Teresina, Brazil

LAMEC

Laboratório de Métodos de Modelagem Computacional

Federal University of Piauí · UFPI

A sustained connection through computational mechanics, shared publications and students moving from UFPI to SSI Lab.

Led by Simone dos Santos

Visit the partner lab

Conceptual illustration of ground waves meeting a series of surface barriers above a computational model of layered soil. — How structures at the surface interact with waves in the ground. Conceptual illustration based on our shared research on vibration barriers and computational soil mechanics. Research behind the illustration ↗

Our collaboration

How do we understand and reduce vibration travelling through the ground?

Our partnership with Simone dos Santos and LAMEC combines research with the formation of new researchers. Students who began their work at UFPI have brought their experience to SSI Lab, developed new computational methods and continued into graduate research in Brazil and abroad. Together, we investigate how soil, foundations and vibration barriers respond as an interacting system.

Waves, walls and trenches

We study how surface structures and buried features change ground motion, helping engineers assess ways to protect vibration-sensitive structures.

Models for open ground

We develop and apply finite-element, boundary-element and absorbing-layer models to represent waves travelling beyond a finite computational domain.

Soil–structure interaction

Our common interests include structural vibration, offshore structures and the influence of soil properties on dynamic response.

LAMEC → SSI Lab

A connection carried by students.

These researchers began their scientific paths at LAMEC and went on to work with us at SSI Lab.

Ana Vasconcelos

Pile-group dynamics; later doctoral research on offshore metamaterials at TU Delft

Iago Cavalcante

Computational mechanics, flexible foundations and topology optimization

David Carneiro

Wave propagation and ground-vibration attenuation

Aldemar Siqueira

Topology optimization in soil–structure interaction

Jenário Reis

Vibration barriers and interfaces in computational design

Isadora Rodrigues

Wave propagation, absorbing layers and vibration barriers

Learning together

Methods, mentoring and scientific exchange.

We also collaborate through teaching and scientific meetings, including a short course on creating animations to explain engineering results at LAMEC’s first computational simulation symposium in 2019.

Visit LAMEC

Research together