Former researcher at the National Laboratory for Civil Engineering (LNEC-Portugal).
Nowadays, Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at Barreiro School of Technology, Polytechnic University of Setubal, Portugal.
Researching on service life of reinforced concrete structures, special and sustainable concretes, such as recycled aggregates concrete.
Also carried out relevant consulting activity within the frame of concrete quality control, inspection and appraisal of reinforced concrete structures.
Resistance of concrete to carbonation and chloride penetration assessed on site through nondestructive test
Prediction on CO2 uptake of recycled aggregate concrete
Residual service life of carbonated structures based on site non-destructive tests
Statistical modelling of the resistance to chloride penetration in concrete with recycled aggregates
Service life design for carbonation-induced corrosion based on air-permeability requirements
Predicting carbonation coefficient using Artificial neural networks and genetic programming
Estimated service life of ordinary and high-performance reinforced recycled aggregate concrete
Experimental Contribution Concerning the Effect of Carbonation Reaction on the Oxygen Permeability of Concrete
Reinforced Concrete Durability Design Through a Semi-probabilistic Approach
Tree Based Approaches for Predicting Concrete Carbonation Coefficient
Comment on “Laboratory Measurement and Analysis of the Deteriorated Layer Permeability Coefficient of Soil–Cement Deteriorated in a Saline Environment”
Control of Cracking in Textile Reinforced Concrete with Unresin Carbon Fibers
Saving Raw Materials for Cement Manufacture and Reusing an Untreated Waste from the Petrochemical Industry