Cristina De Hollanda Cavalcanti Tsuha Â
Department of Geotechnics Engineering
University of Sao Paulo
Brazil
Biography
Christina is a Civil engineer, she worked for 6 years (from 1995 to 2000) as a project and field engineer in Foundations and Excavations. Later, from 2001 to 2007, he held a master's and doctoral degree in Geotechnics, in the Foundations area, at the University of São Paulo (School of Engineering of São Carlos), and in 2009 post-doctorate at the Technical University of Grenoble (INPG). She is currently a professor at the School of Engineering of São Carlos at the University of São Paulo. It operates in the research line of Foundations Engineering, with emphasis on: safety and probability of ruin of foundations, foundations in metallic helical piles, physical modeling of centrifuge piles and calibration chamber, and foundations subjected to cyclic loading.
Research Interest
safety and probability of ruin of foundations, foundations in metallic helical piles, physical modeling of centrifuge piles and calibration chamber, and foundations subjected to cyclic loading.
