José Saporiti Machado

• 2001 - PhD, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Forest Engineering
• 1989 - Degree Course, Instituto Superior de Agronomia

• 2015-2017 - Vice-President of SERQ – Innovation and competence forest Centre
• 2001-2017 - Auxiliar Researcher, Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil
• 1994-2001 - Research Assistant, Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil
• 1992-1994 - Research Trainee, Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil
• 1989-1992 - Research Fellow, Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil

• Destructive and non-destructive evaluation of timber, engineering wood products and composites.
• Monitoring of timber structural members
• Development of wood products and systems (kits) for construction.
• Physical behaviour of timber products.

Participation in several national and international projects being highlighted the following:

International projects:

• 2016-2019 GELCLAD - Highly efficient cladding eco-panels with improved nano-insulation properties. H2020 project, H2020-EEB-2016, Research & Innovation Action. Member of the research team. https://www.gelclad.eu/
• 2011-15 BioBuild - High Performance, Economical and Sustainable Biocomposite Building Materials. FP7 project, THEME [EeB-NMP.2011-1 - Materials for new energy efficient building components with reduced embodied energy]. Grant agreement for: Collaborative project. Member of the research team.

Supervision of phD and masther’s thesis being highlighted the following:

• 2014-2015: Supervisor of a Master Thesis on "Humidity influence on the mechanical behaviour of wood-plastic composites". Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Master’s Student: Fábio Alexandre Lameira da Costa Luís - https://run.unl.pt/handle/10362/14663

• 2009-2014: Supervisor of a PhD. Thesis on " Persistence and transformation. Contributions for the use of modern materials in Architectural heritage conservation. The engineering wood products.". University of Évora

  PhD. Student: Inês Filipe Pereira da Fonseca

  https://dspace.uevora.pt/rdpc/handle/10174/15918

• 2009-2012: Co-Supervisor of a PhD. Thesis on "Mechanical behaviour of timber round elements for structural applications". University of Coimbra

  PhD. Student: Telmo Filipe Marques Morgado

  https://estudogeral.sib.uc.pt/handle/10316/21514

• 2005-2011: Co-supervisor of a PhD. Thesis on "Evaluation of old timber structures safety". University of Minho

  PhD. Student: Ricardo Brites

  http://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/handle/1822/14069

• 2007-2008: Supervisor of a Masters Thesis on "Structural application of Maritime pine roundwood". University of Coimbra.

  Masters student: Telmo Filipe Marques Morgado

• 2003-2006: Co-supervisor of a PhD. Thesis on "Inspection and diagnosis of historical timber structures: NDT correlations and structural behaviour". University of Minho.

  PhD. Student: Artur Jorge de Oliveira Feio

  http://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/handle/1822/14697

Scientific journals with referees (2014-2017)

• MORALES-CONDE, M. J.; MACHADO, J.S. - Evaluation of cross-sectional variation of timber bending modulus of elasticity by stress waves Construction. Construction and Building Materials. 134 (2017) 617-625. DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2016.12.188.
• MORGADO, T. F. M.; DIAS, A M. P. G.; MACHADO, J. S.; NEGRÃO, J. H.; MARQUES, A. F. S. - Grading of Portuguese Maritime Pine Small-Diameter Roundwood. Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering. Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering 29 (2017) DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)MT.1943-5533.0001721.
• KNAPIC, S.; PINA dos SANTOS, C.; PEREIRA, H.; MACHADO, J.S. - Performance of Expanded High-Density Cork Agglomerates. Journal of materials in Civil Engineering. Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering. Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering 29 (2017) DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)MT.1943-5533.0001718.
• KNAPIC, S.; OLIVEIRA V.; MACHADO, J.S.; PEREIRA, H. - Cork as a building material: a review. Eur. J. Wood Prod. 74 (2016) 775–791. DOI: 10.1007/s00107-016-1076-4.
• MACHADO, J. S.; SANTOS, S.; PINHO, F. F.S.; LUÍS, F.; ALVES, A.; SIMÕES, R.; RODRIGUES, J.C. – Impact of high moisture conditions on the serviceability performance of wood plastic composite decks. Materials and Design 103 (2016) 122-131.
• FEIO, A.; MACHADO, J.S. - In-situ assessment of timber structural members: Combining information from visual strength grading and NDT/SDT methods – A review. Construction and Building Materials 101 (2015) 1157–1165.
• SOUSA, H.; MACHADO, J.S.; BRANCO, J. M.; LOURENÇO, P.B. - Onsite assessment of structural timber members by means of hierarchical models and probabilistic methods. Construction and Building Materials 101 (2015) 1188–1196.
• KLOIBER, M.; DRDÁCKY, M.; MACHADO, J.S.; PIAZZA, M.; YAMAGUCHI, N. -Prediction of mechanical properties by means of semi-destructive methods: A review. Construction and Building Materials 101 (2015) 1215–1234.
• SILVA, A.; MARTINS, A.; FEIO, A.; MACHADO, J. - Feasibility of Creosote Treatment for Glued-Laminated Pine-Timber Railway Sleepers. J. Mater. Civ. Eng. 27 (2015) 04014134-1-04014134-11.
• MACHADO, J.S.; LOUZADA, J. L.; SANTOS, A. J.A.; NUNES, L.; ANJOS, O.; RODRIGUES, J. ; SIMÕES, R.M.S.; PEREIRA, H. - Variation of wood density and mechanical properties of blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon R. Br.). Materials and Design 56 (2014) 975–980.
• FEIO, A. O.; LOURENÇO, P. B.; MACHADO, J. S. - Testing and modeling of a traditional timber mortise and tenon joint. Materials and Structures 47 (2014) 213–225.
• MACHADO, J. S.; ANTUNES, M. T. - Aniceto Rapozo’s cabinet at the Lisbon Academy of Sciences - A window into Brazilian eighteenth-century timber resources. Journal of the History of Collections 26 (2014) (1) 21-33.
• MORALES-CONDE M J, RODRÍGUEZ-LIÑÁN, MACHADO J S – Predicting the density of structural timber members in service. The combine use of wood cores and drill resistance data. Materiales de Construccíon 64 (2014) DOI: 10.3989/mc.2014.03113.
• SILVA, A.; MARTINS, A.; FEIO, A.; MACHADO, J. - Feasibility of Creosote Treatment for Glued-Laminated Pine-Timber Railway Sleepers. J. Mater. Civ. Eng. (2014) DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)MT.1943-5533.0001073.

National and international conferences (2014-2017)

• GONÇALVES, A.; RIBEIRO, A.; MONTEIRO, A.; PEREIRA, E.; MACHADO, J. S.; MATIAS, L.; FARINHA, LUÍSA B.; PEREIRA M.; FONTUL, S. - Técnicas não destrutivas em engenharia civil. In 10º Congresso Nacional de Mecânica Experimental, Lisboa, 12 a 14 de outubro de 2016. 32 p.
• MACHADO, J.S. – Strategies for the evaluation of existing timber structures: Challenges, problems and solutions. In Heritage 2016 5º International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development, chapter 7: Preservation of historic buildings and structures, vol 2, 1367-1375, Lisboa, julho 2016.
• MACHADO, J. S.; FEIO, O. – Prediction of bending performance of old timber beams by combining information from different methods. In SHATIS International Conference on Structural Health Assessment of Timber Structures, vol I, 513-522. Wroclaw, Polónia, Setembro 2015.
• FONSECA, I.; FEIO, A. O.: MACHADO, J. S. - Utilização de derivados de madeira no reforço de paredes de tabique. In Materiais de Construção Sustentáveis. Volume 3. Universidade do Minho, 2014, pp. 435-442.
• DIAS, Alfredo; MORGADO, T.; NEGRÃO, J.; MACHADO J. - Connection for round wood timber members using multiple glued-in rods. In 11th "World Conference on Timber Engineering”. Quebec city, Canadá. 2014.

Collaboration in collective works

• MACHADO, J.S. – Reliability of prediction by combining direct and indirect measurements. In: J S Machado, M. Riggio and T Descamps, eds., Combined use of NDT/SDT methods for the assessment of structural timber members. COST FP1101 state of the art report. Mons: Université de Mons, pp. 1-13. 2015.
• MACHADO, J. S.; KNAPIC, S. – Short and long-term properties of natural fibre composites. In Mizi Fan and Feng Fu, eds., Advanced High Strength Natural Fibre Composites in Construction. Woodhead Publishing Series in Composites Science and Engineering: Number 74, Elsevier. pp. 447-458. 2017.
• MACHADO, J.S; ANTUNES, M. T. - Estudo histórico e científico da xiloteca da academia das ciências de lisboa construída por José Aniceto Rapozo – nota preliminar. Academia das Ciências de Lisboa. 2013. ISBN 978-972-623-130-1.
• Avaliação, Conservação e Reforço de Estruturas de Madeira. 2010. VERLAG Dashofer. ISBN 978-989-642-065-9.
• MACHADO, J.S.; FAN, M. - Long-term mechanical performance of Wood-based panels. Part one Performance of Wood-based Panels, Chapter 5. Perfomance in use and new products of wood based composites. Ed. Mizi Fan, Martin Ohlmeyer, Mark Irle, Wilfred Haelvoet, Eleftheria Athanassiadou, Ian Rochester. Brunel University Press. 2009. ISBN 978-1-902316-75-8.
• LEAL, S; SOUSA, V.; KNAPIC, S.; GOMINHO, J.; CALLOT, H.; MACHADO, J. S.; LOUZADA, J.L.; PEREIRA, H. Cork oak wood properties. In: Javier Vásquez-Piqué, Helena Pereira, Arantzazu González-Pérez, editors. Suberwood. New challenges for the integration of cork oak forests and products, Huelva, Universidad de Huelva; 2008, p. 393-402.

Editor of a collective book

• CRUZ, H.; MACHADO, J. S.; COSTA, A. C.; CANDEIAS, P.X.; RUGGIERI, N.; CATARINO; J.M. (Eds) - Historical Earthquake-Resistant Timber Framing in the Mediterranean Area - Heart 2015. Springer, 2016. ISBN 978-3-319-39491-6.
• MACHADO, J.S.; RIGGIO; M.; DESCAMPS, T. (Eds) - Combined use of NDT/SDT methods for the assessment of structural timber members. UMONS, Université de Mons, ISBN 978-87325-094-2.
• Avaliação, Conservação e Reforço de Estruturas de Madeira. VERLAG Dashofer. ISBN 978-989-642-065-9. Responsible for the coordination and author of some chapters.

• Member of European research network (COST Actions): E24: Reliability of timber structures 2001-2005; E 49 Processes and Performance of Wood-based Panels 2005-2009; E53: Quality control for wood and wood products 2006-2010; FP1101 Assessment, Reinforcement and Monitoring of Timber Structures 2011-2015.
• Member of national and international technical committees for standardization regarding solid timber, engineering wood products and wood-based panels.