Antunes, P.; Fernandes, E.; Freire, M.; Gonzalez, I.; Marcelino, J.(Sociedade Portuguesa de Geotecnia, 2026-05)
No seguimento do “Comboio de Tempestades” que assolou Portugal, ocorreu uma
rotura do Dique dos Casais, associado ao Rio Mondego, no dia 11 de fevereiro de 2026.
No seguimento deste acontecimento, a onda de cheia criada, ...
O programa Copernicus da Agência Espacial Europeia (ESA) constitui-se como uma valiosa
fonte de dados de diversos tipos, permitindo complementar informações obtidas por
outras fontes, essenciais no controlo de segurança ...
Rosa, A.; Manso, J.; Azenha, M.; Carreto, J.; Marcelino, J.(Sociedade Portuguesa de Geotecnia, 2026-05)
A procura por soluções que otimizem a colaboração e o trabalho entre os vários
intervenientes da indústria da Arquitetura, Engenharia, Construção e Operação (AECO)
está a ser impulsionada pela implementação da metodologia ...
Sustainable water quality underpins ecological balance and water security. Assessing and managing lakes
and reservoirs is difficult due to data sparsity, heterogeneity, and nonlinear relationships among parameters.
This ...
Ensuring dam safety requires continuous monitoring to detect structural anomalies such as cracks, displacements, and seepage. This study explores aerial surveys using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles combined with open-source ...
Manso, J.; Marcelino, J.; Caldeira, L.(ASCE Library | International Journal of Geomechanics, 2025-02)
This paper presents a fundamental study on the evolution of particle
breakage during triaxial compression tests, focusing on the effect of
total suction. This analysis was based on triaxial compression tests,
performed ...
The Southern Expansion of the Cerro do Lobo Waste Facility, inserted in the Neves-Corvo Copper and Zinc Mining Concession, is located in Baixo Alentejo, district of Beja, covering the municipalities of Castro Verde and ...
For World Youth Day event in 2023 (JMJ), the organizing committee selected an area in Parque das Nações
that met the imposed requirements, notably in terms of area (for 1 million spectators) and proximity to the Lisbon ...
Brito, A.; Caldeira, L.(19th European Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference, 2008-09)
Recently, soil-rock mixtures are being used in the construction of embankment dam shoulders. This
situation represents new challenges to compaction techniques and their control as well as to the
determination of the ...
Brito, A.; Pimenta, L.; Caldeira, L.; Viseu, T.(Seminário: Barragens. Tecnologia, segurança e interação com a sociedade, 2005-10)
Hughes et al (2000) propõem a utilização de uma técnica simplificada para cálculo da onda de rotura, visando a identificação e avaliação das consequências no âmbito da realização de análises de riscos por intermédio dos ...
Recentemente têm sido utilizadas na constituição dos maciços estabilizadores de barragens de aterro misturas solo-enrocamento, as quais colocam novos desafios relativamente às técnicas de compactação e do respectivo controlo, ...
Caldeira, L.; Brito, A.(IX Jornadas Españolas de Presas, 2010-06)
Soil-rock mixtures are being used in the construction of dam shells. The measured deformations associated to these materials have been larger than expected. This situation represents new challenges to compaction techniques ...
Brito, A.; Maranha, J. R.; Caldeira, L.(10th World congress on computacional mechanics, 2012-07)
Odelouca dam is an embankment dam, with 76 m height, recently constructed in the south of Portugal. It is zoned with a core consisting of colluvial and residual schist soil and with soil-rockfill mixtures making up the ...
Brito, A.; Maranha, J. R.; Caldeira, L.; Pinto Pereira, C.(8th European congress on numerical methods in geotechnical engineering, 2014-06)
Odelouca dam is an embankment dam, with 76 m height, recently constructed in the south of Portugal. It is zoned with a core consisting of colluvial and residual schist soil, and with soil-rockfill mixtures making up the ...
Brito, A.; Caldeira, L.; Maranha, J. R.(Sociedade Portuguesa de Geotecnia, 2012-04)
A Barragem de Odelouca localiza-se no concelho de Silves e implanta-se na Ribeira de Odelouca, principal
afluente do Rio Arade. Trata-se de uma barragem de perfil zonado com um núcleo central constituído por
coluviões e ...
Brito, A.; Caldeira, L.; Maranha, J. R.(Journal of materials in civil engineering, ASCE, 2018-07)
In order to improve the rather insufficient knowledge about the hydromechanical behavior of soil–rockfill mixtures (SRMs) applied in embankment dams, a testing program was undertaken in which several mixtures with different ...
Brito, A.; Caldeira, L.; Maranha, J. R.(85th Annual Meeting of International Commission on Large dams, 2017-07)
In order to improve the rather insufficient knowledge about the hydro-mechanical behavior of soilrockfill
mixtures (SRM) applied in embankment dams, a testing program was undertaken in which several mixtures with different ...
Brito, A.; Maranha, J. R.; Caldeira, L.(Elsevier, 2018-03)
Soil-rockfill mixtures (SRMs) are economical and environmentally friendly materials. Due to the absence in the
literature of constitutive models specifically developed and tested for SRMs, a new constitutive model, ...
Brito, A.; Maranha, J. R.; Caldeira, L.(Sociedade Portuguesa de Geotecnia, 2012-04)
A caracterização mecânica e hidráulica dos materiais da Barragem de Odelouca, efectuada no Laboratório
Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC), é utilizada para a calibração dos modelos constitutivos a utilizar na
modelação ...
Brito, A.; Caldeira, L.(Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 2014-08)
The employment of nontraditional materials such as soil-rock mixtures, for economic and environmental reasons, in the construction of earthworks poses some new challenges for compaction techniques and their control, and ...