Jose Melo (PhD Student)

Jose Melo is a Research Assistant in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at University College London (UCL) and a PhD student at University of Aveiro in Portugal. His PhD program involves studying the influence of bond-slip in the performance of existing reinforced concrete structures subject to cyclic loading. This is an important issue because a large number of existing RC buildings structures were designed and built before mid-70's, when the reinforcing bars had plain surfaces and prior to the enforcement of the modern seismic-oriented design philosophies. His interests are: assessing and retrofitting of structures with seismic vulnerability, experimental analyses and non-linear RC structural modulation.

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