Rui Manuel Gonçalves

PhD Fellow

rma.goncalves@campus.fct.unl.pt

Short Biography

My name is Rui Manuel Gonçalves and I finished my Integrated Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering in October 2021 with
an avarage of 17/20. During my academic career I had the opportunity to do an internship at Sqédio SA and part-time jobs in
companies where I held the positions of HVAC Construction Supervisor at Team4Cooling and Design Engineer in the company Metalubrava.
I was also one of the funders members of Innova Junior Technology Consulting as Presidente of the supervisory board. I made
my master's thesis in glass fiber reinforced composite recycling where I sucessufly established a way to reuse waste of these
materials by integrating them in a gypsum matrix, with more competitive results when compared with conventional plaster. During
the dissertation it was necessary to develop a high-precision three-point bending machine and advanced processes of test characterization
as Digital Image Correlation and SEM were used. I finnished with a score of 19/20 values. Currently I am member of DEMI, as
a Phd student with the 2022.11133.BD scholarship entitled "Recycling strategies for Glass Fibers Reinforced Polymers and their
use as reinforcement material in additively manufactured components" As first author I have two publications: "Evaluating
the potential use of recycled glass fibers for the development of gypsum-based composites" and "Recycling of Reinforced Glass
Fibers Waste: Current Status".

Education

Grau Classificação

2016/09 – 2021/10/22 Concluído Mechanical Engineering (Mestrado integrado) Especialização em Project Engineering Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal "Avaliação da potencial utilização de fibras de vidro recicladas para o desenvolvimento de compósitos à base de gesso" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO) 17

Publications

J.P. Oliveira; A. Shamsolhodaei; Jiajia Shen; J.G. Lopes; R.M. Gonçalves; Mariana de Brito Ferraz; Lourenço Piçarra; et al. "Improving the ductility in laser welded joints of CoCrFeMnNi high entropy alloy to 316 stainless steel". Materials & Design 219 (2022): 110717-110717. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2022.110717. 10.1016/j.matdes.2022.110717

🔗 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2022.110717

"Recycling of Reinforced Glass Fibres Waste: Current Status". Materials 15 4 (2022): 1596-1596. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma15041596. 10.3390/ma15041596

🔗 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma15041596

"Evaluating the potential use of recycled glass fibers for the development of gypsum-based composites". Construction and Building Materials 321 (2022): 126320-126320. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2022.126320. 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2022.126320

🔗 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2022.126320

"Avaliação da potencial utilização de fibras de vidro recicladas para o desenvolvimento de compósitos à base de gesso". Mestrado, 2021.

Project and construction of a rotary sieving device. A rotary sieving machine has been designed and built using additive manufacturing processes. It is made up of three consecutively larger circular sieves that enable a granulometric classification of elements that tend to be slender and have an irregular geometry. The equipment has a transmission system with a worm screw and a circular gear. 2021.

Machine Elements 1 – class handbook. In this output a new version of the Machine Elements 1 class manual has been made with new re-drawn technical drawings using AutoCAD. The drawings have a thorough explanation of the mechanical and physical working principles. In addition, all tables have also been restructured. 2021. Alberto José Antunes Marques Martinho; Rui Manuel Gonçalves; Henrique Viera da Silva.

High precision bending machine for low loads. The machine features a load cell that takes readings up to 200N with an accuracy of 0.25%. Different fixtures can be integrated for 3 or 4 point flexural test. It is driven by a stepper motor with a 15:1 ratio gearbox, controlled with an arduino board.. 2021.

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