Pré-esforço em edifícios e obras de arte

O presente relatório de estágio encontra-se inserido no âmbito do Trabalho Final de Mestrado, da área de especialização de Edificações, relativo ao curso de Engenharia Civil, do Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, sobre a execução de Pré-esforço em Edifícios e Obras de Arte. O estágio foi desenvolvido na empresa VSL Sistemas Portugal S.A. - Préesforço, Equipamento e Montagens e teve como objectivo o acompanhamento da subempreitada de aplicação e execução de pré-esforço para três entidades: - Agrupamento complementar de empresas Teixeira Duarte / Zagope - Viaduto de Coina 1; - Lena Construções - Pontão de Coina; - BRITALAR - Hotel Tryp Aeroporto Lisboa. O estágio realizou-se junto do Departamento de Produção, ao nível do acompanhamento dos trabalhos em obra e trabalho administrativo inerente ao mesmo. O objectivo inicial do estágio foi o de interpretar as peças escritas e desenhadas relacionando-as com a aplicação do pré-esforço em obra, conhecer as técnicas e materiais a aplicar nas diferentes fases, relacionando assim, a sua utilização com a prevenção de eventuais patologias.

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Experimental Study And Evaluation Of Paper-Based Inkjet Electrodes For ECG Signal Acquisition

Applications involving biosignals, such as Electrocardiography (ECG), are becoming more pervasive with the extension towards non-intrusive scenarios helping targeting ambulatory healthcare monitoring, emotion assessment, among many others. In this study we introduce a new type of silver/silver chloride (Ag/AgCl) electrodes based on a paper substrate and produced using an inkjet printing technique. This type of electrodes can increase the potential applications of biosignal acquisition technologies for everyday life use, given that there are several advantages, such as cost reduction and easier recycling, resultant from the approach explored in our work. We performed a comparison study to assess the quality of this new electrode type, in which ECG data was collected with three types of Ag/AgCl electrodes: i) gelled; ii) dry iii) paper-based inkjet printed. We also compared the performance of each electrode when acquired using a professional-grade gold standard device, and a low cost platform. Experimental results showed that data acquired using our proposed inkjet printed electrode is highly correlated with data obtained through conventional electrodes. Moreover, the electrodes are robust to high-end and low-end data acquisition devices. Copyright © 2014 SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications. All rights reserved.

Methyl syringate: An efficient phenolic mediator for bacterial and fungal laccases

The aim of the present work is to provide insight into the mechanism of laccase reactions using syringyl-type mediators. We studied the pH dependence and the kinetics of oxidation of syringyl-type phenolics using the low CotA and the high redox potential TvL laccases. Additionally, the efficiency of these compounds as redox mediators for the oxidation of non-phenolic lignin units was tested at different pH values and increasing mediator/non-phenolic ratios. Finally, the intermediates and products of reactions were identified by LC-MS and H-1 NMR. These approaches allow concluding on the (1) mechanism involved in the oxidation of phenolics by bacterial laccases, (2) importance of the chemical nature and properties of phenolic mediators, (3) apparent independence of the enzyme's properties on the yields of non-phenolics conversion, (4) competitive routes involved in the catalytic cycle of the laccase-mediator system with several new C-O coupling type structures being proposed.