लेखक: Alireza Ahkavan-Safar

Lucas F M da Silva is Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto and Director of the Integrated Master in Mechanical Engineering. He obtained his Ph D in bonding of composites from the University of Bristol (UK) in 2004. He has published 327 ISI papers and 24 books (9 as author and 15 as editor) mainly on adhesive joint mechanics. His papers were cited 8263 times and correspond to an h-index of 50 (SCOPUS, 01/2020). He leads the Adhesives Group, composed of post-docs, Ph D students and MSs students. The work covers adhesives mechanical characterization, especially in terms of fracture toughness, adhesive joint modelling with analytical models and finite element analysis Ricardo Carbas is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, He obtained his Ph D in adhesive bond technologies in 2013 from the University of Porto (Portugal). He has published 55 ISI papers on adhesive technologies. His papers were cited 881 times and correspond to an h-index of 16 (SCOPUS, 01/2020). Eduardo Marques is an Assistant Researcher in Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial, he obtained his Ph D in adhesive bond technologies in 2016 from the University of Porto (Portugal). He has published 55 ISI papers on adhesive technologies. His papers were cited 666 times and correspond to an h-index of 15 (SCOPUS, 01/2020). Ana Queirós Barbosa are currently is an Assistant Researcher in Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial, she obtained her Ph D in Reinforcement adhesives in 2017 and MSc in Material Science from the University of Porto (Portugal). She has published 18 ISI papers and book chapter mainly on adhesive technologies. Her papers were cited 157 times and correspond to an h-index of 7 (SCOPUS, 01/2020). Alireza Ahkavan-Safar are currently is an Assistant Researcher in Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial, he obtained his Ph D in Adhesive mechanical characterization in 2017 from the Iran University of Science and Technology (Iran). He has published 17 ISI paper mainly on adhesive characterization. His papers were cited 60 times and correspond to an h-index of 4 (SCOPUS, 01/2020).