C. Armando Duarte

Associate Professor
CEE Excellence Faculty Scholar

"At Illinois, we foster critical thinking and the passion for discovery and innovation."

2122 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory

205 N. Mathews Ave. Urbana, IL 61801

caduarte@illinois.edu
Phone: 
(217) 244-2830
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(217) 333-9464
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Professor Armando Duarte teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in methods of structural analysis, structural mechanics, analysis and mechanics of plates and shells, and advanced finite element methods.

Dr. Duarte holds an M.Sc. degree from the University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, (1991) and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin (1996). Prior to joining the University of Illinois in 2004, Professor Duarte was an Assistant Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta, Canada, and a Visiting Professor in the department of Structural Engineering at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He has five years of industrial experience and served as a Visiting Professor in 2011 at the University of Texas at Austin. He is affiliated with the Computational Science and Engineering Program and a Fellow of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois.

Professor Duarte is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the United States Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM), the International Association for Computational Mechanics and the American Academy of Mechanics. He has served as chairman-elect of the USACM Specialty Committee on Meshfree Methods.  He also serves on editorial boards of international journals.

To date, Dr. Duarte has published more than 80 scientific articles and book chapters, and co-edited two books on computational methods. Two of his recent papers were featured on the list of the top five most downloaded articles of Computational Mechanics and two others were featured on the prestigious ScienceDirect Top 25 Hottest Articles. His journal publications in computational mechanics and methods have been cited more than 1,500 times by other researchers in the field.

 

Research Overview: 

Dr. Duarte’s research interests include computational mechanics and methods such as Generalized Finite Element and Meshfree Methods, three-dimensional computational fracture mechanics, multi-scale modeling of sharp thermal gradients and polycrystalline materials and multi-physic simulations of hydraulic fracturing. Dr. Duarte has been an invited keynote and plenary speaker at several national and international conferences on computational mechanics. He has also delivered invited lectures at several prestigious institutions in the United States, Europe and South America and at national laboratories and engineering companies. He has organized several international symposia in the area of Generalized Finite Element and Meshfree Methods.

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