Luiz Vieira attended Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL), in Brazil, where he received his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and his Professional Engineering degrees. At UEL he started his research career, working with numerical methods and concrete structures. From 2003 to 2004 he worked for a consultancy and design company where he was involved in the design of concrete and steel bridges, tilt-up industrial buildings, and structural health monitoring of grain storage structures. In 2005, he enrolled in the Master of Science program at Universidade São Paulo (USP-EESC), also in Brazil, where he did research on the Structural Behavior and Strength of Steel Purlins Restricted by Steel Sheathing. He received his Master degree from USP-EESC in 2007 and thereafter started his PhD at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) under the advising of Professor Benjamin Schafer. After four years of research on sheathed braced wall studs at JHU, he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering in 2011. His dissertation presents and discusses several important findings on the behavior and strength of sheathed braced wall studs based on full-scale tests and numerical analyses. His research concludes with a new design method for sheathed braced wall studs, which he shows to be a significant improvement over former design methods both conceptually and in terms of strength prediction. He was hired as a faculty in the Tagliatela College of Engineering at the University of New Haven in July 2011.

Ph.D., Structural Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
M.S., Structural Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
M.S., Structural Engineering, Universidade Estadual de São Paulo – EESC, Brazil
B.S., Civil Engineering, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Brazil

Vieira Jr., L.C.M.; Shifferaw, Y.; Schafer, B.W. Experiments on Sheathed Cold-Formed Steel Studs in Compression.Journal of Constructional Steel Research. (2011)

Schafer, B.W.; Vieira Jr., L.C.M.; Sangree, R.H.; Guan, Y. Rotational Restraint and Distortional Buckling in Cold-Formed Steel Framing Systems. RevistaSul-Americana de EngenhariaEstrutural, (South American Journal of Structural Engineering), Special issue on cold-formed steel structures, 6 (2).

Vieira Jr., L.C.M.; Malite, M.; Schafer, B.W. Simplified models for cross-section stress demands on C-section purlins in uplift.Thin-Walled Structures, v. 48, p. 33-41, 2010. (doi:10.1016/j.tws.2009.07.009)

Vieira Jr., L.C.M.; Malite, M. Análisenumérica do comportamentoestrutural de terças de açorestringidaspelastelhas. (Numerical Analysis of the Structural Behavior of Steel Purlins Restricted by Steel Sheathing), Revista Minerva, (South American Journal of Engineering), v. 5, p. 63-71, 2008.

Vieira Jr., L.C.M.; Malite, M. Análisenumérica do comportamentoestrutural de terças de açorestringidaspelastelhas. (Numerical Analysis of the Structural Behavior of Steel Purlins Restricted by Steel Sheathing), RevistaSul-Americana de EngenhariaEstrutural, (South American Journal of Structural Engineering), v. 4, p. 99-113, 2007.

Vieira Jr., L.C.M.; Schafer, B.W. Full-scale testing of sheathed cold-formed steel wall stud systems in axial compression.. In: Structural Stability Research Council - Annual Stability Conference, 2010, Orlando. SSRC 2010 - Proceedings., 2010.

Vieira Jr., L.C.M.; Schafer, B. W. Bracing Stiffness and Strength in Sheathed Cold-Formed Steel Stud Walls. In: Stability and Ductility of Steel Structures, 2010, Rio de Janeiro. Stability and Ductility of Steel Structures, 2010.

Vieira Jr., L.C.M.; Schafer, B.W. Behavior and Design of Axially Compressed Sheathed Wall Studs. In: 20th International Specialty Conference on Recent Research and Developments in Cold-Formed Steel Design and Construction, 2010, Saint Louis. Proceedings of 20th International Specialty Conference on Recent Research and Developments in Cold-Formed Steel Design and Construction, 2010.

Shifferaw, Y.; Vieira Jr., L.C.M.; Schafer, B.W. Compression testing of cold-formed steel columns with different sheathing configurations. In: Structural Stability Research Council - Annual Stability Conference, 2010, Orlando. SSRC 2010 - Proceedings., 2010.

Vieira Jr., L.C.M.; Malite, M.; Schafer, B.W. Numerical analysis of cold-formed steel purlin-sheeting systems. In: Fifth International Conference on Thin-Walled Structures, 2008, Brisbane. Thin-Walled Structures - Recent Innovations and Developments..Brisbane, 2008. v. 1. p. 469-476.

Vieira Jr., L.C.M.; Malite, M.; Schafer, B.W. Simplified models for cross-section stress demands on C-section purlins in uplift.. In: 19th International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures, 2008, Saint Louis. Recent research and developments in cold-formed steel design and construction., 2008. p. 219-234.

Schafer, B.W.; Sangree, R.H.; Moen, C.; Seif, M.; Shifferaw, Y.; Zeinoddini, V.; Li, Z.; Vieira Jr., L.C.M.; Iuorio, O.; Guan, Y. Modeling thin-walled cold-formed steel members and systems. In: 6th International Conference on Computation of Shell and Spatial Structures IASS-IACM 2008: Spanning Nano to Mega, 2008, Ithaca. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computation of Shell and Spatial Structures IASS-IACM 2008: Spanning Nano to Mega, 2008.

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