Paulo Manuel Salgado Tavares de Castro

Permanent Member

Class
Sciences

Section
7th Section | Engineering Sciences

Election

08.01.2004 (Corresponding Member)
25.05.2023 (Permanent Member)

Contact

ptcastro [at] fe.up.pt

Areas of Interest

fatigue and fracture of materials; structural connections; aerostructures; social aspects of engineering

Hyperlinks
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3202-1343
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57205718522

Profile

Paulo M. S. T. de Castro obtained a first degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the Universidade do Porto (FEUP) in 1973, a Applied Mechanics master’s degree from Imperial College London in 1977 and a PhD from Cranfield Institute of Technology (now Cranfield University) in 1980.

He is currently emeritus professor of the Universidade do Porto, after retiring as full professor of the Mechanical Engng. Depart. of FEUP in 2020. His research interests are mainly in the field of fatigue, fracture and structural integrity, particularly of aerostructures. Through a number of r&d projects funded by the European Union (EU), part of his research is related to mechanical behaviour of structural connections, including adhesive, riveted, and welded.

He has been involved in several national and international scientific and professional associations, such as ASME where he was a member of the Board on Professional Practice and Ethics, EASN, TWI, IOM3, SPM, APAET, SEFI, SPEE, and Ordem dos Engenheiros, among others. He is a member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences and a member of the editorial board of the journals Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, International Journal of Structural Integrity, Mechanika, UPB Scientific Bulletin Series D: Mechanical Engineering, among others.

He had sabbaticals as Fulbright Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, and as visiting scholar at Lehigh University, and presented invited lectures at Imperial College London, Lehigh University, Univ. California at Berkeley, Univ. of Maryland and Univs. Federal of Rio de Janeiro, Coimbra, Lille, Napoli, and Salerno, among others. He was professeur invité of the Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, and consultant for Univ. Eduardo Mondlane of Mozambique. In the period 2018-2021 he was member of the Scientific Committee of the EU programme Clean Sky 2. He was awarded distinctions by the Grupo Español de Fractura (2018) and by the Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais (2016), among others.