David Medall Martos (2023)

David Medall Martos
Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain

Visiting UoM from 06/2023 to 12/2023 to work on the PhD topic entitled "Improvement of the fire resistance of composite concrete-steel sections with the use of high strength materials".

Education

  • PhD in Construction Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain (2021 – Present)
  • Master's degree for secondary education, vocational training, and language teaching, Universitat Jaume I, Spain (2020-2021)
  • Master’s degree in industrial engineering, Universitat Jaume I, Spain (2018-2020)
  • Bachelor's degree in industrial technology engineering, Universitat Jaume I, Spain (2014 – 2018)

Employment

  • Technical Researcher, Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología del Hormigón (ICITECH), UPV, Spain. (2021 – Present)
  • Support teacher, Centre d’Estudis la Brúixola at Castellón, Spain (2020-2021)

Research Interests

  • Steel-reinforced concrete-filled steel tubular columns
  • Fire safety
  • Thermo-mechanical numerical simulation
  • Composite structures:
  • High strength steel and concrete

Awards and Scholarships

  • Spanish Science and Innovation Ministery Grant PRE2020-093106 funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and by “ESF Investing in your future”. (2021 – Present)
  • Pesearch collaboration grant at Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain. (2017-2018)

Publications

  • David Medall Martos; Ana Espinós Capilla; Vicente Albero Gabarda; Manuel Luis Romero García. Simplified proposal for the temperature field of steel-reinforced CFST columns exposed to fire. Engineering Structures. 273, pp. 1 - 21. 2022. ISSN 0141-0296. DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2022.115083
  • David Medall Martos; Carmen Ibáñez Usach; Vicente Albero Gabarda; Andrés Lapuebla Ferri; Ana Espinós Capilla; Manuel Luis Romero García. Experimental investigation on steel-reinforced CFST columns after fire exposure. 12th International Conference on Structures in Fire (SIF 2022) at Honk Kong, China
  • David Medall Martos; Ana Espinós Capilla; Vicente Albero Gabarda; Carmen Ibáñez Usach; Manuel Luis Romero García. Numerical investigation on the thermal behaviour of steel-reinforced CFST columns in fire. SDSS 2022: The International Colloquium on Stability and Ductility of Steel Structures, September 14-16, 2022 at Aveiro, Portugal
  • David Medall Martos; Ana Espinós Capilla; Vicente Albero Gabarda; Carmen Ibáñez Usach; Manuel Luis Romero García. Modelo numérico bidimensional para la evaluación del comportamiento térmico de columnas tubulares de acero rellenas de hormigón con perfiles embebidos en situación de incendio. CMN 2022 Congress on Numerical Methods in Engineering at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain