Luiz Fernando Martha

Luiz Fernando Martha is an Associate Professor in Civil Engineering at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil, and member of the Computer Graphics Technology Group (Tecgraf/PUC-Rio). He got his Ph.D. degree in Structural Engineering in 1989 from Cornell University, working in the Cornell Fracture Group and in the Cornell Program of Computer Graphics. His research interests include Geometric Modeling, CAD applications, and Computational Mechanics. He is the creator of Ftool. He is also the Coordinator of Infrastructure of PUC-Rio.

Semester Courses in PUC-Rio (in Portuguese)

• ENG 1204 - Análise de Estruturas II (2010.2 - Graduação)

Book (in Portuguese)

• Análise de Estruturas - Conceitos e Métodos Básicos
  Editora Campus/Elsevier, 2010

Related material

• Ftool: A Frame Analysis Educational Software
• Download of Ftool version 2.12 for Windows
• Misulatool: Fundamental solutions for isolated beam with non-uniform cross-section (in Portuguese)
• e-Cross: Moment Distribution Method Educational Tool
• e-MetFor: Force Method Tutorial (on-line version) (in Portuguese)
  Requires installation of Flash 5 plug-in
• e-MetFor Version 1.00 (off-line version)
• e-MetDes: Displacement Method Tutorial (on-line version) (in Portuguese)
  Requires installation of Flash 5 plug-in
• e-MetDes Version 1.00 (off-line version)
• Academical assignment for simulation of the Force Method with Ftool (in Portuguese)
• Academical assignment for simulation of the Displacement Method with Ftool (in Portuguese)
• Errata - 01 (se encontrar algum erro, por favor me notifique)

Class-notes (in Portuguese)

• O Método da Rigidez Direta sob um Enfoque Matricial
• Método dos Elementos Finitos
  
  • Capítulo 1
  • Capítulo 2
  • Capítulo 3
  • Capítulo 4
  • Capítulo 5 (autor: Ivan Menezes)
• Sistemas Estruturais para Arquitetura
  
  • Aula 01 (609 KB)
  • Aula 02 (1.1 MB)
  • Aula 03 (412 KB)
  • Aula 04 (197 KB)
  • Aula 05 (87 KB)
  • Aula 06 (944 KB)
  • Aula 07 (714 KB)

Educational Software

• ETools - Web Site for Educational Software in Engineering
• Misulatool: Fundamental solutions for isolated beam with non-uniform cross-section (in Portuguese)
• Fluxovento: Programa para Análise de Ventilação em Ambientes Construídos
• e-Mohr: Plane Stress Mohr's Circle Educational Tool
• Ftool: A Frame Analysis Educational Software
• e-Cross: Moment Distribution Method Educational Tool
• e-MetFor: Force Method Tutorial (on-line version) (in Portuguese)
  Final Project for Graduation in Civil Engineering - PUC-Rio
  Authors: Christiana Maurício Niskier and Fernando Souza de Moura Ribeiro
  Requires installation of Flash 5 plug-in
• e-MetFor Version 1.00 (off-line version)
• e-MetDes: Displacement Method Tutorial (on-line version) (in Portuguese).
  Final Project for Graduation in Civil Engineering - PUC-Rio
  Authors: Christiana Maurício Niskier and Fernando Souza de Moura Ribeiro
  Requires installation of Flash 5 plug-in
• e-MetDes Version 1.00 (off-line version)

Projects and Research

Tecgraf/PUC-Rio

• Computational Mechanics
• Reservoirs and Geology

Curriculum Vitae

• CNPq/Lattes Curriculum Vitae (in Portuguese)
• Full Curriculum Vitae (in Portuguese)

Publications

• Published papers from 2001 to 2008

Main Collaborators

Tecgraf/PUC-Rio

• Marcelo Gattass
• Marcio Rodrigues de Santi
• Antonio Carlos de Oliveira Miranda
• Alexandre Antonio de Oliveira Lopes
• André Maués Brabo Pereira
• Ivan Fábio Mota de Menezes
• Luiz Cristovao Gomes Coelho
• Waldemar Celes Filho

Departamento de Engenharia Civil - PUC-Rio

• Eurípedes Vargas Jr.: vargas@civ.puc-rio.br

Laboratório de Mecânica Computacional (LMC/EPUSP)

• Túlio Nogueira Bittencourt

Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica - PUC-Rio

• Jaime Tupiassú Pinho de Castro
• Marco Antonio Meggiolaro

LIA - Laboratórios de Pesquisa em Computação
Departamento de Computação - Universidade Federal do Ceará

• Joaquim Bento Cavalcante Neto

Departamento de Engenharia Estrutural
Universidade Federal de Alagoas

• William Wagner Matos Lira

Visgraf Project

• Paulo Cezar Pinto Carvalho
• Paulo Roma Cavalcanti

Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo - UNICAMP

• José Luiz Antunes de O. Sousa

Cornell Fracture Group

• Tony Ingraffea
• Wash Wawrzynek
• Bruce Carter

Last update: August 3, 2010 by Luiz Fernando Martha