"Urban areas are dynamic, complex and vulnerable systems involving multiple strategic urban services such as water supply, wastewater, stormwater and waste management, energy supply, public lighting, transport, public ...

In this paper, we introduce a theoretical discussion that aims to uncover some of the intermediation that hides behind the formal and informal pairs and argues the interest in innovating certain formalisms of urban intervention ...

Está em curso um projeto de geminação a cargo de um consórcio franco-português, ao abrigo do Acordo de Associação Argélia-UE, que tem por objetivo prestar apoio ao "Organisme National de Contrôle Technique des Travaux ...

Os modelos de partículas têm vindo a ser utilizados no estudo do comportamento de materiais quase-frágeis, em particular do betão. Este tipo de modelos permite a consideração da distribuição, quantidade e forma dos agregados ...

To understand the performance of the dam during the first filling, it is crucial to predict in real time the displacement and the stresses due to the water reservoir level and environmental conditions. Particular attention ...

Roadway departure (RwD) crashes, comprising run-off-road (ROR) and cross-median/centerline head-on collisions, are one of the most lethal crash types. Nationwide, from 2014 to 2016, annual RwD crashes accounted for 53% of ...

Nos estudos probabilísticos para avaliação da perigosidade sísmica, são estabelecidas zonas de geração sísmica (zonas sismogénicas), representando regiões que partilham as mesmas caraterísticas sismológicas, tectónicas e ...

The anomalies related with durability of building masonry walls and their confining concrete elements are often related to the occurrence of cracking/detachment and with the presence of moisture. In many situations, it ...

Pretende-se apresentar as principais soluções construtivas recentes para paredes interiores e exteriores de edifícios, e analisar os aspetos essenciais relativos ao seu desempenho funcional e durabilidade.

Monitoring is a key activity to ensure the structural safety of dams and is used for detection of deterioration, including local degradation issues and more extensive deterioration scenarios, such as the development of ...