Discriminação de género e construção das masculinidades nos contextos de trabalho: o caso da engenharia civil

Dissertação de mestrado em Gestão de Recursos Humanos

A spatial multicriteria model for urban accessibility mapping

Accessibility is nowadays an important issue for the development of cities. It is seen as a priority in order toguarantee equal access to fundamental rights, to improve the quality of life of citizens and to ensure that everyone, regardless of age, mobility or ability, have equal access to all the resources and benefits cities have to offer. Consequently, factors closely related to the accessibility have gained a higher relevance for identifying and assessing the location of urban facilities. The main goal of the paper is to present an accessibility evaluation model applied in Santarém, in Brazil, a city located midway between the larger cities of Belem and Manaus. The research instruments, sampling method and data analysis proposed for mapping urban accessibility are described. Daily activities were used to identify and group key destinations. The model was implemented within a geographic information system and integrates the individualâ s perspective through the definition of each key destination weight, reflecting their significance for daily activities in the urban area. Accessibility to key destinations was mapped over 24 districts of the city of Santarém. The results of this model application can support city administration decision-making for new investments in order to improve urban quality of life.

Shaking table tests of a two-storey log house

This paper presents the findings of an experimental campaign that was conducted to investigate the seismic behaviour of log houses. A two-storey log house designed by the Portuguese company Rusticasa® was subjected to a series of shaking table tests at LNEC, Lisbon, Portugal. The paper contains the description of the geometry and construction of the house and all the aspects related to the testing procedure, namely the pre-design, the setup, instrumentation and the testing process itself. The shaking table tests were carried out with a scaled spectrum of the Montenegro (1979) earthquake, at increasing levels of PGA, starting from 0.07g, moving on to 0.28g and finally 0.5g. The log house did not suffer any major damage and remained in working condition throughout the entire process. The preliminary analysis of the overall behaviour of the log house is also discussed.

Environment, health and safety policy in small construction sites: an analysis of the situation in Brazil

This paper analyzes the safety, environmental and occupational health of workers in the small construction industry in Brazil. In this sector there are still many unsafe practices, which are very common in small work sites. We used a qualitative approach to understand these problems by long interviews with people who work directly in small construction sites, including occupational physicians, civil engineers, safety engineers, safety technicians, general foremen, construction workers, labor unionists and auditors. This paper aims to demonstrate that the "invisibility" of the small sites workers makes them less safe and therefore more prone to accidents, also weakening their health. The results show that small constructions workers are less visible to society and supervision because of their short periods of work. Therefore, they are also uncovered to the rigorous applicability of principles of safety and accident prevention. Thus, it has been seen in this field of work a precarious application of NR - 18, which was specifically made for the construction sites and it needs simplification to meet normative characteristics of small construction sites. In the State of Rio de Janeiro, some laws on small sites were recently created and implemented. This study concludes that the rules to work are not being taken as seriously as the legislation determinates, remaining practically unknown by many professionals, from the plot command, supervisors, engineers, architects and technicians who work on construction sites. This ignorance creates space for the lack of safety and consequently to accidents, leading to by weakness in the workers health. Therefore, the work process needs to be modified, the safety regulation must be disseminated through safer practices, promoting employee health and ensure that the work of small sites can be visible, especially ensuring the construction workers health and safety.

Desenvolvimento de um laboratório pedagógico de vias de comunicação na Universidade do Minho

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia Civil

Influência da técnica da elaboração de provetes laboratoriais na quantificação da deformabilidade e resistência mecânica dos solos

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia Civil

Educação, democracia e sociedade civil

O objetivo da comunicação é fazer uma revisitação ao tema já clássico da relação entre a educação e a democracia partindo da hipótese de trabalho segundo a qual se verifica, nos países mais severamente colonizados pela governamentalidade neoliberal, uma des-democratização das finalidades da educação e que esse fenómeno é tanto mais funesto quanto compromete a resposta a desafios que hoje assolam a democracia, como é o caso da sua reconstrução como projeto de vida em comum numa era de tensões étnicas, culturais e religiosas, e, ainda, a questão da sustentabilidade ambiental do seu padrão de vida. O texto da comunicação analisa criticamente essa situação e sustenta a necessidade de rearticular mais intensamente a educação com a democracia ao nível das finalidades do ato educativo, não só na escola e nas instituições de ensino, mas também no próprio âmbito da sociedade civil, aí onde ocorre uma grande parte da nossa formação em atitudes, valores e comportamentos. A esta luz, procura-se mostrar que é legítimo esperar da sociedade civil um contributo na formação de cidadãos aptos a corresponderem aos desafios atuais da democracia, seja em termos de interculturalidade, seja em termos de sustentabilidade, e que essa ação ganha pertinência e relevância pedagógica no âmbito das organizações mais emblemáticas da sociedade civil percorrendo determinados caminhos educativos.

Da responsabilidade civil do médico por falta de consentimento informado

Dissertação de mestrado em Direito dos Contratos e da Empresa

Definição de indicadores para estimar custos de projeto e análise paramétrica dos eurocódigos estruturais

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia Civil

A Responsabilidade Civil dos Gerentes e Administradores pelo pagamento das coimas e multas imputáveis à sociedade

Dissertação de mestrado em Direito dos Contratos e da Empresa

Development of composite auxetic structures for civil engineering applications

Tese de Doutoramento em Engenharia Têxtil