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Maria Augusta Neto

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:

Department of Mechanical Engineering Faculty of Science and Technology
University of Coimbra
Coimbra
Portugal

Interests:

Composite Materials, Finite element method, Biomechanics, Flexible multibody systems, optimization.