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1 SHORT CURRICULUM VITAE Name: Paulo Jorge de Melo Matias Faria de Vila Real Place of birth: Mozambique Date of birth: Nationality: Portuguese Institutional address: University of Aveiro Department of Civil Engineering AVEIRO Tel ; Fax: pvreal@.ua.pt 1. Position 2003 / Full Professor - Professor of Steel Structures, Structural Engineering and Structural Fire Resistance at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Aveiro / Head of the Fire Resistance Laboratory of the University of Aveiro / Director of the Doctoral Program in Civil Engineering of the University of Aveiro. 2. Field of specialisation Steel and Composite Steel and Concrete Structures; Behaviour of Structures under Fire Conditions; Fire safety Engineering; Finite Element Modelling; Experimental Modelling. 3. Activity 3.1 Summary of Scientific Activity Principal investigator of the Structural Fire Resistance Group (RG-CIVE-Centro-Aveiro ) from the Research Unit LABEST (CIVE-Norte-Porto-717), classified as Very Good. Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Steel Construction Design and research, Ernst & Sohn, A Wiley Company, ISSN Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Structural Fire Engineering, Multi-Science Publishing, ISSN Author or co-author of more than 220 papers published in national and international Journals and Conference proceedings, 34 are listed in the ISI Web of Science. Research director of some projects sponsored by FCT, Ministry of Science and Technology. Local Coordinator of some RFCS projects funded by the European Commission. Author of two books: Jean-Marc Franssen, Paulo Vila Real, Fire Design of steel Structures, Eds. ECCS, ISBN & Ernst & Sohn a Wiley Company, ISBN , April Paulo Vila Real, Incêndio em Estruturas Metálicas - Cálculo Estrutural, Eds. ORION, 2003, ISBN: Editor of eight books: 6 th Applied and Computational Mechanics 6 th National Conference on Applied and Computational Mechanics (P. Vila Real and J. Grácio, eds., 1999, ISBN: ) Steel and Composite Construction 3 rd National Meeting on Steel and Composite Construction (António Lamas, P. Vila Real, and L. Simões da Silva, eds., 2001, ISBN: Steel and Composite Construction 4 th National Meeting on Steel and Composite Construction (António Lamas, Luís Calado, João Ferreira and P. Vila Real, eds., 2003, ISBN: Structures in Fire SiF 06 4 th International Workshop Structures in Fire SiF 06, P. Vila Real, J.-M. Franssen and Nuno Lopes, eds., 2006, ISBN: X. Frantisek Wald, Ian Burgess, Jesus de La Quintana, Paulo Vila Real, Leslaw Kwasniewski, Kamila Horová, Tomas Jana (eds) Integrated Fire Engineering and Response State of the Art Report, Czech Technical University in Prague, March 2011, ISBN: Frantisek Wald, Ian Burgess, Guillermo Rein, Leslaw Kwasniewski, Paulo Vila Real, Kamila Horová (eds) Integrated Fire Engineering and Response State of the Art Report, Czech Technical University in Prague, March 2012, ISBN: Vila Real, P.; Lopes, N.; (eds.) Vassart, O.; Zhao, B. (authors) Ações de Membrana em Estruturas Mistas em Situação de Incêndio: Bases de cálculo, ISBN , University of Aveiro, 2012.

2 Vila Real, P.; Lopes, N.; (eds.) Vassart, O.; Zhao, B. (authors) Ações de Membrana em Estruturas Mistas em Situação de Incêndio: Manual de Dimensionamento, ISBN , University of Aveiro, December Participation to National and International Conferences as member of the Scientific Committee, invited speaker or session chairman. Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the 7 th International Conference on Structures in Fire, SiF 12, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 6 to 8 June Scientific Projects Paulo Vila Real was responsible for capturing Euros from European and National research projects International Projects Local principal investigator at the University of Aveiro of the project No RFCR-CT , FIDESC4 Fire Design of steel members with welded or hot-rolled Class 4 Cross-Section, 1/7/2011 a 1/7/2014. Total budget: Euros. Budget to University of Aveiro: Euros Local principal investigator at the University of Aveiro of the project No RFCR2-CT , MACS+ - Membrane Action in fire design of Composite Slab with solid and cellular steel beams 1/7/2011 a 1/2/2013. Total budget: Euros. Budget to University of Aveiro: Euros Local principal investigator at the University of Aveiro of the project DIFISEK+ (Dissemination of Structural fire safety engineering knowledge throughout Europe) involving 17 Countries. Total budget: Euros. Budget to University of Aveiro: Euros National Projects He is the project leader of the project TaperSteel - Stability design of non-uniform steel members of the funded project by FCT, PTDC/ECM-EST/1970/2012 submited with University of Coimbra. Total Budget: ,00 euros in two years. Budget for University of Aveiro: euros in three years He was the project leader of a sub-project Experimental and numerical analysis of the lateral-torsional buckling of steel beams subjected to fire of the funded project by FCT, REEQ/499/01, Experimental research in fire safety in buildings. Total Budget: euros in three years. Budget for University of Aveiro: euros in three years He was the project leader of the project PRAXIS/P/ECM/14176/1998 entitled Lateral Buckling of Steel Beams Under Fire Conditions, do Programa PRAXIS XXI/98; Engenharia Civil e de Minas, em que a Instituição proponente foi a Universidade de Aveiro,. Budget: euros in two years. Results: 1 PhD thesis, 2 papers in International Journals, 2 papers in National Journals, 8 papers in International Conferences and 6 papers in National Conferences He was the project leader of the project nº PBIC/C/CEG/2446/95 entitled Numerical modelling the behaviour of the Steel Structures under high temperatures. Budget: euros in three years. Results: 1 MSc thesis, 2 papers in National Journals, 3 papers in International Conferences and 3 papers in National Conferences. 3.3 Participation to National Activities Since 2005 Member of the Technical Committee CT 115 Eurocodes where was in charge of writing the National Annexes to the fire parts of the Eurocodes on actions, concrete, steel, composite and aluminium structures. Since 2005 Vice-President of the CMM Portuguese Association of Steel and Composite Structures. Since 1997 Member of the Board of the Portuguese Association of Applied, Theoretical and Computational Mechanics. 3.4 Participation to International Activities Since 2012 Member of the Editorial Board of the Steel Construction Design and research, Ernst & Sohn, A Wiley Company, ISSN Since 2012 Member of the Evolution Group of the Part 1.2 of Eurocode 4. Since 2011 Member of the Evolution Group of the Part 1.2 of Eurocode 3. Since 2010 Secretary of the Technical Committe, TC3, Fire Safety of Steel Structures, of the European Convention for Constructional Steelwok ECCS.

3 Since 2010 Since 2009 Since 2007 Since 2006 Since 2005 Since 2002 Chairman of thewg3 - Integrated Design of the COST action network number TU0904 Integrated Fire Engineering and Response. Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Structural Fire Engineering, Multi- Science Publishing, ISSN Member of the Working Group 1 Fire Resistance of COST C26 Urban Habitat Constructions under Catastrophic events, Member of the Steering Committee of the Structures in Fire Movement. Member of the European network Secure with Steel leaded by ArcelorMittal. Member of the Technical Committe, TC3, Fire Safety of Steel Structures, of the European Convention for Constructional Steewok ECCS. 3.5 Consultancy As consultant he has made several studies as author or co-author in the field of Structural Fire Safety for large steel buildings as Shopping Centres, Retail Parks, Sport halls, Muli-purpose halls or Exhibition halls. 3.6 Software Published Vila Real, P.; Franssen, J.-M. Elefir-EN A software for fire design of structural steel members, ISI or SCOPUS papers (1) VILA REAL, P. M. M.; FRANSSEN, J. M. Numerical Modelling of Lateral Buckling of Steel I Beams Under Fire Conditions Comparison with Eurocode 3, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp , Journal of Fire Protection Engineering, USA, May (2) LUÍS SIMÕES DA SILVA; ALDINA SANTIAGO; PAULO VILA REAL A Component Model for the Behaviour of Steel Joints at Elevated Temperatures Journal of Constructional Steel Research, ELSEVIER, ISSN: X, 57 (11), pp , (3) LUÍS SIMÕES DA SILVA; ALDINA SANTIAGO; PAULO VILA REAL Post-limit Stiffness Evaluation of the Ductility of Steel Joints Computers & Structures, ELSEVIER, 80 (5-6), pp , (4) VILA REAL, P. M. M.; PILOTO, P A. G.; FRANSSEN, J. M. A New Proposal of a Simple Model for the Lateral-Torsional Buckling of Unrestrained Steel I-Beams in Case of Fire: Experimental and Numerical Validation, Journal of Constructional Steel Research, ELSEVIER, ISSN: X,Vol 59/2 pp (5) VILA REAL, P. M. M.; LOPES, N.; SIMÕES DA SILVA, L.; PILOTO, P.; FRANSSEN, J.-M. Towards a Consistent Safety Format of Steel Beam-columns: Application of the New Interaction Formulae at Ambient Temperature to Elevated Temperatures, Steel & Composite Structures, an International Journal, TECHNO-PRESS, Vol. 3, No. 6, p.p , (ISI) (6) VILA REAL, P.; CAZELI, R.; SILVA, L.; SANTIAGO, A.; PILOTO, P. The Effect of Residual Stresses in the Lateral-Torsional Buckling of Steel I-Beams at Elevated Temperature, Journal of Constructional Steel Research, ELSEVIER, ISSN: X,60/3-5, pp , (7) VILA REAL, P. M. M.; LOPES, N.; SIMÕES DA SILVA, L.; PILOTO, P.; FRANSSEN, J.-M. Numerical Modelling of Steel Beam-Columns in Case of Fire Comparisons with Eurocode 3, Fire Safety Journal, ELSEVIER, ISSN: , 39/1, pp , (8) VILA REAL, P. M. M.; LOPES, N.; SIMÕES DA SILVA, L.; FRANSSEN, J.-M. Lateral- Torsional Buckling of Unrestrained Steel Beams Under Fire Conditions: Improvement of EC3 Proposal, Computers & Structures, ELSEVIER, ISSN: , 82/20-21 pp , (9) ALEXANDROVA, N.; ALEXANDROV S.; VILA REAL, P. M. M. Displacement Field and Strain Distribution in a Rotating Annular Disk, Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines, an International Journal, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp , Agosto, (10) LOPES, N., SIMÕES DA SILVA, L., VILA REAL, P., PILOTO, P. New Proposals for the Design of Steel Beam-Columns under Fire Conditions, Including a New Approach for the Lateral-Torsional Buckling of Beams, Computers & Structures, ELSEVIER, ISSN: , 82/17-19, pp , (ISI) (11) VILA REAL, P. M. M.; OLIVEIRA, C. A. M., BARBOSA, J. T. Thermo-Elasto-Viscoplastic Numerical Model For Metal Casting Processes, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, ELSEVIER, ISSN: , 46/2 pp , (12) ALEXANDROVA, N. VILA REAL, P. M. M. Approximate Rate Formulation of Non-elastic Bifurcation Problem for Thin-Walled Structures, International Journal of Thin-Walled Structures, ELSEVIER, Vol. 43 No. 4 pp , 2005.

4 (13) SIMÕES DA SILVA L., SANTIAGO, A.; VILA REAL, P. M. M.; MOORE, D. Behaviour of Steel Joints under Fire Loading, Steel & Composite Structures, an International Journal, TECHNO- PRESS, 5 (6), pp , (14) MESQUITA, L.; PILOTO, P.; VAZ, M.; VILA REAL, P. Experimental and Numerical Research on the Critical Temperature of Laterally Unrestrained Steel I Beams, Journal of Constructional Steel Research, ELSEVIER, ISSN: X, vol. 61, pp , (15) ALEXANDROVA, N.N. AND VILA REAL, P.M.M. - Effect of plastic anisotropy on stress-strain field in thin rotating disks, International Journal of Thin-Walled Structures, ELSEVIER, 44(8) pp , (16) ALEXANDROVA, N.N. AND VILA REAL, P.M.M. Singularities in a Solution to a Rotatting Orthotropic Disk with Temperature Gradient, Meccanica, Springer, Vol. 41 pp , (17) ALEXANDROVA, N.N. AND VILA REAL, P.M.M. - Elastic-plastic stress distributions and limit angular velocities in rotating hyperbolic annular discs, PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS PART C-JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE 221 (2): , FEB 2007.(ISSN: , ISI article, IF=0.329) (18) VILA REAL, P. M. M.; FRANSSEN, J.-M. Editorial of the Special Issue, Fire Safety Journal, ELSEVIER, ISSN: , Volume 42, Issues 6-7, Pages , September-October (19) VILA REAL, P. M. M.; LOPES, N.; SIMÕES DA SILVA, L.; FRANSSEN, J.-M. Parametric analisys of the Lateral-torsional buckling resistance of Steel beams in case of fire, Fire Safety Journal, ELSEVIER, ISSN: ,Volume 42, Issues 6-7, Pages , September-October (20) ALEXANDROVA, N.N. AND VILA REAL, P.M.M. Stress distributions in an annular disk possessing stress induced material anisotropy, Diffusion in Solids and Liquids: Heat Transfer - Microstructure & Properties Book Series: MATERIALS SCIENCE FORUM, Vol. 553 pp. 1-6, 2007 (ISI) (21) ALDINA SANTIAGO; LUÍS SIMÕES DA SILVA; GILBERTO VAZ; PAULO VILA REAL; ANTÓNIO GAMEIRO LOPES Experimental Investigation of the Behaviour of Steel Subframe Under Natural Fire Steel & Composite Structures, an International Journal, TECHNO- PRESS, Volume: 8 Issue: 3, pp: Published: JUN 2008 (ISI) (22) ALEXANDROVA, N.N. AND VILA REAL, P.M.M. Deformation and Stress Analysis of an Anisotropic Rotating Annular Disk, Taylor & Francis, International Journal of Computational Methods in Engineering Science & Mechanics, Taylor & Francis, Volume 9, Issue; 1 pp , January (SCOPUS) (23) ALDINA SANTIAGO; LUÍS SIMÕES DA SILVA; PAULO VILA REAL; MILAN VELJKOVIC Numerical Study of a Steel Sub-Frame in Fire Computers & Structures, PERGAMON- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, Volume: 86, Issue: 15-16, pp , 2008 (24) VILA REAL, P.; LOPES, N.; SILVA, L.; FRANSSEN, J.-M. Lateral-Torsional Buckling of Stainless Steel I-Beams in Case of Fire, Journal of Constructional Steel Research, ELSEVIER SCI LTD, ISSN: X, vol. 64, pp , (25) ALEXANDROVA, N. N.; VILA REAL, P. Preliminary design of a composite material flywheel, Materials Science Forum, Trans Tech Publications Ltd., Volume: 623, pp , 2009 (SCOPUS) (26) ALDINA SANTIAGO; LUÍS SIMÕES DA SILVA;; PAULO VILA REAL; GILBERTO VAZ, ANTÓNIO GAMEIRO LOPES Experimental Evaluation of the influence of Connection Typology on the Behaviour of Steel Structures under Fire ENGINEERING JOURNAL, AMER INST STEEL CONSTRUCTION Volume: 46 Issue: 2 Pages: 81-98, (27) REBELO C., LOPES N., SIMÕES DA SILVA L., NETHERCOT, D., VILA REAL P.M.M., Statistical evaluation of the lateral-torsional buckling resistance of steel I-Beams Part 1: Variability of steel properties, Journal of Constructional Steel Research, ELSEVIER SCI LTD, ISSN: X,Volume: 65 Issue: 4 Pages: , (28) SIMÕES DA SILVA L.,REBELO C., NETHERCOT, D., VILA REAL P.M.M., Statistical evaluation of the lateral-torsional buckling resistance of steel I-Beams Part 2: Variability of the Eurocode 3 Resistance Model, Journal of Constructional Steel Research, ELSEVIER SCI LTD, ISSN: X,Volume: 65 Issue: 4 Pages: , (29) LOPES, N.; VILA REAL, P.; SILVA, L.; FRANSSEN, J.-M. Numerical modelling of thin-walled stainless steel structural elements in case of fire, Journal of Fire Technology, Springer, volume 65 / 4, pp , ISSN , (30) ALDINA SANTIAGO; LUÍS SIMÕES DA SILVA; PAULO VILA REAL Numerical Modelling of the influence of Joint Typologies on the 3D Behaviour of a Steel Sub-frame Under a Natural Firee Journal of Fire Technology, Springer, volume 46, pp 49-65, ISSN , 2010.

5 (31) LOPES, N.; VILA REAL, P.; SIMÕES DA SILVA, L.; FRANSSEN, J.-M. New design formulae for stainless steel beam-columns in case of fire, Fire Safety Journal, Elsevier, 50, pp 35-50, (32) BUSON, M.; LOPES, N.; VARUM, H.; SPOSTO, R. M.; VILA REAL, P. Fire resistance of walls made of soil-cement and kraftterra compressed earth blocks, Fire and Materials Journal John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, ISSN , doi: /fam.2148, June of (33) TRAVANCA R.; VARUM, H.; VILA REAL, P. The past 20 years of telecommunication structures in Portugal, ENGINEERING STRUCTURES Volume: 48 Pages: 472-, March (34) COUTO, C.; VILA REAL, P.; LOPES, N.; RODRIGUES, J.-P. Buckling analysis of braced and unbraced steel frames exposed to Fire, journal Engineering Structures, Elsevier, ISSN: , volume 49, pp , doi /j.engstruct , April of 2013.

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