Civil Research Group

Adaptation is the pathway for new and existing buildings and infrastructure on their climate journey. This action brings together some answers to some unknowns.

The Project “be-READY – REsilient roAD pavements for sustainabilitY” of Prof. Vítor Antunes has started, as published on the EEA Grant website. The deterioration of roads is one of the biggest challenges in infrastructure management. How can we achieve sustainable pavement solutions? Have a look at the workshop being organized at OsloMet.

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5 ECTS | June 26-30, 2023, in person (30h) | 15h remotely | MSc and PhD Students

06 DECEMBER 2022

This book presents the essentials of the Theory of Elasticity by deriving the differential equations that govern the response of materials to external forces and exploring the mathematical methods available for their solution.

18 OCTOBER 2022

Futuro Hoje, Lourenço Medeiros, SIC | You can have a look here

Seminar: Auditorium Agostinho da Silva, Lusófona University | September 27, 2022 | Lisbon, Portugal | Public and free access This seminar intends to bring together experts from the bridge engineering field and academia, climatologists, bridge authorities, and decision makers to understand the impacts of climate change on the health of bridges and to propose cost-effective adaptation strategies.

Development of a smartphone application to monitor the structural health of buildings and special structures (like bridges) after catastrophic events.

20 APRIL 2022

After three years in the making, the main conclusions of the Reconhecer Project were publicly disclosed with the presence of the Mayor of Barcelos, Mário Constantino, and two of its authors Eloi Figueiredo and Luís Oliveira Santos (Câmara Municipal de Barcelos).

27 MARCH 2022

Based on experience over 30 years in bridge monitoring, Eloi Figueiredo and James Brownjohn just had an article published on the last three decades of statistical pattern recognition paradigm for structural health monitoring of bridges.

24 MARCH 2022

Download the last DNIT’s issue and find more about the “The Bridge Tuners” by Ionut Moldovan and a short description of the bridge field tests carried out by the CRG in Brazil (October 2021).

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“The Bridge Tuners” (This opinion article was originally written in Portuguese.) Did you know that the vibrations of a bridge are an authentic ‘fingerprint’ of that bridge? Well, now you do, so the next time you are on a bridge feeling shaken by the passing of a truck, instead of thinking “Oh, we are so going to die!!”, think instead that the vibration you are feeling belongs only to that bridge, and that there is no other bridge in the world that would vibrate in the same way.

Considering the goals for sustainable development and future, and the opportunities to improve our transportation infrastructures, namely the road infrastructure. This new research area is an evolution from the “road pavement materials”.

Video-based approaches are rooted in the photogrammetry whose principles were first developed as a means to create maps from aerial photographs.

For more information: ClimaBridge Project – Impact of climate change on the structural health of bridges. This project is coordinated by Eloi Figueiredo.