Rafael Holdorf Lopez
Bio
Rafael Holdorf Lopez is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, since 2011. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from the Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (Brazil), in 2006, and received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rouen (France) in 2010. Currently, Dr. Lopez has a Level 1D CNPq Researcher Fellowship and conducts research on the development of algorithms for engineering optimization and optimization under uncertainty, reliability and uncertainty quantification, with applications to structural systems.
Research Area
Structural optimization and reliability
Research Interests
Bridge Safety and Reliability, Bridge Weight in Motion (BWIM), Structural Optimization, Risk and Reliability based design optimization.
Courses
- Structural Analysis II (undergraduate program)
Direct stiffness method: truss and frame elements in 2D and 3D.
- Introduction to the Finite Element Method (undergraduate program)
Introduction to approximation methods; variational formulations for bar and beam elements; structure of a finite element code; plane stress/strain finite element analysis.
- Introduction to Structural Optimization (graduate program)
Introduction to optimization; numerical methods for constrained and unconstrained problems.
- Heuristic Methods for optimization in engineering (graduate program)
Simulated annealing, genetic algorithm and swarm intelligence; constrained problems; problems with discrete design variables; hybrid deterministic-stochastic algorithms.
- Introduction to Numerical Methods (graduate program)
Calculus of Variations, approximation methods (Ritz, Galerkin), application to structural models: Euler-Bernoulli, Timoshenko and high order beams, Kirchhoff plates.
Publications
- H-index: 25
- Papers: 66
- Citations: 1661
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