Miranda Dias, J.(WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development, 2024-12-31)
The evaluation of the building´s performance, particularly concerning its hygro-thermo-mechanical behavior, entails that external environmental actions should be considered together with the mechanical loads acting in the ...
The external envelope of buildings with reinforced concrete structures (RCS buildings) is usually subjected to various external environmental actions. Among these external environmental actions, hygrothermal actions are ...
Couto, P.; Falcão Silva, M. J.; Salvado, A.(CERIS. PT, 2024-11-06)
As consequências visíveis das alterações climáticas exigem mudanças no modo de vida da humanidade,
particularmente na forma como são consumidos os recursos naturais. Estudos recentes mostram que
desde o aumento da atividade ...
Falcão Silva, M. J.; Cabaço, A.; Vale e Azevedo, A.(CERIS. PT, 2024-11-06)
Nas últimas décadas, a utilização da pré-fabricação na indústria da construção, a nível global, tem
testemunhado avanços muito significativos. Portugal tem vindo a acompanhar esta tendência global
ao longo das últimas ...
Salvado, A.; Couto, P.; Fontul, S.; Falcão Silva, M. J.(RAE - Revista de Activos de Engenharia, 2024-02-06)
During the last decades, there has been a significant evolution of rail transport. The need to standardize technical and economic information is emphasized to guarantee the optimization of construction and operation ...
Rezvan, S.; Falcão Silva, M. J.; Almeida, N.(MDPI, 2024-01-11)
This study introduces the Risk-Informed Asset-Centric (RIACT) process, a novel approach aimed at enhancing the safety and resilience of urban infrastructures against natural and man-made disasters. The RIACT method stands ...
Rezvan, S.; Falcão Silva, M. J.; Almeida, N.(MDPI, 2024-05-15)
Floods pose a significant threat to road networks globally, disrupting transportation, isolating communities, and causing economic losses. This study proposes a four-stage methodology (avoidance, endurance, recovery, and ...
Folgado Santos, C.; Cabaço, A.; Brandão de Vasconcelos, A(Brazilian Journal of Development, 2024-06-12)
As fichas de rendimento de operações de construção, contendo informação sobre os recursos, os rendimentos e os preços unitários das atividades, assumem um papel importante no planeamento económico da construção. No caso ...
Brandão de Vasconcelos, A; Santos, A.; Cabaço, A.(IJDR, 2024-06-30)
In line with the European Energy Performance of Building Directive (EPBD), this paper aims to calculate the
cost-optimal energy performance of a residential building in southern Europe, more precisely in Portugal,
taking ...
Rezvan, S.; Almeida, N.; Falcão Silva, M. J.(WCEAM 2022, 2022)
Urban resilience research covers multiple fields of study like earthquakes, floods, and tsunamis, amongst other types of disaster risks. Resilience evaluationsystems have been used to aggregate and calibrate multi-dimensional ...
Rezvan, S.; Almeida, N.; Falcão Silva, M. J.(WCEAM 2022, 2022)
Natural disasters cause an average of 60,000 deaths per year. There was a total of 416 natural disasters worldwide in 2020. Resilience to disruption and quick recovery of the operational performance of buildings and ...
The resilience of buildings and civil engineering infrastructures has increasingly attracted the attention of different stakeholders, including engineering professionals from different areas, scientists, standardization ...
Falcão Silva, M. J.; Salvado, A.; Almeida, N.(WCEAM 2022, 2022)
The recognition of the high costs of the vulnerabilities of cities and communities due to various types of disaster risks have helped build the business case for improving the investments of the quality and resilience of ...
Falcão Silva, M. J.; Salvado, A.; Almeida, N.(Ponteditora, 2023-01-07)
A segurança das pessoas e o elevado valor dos bens construídos e dos seus conteúdos, bem como a sua criticidade na satisfação das necessidades básicas e bem-estar das comunidades, sempre suscitaram preocupações quanto à ...
Salvado, A.; Almeida, N.; Vale e Azevedo, A.(Ponteditora, 2023-01-07)
As funções financeiras e as funções relacionadas com o desempenho técnico e funcional (não financeiras) estão incorporadas nas atividades de gestão do ciclo de vida de qualquer dos ativos construídos. Essas funções fornecem ...
Buildings with reinforced concrete structure (RCS buildings), including unreinforced masonry (URM) infill walls, can be negatively affected by anomalies in their envelope, such as cracking and water penetration, which ...
Buildings are subjected to deformations of their reinforced concrete structure due to vertical loads that can lead, in certain cases, to the significant cracking of the unreinforced masonry (URM) infill walls, therefore ...
The external envelope of buildings with reinforced concrete structures (RCS buildings) is subjected to environmental actions, particularly related to wind-driven rain (WDR), external humidity variations, and rising dampness, ...
Buildings with reinforced concrete structure (RCS buildings), including unreinforced masonry (URM) infill walls, can be negatively affected by anomalies in their envelope, such as cracking and water penetration, which ...
Buildings are subjected to deformations of their reinforced concrete structure due to vertical loads
that can lead, in certain cases, to the significant cracking of the unreinforced masonry (URM) infill walls,
therefore ...