High-Speed Railways provide efficient transportation but impose significant dynamic forces on ballasted tracks, accelerating ballast degradation and increasing maintenance demands. This study aims to understand and mitigate ...

Water utilities face challenges in managing non-revenue water, which encompasses unbilled authorised consumption, leaks, bursts, authorised consumption errors, and unauthorised consumption. Several approaches have been ...

The number of climate-related disasters has progressively increased in the last two decades and this trend will drastically exacerbate in the medium- and long-term horizons according to climate change projections. In this ...

NATURELAB – Nature-Based Interventions for Improving Health and Well-Being is an European funded project coordinated by LNEC, aiming to enhance the benefits of nature spaces for health and well-being. It is structured ...

The state-of-the-art on recycled aggregate concrete is comprehensive but lacks research aimed at the production of ready-mix concrete. For instance, the workability of recycled aggregate concrete, which is paramount for ...

Devido à sua extensa zona costeira, Portugal possui um importante número de estruturas de proteção marítima, sendo as mais comuns os quebra-mares de taludes. De modo a otimizar o dimensionamento hidráulico destas estruturas, ...

O Projeto Life Garachico - Adaptação das zonas costeiras urbanas da Macaronésia às inundações decorrentes das alterações climáticas (Life20 CCA/ES/001641) - objetiva a criação e implementação de uma estratégia flexível ...

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 the safety assessment of concrete dam-foundation systems this study uses an explicit time-stepping small displacement algorithm, which simulates the hydromechanical interaction and considers the discrete representation ...

Visual inspection is a crucial task for the assessment of a dam conservation state. However, these tasks are time consuming and operator dependent, which leads to the aim of developing more objective procedures. Photographs ...