• Installation of Geosynthetics at the Cerro do Lobo Tailings Storage Facility 

  Barroso, M. P.; Manso, J.; Brito, A.; Marcelino, J.; Galrão, R.; Oliveira, M. (VERTCOM, 2025-09-15)

  The Cerro do Lobo Tailings Storage Facility is part of the Neves-Corvo Mine, located in Portugal. The mine is operated by Somincor, a Portuguese company and a subsidiary of Lundin Mining Corporation. The mine has been in ...
• Characterisation and diagnosis of timber floor of the Ajuda National Palace in Lisbon 

  Fontul, S.; Mota, R.; Pereira, M. M.; Cruz, H.; Matias, L.; Duarte, S.; Mera Marques, A. (IEEE, 2025-07)

  This paper presents a case study of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) application for multidisciplinary diagnostic of timber floor of Ajuda National Palace (ANP), which was the official royal house in the second half of the ...
• Installation of geosynthetics at the Cerro do Lobo Tailings Storage Facility 

  Barroso, M. P.; Manso, J.; Brito, A.; Marcelino, J.; Galrão, R.; Oliveira, M. (Vertcom, 2025-09-18)

  The Cerro do Lobo Tailings Storage Facility is part of the Neves-Corvo Mine, located in Portugal. The mine is operated by Somincor, a Portuguese company and a subsidiary of Lundin Mining Corporation. The mine has been in ...
• Conceitos e princípios da geotecnia ambiental aplicados na recuperação do passivo ambiental de São Pedro da Cova 

  Roque, A. J.; Monteiro, V.; Coelho, M. J. (Sociedade Portuguesa de Geotecnia, 2025-08-01)

  Com o objetivo de proceder à recuperação paisagística de uma área com topografia muito irregular, maioritariamente escavada nas escombreiras da antiga mina de carvão de São Pedro da Cova, em Gondomar, e à sua futura ...
• Albufeiras na Ilha da Madeira: (imprescindível) impermeabilização com geossintéticos 

  Barroso, M. P.; Caldeira, L.; Ferreira, P.; França, P.; Maligno, C. (Sociedade Portuguesa de Geotecnia, 2024-02)

  Na ilha da Madeira, existem vários reservatórios de água para diferentes fins, entre eles as albufeiras das barragens de Pico da Urze e da Portela. Estas infraestruturas têm em comum a particularidade de as características ...
• A Durabilidade dos geossintéticos: Estigma ou fator de sustentabilidade 

  Lopes, M. G.; Barroso, M. P. (Sociedade Portuguesa de Geotecnia, 2024-02)

  Este artigo pretende mostrar que, paralelamente ao sucesso da utilização dos geossintéticos em inúmeras aplicações, estes tiveram sempre de superar grandes desafios/estigmas para se impor no mercado, muitos deles relacionados ...
• Challenges in assessing the hydrogeological impact of underground structures in urban renewal projects 

  Ramos, R.; Jeremias, T.; Caldeira, L. (CRC Press, 2024-08)

  Lisbon's urban renewal projects have led to an increase in the construction of underground structures such as basements and tunnels. As riverfront areas are prone to flooding, since 2010 the City Council has made it ...
• LAYERS project – preliminary results from GPR and ERT surveys at Museu do Azulejo 

  Mota, R.; Pereira, M. M.; Costa, D.; Pais, A.; Senos, N.; Coelho, M. J.; Mimoso, J. (IEEE, 2023-07)

  LAYERS research project* proposes to explore, using geophysical methods, such as ground penetrating radar (GPR) and electrical resistivity, in the thickness of the walls and in the soil depth around buildings of heritage ...
• In the width of the walls, in the depth of the soil - research project LAYERS (results from first sensitivity tests) 

  Mota, R.; Pereira, M. M.; Coelho, M. J.; Costa, D.; Pais, A.; Senos, N.; Mimoso, J. (IEEE, 2023-07)

  LAYERS project proposes to explore, using geophysical methods, such as ground penetrating radar (GPR), in the thickness of the walls and in the soil depth around buildings of heritage interest, the layers in which the ...
• Detecting unregistered underground infrastructure with GPR 

  Coelho, M. J.; Pereira, M. M. (IEEE, 2023)

  A common problem in urban environments, especially in old streets and buildings that have been subjected to several interventions over time, is the lack of a register (or its update) of underground infrastructures. The GPR ...
• The effectiveness of ‘‘clay’’ liners as basal isolation of landfills: a case study 

  Marques, F.O.; Marques, F.; Mateus, A.; Figueiras, J.; Monteiro dos Santos, F. A.; Mota, R.; Amaral , H. (Environmental Geology, 2005)

  A sodium bentonite is being used in the basal-isolation of landfills installed on strongly fractured granitic rocks of N Portugal (NW Iberia). To evaluate the performance of this ‘‘clay’’ as the ultimate impermeable basal ...
• Organic chemistry and magnetic susceptibility to characterize Late Mesolithic (ca. 8400-7000 cal BP) palaeoenvironmental conditions in the Sado Estuary, Portugal. 

  Costa, A. M.; Freitas, M. C.; Leira, M.; Mota, R.; Araújo, A. C.; Diniz, M.; Reicherter, K.; Teichner, F.; Arias, P. (10th International Conference Mesolitich in Europe, 2020-09)

  Late Mesolithic hunter-gatherer communities (ca. 8400-7000 cal BP; ca. 6450-5050 cal BC) occupied the inner areas of the Tagus and Sado rivers (Portugal) during the Early-Middle Holocene transition. At that time both river ...
• Granite fracturing and incipient pollution beneath a recent landfill facility as detected by geoelectrical surveys 

  Mota, R.; Monteiro dos Santos, F. A.; Mateus, A.; Marques, F.O.; Gonçalves, M.; Figueiras, J.; Amaral , H. (Elsevier, 2004)

  A resistivity survey using Wenner array was carried out in June 2000 in a granite region of Northern Portugal, where an active landfill is operating since 1998, to detect the possible spread of contamination. This survey ...
• Combined use of geophysical methods and water information to assess human activities impacts on karst groundwater quality 

  Leitão, T. E.; Mota, R.; Novo, M. E.; Lobo Ferreira, J. P. C. (8th International Conference of EWRA Water Resources Management in an Interdisciplinary and Changing Context, 2013-02)

  The presence of high vulnerable karstic systems in areas of intense human activities often results in the degradation of existing groundwater quality status. The water quality (WQ) protection and improvement, as required ...
• Livro branco da gestão da recarga de aquíferos: Seleção de contribuições portuguesas para o projecto Marsol sobre mitigação da escassez de água e de secas 

  Lobo Ferreira, J. P. C.; Leitão, T. E.; Martins, T.; Oliveira, M. M.; Mota, R.; Henriques, M.; Monteiro, J. P.; Hugman, R.; Costa, L.; Carvalho, T.; Agostinho, R.; Sousa, R. (13º SILUSBA - Simpósio de hidráulica e recursos Hídricos dos países de língua portuguesa, 2017-09)

  O projeto MARSOL abordou questões inovadoras relativas à Gestão da Recarga de Aquíferos tais como a sua viabilidade técnica e os riscos relacionados com a qualidade da água na origem. O projeto analisou - em oito locais ...
• Avaliação da integridade de estacas de betão pelo método de diagrafia sónica entre furos 

  Mota, R.; Rodrigues, L (VII Congresso Nacional de Geotecnia, 2000-04)

  Faz-se no presente artigo uma descrição dos princípios e condições de ensaio do método de diagrafia sónica entre furos, para avaliação da integridade de estacas de betão. São apresentados casos de obra em que o método ...
• Depth of detection in resistivity surveys. A case study of a resistive buried target 

  Mota, R.; Monteiro dos Santos, F. A. (EAGE - European association on geoscientists & engineers, 2003-09)

  There are in the literature several examples of experiences for detection of buried structures, “bothin Physical (e.g. Apparao, et al,, 1992, 1997 a and b) and computer modelling (Coggon, 1973). The objective of the ...
• Porosity and water saturation degree from combined resistivity and seismic surveys for geotechnical site characterization 

  Mota, R.; Monteiro dos Santos, F. A. (EAGE - European association on geoscientists & engineers, 2003-09)

  Porosity and water saturation degree are some of the physical parameters that are commonly Estimated in site characterization studies by laboratory tests in selected samples from geotechnical soundings. This Kind of ...
• One-dimensional geotechnical modelling by seismic methods of Lisbon alluvial basins 

  Mota, R. (7th International IAEG Congress, 1994-09)

  An experimental seismic microzonation was executed in Lisbon, in 1991, In this paper the results obtained in alluvial basins are compared, by spectral analysis, with those from one-dimensional (1D) nonlinear models. ...
• 2D sections of porosity and water saturation percent from combined resistivity and seismic surveys for hydrogeologic studies 

  Mota, R.; Monteiro dos Santos, F. A. (The leading edge, 2006-06)

  Porosity and water saturation percent, or their product—the water content—are important parameters for most hydrogeologic studies. Geophysical methods, especially the resistivity method, are routinely applied to studying ...

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