Diogo Montalvao

Dr Diogo Montalvao

  • Head of Department - Design & Engineering
  • Poole House P204, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
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Biography

As an experienced academic leader with over 20 years of success in academia and industry, I currently serve as Head of Department of Design & Engineering at Bournemouth University. I have a proven ability in driving growth, leading complex organisational change, and championing diversity. Managing ~40 FTEs and a multi-million-pound budget, I have been working towards increasing student intake in Engineering programmes, including apprenticeships. Under my leadership, the department consistently ranks in the top three for NSS within the whole University, establishing itself as a leader in academic excellence.

I oversee the Design and Engineering Innovation Centre, which includes the Advanced Manufacturing Centre and Advanced Materials Lab, ensuring impactful research and knowledge exchange. I played a key role in securing and maintaining IED and IMechE accreditations, aligning our programmes with industry standards to ensure our graduates excel in a competitive market.

I have championed inclusivity throughout my career, as shown by Bournemouth's Athena SWAN Bronze Award in 2021, recognising our efforts to promote gender equality and diversity in STEM...

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Favourites

  • Safari, S., Montalvão, D. and Monsalve, J.M.L., 2025. Data-driven structural identification of nonlinear assemblies: Uncertainty Quantification. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 170.
  • Bin, C., Yi, Y., Zhicheng, S., Lixue, Y., Kamali, A.R., Qiang, W., Montalvão, D. and Abdelkader, A., 2025. The purification of mesoscopic graphene flakes via eddy current separation. Powder Technology, 452.
  • Montalvao, D., Safari, S., Sewell, P., Costa, P., Reis, L., Freitas, M. and Chidzikwe, W., 2025. A New Design for Mitigating Interfering Modes in Cruciform Specimens to Enhance Ultrasonic Fatigue Testing. Procedia Structural Integrity.
  • Batley, A., Glithro, R., Montalvão, D., Dyer, B. and Sewell, P., 2024. Parametric analysis of 3D printing parameters on stiffness and hysteresis characteristics of pediatric prosthetic foot coupon samples. Prosthetics and Orthotics International.
  • da Costa, P.R., Rahaeifard, M., Montalvão, D., Reis, L. and Freitas, M., 2023. A new method for ultrasonic fatigue component frequency modulation: From ultrasonic horn to uniaxial and multiaxial specimens. International Journal of Fatigue, 176.
  • Babutskyi, A., Akram, S., Bevilacqua, M., Chrysanthou, A., Montalvão, D., Whiting, M.J. and Pizurova, N., 2023. Improvement of cavitation erosion resistance of structural metals by alternating magnetic field treatment. Materials and Design, 226.
  • Reis, L., Da Costa, P.R., Pereira, R., Montalvão, D. and Freitas, M., 2022. Crack path and fracture surface analysis of ultrasonic fatigue testing under multiaxial loadings. Engineering Failure Analysis, 142.
  • Bin, C., Yi, Y., Zhicheng, S., Qiang, W., Abdelkader, A., Kamali, A.R. and Montalvão, D., 2022. Effects of particle size on the separation efficiency in a rotary-drum eddy current separator. Powder Technology, 410.
  • Akram, S., Babutskyi, A., Chrysanthou, A., Montalvão, D., Whiting, M.J. and Modi, O.P., 2021. Improvement of the wear resistance of EN8 steel by application of alternating magnetic field treatment. Wear, 484-485.
  • da Costa, P.R., Reis, L., Montalvão, D. and Freitas, M., 2021. A new method for ultrasonic fatigue testing of equibiaxial and pure shear cruciform specimens. International Journal of Fatigue, 152.
  • Akram, S., Babutskyi, A., Chrysanthou, A., Montalvão, D., Whiting, M.J. and Pizurova, N., 2021. Improvement of the wear resistance of nickel-aluminium bronze and 2014-T6 aluminium alloy by application of alternating magnetic field treatment. Wear, 480-481.
  • Costa, P., Nwawe, R., Soares, H., Reis, L., Freitas, M., Chen, Y. and Montalvão, D., 2020. Review of multiaxial testing for very high cycle fatigue: From 'Conventional' to ultrasonic machines. Machines, 8 (2).
  • Toffe, G.T., Ismail, S.O., Montalvão, D., Knight, J. and Ren, G., 2019. A scale-up of energy-cycle analysis on processing non-woven flax/PLA tape and triaxial glass fibre fabric for composites. Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing, 3 (4).
  • Akram, S., Babutskyi, A., Chrysanthou, A., Montalvão, D. and Pizurova, N., 2019. Effect of alternating magnetic field on the fatigue behaviour of EN8 steel and 2014-T6 aluminium alloy. Metals, 9 (9).
  • Costa, P., Montalvao, D., Freitas, M., Baxter, R. and Luis, R., 2019. Cruciform specimens’ experimental analysis in ultrasonic fatigue testing. Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures, 42 (Special Issue on New Trends in Fatigue and Fracture), 2496-2508.
  • Pereira, S., Carvalho, A., Reis, L., Freitas, M. and Montalvão, D., 2019. Characterisation and evaluation of the mechanical behaviour of endodontic-grade NiTi wires. Frattura ed Integrita Strutturale, 13 (49), 450-462.
  • Amafabia, D.A.M., Montalvão, D., David-West, O. and Haritos, G., 2019. Elliptical Method for Damage Identification in Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer Laminates. Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, 2019.
  • Montalvão, D., Blaskovics, A., Costa, P., Reis, L. and Freitas, M., 2019. Numerical analysis of VHCF cruciform test specimens with non-unitary biaxiality ratios. International Journal of Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements, 7 (4), 327-339.
  • Montalvao, D. and Dupac, M., 2018. Students' views and correlation regarding performance and attendance for a first year Engineering cohort. 3rd International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education, CISPEE 2018.
  • Montalvão, D., Dupac, M., Amafabia, D.A.M., David-West, O. and Haritos, G., 2018. On reducing uncertainty on the Elliptical Plane modal identification method. MATEC Web of Conferences, 211.
  • Montalvao, D., Freitas, M., Reis, L. and Fonte, M., 2018. Design of Cruciform Test Specimens with different Biaxiality ratios for VHCF Fatigue. In: 8th International Conference on Engineering Failure Analysis (ICEFA VIII) 8-11 July 2018 Budapest, Hungary.
  • Montalvão, D. and Amafabia, D.A.M., 2018. An alternative representation of the receptance: The ‘elliptical plane’ and its modal properties. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 103, 236-249.
  • Montalvão, D. and Wren, A., 2017. Redesigning axial-axial (biaxial) cruciform specimens for very high cycle fatigue ultrasonic testing machines. Heliyon, 3 (11).
  • Ihracska, B., Crookes, R.J., Montalvão, D., Herfatmanesh, M.R., Peng, Z., Imran, S. and Korakianitis, T., 2017. Opto-mechanical design for sight windows under high loads. Materials and Design, 117, 430-444.
  • Montalvão, D., Baker, T., Ihracska, B. and Aulaqi, M., 2017. A generalised multiple-mass based method for the determination of the live mass of a force transducer. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 83, 506-521.
  • Sutharssan, T., Montalvao, D., Chen, Y.K., Wang, W.C., Pisac, C. and Elemara, H., 2017. A review on prognostics and health monitoring of proton exchange membrane fuel cell. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 75, 440-450.
  • Amafabia, D.A.M., Montalvão, D., David-West, O. and Haritos, G., 2017. A review of structural health monitoring techniques as applied to composite structures. SDHM Structural Durability and Health Monitoring, 11 (2), 91-147.
  • Chen, Y.K., Enearu, O.L., Montalvao, D. and Sutharssan, T., 2016. A Review of Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations on PEFC Performance. Journal of Applied Mechanical Engineering, 5 (6).
  • Carvalho, A., Montalvão, D., Freitas, M., Reis, L. and Fonte, M., 2016. Determination of the rotary fatigue life of NiTi alloy wires. Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, 85, 37-44.
  • Sutharssan, T., Montalvao, D., Chen, Y., Wen-Chung, W. and Pisac, C., 2016. Economic Analysis of Domestic Combined Heat and Power System in the UK. International Journal of Social, Behavioral, Educational, Economic, Business and Industrial Engineering, 10 (1), 73-77.
  • Montalvao, D., 2015. Introduction to Sensors and Signal Processing. Mechatronics: Fundamentals and Applications. CRC Press, 125-220.
  • Montalvão, D., Karanatsis, D., Ribeiro, A.M., Arina, J. and Baxter, R., 2015. An experimental study on the evolution of modal damping with damage in carbon fiber laminates. Journal of Composite Materials, 49 (19), 2403-2413.
  • Montalvão, D. and Baker, T., 2015. Correlating peer and tutor assessment on a low-stakes engineering assignment. International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education, 43 (3), 168-179.
  • Montalvão, D., Shengwen, Q. and Freitas, M., 2014. A study on the influence of Ni-Ti M-Wire in the flexural fatigue life of endodontic rotary files by using Finite Element Analysis. Materials Science and Engineering C, 40, 172-179.
  • Montalvão, D., Alçada, F.S., Braz Fernandes, F.M. and De Vilaverde-Correia, S., 2014. Structural characterisation and mechanical fe analysis of conventional and m-wire Ni-Ti alloys used in endodontic rotary instruments. The Scientific World Journal, 2014.
  • Lage, Y., Ribeiro, A.M.R., Montalvão, D., Reis, L. and Freitas, M., 2014. Automation in strain and temperature control on VHCF with an ultrasonic testing facility. ASTM Special Technical Publication, STP 1571, 80-100.
  • Montalvão, D., Cláudio, R.A.L.D., Ribeiro, A.M.R. and Duarte-Silva, J., 2013. Experimental measurement of the complex Young's modulus on a CFRP laminate considering the constant hysteretic damping model. Composite Structures, 97, 91-98.
  • Montalvão, D., Ribeiro, A.M.R. and Duarte-Silva, J.A.B., 2011. Experimental Assessment of a Modal-Based Multi-Parameter Method for Locating Damage in Composite Laminates. Experimental Mechanics, 51 (9), 1473-1488.
  • Montalvão, D. and Alçada, F.S., 2011. Numeric comparison of the static mechanical behavior between ProFile GT and ProFile GT series X rotary nickel-titanium files. Journal of Endodontics, 37 (8), 1158-1161.
  • Ribeiro, A.M.R., Montalvao, D., Azinheira, J., Freitas, M., Reis, L. and Fontul, M., 2011. Hysteretic Damping as an Energy Parameter in Gigacycle Fatigue. In: 5th International Conference on Very High Cycle Fatigue 28-30 June 2011 Berlin, Germany.
  • Montalvão, D., Ribeiro, A.M.R. and Duarte-Silva, J., 2009. A method for the localization of damage in a CFRP plate using damping. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 23 (6), 1846-1854.
  • Maia, N.M.M., Ribeiro, A.M.R., Fontul, M., Montalvão, D. and Sampaio, R.P.C., 2007. Using the Detection and Relative Damage Quantification Indicator (DRQ) with transmissibility. Key Engineering Materials, 347, 455-460.
  • Montalvão, D., Maia, N.M.M. and Ribeiro, A.M.R., 2006. A review of vibration-based structural health monitoring with special emphasis on composite materials. Shock and Vibration Digest, 38 (4), 295-324.
  • Montalvão, D., Ribeiro, A.M.R., Maia, N.M.M. and Silva, J.M.M., 2004. Estimation of the rotational terms of the dynamic response matrix. Shock and Vibration, 11 (3-4), 333-350.

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