedro Aires Montenegro; Ruben Silva; António Guedes; Mohammadreza Mohammadi. "Simulation of wheel defects and train unbalanced loads for smart detection based on wayside monitoring systems". Paper presented in CILAMCE 2022 - XLIII Ibero-Latin American Congress on Computational Methods in Engineering, Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, 2022.
  16. Bruno Pintão; Araliya Mosleh; Vale, Cecília. "Dynamic loads in ballasted tracks: a parametric study for defining a WIM system". Paper presented in TEST&E 2022 - 3rd Conference on Testing and Experimentation in Civil Engineering, Lisbon, 2022.
  17. Vale, Cecília; Alves-Ribeiro Cristina. "Ballast settlement and ballast deformation laws for predicting the railway track degradation". Paper presented in Congress on Numerical Methods in Engineering ¿ CMN 2017, Valencia, Spain, 3-5 July 2017, Valencia, 2017.
  18. Vale, C; Bonifácio, C; Seabra, J; Calçada, R; Mazzino, N; Elis, M; Terribile, S; et al. "Axle bearing condition monitoring, diagnosis and maintenance: The MAXBE project". 2016.
  19. Vale, C; Bonifacio, C; Seabra, J; Calcada, R; Mazzino, N; Elisa, M; Terribile, S; et al. "Novel efficient technologies in Europe for axle bearing condition monitoring - the MAXBE project". 2016.
    10.1016/j.trpro.2016.05.313
  20. Vale, Cecília; Bonifácio, C; Meixedo, Andreia; Calçada, Rui. "Vibration analysis from wayside monitoring system for weighing in motion and detecting wheel defects". Paper presented in 13th International Conference and Exhibition - Railway Engineering 2015, 2015.
  21. Vale, Cecília; Ribeiro, Isabel. "Optimized intermodal roundtrips in transport networks". Paper presented in TRA2014 Transport Research Arena 2014, 2014.
  22. Vale, Cecília. "Advanced Approaches for Axle Bearing Condition Monitoring". Paper presented in Second International Conference on Railway Technology:Research, Development and Maintenance - Civil- Comp proceedings, 2014.
    10.4203/ccp.104.175
  23. Vale, Cecília. "Interoperable monitoring,diagnosis and maintenance strategies for axle bearings - the MAXBE project". Paper presented in TRA2014 Transport Research Arena 2014, 2014.
  24. Vale, Cecília; Simões, M. Lurdes. "The Geometrical Rail Track Degradation Process in the Portuguese Northern Line using a Stochastic Model". Paper presented in Proceedings of the First International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance, 2012.
  25. Vale, Cecília; Ribeiro, Nuno; Calçada, Rui; Delgado, Raimundo; Vale, C.; Ribeiro, N.; Calçada, R.; Delgado, R.. "Dynamics of a precast system for high-speed railway tracks". Paper presented in 3rd International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2011), 2011.
  26. Vale, Cecília; Ribeiro, Isabel; Calçada, Rui. "Scheduling tamping through global optimization of maintenance costs". Paper presented in World Conference Railway (WCRR 2011), 2011.
  27. Vale, Cecília; Calçada, Rui. "Tools for evaluating and predicting track geometrical quality evolution over time". Paper presented in World Conference Railway (WCRR 2011), 2011.
  28. Vale, Cecília; Ribeiro, Nuno; Alves Costa, Pedro; Calçada, Rui; Delgado, Raimundo. "Estimativa dos parâmetros de rigidez e de amortecimento para modelos simplificados de vias férreas não balastradas". Paper presented in Congresso de Métodos Numéricos em Engenharia 2011, 2011.
  29. Calçada, Rui. "Dynamic Response of a Coupled Vehicle-Track System to Real Longitudinal Rail Profiles". Paper presented in Proceedings of The Tenth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, 2010.
  30. Vale, Cecília; Ribeiro, Isabel; Calçada, Rui. "Application of a maintenance model for optimizing tamping on ballasted tracks: the influence of the model constraints". Paper presented in International Conference on Engineering Optimization (EngOpt 2010), 2010.
  31. Calçada, Rui. "A comparative analysis of ballasted vs. slab track vibrations as a cause of rolling noise". Paper presented in 8th European Conference on Noise Control 2009, EURONOISE 2009 - Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, 2009.
  32. Vale, Cecília; Calçada, Rui. "Dinâmica de uma via em laje para tráfego de comboios de alta velocidade". Paper presented in CONINFRA 2009 Congresso de Infra-estrutura de Transportes, 2009.
  33. Vale, Cecília; Bermejo Castro, Mário; Goicolea, Jose Maria; Gabaldón, Felipe; Antolín, Pablo. "Cargas dinámicas en la estructuras de vía debidas al tráfico de trenes de alta velocidad". Paper presented in Congreso de Métodos Numéricos en Ingeniería 2009, 2009.
  34. Vale, Cecília; Calçada, Rui. "Influência da camada de suporte no comportamento dinâmico da via em laje de betão para tráfego ferroviário de alta velocidade". Paper presented in 3ª Jornadas Luso-Espanholas de Geotecnia, 2009.
  35. Vale, Cecília; Goicolea, Jose Maria; Gabaldón, Felipe; Calçada, Rui. "Análise dinâmica de uma via em laje para tráfego ferroviário de alta velocidade". Paper presented in Betão Estrutural 2008, 2008.
  36. Vale, Cecília. "Análise do comportamento de pavimentos rodoviários flexíveis: os modelos de caracterização mecânica das misturas betuminosas". Paper presented in VI Jornadas Luso-Brasileiras de Pavimentos: Inovação e Novos Desafios, 2007.
  37. Vale, C; Melo, AS. "Flexible pavement response to moving loads". 2005.
  38. Vale, Cecília; Melo, Arnaldo. "The traffic load components in pavement analysis". Paper presented in 7th International Conference on the Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields, 2005.
  39. Vale, Cecília; Melo, Arnaldo. "The influence of the structural calculation method and the structural model for pavement design". Paper presented in Fourth International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology, 2004.
  40. Vale, Cecília; Melo, Arnaldo. "Comparison of materials' behaviour models in the performance of flexible pavements". Paper presented in Proceedings of the 3rd Eurasphalt and Eurobitume Congress, 2004.
  41. Vale, Cecília; Teixeira Bastos, Ana; Delgado, Raimundo. "Análise do Comportamento Estrutural de uma Ponte Ferroviária". Paper presented in Congresso Nacional da Engenharia de Estruturas: Os Novos Desafios na Qualidade das Obras, 2002.
Edited book
  1. António Pires da Costa; António Campos e Matos; António Fidalgo Couto; Vale, Cecília; Professor Doutor Rui Artur Bártolo Calçada. Proceedings of the Workshop "Track for High -Speed Railways". 2006.
Journal article
  1. T. Jorge; J. Magalhães; R. Silva; A. Guedes; D. Ribeiro; C. Vale; A. Meixedo; et al. "Early identification of out-of-roundness damage wheels in railway freight vehicles using a wayside system and a stacked sparse autoencoder". Vehicle System Dynamics (2024): https://doi.org/10.1080/00423114.2024.2333771.
    10.1080/00423114.2024.2333771
  2. Nelson Traquinho; Cecília Vale; Diogo Ribeiro; Andreia Meixedo; Pedro Montenegro; Araliya Mosleh; Rui Calçada. "Damage Identification for Railway Tracks Using Onboard Monitoring Systems in In-Service Vehicles and Data Science". Machines (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/machines11100981.
    10.3390/machines11100981
  3. Lourenço, Afonso; Ferraz, Carolina; Ribeiro, Diogo; Mosleh, Araliya; Montenegro, Pedro; Vale, Cecília; Meixedo, Andreia; Marreiros, Goreti. "Adaptive time series representation for out-of-round railway wheels fault diagnosis in wayside monitoring". Engineering Failure Analysis 152 (2023): 107433. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.engfailanal.2023.107433.
    10.1016/j.engfailanal.2023.107433
  4. Traquinho, N.; Vale, Cecília; Ribeiro. D; Meixedo, A.; Montenegro, P. A.; Mosleh, A.; Calçada, R.. "Damage Identification for Railway Tracks Using Onboard Monitoring Systems in In-Service Vehicles and Data Science". Machines 11 10 (2023): 981. https://doi.org/10.3390/machines11100981.
    Published
  5. António Guedes; Ruben Silva; Diogo Ribeiro; Cecília Vale; Araliya Mosleh; Pedro Montenegro; Andreia Meixedo. "Detection of Wheel Polygonization Based on Wayside Monitoring and Artificial Intelligence". Sensors (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/s23042188.
    10.3390/s23042188
  6. Vítor Gonçalves; Araliya Mosleh; Cecília Vale; Pedro Aires Montenegro. "Wheel Out-of-Roundness Detection Using an Envelope Spectrum Analysis". Sensors (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/s23042138.
    10.3390/s23042138
  7. Mohammadreza Mohammadi; Araliya Mosleh; Cecilia Vale; Diogo Ribeiro; Pedro Montenegro; Andreia Meixedo. "An Unsupervised Learning Approach for Wayside Train Wheel Flat Detection". Sensors (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/s23041910.
    10.3390/s23041910
  8. R. Silva; A. Guedes; D. Ribeiro; C. Vale; A. Meixedo; A. Mosleh; P. Montenegro. "Early Identification of Unbalanced Freight Traffic Loads Based on Wayside Monitoring and Artificial Intelligence". Sensors (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/s23031544.
    10.3390/s23031544
  9. Mosleh, Araliya; Mohammadi, M; Vale, Cecília; Diogo Ribeiro; Montenegro, Pedro; Meixedo, Andreia. "Smart Detection of Wheel Defects using Artificial Intelligence and Wayside Monitoring Systems". International Journal of Railway Research 10 (2) (2023):
  10. Cecília Vale; Maria Lurdes Simões. "Prediction of Railway Track Condition for Preventive Maintenance by Using a Data-Driven Approach". Infrastructures (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/infrastructures7030034.
    10.3390/infrastructures7030034
  11. Bruno Pintão; Araliya Mosleh; Cecilia Vale; Pedro Montenegro; Pedro Costa. "Development and Validation of a Weigh-in-Motion Methodology for Railway Tracks". Sensors 22 5 (2022): 1976-1976. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22051976.
    10.3390/s22051976
  12. Cecilia Vale. "Wheel Flats in the Dynamic Behavior of Ballasted and Slab Railway Tracks". Applied Sciences 11 15 (2021): 7127-7127. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11157127.
    10.3390/app11157127
  13. José Neto; Pedro Aires Montenegro; Cecília Vale; Rui Calçada. "Evaluation of the train running safety under crosswinds - a numerical study on the influence of the wind speed and orientation considering the normative Chinese Hat Model". International Journal of Rail Transportation (2020): https://doi.org/10.1080/23248378.2020.1780965.
    10.1080/23248378.2020.1780965
  14. Isabel M. Ribeiro; Cecília Vale. "Optimal one-way and roundtrip journeys design by mixed-integer programming". Engineering Optimization 49 12 (2017): 2117-2132. https://doi.org/10.1080/0305215X.2017.1284831.
    10.1080/0305215X.2017.1284831
  15. Vale, C; Calcada, R. "A Dynamic Vehicle-Track Interaction Model for Predicting the Track Degradation Process". JOURNAL OF INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS (2014):
    10.1061/(asce)is.1943-555x.0000190
  16. Vale, C.; Ribeiro, I.M.. "Railway condition-based maintenance model with stochastic deterioration". Journal of Civil Engineering and Management 20 5 (2014): 686-692. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84908230860&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3846/13923730.2013.802711
  17. Vale, C.; M. Lurdes, S.. "Stochastic model for the geometrical rail track degradation process in the Portuguese railway Northern Line". Reliability Engineering and System Safety (2013): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84875326377&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.ress.2013.02.010
  18. Vale, C; Ribeiro, IM; Calcada, R. "Integer Programming to Optimize Tamping in Railway Tracks as Preventive Maintenance". JOURNAL OF TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING-ASCE (2012):
    10.1061/(asce)te.1943-5436.0000296
  19. Vale, C.; Calçada, R.. "Dynamic response of a coupled vehicle-track system to real longitudinal rail profiles". Civil-Comp Proceedings 93 (2010): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84893849081&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  20. Berawi, A.R.B.; Delgado, R.; Calçada, R.; Vale, C.. "Evaluating track geometrical quality through different methodologies". International Journal of Technology 1 1 (2010): 38-47. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84875309981&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  21. Vale, C.; Calçada, R.. "A comparative analysis of ballasted vs. slab track vibrations as a cause of rolling noise". 8th European Conference on Noise Control 2009, EURONOISE 2009 - Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics 31 PART 3 (2009): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84864696027&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  22. Vale, C.. "Influence of vertical load models on flexible pavement response - An investigation". International Journal of Pavement Engineering 9 4 (2008): 247-255. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-47749100884&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/10298430701444977
  23. Vale, Cecília. "Flexible Pavement Response to Moving Loads - a Numerical Study". International Journal of Pavements 6 1-3 (2007):
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Vale, Cecília Maria Nogueira Alvarenga Santos do. "Influência da qualidade dos sistemas ferroviários no comportamento dinâmico e no planeamento da manutenção preventiva de vias de alta velocidade". PhD, 2010. oai:digitool.fe.up.pt:247535.
  2. Vale, Cecília Maria Nogueira Alvarenga Santos do. "Comportamento estrutural de pavimentos rodoviários flexíveis : Contributos para modelação". Master, 2004. oai:digitool.fe.up.pt:8305.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2014 Interoperable monitoring, diagnosis and maintenance strategies for axle bearings - the MAXBE project, TRA2014 Transport Research Arena 2014
2010/12 Scheduling tamping by an integer programming approach Railways and Environment 2010, 16-17 December, Delft
2010/12 Numerical estimation of track foundation stiffness and damping by receptance analysis using simplified models: an application to continuous slab track Railways and Environment 2010, 16-17 December, Delft

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024 - Current Smart Onboard Monitoring System for Early Detection, Classification, and Prediction of Railway Track Damage by Artificial Intelligence Techniques
Co-supervisor of António Guedes
 Doctoral Program in Civil Engineering (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/01 - Current Smart Wayside Monitoring System for Early Detection, Classification, and Prediction of Railway Wheel Damage by Artificial Intelligence Techniques
Supervisor of Mohammad Reza
 Doctoral Programm in Civil Engineering (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2021 - Current Use of RCDs and Plastic waste for Asphalt Concrete
Supervisor of Manuel Joaquim Sá Lopes Tavares Caló
 Doctoral Program in Civil Engineering (PhD)
2023/01 - 2023/09 Damage identification in wheels of Alfa Pendular train based on the track dynamics (IDENTIFICAÇÃO DE DANOS NAS RODAS DO VEÍCULO FERROVIÁRIO ALFA-PENDULAR COM BASE NOS EFEITOS DINÂMICOS INDUZIDOS PELO VEÍCULO NA VIA)
Co-supervisor
 Master in Civil Engineering - Structures (Master)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
2023/02 - 2023/07 Detection and indentification of damage in ballasted railways from on-board measurements and artificial intelligence tecniques
Supervisor
 Master in Structures of Civil Engineering (MESTEC) (Master)
2023/02 - 2023/07 Identification of multiple wheel defects from wayside monitoring systems and artificial intelligence tecniques
Supervisor
 Master in Civil Engineering (MEC) (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2022/02 - 2022/09 Railway vehicle out-of-roundness detection with multiple records: simulation and algorithm validation
Supervisor of Vítor Tiago Castro Gonçalves
 Master in Civil Engineering (Master)
2022/01 - 2022/09 Automatic detection of railway track defects" (AI4Rail project)
Supervisor of Nelson Félix Traquinho
 Doctoral Program in Civil Engineering (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2021/09 - 2022/03 "Smart track onboard condition monitoring", ( "Ferrovia 4.0" project)
Supervisor of Bruno Miguel Ricon Peres Pintão
 Supervisor of project research (Other)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2021/01/01 - 2021/07/30 Avaliação de metodologia para pesagem dinâmica de comboios/ Weigh in Motion Estimation for Railway Vehicles
Supervisor of Bruno Miguel Ricon Peres Pintão
 Master in Civil Engineering (Master)
2018/01 - 2018/12 Gestão do risco em vias ferroviárias/Asset management in railway lines
Supervisor of Ana Carolina Teixeira de Magalhães
 Supervisor of project researcher (Other)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2016 - 2016 Caracterização das Condições Climáticas em Timor Leste para o Dimensionamento de Pavimentos
Supervisor of Humbelina Maia Soares Viegas
 Master in Civil Engineering (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Previsão da irregularidade longitudinal em pavimentos flexíveis
Supervisor of Miguel Gomes dos Santos Ferreira da Silva
 Master in Civil Engineering (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Dimensionamento de pavimentos em áfrica e na américa do sul: análise de manuais de pré-dimensionamento
Supervisor
 Engenharia Civil (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2014/01/01 - 2014/07/31 Estado da arte sobre a utilização de solos lateríticos em pavimentos rodoviários
Supervisor of Sónia Vanessa Meneses Dutra
 Master in Civil Engineering
2014 - 2014 Análise do Assentamento Permanente do Balastro no Processo de Degradação de Vias Férreas
Supervisor of Diogo Miguel da Silva Pires Rua Catarino
 Master in Civil Engineering (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2012/01/01 - 2012/07/31 Transportation problems: applications
Supervisor of André Vilaça Moreira
 Master in Civil Engineering (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2012 - 2012 Aplicação de solo-cimento em pavimentos flexíveis
Supervisor of Manuel Alexandre Valentim Monte
 Master in Civil Engineering (Master)
2012 - 2012 Validação estrutural dos pavimentos flexíveis indicados no "manual de conceção de pavimentos para a rede rodoviária nacional"
Supervisor of Margarida Isabel Matos Brás
 Master in Civil Engineering (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2012/04 - Current Organization of the special session "Track condition monitoring and maintenance" at Railways 2012 Conference, Gran Canaria, Spain, 18-20 April 2012. (2012/04)
Conference
2006/10 - Current Workshop Track for High Speed Railways, FAculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Portugal, 12 - 13 October 2006. (2006/10)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2022/03 - 2022/03 Special lecture on Introduction to Railway Engineering (2022/03)
Seminar
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2016 - 2016 Organization of the special session "RW2016-S06 Interoperable Track and Rolling Stock: Testing, Homologation, Condition Monitoring and Maintenance" at Railways 2016 Conference (2016 - 2016)
2014 - 2014 Organization of the special session "RW2014-S13: Interoperable Track and Rolling Stock: Testing, Homologation, Condition Monitoring and Maintenance" (2014 - 2014)

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2018/11/28 The Use of Advanced Technologies on Life-cycle Assessment of Infrastructures
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Bruno Samuel Ferreira Gonçalves (PhD)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2017/02/22 An efficient method for modeling the nonlinear train-bridge interaction
(Thesis) Arguer
 Sérgio Gonçalves Moreira Das Neves (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2014/12/12 Transition zones in railway tracks: an experimental and numerical study on the structural behaviour
(Thesis) Arguer
 André Luís Marques Paixão (PhD)
2013/12/02 Improving Railway Track Maintenance Using Power Spectral Density (PSD)
(Thesis) Arguer
 Abdur Rohim Boy Berawi (PhD)
2012/05/18 Transições Aterro-Estrutura em Linhas Ferroviárias de Alta Velocidade: Análise Experimental e Numérica/ Embankment-structure transitions for High Speed Railway Lines: experimental and numerical analysis
(Thesis) Arguer
 Ana Cristina Carvalhinho Alves Ribeiro (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2018/07 - Current Member in the Standardisation Committees -Working Group CT 153 - Ligantes betuminosos/Bitumen binders
2015 - Current Member in Standardisation Committees, Technical Commission CT 129 - Paving Materials.

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2020/09/04 - Current Evaluation of the bituminous mixtures properties in Rua Dr. Artur Seixas em Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo Câmara Municipal de Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, Portugal
2014 - Current Expert for the Portuguese Court Tribunal Judicial de Oliveira de Azeméis for a question related to road pavement design. Tribunal Judicial de Oliveira de Azeméis, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2018 - 2018 Leccionação do módulo «Dimensionamento de Pavimentos Flexíveis» da unidade de formação "Drenagem e dimensionamento de pavimentos rodoviários" (33 h) Teaching of the module «Design of Flexible Pavements» of the training course "Drainage and design of road pavements" (33 h) "Drenagem e dimensionamento de pavimentos rodoviários" (33 h) (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica)
2017/10 - 2017/10 Traçado Ferroviário: Introdução e quadro normativo europeu Railway design: introduction and European legal framework (Outros)
2014 - 2014 Leccionação dos módulos «Dimensionamento de Pavimentos Flexíveis» (6h) e «Dimensionamento de Pavimentos Rígidos» da Unidade de Formação "Pavimentos Rodoviários" (33 h); Teaching of the modules «Design of Flexible Pavements» (6h) and «Design of Rigid Pavements» of the Training Course "Road Pavements" (33h) Pavimentos Rodoviários" (33 h)
2012 - 2012 Leccionação do módulo «Pavimentos Flexíveis» (3h) da Unidade de Formação "Beneficiação/Reabilitação de Estradas"(33 h) Teaching the module «Flexible Pavements» (3h) of the Training Course "Rehabilitation of Roads" (33 h) (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica)

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2016 - Current Evaluation of 9 I&D projects submitted for national funding by ANI- Agência Nacional de Inovação and reporting project review.
Evaluator
 Agência Nacional de Inovação SA, Portugal, Portugal Agência Nacional de Inovação SA, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2015 Article on Advanced approaches for axle bearing condition monitoring, for EURAILmag, no31, http://eurailmag.com/advanced-approaches-for-axle-bearing/

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2015/10 - Current Web Rail TV
Distinctions

Award

2001 3 o prize CODE 2001- Composite Original Design - International Conference CCC2001-Composites in Construction
2001 Award Flow Systems, Lda 2000/2001 for the best student in FEUP in Fluids Mechanics
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Other distinction

2008 Research grant for the project "Estudio del Comportamiento a Médio e Largo Plazo de las Estruturas Ferroviárias de Balasto y Placa"
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
2005 Grant from FCT for doctoral studies - SFRH/BD/25020/2005
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal