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The lab brings together researchers working across structural dynamics, geomechanics, numerical methods, optimization and bio-inspired design. Open a profile to see each project explained from the physical question outward.

Portrait of Josué Labaki in a light-blue button-down shirt against a technical Sirius and ground-vibration schematic.

Principal investigator

Josué Labaki

Department of Integrated Systems, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Campinas. Research in soil–structure interaction, structural dynamics and computational mechanics.

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Students

Open a profile to follow the research question, method, results and evidence behind each project.

Portrait of Amanda Oliveira against a technical drawing of a tower on an annular pile foundation.

PhD candidate

Amanda Oliveira

Dynamic soil-structure interaction

How do a structure, its foundation and dozens of piles move as one system?

Portrait of Aldemar Siqueira against a root-inspired anchorage and soil-interaction drawing.

PhD candidate

Aldemar Siqueira

Topology optimization in and under the ground

Can the ground help determine the most efficient shape of a structure?

Portrait of Jenário Reis against adjoining optimized structural domains and a highlighted interface.

MSc candidate

Jenário Reis

Interfaces in topology optimization

Can an optimizer decide where materials should connect, separate or transfer traction?

Portrait of Isadora Rodrigues against a submerged barrier and water-seabed wave schematic.

MSc candidate

Isadora Rodrigues

Submerged vibration barriers

Why does a barrier behave differently when the ground is underwater?

Portrait of Guilherme Arruda against a fluid-soil wave model with an absorbing outer boundary.

MSc candidate

Guilherme Arruda

Fluid-soil-structure wave propagation

How can a finite simulation reproduce waves travelling through an open seabed?

Portrait of Lucas Mamedes against a dynamically loaded optimized structure interacting with flexible ground.

MSc candidate

Lucas Mamedes

Dynamic topology optimization with SSI

How does flexible, radiating soil change the structure an optimizer chooses?

Portrait of Thiago Gomes against a technical interpretation of the Bag Sentável optimized skeleton.

Undergraduate researcher

Thiago Gomes

Three-dimensional structural optimization

How can a 3D structure become lighter without overstressing or buckling?

Portrait of Murilo Oliveira against a ground-vibration and compliant-body deformation schematic for his exchange research.

Undergraduate researcher

Murilo Oliveira

Bio-inspired excavation

What can earthworm burrowing teach us about flexible excavating robots?

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Extended research community

These interdisciplinary teams connect structural mechanics with territory, labour, ecology and design.

The preliminary three-dimensional topology-optimized internal frame of Bag Sentável, with an open central cargo cavity.
Preliminary BESO result: a connected structural frame around the protected cargo space. Stress, buckling and experimental validation are still in progress.

Active research line · completed interdisciplinary team

Bag Sentável

A delivery backpack redesigned around a problem reported by platform workers: long waiting periods with nowhere to sit. A topology-optimized internal frame is being developed to support a seated person while protecting the cargo space.

AdvisingJosué Labaki · advisorAmasa Carvalho · co-advisor
CurrentThiago Gomes · structural optimization and current development
Completed project teamHenrique Martins · initial product and structural conceptLaís Nogueira · labour and economic contextCatarina Rodrigues · work, identity and uberizationGeovana Fernandes · platform labour and delivery-app structures
Project record
Conceptual illustration of a raised timber house beside an Amazonian river and forest.
A conceptual riverside dwelling. The illustration introduces the research theme; it does not document a specific community or construction system.

Current extended research community

Ancestral Structures

How do traditional building systems respond to their climate, materials and territory? This project investigates structural and environmental performance in Indigenous construction traditions, connecting computational models with the knowledge and context in which those systems developed.

AdvisingJosué Labaki · advisorAmasa Carvalho · co-advisor
CurrentElivany Macario Avelino · undergraduate researcherAmasa Carvalho · environmental psychology and climate justice
Project record

The lab’s students work inside a wider network of long-term and project-based collaborations.

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