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Daniel do Espírito Santo Rodrigues

Category
Professor
Email
desr@ua.pt
Ciência ID
A613-C093-D656
ORCID iD
0000-0003-1101-9391

Daniel Rodrigues holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP). He is a researcher at INEGI – Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and a member of the Scientific Board of CMech-Lab (https://cmechrlab.wordpress.com/). Since 2020, he has been an Invited Assistant Professor at the University of Aveiro, and since 2021, an Invited Adjunct Professor at the School of Engineering of the Polytechnic of Porto (ISEP), where he has taught several courses, including Solid Mechanics, 3D Design and Modelling, Technical Drawing, and Automation.

Between 2018 and 2021, he served as an Invited Teaching Assistant at FEUP, lecturing on Structural Mechanics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. In 2019–2020, supported by a Fulbright Scholarship, he was a visiting researcher at the Mechanosynthesis Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), led by Prof. John Hart. During this stay, he developed numerical algorithms to simulate an extrusion-based additive manufacturing process, completing part of his doctoral research.

Over nine years of research experience, he has specialised in numerical methods - particularly meshless methods - computational mechanics, structural mechanics, composite materials, additive manufacturing, and computer-aided design and manufacturing. He has authored 16 peer-reviewed journal articles, 5 book chapters, and presented his work at more than 20 national and international conferences. By 2025, he will have co-supervised 10 master’s dissertations (6 ongoing) and will have supervised hundreds of student projects and group assignments in the fields of computer-aided design, manufacturing, and engineering.

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Fundings

  • Associate Laboratory of Energy, Transports and Aerospace.

    12/31/2025
    10.54499/LA/P/0079/2020

    https://doi.org/10.54499/LA/P/0079/2020

  • Associate Laboratory of Energy, Transports and Aeronautics

    12/31/2023
    10.54499/UIDB/50022/2020

    https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/50022/2020

  • Laboratório Associado de Energia, Transportes e Aeronáutica

    12/31/2024
    10.54499/UIDP/50022/2020

    https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDP/50022/2020

  • Associate Laboratory of Energy, Transports and Aeronautics

    12/31/2019
    UID/EMS/50022/2019

  • Development of new numerical tools and constitutive models to simulate the fused filament fabrication - a low-cost additive manufacturing process

    08/01/2019
    MIT-EXPL/ISF/0084/2017

  • SciTech – Science and Technology for Competitive and Sustainable Industries – Research Line 1: Advanced Materials & Structures.

    12/01/2019
    NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000022

  • Advanced materials for noise reduction: modeling, optimization and experimental validation

    12/01/2016
    UID/EMS/50022/2013

Publications

  • Optimizing the Perseverance rover’s wheel support system using a bio-inspired remodelling algorithm

    Belinha, Jorge; Monteiro, Rui; Pais, Ana; Rodrigues, D.E.S.
    Conference on Computational and Artificial Intelligence for Mechanics and Biomechanics | 2025

  • Structural optimization of the Perseverance rover’s suspension system using a meshless method approach

    Belinha, Jorge; Pais, Ana; Rodrigues, D.E.S.; Silva, João
    Conference on Computational and Artificial Intelligence for Mechanics and Biomechanics | 2025

  • Predicting Mechanical Behaviour in Solid Mechanics Using Artificial Neural Networks

    Belinha, Jorge; Pais, Ana; Ribeiro, Guilherme; Rodrigues, D.E.S.
    Conference on Computational and Artificial Intelligence for Mechanics and Biomechanics | 2025

  • On the 2D and 3D Modelling of Beams and Frames Using meshless methods combined with Material Nonlinear Constitutive Behaviour

    Belinha, Jorge; Pais, Ana; Rodrigues, D.E.S.; Torres, Hugo
    Conference on Computational and Artificial Intelligence for Mechanics and Biomechanics | 2025

  • Design optimization of NASA’s Perseverance rover wheel spokes using a meshless method

    Daniel E. S. Rodrigues; Jorge Belinha; Jure Trdin
    Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering | 2025

    https://doi.org/10.1007/s40430-025-05700-z

  • Proceedings of the Conference on Computational and Artificial Intelligence for Mechanics and Biomechanics

    Belinha, Jorge; Pais, Ana; Parente, Marco; Rodrigues, D.E.S.; Tavares, Sérgio
    2025

    https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17131900

  • Numerical simulation of the extrusion process of viscoplastic materials using a radial point interpolation method

    Daniel E.S. Rodrigues; Jorge Belinha; Renato Natal Jorge
    Engineering Computations | 2023

    https://doi.org/10.1108/EC-01-2023-0044

  • Elastoplastic Analysis of Frame Structures Using Radial Point Interpolation Meshless Methods

    Daniel E.S. Rodrigues; Jorge Belinha; Miguel Aires
    Applied Sciences | 2023

    https://doi.org/10.3390/app132312591

  • Using a Radial Point Interpolation Meshless Method for the numerical simulation of the viscoplastic extrusion process

    Belinha, Jorge; Natal Jorge, Renato; Rodrigues, Daniel
    XLIV Ibero-Latin American Congress on Computational Methods in Engineering | 2023

  • Bending analysis of antisymmetric angle-ply laminates using HSDTs and the radial point interpolation method–Part I Literature review and formulation

    Belinha, Jorge; Natal Jorge, Renato; Rodrigues, Daniel
    Journal of Computation and Artificial Intelligence in Mechanics and Biomechanics | 2022

  • Bending analysis of antisymmetric angle-ply laminates using HSDTs and the radial point interpolation method–Part II: numerical examples

    Belinha, Jorge; Natal Jorge, Renato; Rodrigues, Daniel
    Journal of Computation and Artificial Intelligence in Mechanics and Biomechanics | 2022

  • Numerical analysis of honeycomb-shaped polymeric foams using the FEM and the RPIM

    Belinha, J.; Nascimento, N.A.; Natal Jorge, R.M.; Rodrigues, D.E.S.
    Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements | 2021

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enganabound.2021.04.015

  • The bending behaviour of antisymmetric cross-ply laminates using high-order shear deformation theories and a Radial Point Interpolation Method

    Rodrigues, D.E.S.
    Structures | 2021

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.istruc.2021.03.048

  • The natural neighbor radial point interpolation method in the Elasto-Static analysis of Honeycomb-Shaped foams

    Rodrigues, D.E.S.
    International Journal of Computational Materials Science and Engineering | 2021

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s2047684121500147

  • OPTIMIZING A MESHLESS METHOD FOR THE SIMULATION OF THE EXTRUSION OF NON-NEWTONIAN MATERIALS

    Rodrigues, D.E.S.
    International Journal of Mechanical Sciences | 2021

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2021.106688

  • Simulation of the viscoplastic extrusion process using the radial point interpolation meshless method

    DES Rodrigues; J Belinha; RM Natal Jorge; ROSS Costa
    Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part L: Journal of Materials: Design and Applications | 2021

    https://doi.org/10.1177/1464420720988583

  • The elasto-plastic analysis of 3D-printed thermoplastics using the NNRPIM and a modified hill yield criterion

    Daniel Rodrigues; J Belinha; RMN Jorge
    Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part L: Journal of Materials: Design and Applications | 2021

    https://doi.org/10.1177/1464420720985890

  • Homogenizing the Elastic Properties of Composite Material Using the NNRPIM

    Belinha, Jorge; Dinis, Lúcia M.J.S.; Jorge, Renato M.N.; Pires, Francisco M.A.; Rodrigues, Daniel E.S.
    Encyclopedia of Materials: Composites | 2021

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-819724-0.00087-2

  • The Radial Point Interpolation Method in the Bending Analysis Of Symmetric Laminates Using HSDTS

    Belinha, Jorge; Natal Jorge, Renato; Rodrigues, Daniel
    Journal of Computational Applied Mechanics | 2021

    https://jcamech.ut.ac.ir/article_85268.html

  • The numerical analysis of symmetric cross-ply laminates using the natural neighbour radial point interpolation method and high-order shear deformation theories

    Rodrigues, Daniel
    Engineering Structures | 2020

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2020.111247

  • Analysis of antisymmetric cross-ply laminates using high-order shear deformation theories: a meshless approach

    Rodrigues, Daniel
    Acta Mechanica Sinica | 2020

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10409-020-00990-z

  • A Meshless study of antisymmetric angle-ply laminates using high-order shear deformation theories

    Rodrigues, Daniel
    Composite Structures | 2020

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2020.112795

  • Development of a Constitutive Model to Predict the Elasto-Plastic Behaviour of 3D-Printed Thermoplastics: A Meshless Formulation

    Rodrigues, Daniel
    2020

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44522-5_10

  • The Natural Neighbour Radial Point Interpolation Method to Predict the Compression and Traction Behavior of Thermoplastics

    D. E. S. Rodrigues; J. Belinha; L. M. J. S. Dinis; R. M. Natal Jorge
    2019

    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13980-3_50

  • The Elasto-plastic Analysis of Polymers Subject to Traction and Compression Using Advanced Discretization Techniques

    D. E. S. Rodrigues; J. Belinha; L. M. J. S. Dinis; R. M. Natal Jorge
    2019

    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13980-3_51

  • Numerical simulation of compression and tensile tests on thermoplastics: A meshless approach

    DES Rodrigues; J Belinha; LMJS Dinis; RM Natal Jorge
    Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part L: Journal of Materials: Design and Applications | 2018

    https://doi.org/10.1177/1464420718810305

  • Homogenization technique for heterogeneous composite materials using meshless methods

    D.E.S. Rodrigues; F.M.A. Pires; J. Belinha; L.M.J.S. Dinis; R.M. Natal Jorge
    Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements | 2018

    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enganabound.2017.12.012

  • Material homogenization technique for composites: A meshless formulation

    Rodrigues, Daniel
    Science and Technology of Materials | 2018

    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2603636318300034

  • The computational analysis of composite laminates: Meshless formulation

    Araújo, A.; Belinha, J.; Dinis, L.; Ferreira, A.; Jorge, R.N.; Rodrigues, D.
    Material Modelling: Applications, Challenges and Research | 2017

    http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85035038705&partnerID=MN8TOARS

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