Biography

José António Fonseca de Oliveira Correia, born 1984 in Peso da Régua, Portugal, is Researcher of LOME/INEGI and CONSTRUCT of the University of Porto (Portugal). He is also Invited Assistant Professor at the structural mechanics section in the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Coimbra. He obtained the degrees BSc (2007) and MSc (2009) in Civil Engineering by the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro. He is specialist in steel and composite (steel and concrete) construction by the University of Coimbra in 2010. He is PhD in Civil Engineering by University of Porto in 2015.
Since 2008, he has lectured several units courses, such as: Steel Structures; Timber Structures; Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics; Steel Structures for Offshore and Renewable Energies; Structural Engineering Design.
He is co-author of more 40 scientific journal papers in the most relevant scientific journals devoted to structural integrity, fatigue and fracture of engineering materials and structures, 80 proceedings in international and national conferences, congresses and workshops, and 1 chapter book about local approaches applied in the fatigue crack propagation modelling.
Since 2015, he was appointed as member of the editorial board of several journals such as, Advances in Computational Design, Engineering Structures and Technologies, Structural Integrity and Life, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, among others. He is also associate member of the editorial board of the Marine Systems and Ocean Technology journal (Springer), as well as editor-in-chief, since 2017, of Book Series on Structural Integrity (Springer). He was supervisor of 10 master theses and he is co-supervisor of 2 Ph.D. thesis. He was/is also team member of the organization and participation in approved national (Portugal) and European research projects (7 research projects).
Since 2015, He has been Invited Reviewer in the most relevant scientific journals of fatigue and structural integrity such as: International Journal of Fatigue (Elsevier), Engineering Failure Analysis (Elsevier), Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics (Elsevier), Engineering Fracture Mechanics (Elsevier), Materials & Design (Elsevier), Computers & Structures (Elsevier), Structures (Elsevier), Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures (Wiley), etc.
Since 2015, He has been a guest editor in scientific journals such as: Engineering Fracture Mechanics (Elsevier), International Journal of Fatigue (Elsevier), Engineering Failure Analysis (Elsevier), Materials & Design (Elsevier), Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures (Wiley), Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design (Sage), Procedia Engineering (Elsevier), Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale (Italian journal), etc.
Proof of the international recognition of the scientific activities was the recent appointment (since January 2017) of José António Correia to chairman of the technical committee called "ESIS TC12 - Risk analysis and safety of large structures and components" of the European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS).
His current research interests are: a) Behaviour to fatigue and fracture of materials and structures (steel and alluminium, riveted and bolted connections, pressure vessels, old steel bridges, wind turbine towers, offshore structures); b) Probabilistic fatigue modelling of metallic materials (including statistical evaluation, size-effect, cumulative damage, confounded data); c) Probabilistic design of glass structural elements; d) Mechanical behaviour of materials and wooden structures (connections and characterization of ancient structures); e) Mechanical and chemical characterization of old mortars and masonry structures.
He is a member of scientific and professional organizations, such as Ordem dos Engenheiros, Associação Portuguesa de Construção Metálica e Mista (CMM), and Associação para a Conservação e Manutenção de Pontes (ASCP).