4 resultados para fluvial geomorphology
em Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa - Portugal
Resumo:
O trabalho que se segue reporta as actividades resultantes da experiência em obra ao serviço da firma Interpaço A.C.E., durante um período de quatro meses. A esta empresa foi adjudicada a seguinte empreitada: “Execução dos Toscos, Acabamentos, Baixa Tensão, Telecomunicações e AVAC do Novo Terminal Fluvial, No Interface do Terreiro do Paço sito em Lisboa”. O objectivo principal foi o de adquirir conhecimentos nas várias áreas de execução de uma obra desta natureza: Área de Projecto, Produção, Preparação, Técnico/Comercial e Orçamentação. Adquiriram-se igualmente conhecimentos na área de gestão de consórcios e das subempreitadas, como seja a interacção e coordenação entre os diversos departamentos e organismos que integram o mesmo. O estágio consistiu principalmente no acompanhamento do Director de Obra nos vários processos de construção, na verificação da conformidade da execução destes processos, de acordo com planeamento efectuado, na verificação do registo de recepção dos diversos materiais, no contacto com os diversos intervenientes no processo construtivo e na elaboração de detalhes construtivos. Foram obtidas diversas competências nas seguintes áreas: Projecto, onde se ganharam noções básicas da leitura e interpretação deste, complementando-o com as informações fornecidas pelo caderno de encargos e memória descritiva; Encomenda e Recepção de Materiais, onde se adquiriu um conhecimento relevante do mercado disponível, tendo em conta igualmente futuros empreendimentos; Elaboração de Autos, onde se compreenderam as relações entre a Empresa Construtora, Subempreiteiros e Dono de Obra; Trabalhos de Preparação, onde se percebeu a importância de planear com antecedência todos os passos da execução dos trabalhos.
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Trabalho Final de Mestrado para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Civil
Resumo:
The Tagus estuary is bordered by the largest metropolitan area in Portugal, the Lisbon capital city council. It has suffered the impact of several major tsunamis in the past, as shown by a recent revision of the catalogue of tsunamis that struck the Portuguese coast over the past two millennia. Hence, the exposure of populations and infrastructure established along the riverfront comprises a critical concern for the civil protection services. The main objectives of this work are to determine critical inundation areas in Lisbon and to quantify the associated severity through a simple index derived from the local maximum of momentum flux per unit mass and width. The employed methodology is based on the mathematical modelling of a tsunami propagating along the estuary, resembling the one occurred on the 1 November of 1755 that followed the 8.5 M-w Great Lisbon Earthquake. The employed simulation tool was STAV-2D, a shallow-flow solver coupled with conservation equations for fine solid phases, and now featuring the novelty of discrete Lagrangian tracking of large debris. Different sets of initial conditions were studied, combining distinct tidal, atmospheric and fluvial scenarios, so that the civil protection services were provided with comprehensive information to devise public warning and alert systems and post-event mitigation intervention. For the most severe scenario, the obtained results have shown a maximum inundation extent of 1.29 km at the AlcA cent ntara valley and water depths reaching nearly 10 m across Lisbon's riverfront.
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Shelves surrounding reefless volcanic ocean islands are formed by surf erosion of their slopes during changing sea levels. Posterosional lava flows, if abundant, can cross the coastal cliffs and fill partially or completely the accommodation space left by erosion. In this study, multibeam bathymetry, high-resolution seismic reflection profiles, and sediment samples are used to characterize the morphology of the insular shelves adjacent to Pico Island. The data show offshore fresh lava flow morphologies, as well as an irregular basement beneath shelf sedimentary bodies and reduced shelf width adjacent to older volcanic edifices in Pico. These observations suggest that these shelves have been significantly filled by volcanic progradation and can thus be classified as rejuvenated. Despite the general volcanic infilling of the shelves around Pico, most of their edges are below the depth of the Last Glacial Maximum, revealing that at least parts of the island have subsided after the shelves formed by surf erosion. Prograding lava deltas reached the shelf edge in some areas triggering small slope failures, locally decreasing the shelf width and depth of their edges. These areas can represent a significant risk for the local population; hence, their identification can be useful for hazard assessment and contribute to wiser land use planning. Shelf and subaerial geomorphology, magnetic anomalies and crustal structure data of the two islands were also interpreted to reconstruct the long-term combined onshore and offshore evolution of the Faial-Pico ridge. The subaerial emergence of this ridge is apparently older than previously thought, i.e., before approximate to 850 ka.