Caratterizzazione dinamica sperimentale del rinforzo di pavimentazioni stradali con geogriglie tramite box test

Nella presente tesi viene affrontato il comportamento di materiali granulari sotto carico dinamico. In particolare, viene presentata la sperimentazione di laboratorio seguita presso il Nottingham Transportation Engineering Centre dell'Università di Nottingham, la costruzione del box test e le prove dinamiche eseguite sul materiale granulare rinforzato e non.

Sul rinforzo di elementi in C.A.: confronto tra varie normative

Il documento pre-normativo italiano sul rinforzo di strutture in c.a. mediante l’uso di materiale fibrorinforzato. 1.1 INTRODUZIONE La situazione unica dell’Italia per quanto riguarda la conservazione delle costruzioni esistenti, è il risultato della combinazione di due aspetti, come primo, il medio-alto rischio sismico di una gran parte di territorio, come testimoniato dalla zonizzazione sismica recente, e come secondo aspetto, l'estrema complessità di un ambiente edilizio che non ha confronto nel mondo. Le tipologie della costruzione in Italia si distinguono a quelle stimate come patrimonio storico, che in alcuni casi risalgono a circa 2000 anni fa, a quelle che sono state costruite in ultimi cinque secoli, durante e dopo il Rinascimento, che sono considerate come patrimonio culturale ed architettonico dell' Italia (e del mondo!), infine a quelle fatte in tempi recenti, considerevolmente durante e dopo il boom economico del l960 ed ora visti come antiquate. Le due prime categorie in gran parte sono composte dalle edilizie di muratura, mentre agli ultimi principalmente appartengono le costruzioni di cemento armato.

Analisi di pH, ORP e DO finalizzata all'utilizzo di segnali indiretti per il monitoraggio e il controllo automatico di impianti di depurazione a fanghi attivi

Con il presente lavoro di tesi si è studiata la possibilità di estrarre informazioni sugli andamenti dei processi biologici dall’osservazione dei segnali di pH, potenziale di ossido riduzione (ORP) e ossigeno disciolto (DO) nelle vasche di processo di un impianto a fanghi attivi a flusso continuo (predenitro/nitro) per verificare la possibilità di utilizzare questo tipo di sonde per lo sviluppo di sistemi per il controllo automatico e la gestione intelligente, eventualmente remota, degli impianti di depurazione. Il lavoro di sperimentazione è stato svolto su un impianto pilota a flusso continuo con schema predenitro – nitro, costruito ed installato presso i laboratori della sede Enea di Bologna (Sezione ACS PROT IDR - Gestione Risorse Idriche). L’obiettivo primario della sperimentazione è stato quello di portare il sistema in uno stato stazionario di equilibrio, così da poter stabilire delle condizioni di funzionamento note e costanti, riscontrabili anche nei segnali di riferimento. Tali condizioni sono state definite prendendo come riferimento un impianto reale noto, funzionante in condizioni di processo costanti e medie, definendo contestualmente test sperimentali che riproducessero condizioni riscontrabili sullo stesso impianto reale. Le condizioni del sistema sono state monitorate costantemente, attraverso il monitoraggio giornaliero dei processi, effettuato con attività di campionamento e di analisi, osservando costantemente i segnali indiretti.

Formazione, apprendimento e nuove prospettive e-learning. Lo sviluppo delle nuove tecnologie didattiche e la creazione di sistemi di apprendimento lungo l’intero arco della vita

The thesis of this paper is based on the assumption that the socio-economic system in which we are living is characterised by three great trends: growing attention to the promotion of human capital; extremely rapid technological progress, based above all on the information and communication technologies (ICT); the establishment of new production and organizational set-ups. These transformation processes pose a concrete challenge to the training sector, which is called to satisfy the demand for new skills that need to be developed and disseminated. Hence the growing interest that the various training sub-systems devote to the issues of lifelong learning and distance learning. In such a context, the so-called e-learning acquires a central role. The first chapter proposes a reference theoretical framework for the transformations that are shaping post-industrial society. It analyzes some key issues such as: how work is changing, the evolution of organizational set-ups and the introduction of learning organization, the advent of the knowledge society and of knowledge companies, the innovation of training processes, and the key role of ICT in the new training and learning systems. The second chapter focuses on the topic of e-learning as an effective training model in response to the need for constant learning that is emerging in the knowledge society. This chapter starts with a reflection on the importance of lifelong learning and introduces the key arguments of this thesis, i.e. distance learning (DL) and the didactic methodology called e-learning. It goes on with an analysis of the various theoretic and technical aspects of e-learning. In particular, it delves into the theme of e-learning as an integrated and constant training environment, characterized by customized programmes and collaborative learning, didactic assistance and constant monitoring of the results. Thus, all the aspects of e-learning are taken into exam: the actors and the new professionals, the virtual communities as learning subjects, the organization of contents in learning objects, the conformity to international standards, the integrated platforms and so on. The third chapter, which concludes the theoretic-interpretative part, starts with a short presentation of the state-of-the-art e-learning international market that aims to understand its peculiarities and its current trends. Finally, we focus on some important regulation aspects related to the strong impulse given by the European Commission first, and by the Italian governments secondly, to the development and diffusion of e-learning. The second part of the thesis (chapters 4, 5 and 6) focus on field research, which aims to define the Italian scenario for e-learning. In particular, we have examined some key topics such as: the challenges of training and the instruments to face such challenges; the new didactic methods and technologies for lifelong learning; the level of diffusion of e-learning in Italy; the relation between classroom training and online training; the main factors of success as well as the most critical aspects of the introduction of e-learning in the various learning environments. As far as the methodological aspects are concerned, we have favoured a qualitative and quantitative analysis. A background analysis has been done to collect the statistical data available on this topic, as well as the research previously carried out in this area. The main source of data is constituted by the results of the Observatory on e-learning of Aitech-Assinform, which covers the 2000s and four areas of implementation (firms, public administration, universities, school): the thesis has reviewed the results of the last three available surveys, offering a comparative interpretation of them. We have then carried out an in-depth empirical examination of two case studies, which have been selected by virtue of the excellence they have achieved and can therefore be considered advanced and emblematic experiences (a large firm and a Graduate School).

Per un museo virtuale dell'informatica. Un supporto automatico per creare "visite museali"

The subject of the present research is related to the field of computer technology applied to support intellectual activities such as text translation, screenwriting and content organization of popular and education courses, especially concerning museum visits. The research has started with the deep analysis of the cognitive process which characterizes a screenwriter while working. This choice has been made because a screenplay is not only an aid to the realization of a show but, more in general, it can be considered as the planning of an education, popular and formative intellectual activity. After this analysis, the research has focused on the specific area of the planning, description and introduction of topics related to the history of science, and in particular, of computer science. To focus on this area it has been fundamental to analyse subjects concerning the didactics of museum visits organization. The aim was to find out the guide lines that a teacher should follow when planning the visit of a museum (virtual museum of the history of computer science). The consequent designing and realisation of an automatic support system for the description and the production of a formative, education and popular multimedia product (for the history of computer science), has been possible thanks to the results achieved through this research. The system obtained is provided by the following features: ·management of multimedia slides (such as texts, video, audio or images) which can be classified on the bases of the topic and of the profile of the user; ·automatic creation of a sequence of multimedia slides which introduce the topic; ·management of the interaction with the user to check and give validity to the product. The most innovative aspect of the present research is represented by the fact that the product is realised on the bases of the profile of the user.