International Conferences

  • World Congress on Advances in Civil, Environmental, and Materials Research, ACEM16, 28 August - 1 September 2016, Jeju, Korea: "Coupled thermoelectroelastic analysis of composite cylindrical shells with embedded piezoelectric sensors and actuators".
  • Second International Conference on Mechanics of Composites, 11-14 July 2016, Porto, Portugal: "Analytical and finite element modelling of laminated and functionally graded shells".
  • 11th International Congress on Thermal Stresses, 5-9 June 2016, Salerno, Italy: "Three-dimensional analysis of thermal stresses in smart shells" (pdf file).
  • Seventh International Symposium on Design, Modelling and Experiments of Advanced Structures and Smart Systems, DeMEASS VII, 4-7 October 2015, Radebeul, Germany: "3D stress analysis of functionally graded layered piezoelectric shells".
  • International Conference on Shells, Plates and Beams, SPB 2015, 9-11 September 2015, Bologna, Italy: "A new concept of sampling surfaces and its implementation for layered and functionally graded doubly-curved shells" (ppt file).
  • Tenth International Conference on Composite Science and Technology, 2-4 September 2015, Lisboa, Portugal: "Three-dimensional thermopiezoelectric analysis of laminated and functionally graded plates and shells by a sampling surfaces method" (ppt file).
  • Fifth International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation, 10-13 December 2014, Chennai, India: "Three-dimensional modelling of functionally graded piezoelectric laminated shells".
  • First International Conference on Mechanics of Composites, 8-12 June 2014, Stony Brook University, Long Island, New York, USA: "A new approach to 3D exact thermoelastic analysis of functionally graded laminated plates and shells" (ppt file).
  • International Conference on Design, Modelling and Experiments of Advanced Structures and Systems, DeMEASS 2014, 25-28 May 2014, Ede, Netherlands: "3D exact thermoelectroelastic analysis of piezoelectric laminated plates".
  • International Scientific Conference "Shell and Membrane Theories in Mechanics and Biology: from Macro- to Nanoscale Structures", 16-20 September 2013, Minsk, Belarus: "Three-dimensional exact analysis of functionally graded and laminated piezoelectric plates".
  • Sixth ECCOMAS Conference on Smart Structures and Materials, SMART2013, 24-26 June 2013, Torino, Italy: "Three-dimensional exact analysis of laminated piezoelectric plates and shells" (pdf file).
  • International Conference on Mechanics of Nano, Micro and Macro Composite Structures, 18-20 June 2012, Torino, Italy: "Consistent use of higher order layer-wise models for solving 3D elasticity problems for thick laminated composite plates".
  • EUROMECH Colloquium "Shell-Like Structures - Non-Classical Theories and Applications", 22-26 August 2011, Wittenberg, Germany: "On the use of a new concept of sampling surfaces in a shell theory" (pdf file).
  • International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, 17-21 April 2011, Nanjing, China: "Non-linear 9-parameter piezoelectric exact geometry solid-shell element based on the sampling surfaces technique".
  • International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, 17-21 April 2011, Nanjing, China: "A new concept of sampling surfaces in shell theory".
  • International Conference on Design, Modelling and Experiments of Advanced Structures and Systems, DeMEASS IV, 27-30 March 2011, Urspelt, Luxembourg: "Non-linear piezoelectric exact geometry solid-shell element based on 9-parameter model" (ppt file).
  • Tenth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, 14-17 September 2010, Valencia, Spain: "Finite deformation exact geometry four-node solid-shell element for piezoelectric composite structures" (pdf file).
  • Tenth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, 14-17 September 2010, Valencia, Spain: "Higher-order exact geometry solid-shell element undergoing finite rotations" (pdf file).
  • International Symposium on Aircraft Materials, 12-14 May 2010, Marrakech, Morocco: "Finite rotation geometrically exact piezoelectric four-node solid-shell element".
  • Ninth Conference "Shell Structures: Theory and Applications", 14-16 October 2009, Jurata, Poland: "Non-linear geometrically exact solid-shell element under follower loads" (pdf file).
  • Seventh EUROMECH Solid Mechanics Conference, 7-11 September 2009, Lisbon, Portugal: "Effective geometrically exact piezoelectric solid-shell element based on 3D analytical integration" (pdf file).
  • International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, 8-13 April 2009, Phuket, Thailand: "Non-Linear geometrically exact solid-shell elements with seven displacement degrees of freedom".
  • International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, 17-22 March 2008, Honolulu, USA: "Geometrically exact assumed stress-strain four-node element based on the 9-parameter shell model" (pdf file).
  • Second International Symposium on Design, Modelling and Experiments of Adaptive Structures and Smart Systems, 14-17 October 2007, Bad Herrenalb, Germany: "Four-node piezoelectric solid-shell element based on the first-order 7-parameter shell theory".
  • First International Symposium on Design Modelling and Experiments of Adaptive Structures and Smart Systems, 10-12 July 2006, Bardonecchia, Italy: "Geometrically exact four-node piezoelectric solid-shell elements".
  • Seventh International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, 7-9 September 2004, Lisbon, Portugal: "Hybrid stress-strain elements based on the first-order single-layer and layer-wise shell theories" (pdf file).
  • International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, 26-29 July 2004, Madeira, Portugal: "Assumed stress-strain four-node elements based on the finite deformation first-order theory of multilayered shells" (pdf file).