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Principal Geotechnical Engineer with 21 years of experience in the Civil Engineering industry of which 14 years as a Civil Engineering CAD Technician and the last 7 years as a Civil Engineer – Geotechnical Engineering.Comprehensive familiarity with various design standards and codes of practice for geotechnical design such as the Eurocodes, British Standards, CIRIA publications and American Standards. Extensive hands-on experience in ground engineering design and witness expert cases encompassing a wide range of geotechnical structures such as spread foundations, abutments, single piles and pile groups, earth retaining walls, soil nails and anchors, basal reinforced embankments, load-transfer platforms, earthworks, shafts, tunnels and slope stability.In-depth knowledge of Soil Mechanics, application of the Finite Element Method (FEM) and numerical analysis to geotechnical problems, constitutive modelling of soil behaviour, soil-structure interaction, dynamic analysis and seepage calculations under steady-state and transient regimes.Broad experience with commercial packages for geotechnical analysis and computer aided design software, among others, Plaxis 3D, Plaxis 2D, Plaxis Dynamics, Plaxis Plaxflow, Geostudio, RocScience, Repute, FB Multipier and AutoCAD. Development of user-friendly and sophisticated numerical routines with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) for several geotechnical problems.

Listed skills include Soil And Rock Mechanics, Constitutive Modeling, Fe Analysis, Soil Structure Interaction, and 19 others.

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  Faculty Of Engineering Of The University Of Porto

  First Class Honours