Ana Maria B C Segadães

Retired Professor

Short CV

Professor Ana M. Segadães is a Chemical Engineer from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and specialized in Materials Science and Engeneering upon being hired as aLecturer at the University of Aveiro.

She earned her Ph.D. degree at the University of Sheffield, UK (1982) with the work she did on Phase Equilibria in Magnesia-Chrome Refractories (which was awarded the Berthold Eichler Memorial Prize for best Ph.D. Thesis). Part of this work was presented at the very first International Conference on Refractories, in Tokyo, in 1993.

Her expertise in Phase Equilibrium Diagrams granted an invitation for a first post-doctoral period spent at the Federal University of São Carlos-SP, Brazil, in 1986, which broadened into collaborations with various other Brazilian institutions (Institute of Energy and Nuclear Research in São Paulo, Federal Universities of Campina Grande-PB, Rio Grande do Norte in Natal and Sergipe in Aracajú, and the University of Caxias do Sul in Rio Grande do Sul).

In 1989-90 she carried out post-doctoral research work at the University of California at Santa Barbara, USA (with A.G. Evans and F.F. Lange), on the interface microstructure and fracture energy in composite materials and phase equilibrium in high Tc superconductors, with ramifications into rheology and colloidal processing of ceramics, and new collaborations with the National Institute of Technology in Rio de janeiro, Brazil, and the University of Beira Interior in Covilhã, Portugal.

Research work in oxide powder synthesis by solution combustion reaction led to joint projects with the Federal Universities of São Carlos-SP and Rio de janeiro-RJ, Brazil, the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and the Ceramics and Glass Institute in Madrid, Spain.

Research interests also include the environment, recycling and reuse of industrial wastes, in collaboration with the Brazilian Federal Universities of Santa Catarina in Florianópolis and of Rio Grande do Norte in Natal, the State University of Santa Catarina in Joinville, the University of Caxias do Sul and the Institute of Energy and Nuclear Research in São Paulo, and with the University of Cantábria in Bilbao, Spain.

Professor Ana M. Segadães earned the highest degree (Agregação) in the Portuguese Universities academic carreer in 1998; in 1989 and 2003 was awarded the best paper prize at the Brasilian Ceramic Association Congress and, in 2007 the best poster prize at the 6th International Latin-American Conference on Powder Technology (PTECH’2007). To date, she has successfully supervised 02 Post-Doctorates, 12 PhD Thesis and 08 MSc Dissertations; registered 04 Patents (03 of which also in Brazil), presented 30 invited Lectures and published two textbooks (in Portuguese). So far, she co-authored 99 papers published in SCI scientific journals which granted her 1310 citations and a H-index of 20.

Scientific Interests

Phase Diagrams and Refractories, particularly low-cement castables and the hydration behaviour of calcium aluminates, magnesium phosphate cements, ceramic powder packing and processing, structural porous ceramics and microstructure engineering, combustion synthesis of ceramic oxide powders, design of experiments with mixtures (response surfaces), and reuse and recycling of industrial wastes and sub-products.

Projects

Publications

Predicting porosity content in triaxial porcelain bodies as a function of raw materials contents

Correia, SL; Hotza, D; Segadaes, AM
2008, JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE, 43, 2, 696-701.

Aluminum anodizing sludge used to fabricate engobes, glazes and frits

Sartor, MN; Correia, SL; Hotza, D; Segadaes, AM; Labrincha, JA; de Oliveira, APN
2008, AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY BULLETIN, 87, 5, 9201-U3.

Effects of potable water filtration sludge on the rheological behaviour of one-coat plastering mortars

Raupp-Pereira, F; Silva, L; Segadaes, AM; Paiva, H; Labrincha, JA
2007, JOURNAL OF MATERIALS PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY, 190, 1-3, 12-17.

Extrusion and property characterisation of waste-based ceramic formulations

Raupp-Pereira, F; Ribeiro, MJ; Segadaes, AM; Labrincha, JA
2007, JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN CERAMIC SOCIETY, 27, 5, 2333-2340.

Potable water filtration sludge: Use as set retarder in one-coat plastering mortars

Raupp-Pereira, F; Silva, L; Segadaes, AM; Hotza, D; Labrincha, JA
2007, CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING MATERIALS, 21, 3, 646-653.

Setting behaviour of waste-based cements estimated by impedance spectroscopy and temperature measurements

Raupp-Pereira, F; Ribeiro, MJ; Segadaes, AM; Labrincha, JA
2007, BOLETIN DE LA SOCIEDAD ESPANOLA DE CERAMICA Y VIDRIO, 46, 2, 91-96.

Ceramic formulations prepared with industrial wastes and natural sub-products

Raupp-Pereira, F; Hotza, D; Segadaes, AM; Labrincha, JA
2006, CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL, 32, 2, 173-179.

Using ornamental stone cutting rejects as raw materials for red clay ceramic products: Properties and microstructure development

Acchar, W; Vieira, FA; Segadaes, AM
2006, MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING, 435, 606-610.

Properties of triaxial porcelain bodies: Interpretation of statistical modeling

Correia, SL; Oliveira, APN; Hotza, D; Segadaes, AM
2006, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY, 89, 11, 3356-3365.

Use of phase diagrams to guide ceramic production from wastes

Segadaes, AM
2006, ADVANCES IN APPLIED CERAMICS, 105, 1, 46-54.

Patents

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