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Biographical Sketch
Education
B.S. |
Civil Engineering |
University of Brasilia
(UnB), Brazil |
1985 |
M.S. |
Civil Engineering (with
honors) |
PUC-Rio, Brazil |
1988 |
M.S. |
Theoretical and Applied
Mechanics |
Cornell University |
1993 |
Ph.D. |
Civil Engineering |
Cornell University |
1995 |
Employment
| Positions
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagin |
| Professor |
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Aug 2005 -
present |
| Associate Professor |
Dept. of Civil and Environmental
Engineering |
Aug 2001 -
Aug 2005 |
| Assistant Professor |
Dept. of
Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Jan 1999 - Aug 2001 |
| Faculty Fellow |
Dept. of Theoretical
and Applied Mechanics |
June 2000 - present |
| Faculty |
Computational
Science and Engineering |
June 2000 - present |
| Fellow |
National
Center for Supercomputing Application (NCSA) |
2002 - 2003 |
| Positions
at Other Institutions |
| Adjunct Professor |
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Davis |
Nov. 1998-present |
| Assistant Professor |
Dept. of Civil and Environmental
Engineering,
University of California, Davis |
July 1995-Oct. 1998 |
| Faculty Fellow |
Graduate
Group in Appl. Mathematics (GGAM)
University of California, Davis |
Oct. 1997-present |
| Consultant |
Dehan Engineering
Numerics, NY |
1995 |
| Consultant |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
1995-present |
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Teaching
Experience
During his career in education,
Paulino has taught various courses at numerous institutions. A
list has been provided that documents these schools and the respective
courses. Just follow the links below.
Research
Interests
- Computational
Methods (FEM, BEM, CAD)
- Functionally
Graded Materials (FGMs)
- Experimental
Methods
- Constitutive
Modeling of Engineering Materials
- Fracture Mechanics
(cracks in concrete and composite materials, crack interaction
in finite bodies)
- Probabilistic
Fracture Mechanics
- Damage mechanics
- Concrete Behavior
under Cyclic Loading
- Structural Dynamics
(earthquake engineering)
- Structural Mechanics
(including contact problems and composite materials)
- Solution Adaptive
Techniques for Both Linear and Nonlinear Problems
- Inverse Problems
in Mechanics (identification and reconstruction problems)
- Sensitivity and
Optimization (applied to both structures and continua)
- Topology Design of
Structures (coupling of this technique with self-adaptive methods).
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Invited
Lectureships (selected)
- Structural Engineering
and Structural Mechanics (SESM) seminar, University of California,
Davis, 4/23/1997. "Adaptive Smeared Cracking"
- Theoretical
and Applied Mechanics (TAM) Seminar, Unversity of Illinois,
Urbana, 12/2/1999. "Functionally Graded Materials"
- First
LNCC/IPRJ Meeting on Multiscale Computational Modeling of Heterogeneous
Systems, Invited Lecture, Section D, "Multiscale Mechanics
of Damage and Materials with Micorstructure" "Strain
Gradient Theory for Simulation of Fracture Phenomena in Functionally
Graded Materials", Nova Friburgo, RJ, Brazil, 7/28/2000.
- National
Laboratory of Scientific Computing (LNCC), Petropolis, R.J.,
Brazil, July 24, 2000. "Mechanics and Physics of Functionally
Graded Materials"
- PUC-Rio,
Department of Civil Engineering, Rio de Janeiro, R.J., Brazil,
July 31, 2000
- Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), COPPE, Department
of Mechanical Engineering, R.J., Brazil, August 2, 2002
- University of
Iowa, Department
of Mechanical Engineering, April 26, 2001
- Texas A&M University,
joint seminar with the Civil,
Mechanical and Aerospace
Departments, College Station, TX, September 11, 2001
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
Department of
Engineering Mechanics and Center for Materials Research
and Analysis, Lincoln, NE, November 6, 2001
- University of Virginia,
Department of
Civil Engineering, Charlottesville, VA, March 28, 2002
- Cornell University,
Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, Ithaca NY, April 9, 2002
- Federal
University of Espirito Santo (UFES), Vitoria, E.S., Brazil,
August 29, 2002
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Proposal
Reviewer for the following agencies
Reviewer
for the following international journals
Editorial
Board
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Conference
Organizer and Program Committee
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- Co-Chair
and Organizer of 3 Sessions in "Boundary Element Methods" at the Fourth U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics,
August 6-8, 1997, San Francisco, CA
Session
WAM-2: Analytical and Computational Issues in Boundary Elements
Session FEA-2: Boundary Elements in Solid and Fracture
Mechanics
Session TAM-3: Computational Inssues in Boundary Elements,
Electromagnetics and Non-Traditional Methods
- Chair
and Organizer of the minisymposium on "Functionally Graded
Materials" (4 Sessions) at the Fifth
U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, August
4-6, 1999, Boulder, CO.
- Co-Chair
of Pre-nominated Sessions on "Functionally Graded Materials" at the 20th International
Congress of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied
Mechanics (IUTAM), ICTAM2000, August 27 to September
2, 2000, Chicago, IL.
- Conference and Program Committees, 6th
International Symposium on Functionally Graded Materials,
FGM2000, September 10-14, 2000, Estes Park, Colorado.
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Conference
Session Chair
Awards
and Honors
- National Center for Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA) Fellow 2002-2003
- Burton & Erma Lewis Faculty Scholar, April 24, 2001
- Collins
Scholar, April 21, 2000
- Collins
Fellow, April 2001
- Finalist
paper of the 1996 "Robert
J. Melosh medal competition" organized by Duke University,
Durham, NC.
- M.S.
degree with honors, PUC-Rio, 1988
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