Scipedia

Scipedia

Scipedia is a initiative promoted by CIMNE for fostering the publication and dissemination of documents in Open Access format and which has several innovative features.

The unique feature of Scipedia is that it creates and manages journals and collections of publications of individuals and groups (eg. a single author, a group of academics, a university department or a research centre, etc). The documents are generated from the “original” text of the publication in Word or Latex and can be modified with the online editor of Scipedia to embed in the document videos, data files, models, etc. The collections may include articles, monographs, books, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, etc. From the documents published, one can automatically generate copies in PDF or EPUB format for e-books.


All documents published in Scipedia are indexed by the main search engines of scientific and technical documents, such as Google Scholar, Open Aire, etc.

The published documents have a discussion forum where they can be commented by registered users. These comments contribute to the “popularity” of the document and increase the “prestige” of the author and of those who participate in the discussion.


All content is also traceable by Google robots (and others) so that each part of it is traceable and referenciable.


CIMNE on Scipedia

CIMNE has its own institutional profile on Scipedia that consists of four sections: Overview, Publications, Members and Analytics.

This space is a repository of papers, monographs, technical reports and conference lectures given by CIMNE researchers. Here we can find here the magazine “Revista Internacional de Métodos Numéricos en Ingeniería”, edited by CIMNE. To sum up, a confortable site where it is possible find all the scientific production of CIMNE and interact with its members.

Publications

CIMNE publishes books, journals, monographs, scientific reports and educational software on the theory and applications of numerical methods in engineering and applied science.
The publications of CIMNE can be visited and ordered via Internet on the website books.cimne.com. Most publications can be freely downloaded from the web. We list below the publications of CIMNE in 2020.

Number of CIMNE publications (1987-2020)
Edited books87
Text books46
Research reports417
Technical reports643
Monographs276
Papers in journals (since 2009) 998

Books

Oller S.H; Nallim L.G. Estática y resistencia de materiales, CIMNE, L151, 366pp, 2020.

Journals

Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering. Editors: Kleiber M., Oñate E. Springer, Journal Impact Factor (2019): 6.730; 5 Year Impact Factor (2019): 7.351

Revista Internacional de Métodos Numéricos para Cálculo y Diseño en Ingeniería. Editors: Oñate E., Idelsohn S.R., Scipedia, 2020. Journal Impact Factor (2019): 0.338. H-Index: 8

Monographs

In 2020 CIMNE researchers have published 5 monographs:

Aguiar R. , Cagua B., J. Pilatasig. Pushover con Acoplamiento de CEINCI-LAB y OpenSees, MIS77, pp.184, CIMNE, 2020.

Mataix V., Oñate E., Rossi R. Innovative mathematical and numerical models for studying the deformation of shells during industrial forming processes with the Finite Element Method, M190, CIMNE, pp.374, 2020.

Roca D., Cante J.C., Lloberas O, Oliver X. Numerical tools for computational design of acoustic metamaterials, M191, CIMNE, pp.70, 2020.

Ugel R. D. , Pujades L. G. , Guerrero N. L. , Herrera R. I. Análisis sismo-resistente de edificios mixtos de acero y hormigón armado, MIS78, CIMNE, pp.172, 2020.

Zorrilla R., Oñate E., Rossi R. Towards the Virtual Wind Tunnel for civil engineering applications, M189, CIMNE, pp.213, 2020.

Publications in Journals

Check the full list of Scientific Papers on CIMNE’s website.

Rankings

Rankings

Webometrics Ranking

Recently, the 16th edition of Webometrics Ranking of Spanish researchers and researchers working in Spanish Institutions (Spain) according to their Google Scholar Citations public profiles (http://www.webometrics.info) has been published.

This edition data was collected during the second week of March 2021. The list includes the top 91.000 profiles ranked by h-index in decreasing order and then by the total number of citations.

Eugenio Oñate, professor of the School of Civil Engineering of UPC, is in the position 372th of the ranking with an h-index of h=75 and 25.983 citations.

There are 108 CIMNE researchers listed in Webometrics, three of them among the 1.000 first positions:

  • Prof. Eugenio Oñate (372th position)
  • Prof. Antonio Gens (458th position)
  • Prof. Eduardo Alonso (898th position)

This list ranks Prof. Eugenio Oñate, director of CIMNE, as the highest cited researcher of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC).

Webcindario Ranking

Another reference website in research ranking is Webcindario (https://grupodih.info/). In February 2021, it has updated its yearly list about prizes, women researchers and its ranking list by provinces.

The following list is a summary of the CIMNE researchers that appear in the one made by DIH Group / Webcindario:

Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications

Four CIMNE researchers are the top positions in this rank:

  • Oñate, Eugenio (Fh: 1,42)
  • Codina, Ramon (Fh: 1,06)
  • Huerta, Antonio (Fh: 1)
  • Idelsohn, Sergio (Fh: 0,94)

Engineering, Civil

  • Barbat, Alex (Fh: 0,83)

Engineering, Geological
Two CIMNE researchers lead this rank:

  • Gens, Antonio (Fh: 1,34);
  • Alonso, Eduardo (Fh: 1,06);

Engineering, Multidisciplinary

  • Agelet, Carlos (Fh: 0,95)

Research Areas and Groups

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CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENT ENGINEERINGCOMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS DESIGN AND ANALYSIS
Building, Energy & Environment
PI: Jordi Cipriano

Disaster Risk and Resilience
PI: Liliana Carreño

Geomechanics
PI: Antonio Gens

Hydrogeology
PI: Xavier Sànchez-Vila

Machine Learning in Civil Engineering
PI: Fernando Salazar

River Dynamics and Hydrologic Engineering (FLUMEN Institute)

PI: Ernest Bladé

Structural Mechanics
PI: Eugenio Oñate
Computational Design & Analysis of Engineering Metamaterials
PI: Xavier Oliver

Mechanics of Electroactive Materials
PI: Irene Arias

Soft and Living Material Interfaces
PI: Marino Arroyo
ENGINEERING MECHANICS AND PROCESSESINNOVATION SUPPORT AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
Bio-Medical Engineering
PI: Eduardo Soudah

Fluid Mechanics
PI: Ramon Codina

Industrial Manufacturing Processes
PI: Michele Chiumenti and Miguel Cervera
Information and Communication Technology
PI: Jordi Jiménez

Pre and Post Processing
PI: Abel Coll

Valorization of Research and Technology Transfer
PI: Javier Marcipar
INNOVATIVE ALGORITHMS AND HPC TECHNIQUESTRANSPORT
Credible Data-driven Models
PI: Pedro Díez

Kratos Multiphysics
PI: Riccardo Rossi

Innovative Algorithms for Fast Accurate Computing
PI: Antonio Huerta

Large Scale Scientific Computing
PI: Santiago Badia
Aeronautics
PI: Jordi Pons

CENIT Group for Innovation in Multimodal Transport
PI: Sergi Saurí

Naval and Marine Engineering
PI: Borja Serván

Research

Machine Learning- Computational Engineering

The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering received the Severo Ochoa accreditation in December 2019. CIMNE became thus one of the six “Centre for Excellence Severo Ochoa” accredited by the Spanish State Research Agency (attached to the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities).

Research Challenges and Goals

Logo blanco severo Ochoa

CIMNE has reinforced and reorganized its current research activities in order
to contribute to overcome.


With this action, the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities aims to promote high-impact research carried out in the R&D centres of Spain.

Severo Ochoa Centres stand out both for the international notoriety of the scientific contributions they make, and for their innovative capacity and their intense relationship with the business sector. They are also world reference centres capable of attracting international talent.

4 Research Challenges

Four Scientific Challenges of high impact to the welfare of citizens:

(*) These challenges are aligned with the research and technical development (RTD) priorities of European Commission (EC) H2020 priorities and the Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020.

RCh1. Construction & Transport

The enhanced design of buildings and constructions, transport infrastructure and vehicles.

RCh 1.1. NEW NM FOR ANALYSIS OF CONSTRUCTIONS WITH NEW MATERIALS
Design and construction of new sustainable, safer and affordable buildings and infrastructures.

RCh 1.2. NEW NM FOR ANALYSIS OF CONSTRUCTIONS WITH NEW MATERIAL
Design of new aircrafts with improved features, such as reduced energy consumption and environmental impact, and increased safety of air transport.

RCh 1.3. NEW NM FOR ENHANCED DESIGN OF SHIPS AND MARINE STRUCTURES WITH IMPROVED PERFORMANCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURES
Design and construction of environmentally friendly and faster ships that can meet the challenges of the maritime transport.

RCh2. Environment, Energy & Security

A more environmentally-friendly and safer planet.

RCh 2.1. NM FOR ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
New Numerical Methods for:

  • Wetlands for wastewater treatment;
  • Water bodies, the atmosphere, animals & lands.
  • Surface reactive barriers for reducing the risk of organic compounds to human and ecosystems

RCh 2.2. ADVANCED NM FOR THE PREDICTIVE IMPACT OF HAZARDS ON THE BUILT INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Development of NM, fed with information from satellites, drones and monitoring devices at the small scale, processed via Big Data techniques, for studying:

FINAL AIM: A more environmental-friendly and safer planet.

RCh3. Manufacturing

A more competitive industrial sector.

Develop of new Numerical Methods for the predictive design of forming manufacturing processes to achieve affordable final products with the desired functionalities.

  • The forming manufacturing industry produces a high percentage of existing metallic & polymer components.
  • Examples are: additive manufacturing, sheet stamping, casting, welding, forging, machining, rolling and extrusion.

RCh4. Materials

The development of new materials with functional properties for engineering applications.

To develop new Numerical Methods (NM) for analysis and predictive design of multifunctional architected materials.

AIM: The development of new materials with functional properties for engineering applications

  • In photonics and acoustics for attenuating selected ranges of frequencies
  • To produce ultra-light materials with desired mechanical properties
  • Nonlinear metamaterials exhibiting extreme shock absorbing and restitution capacities
  • Biological active meta-materials (organ-on-a-chip devices)