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CURRICULAR UNIT - MATHEMATICS I

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 1600001

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The general objectives of this initial curricular unit of Math is the review of calculus in R, the analysis, characterisation and graphical representation of real functions of real variable and the introduction to differential calculus. At the end of this unit students should acquire the following mathematical skills necessary for formulating and solving problems posed in the context of the degree:

  • - Correct use of vocabulary and mathematical symbol;
  • - Correct calculation in R, namely the resolution of linear equations and systems of linear equations using matrices;
  • - Knowledge of the concepts of continuity, limits and derivatives;
  • - Application of the study of functions and their graphs to interpretation and problem solving;
  • - Application of differential calculus in the study of real functions of real variable;
  • - Interpretation and critique of the results in the context of the problem;
  • - Communication of concepts, reasoning and ideas with clarity and logical rigor.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

ARRAYS

  • - Definition and properties
  • - Operations with matrices,
  • - Elementary Operations, condensation and characteristic of an array
  • - Application of arrays in classification and solving systems of linear equations: Gauss and Jordan

REAL FUNCTIONS of REAL VARIABLE

  • - General information on real functions of real variable
  • - Notion of boundary (Cauchy definition and definition of Heine); lateral limits; properties and operations
  • - Continuous functions: definition, properties and extension by continuity
  • - Theorems of Bolzano, Weierstrass and the continuity of inverse function

DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS in R

  • - Derivative of a function: definition and geometrical physical interpretation
  • - Lateral derivatives; differentiability; derivation rules; notion of differential
  • - Theorems of Rolle, Lagrange, Cauchy
  • - Cauchy and rule indeterminations
  • - Higher-order Derivatives
  • - Monotony and extremes of functions. Scoops and inflection points. Asymptotes
  • - Representation of the graph of a function

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - COMPUTING

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 1600002

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The curricular unit of Computing 1 aims at the main skills needed to the manipulation of information and communication technologies in a professional context, explaining the principal knowledge and techniques necessary for an efficient and effective use of these technologies.

At the end of the curricular unit the student should be able to produce the digital documents needed in various units across the course and in their professional lives. To this end, emphasis is given to independent and assertive use of information technologies to produce contents in digital form in particular:

  • - advanced use of document editor - MS-WORD
  • - advanced use of a spreadsheet - MS-EXCEL
  • - the use of a Database Management System - MS-ACCESS

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Introduction to information technology

  • 1.1. Hardware concepts
  • 1.2. storage formats

2. Software for the production of documents - MS-WORD

  • 2.1. pages setup
  • 2.2. sections
  • 2.3. styles
  • 2.4. images, graphics and other objects
  • 2.5. tables
  • 2.6. symbols, equations
  • 2.7. references
  • 2.8. automatic indexes
  • 2.9. mail merge

3. Spreadsheet application - MS-EXCEL

  • 3.1. calculation with Excel. Functions
  • 3.2. mathematical and statistical use
  • 3.3. charts in EXCEL
  • 3.4. validation and data protection
  • 3.5. integration with WORD

4. Database management software - ACCESS

  • 4.1. Relational database model
  • 4.2. tables and relations
  • 4.3. queries
  • 4.4. forms
  • 4.5. reports

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - INTRODUCTION TO REHABILITATION AND CONSTRUTION ENGINEERING

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 1600003

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The positioning of this course in the study plan is part of a formal strategy that goes beyond the strictly educational aspect. This course aims to give an integrated view on the different intervention areas of a Civil Engineer.

The interventions in terms of construction and rehabilitation measures on the existing buildings are an ongoing challenge for the Civil Engineer. These interventions are challenges appealing to creativity and scientific and technological competences of the Civil Engineer.

Concepts such as sustainability, energy efficiency, building life cycle, durability, recyclability, are the today main framework that the performance of the Civil Engineer when the subject is construction or rehabilitation.

These concepts give rehabilitation a very important role in the performance of engineering and its contribution to society.

It is intended that students take as main learning reference, the importance of the Civil Engineer role in the search for simple and sustainable solutions for complex problems.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

  • 1. The civil engineering contribution to the society;
  • 2. The historical evolution of civil engineering;
  • 3. The social responsibility of the civil engineer;
  • 4. The constructions of Civil engineering;
  • 5. Project, Construction - Maintenance - Rehabilitation;
  • 6. The building construction  - construction typologies
  • 7. The evolution of construction solutions;
  • 8. The importance of management and supervision at construction;
  • 9. Sustainability and Rehabilitation;
  • 10. New materials in construction and rehabilitation;
  • 11. The Research on the construction and rehabilitation engineering

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - TECHNICAL DRAWING 

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 1600004

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

1. Run the basic rules of technical drawing, applying them in a practical exercise of representing of a plant, using computer-aided design;

2. Perform a freehand drawing of a space, interior or exterior, characterizing by the rules of perspective and graphic expression;

3. Clarify and express characteristics of engineering design through freehand drawing.

4. At the end of the course student should be able to:

  • - Based on knowledge of the rules of technical design, identify and characterize the main views of a project: plans, sections and elevations.
  • - Read and interpret drawings of proposed construction, according to their different scales and representations.
  • - Use the computer aided design (AUTOCAD) for representing a project.
  • - Run sketches of built spaces, indoors or outdoors.
  • - Clarify and express characteristics of engineering design through drawing freehand.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Introduction to Technical Drawing: main rules of representation

  • - Concept of plans, cuts and elevations
  • - Projections listed
  • - Graphical representation of concepts of design: line of sight and line cutting
  • - Reading and construction of specialties drawings. Dimensioning and symbolic representation in Architecture and Construction

2. Computer-aided design using the AutoCad program

  • - Command bars and controls essential to the Technical Design
  • - Drawing by layers
  • - Applications to computer aided design to the specialty of architecture and construction

3. CAD and BIM system

4. Indication to Free Design: Understanding the Drawing Techniques by hand

  • - Notion of stain and perspective
  • - Notion of expression and trace
  • - Basic rules and notions of perspective
  • - Implementation of practice for freehand drawing, in order to practice the concepts taught
  • - Development of freehand drawing practice

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - ECONOMY AND MANAGEMENT

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 1600005

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The subject of Economics and Management aims to provide a framework for the importance of management and the implications of the economy on organizations. In one hand, the Management contents aims to develop knowledge relating to the functioning of an organization by putting the focus on the main functions of the manager in a scenario of constant change and increasing globalization. 

On the other hand, the Economy matters are intended to sensitize students to the importance of economic aspects in the framework and conditioning the operation of a company. This discipline is an approaching introductory analysis of the economic institutions in the perspectives of the individual (micro) and aggregate (macro-economic) in the different strands relating to the business reality.

The objectives/competencies to develop are:

• Analyze the environment of the manager, and to evaluate how the culture and environment condition its decision-making;

• Analyze the impact and importance of globalization for the organization and potential strategies of internationalization;

• Analyze the impacts of different behaviors in terms of social responsibility in an organization;

• Relate planning with strategic management;

• Analyze the impact of the development and management of knowledge in the organization.

• Analyze the functions of demand and supply, a well, and determine its implications on the objectives of the company;

• Analyze the different market structures, identify its consequences on the business strategy and define what behavior should be optimal, as well as the role developed by the State;

• Analyze how to determine the income of a country and how the different variables from the agents of the macroeconomic framework determine the growth of a nation;

• Analyze the impact of currency in the macro-economic model and the relationship established between the variables;

• To distinguish between conflicts at macro-economic level, the correspondent government policies available, and the consequences for the business system. 

PROGRAM CONTENTS

• The organization and evolution of management thought

• Schools of management

• Key concepts of management

• Definition of the internal and external Environment of the Manager

• Globalization

• Social Responsibility

• Planning

• Strategic Planning

• Organizational learning

• The main constraints /opportunities for review by management:

• Supply and economic demand

• Market structures

• Market imperfections and Government

• National Accounting

• The determination of the Income

• Currency and Monetary Policies

• Key macro-economic problems


 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - CHEMISTRY

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 1600006

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The Chemistry curricular unit aims to:

  • 1- Present the general notions of chemistry needed to understand the structure, properties and transformations of the materials involved in Construction and Rehabilitation (atomic structure, chemical bonding, structure-property relations, chemical reactions, chemical equilibrium, electrochemistry and corrosion);
  • 2- Present the chemical composition of materials used in Construction and Rehabilitation: metals and metal alloys, polymers, ceramics and composites;
  • 3- Present the great diversity of characteristics, properties and applications of the Construction and Rehabilitation materials and the processes of degradation and transformation of these materials;
  • 4- Allow direct contact with reagents, techniques and laboratory instrumentation.

At the end of this CU students should acquire skills that enable them to:

  • 1- Understand the constitution of matter;
  • 2- Understand the structure and properties of the materials involved in Construction and Rehabilitation;
  • 3- Understand the mechanisms of transformation and degradation of materials and the processes of corrosion protection of metals, especially in the built heritage context;
  • 4- Recognize and make use of the relationship between research / experience / observation and knowledge.
  • 5- Communicate and explain experimental results using the techniques and the theoretical aspects thought.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

  • 1. Constitution of matter
  • 2. Chemical bonding, intermolecular forces and properties of molecular compounds
  • 3. Metal crystals, covalent crystals and ionic crystals
  • 4. Chemical reactions and chemical equilibrium: acid-base, precipitation and oxidation-reduction
  • 5. Types of materials: metals and metal alloys, polymers, ceramics and composites
  • 6. Mechanical, thermal, electrical and optical properties of materials
  • 7. Characteristics and applications of materials
  • 8. Metal Transformation: electrochemistry, corrosion and protection against corrosion
  • 9. Polymer Transformation: thermal and photochemistry degradation
  • 10. New materials

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - CONSTRUCTION SAFETY

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 1600007

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The main goals of the course are the following:

  • - Develop an understanding of the Construction and Rehabilitation process;
  • - Rigorously know the legal framework that supports, from safety viewpoint, the entire construction process;
  • - Identify the risks associated with construction processes and the specificity of rehabilitation interventions;
  • - Develop the analytical skills required for defining preventive measures for the identified risks;
  • - Train the analysis skills regarding the accidents that occur most often in construction, always keeping in mind their underlying causes;
  • - Develop Routines that enhance preventive actions.

Overall the course aims at having a relevant role in the training that, irrespective of the role they might end up having the overall process, allows them to prevent and avoid risks.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

  • 1. construction health and safety Legal framework 
  • 2. Construction accidents - Main causes
  • 3. Assessment of risk in Construction
  • 4. Preventive measures in construction
  • 5. Assessment of risks in rehabilitation
  • 6. Preventive measures in rehabilitation
  • 7. Coordination of Project safety
  • 8. Coordination of Construction safety
  • 9. Safety demands for acting entities
  • 10. Case studies

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - MATHEMATICS II

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 1600008

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

This second curricular unit of mathematics is the natural continuity of the UC Mathematics I, starting with the primitive and integral concepts in R. It follows an introduction to differential equations, in order to initiate the student in Mathematical modelling, forcing both the use and application of the concepts of differential and integral calculus. Finally, some numerical methods of solving problems are introduced, like numerical integration. At the end of this unit students should acquire the following skills:

  • - Correct use of Maths specific vocabulary and symbology
  • - Determine immediate and almost immediate primitives and apply the techniques of primitives by parts and associated with rational fractions
  • - Domain integral calculus in R
  • - Solve linear differential equations
  • - Construct linear, exponential and logistic mathematical models
  • - Apply numerical methods in solving problems
  • - Interpretation and critique of the results in the context of the problem
  • - Application of differential calculus in the study of real functions of real variable;
  • - Interpretation and critique of the results in the context of the problem;
  • - Communication of concepts, reasoning and ideas with clarity and logical rigor.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

INTEGRAL CALCULUS in R

  • Notion of Primitive or Indefinite Integral. Immediate and almost immediate primitives.
  • Primitive of rational functions are unfit. Initial value problems.
  • Definite integral: definition, geometrical interpretation, Barrow formula.
  • By parts method of primitive and integration.
  • Applications of Integral Calculus: Calculation of mean value, flat areas, volumes of solids of revolution.

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (DE)

  • Ordinary differential equations (ODE): classification, resolution of ODE of separable variables.
  • Modeling problems.
  • Resolution of ODE by method of integral factor.
  • Second degree ODE.

NUMERICAL METHODS

  • Solving nonlinear equations.
  • Polynomial interpolation.
  • Numerical integration.
  • Numerical solving of ODE.

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - PHYSICS I

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 1600009

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The curricular unit of Physics I aims to provide the students with tools for the scientific approach to a problem and simultaneously provide knowledge of the basic laws of Newtonian mechanics. The unit is projected to have continuity in the Physics II curricular unit, to be taught the following semester, which will continue the study of Newtonian mechanics for linear motion.

At the end of the contact time the students would have acquired sufficient knowledge and practice in order to examine and evaluate, according with the principles and laws of physics, situations that may occur in their daily lives.

When they have completed the curricular unit, students should be able to understand the concepts and physical principles learnt, meaning by understanding not only being able to articulate the concepts but also to be able to apply them to a variety of practical problems.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Introduction to Physics

2. Physics quantities

  • 2.1. Fundamental and derived quantities
  • 2.2. The international system
  • 2.3. Significant figures

3. Kinematics of Material point

  • 3.1. Kinematics in one dimension:
  • 3.1.1. Concepts
  • 3.1.2. Graphical analysis
  • 3.1.3. Uniformly accelerated motion
  • 3.1.4. Motion with Variable acceleration
  • 3.2. Kinematics of 2 and 3 dimensions:
  • 3.2.1. Concepts
  • 3.2.2. Relative speed
  • 3.2.3. Curvilinear motion
  • 3.2.4. Motion Projectiles
  • 3.2.5. Circular motion

4. Newton's laws

  • 4.1. Newton's laws
  • 4.2. Forces on Nature
  • 4.2.1. Fundamental forces
  • 4.2.2. Elastic forces
  • 4.2.3. Tensions
  • 4.2.4. Normal force
  • 4.3. Force diagrams
  • 4.4. Friction forces
  • 4.5. Centripetal forces
  • 4.6. Drag forces

5. Energy conservation

  • 5.1. Work
  • 5.2. Work-kinetic energy theorem
  • 5.3. Potential energy
  • 5.4. Conservation of mechanical energy
  • 5.5. Energy conservation

6. Conservation of quantity of linear motion

  • 6.1. Center of mass
  • 6.2. Conservation of linear momentum
  • 6.3. Kinetic energy of a system
  • 6.4. Collisions

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - ARCHITECTURE

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 1600010

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

1. Provide students with fundamental instruments for working with architects, specifically in acquiring the necessary technical vocabulary and understanding the specific processes of architectural production from project to carrying out the building work itself;

2. Ideas on the different phases which make up an architectural project, from the concept /initial idea, development and details and the final product;

3. Awareness about the focus of rehabilitation in architecture that will be addressed in a triple strand: prospective or how it should be the architectural rehabilitation; projective or how to rehabilitate the architecture;

4. Perspective or how you look and think about architecture ever produced;

5. At the end of the unit student should be able to:

  • - Recognize Architecture as an evolution over time and name the different phases over the history of architecture;
  • - Identify the principles, rules and regulations on projects, construction, form, needs and spatial relationships, sizing of buildings, areas and fittings/furniture;
  • - Understand the concepts of public and private space;
  • - Identify and describe the different phases of the architectural project, linking them with examples of works by different architects;
  • - Identify the various types of buildings and pathologies presented;
  • - To present the appropriate types of constructive restoration solutions regarding the specificity of the buildings under analysis.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Theory of Architecture

  • - Basic
  • - Art and value criteria
  • - Architecture: concepts and backgrounds

2. Introduction to the theory of rehabilitation in architecture

  • - Terminology, criteria, concepts and philosophies
  • - International conventions on the architectural heritage
  • - Criteria of Authenticity
  • - Contribution to sustainability
  • - Methodologies, techniques and rehabilitation strategies architectural
  • - Examples of interventions in Portugal

3. History of architectural rehabilitation in Portugal

  • - Antiquity and Middle Ages
  • - From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
  • - From the first republic to the last quarter of the 20th century

4. Project Introduction: a case study

  • - Memory architecture on the pre-existences
  • - Buildings prior to 1755 and the time of Pombal
  • - The new type of construction
  • - The composite structure
  • - Deficiencies constructive and degradation processes
  • - The draft conservation and restoration

5. Constructive characterization of old buildings

  • - Type of structure
  • - Type of construction processes
  • - Spatial organization
  • - The different constitutions of the ancient buildings: mud, adobe, stone masonry, etc.
  • - Appropriate and corresponding restoration solutions
  • - Definitions of treatments and repairs of identified diseases.

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - BUILDING MATERIALS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 1600011

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

To give students general knowledge about the structure, behavior and applications of the most frequently used construction materials: natural stones, ceramics, glass, binders, wood, mortars, wood and derivatives, paints and varnishes, steel and aggregates. Know the standards, specifications and documents to support the choice and prescription of construction materials.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

Introduction to the study of building materials. Standards, specifications, approval of materials and systems, classification documents and application documents.

Natural stones: origin and classification; physical, chemical and mechanical properties; extraction and transformation; application, causes of deterioration and cleaning and conservation treatments. Ceramic materials in Red clay and white clay: raw materials, manufacturing processes and main properties; application technologies; red clay products, sanitary ware and tiles; CE marking.

Glass: raw materials and additives, manufacturing processes and properties; types of glass and main applications in construction elements.

Woods: classification of trees, structure and applications; physical and mechanical properties; types of defect; processing process; causes of degradation and conservation and protection treatments; wood-based materials.

Cork: structure and composition; physical and mechanical characteristics; applications and conservation.

Metals: production and characteristics, main types of steel and properties; ferrous and non-ferrous metals; corrosion processes; aluminium products.

Binders, mortars and concrete: evolution of binders; raw materials and applications, air and hydraulic lime mortars; raw material and Portland cement manufacture; classification, functional requirements and mortar performance and application parameters; properties and plaster products; composition and application of stucco;

Paints and varnishes: composition and degradation factors; selection of painting systems for different types of supports.

Aggregates: origin, properties and classification; production method; conditioning factors of the mortars / aggregate adhesion conditions.

Hydrocarbons and their derivatives. Thermal insulation materials. Fiber composite materials. New structural materials. 


 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - SPATIAL PLANNING AND TRANSPORTS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 1600012

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

  • 1. Provide the basic concepts concerning Environmental Management, Territorial Management and Transports according to European and Portuguese legislation.t, and link them to the legislation in force.
  • 2. Characterize the Territory in its different variables, addressing the notions of criteria`s land occupation.
  • 3. Approach to the main Territorial Planning instruments, in interaction with the Environment and Transport.
  • 4. Provide the basic concepts the process of Territory Planning and Management.
  • 5. Transmit an integrated view, with the purpose of a more sustainable development strategy, linking the accessibility with to regional and local development.

At the end of the CU, students should have skills to participate actively in the activities of territory planning / management and accessibility / transport, using an appropriate tools to pursue those activities.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

  • 1. Environmental management, territory planning and management and transports. Basic concepts and sustainable practices.
  • 2. Urban planning and territory management, historic development, present situation. Future possibilities
  • 3. Territory planning and management instruments and skills.
  • 4. Territory planning and management priority variables.
  • 5. Structure, morphology and interventions in the urban space
  • 6. Structure, morphology and interventions in non-urban space.
  • 7. Transport and land use.
  • 8. The role of transport infrastructure in territory planning.
  • 9. Transport planning models and the maximize of accessibility.
  • 10. How to develop a process of a plan / program territory management sustainable.

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - PROBABILITIES AND STATISTICS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 1600013

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

With this curricular unit (CU) students should get fluent in descriptive, analytical and inferential statistical analysis, using hypothesis testing (parametric and non-parametric) in decision support and developing critical sense in the analysis of the results obtained. This CU also aims at illustrating the most important concepts about Probability, Combinatory and Reliability.

At the end of this CU students should have the following skills:

  • - determine the probability of an event
  • - identify and select a sample of a given population
  • - develop the capacity of processing and data analysis
  • - critically apply statistical methods in different contexts
  • - formulate and test hypotheses, choosing the most appropriate hypothesis testing to decision-making
  • - use a statistical computer tool
  • - critically analysis indicators and statistical parameters
  • - compare different approaches

PROGRAM CONTENTS

Statistics

  • - Population and sample
  • - Sampling techniques
  • - Measurement scales
  • - Data treatment; outliers

Descriptive Statistics

  • - Measures of central tendency, dispersion and position
  • - Frequency distribution; histograms, charts, and contingency tables

Probability

  • - Introduction and fundamental concepts
  • - Counting techniques
  • - Definition of probability
  • - Conditional probability and Independence
  • - Law of total probabilities and Bayes’ Theorem
  • - Important discrete and continuous distributions

Inferential Statistical

  • - Estimation and confidence intervals
  • - Hypothesis testing
  • - Parametric and non-parametric tests
  • - Comparison of averages: Student's t-test
  • - Chi-square test
  • - Correlation
  • - Linear regression

Computer Data Processing

  • - Introduction to Excel

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - TOPOGRAPHY

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 1600014

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

1. Enable students with theoretical and practical knowledge necessary to study, interpretation and use any letter, plan, map or aerial photography and diverse topographic material handing in the fields of guidance, measuring angles and distances both on the letter and on the ground.

2. Field data collection.

3. Field data Implementation

4. Determination of areas

5. Implementation of survey, geometric leveling

6. With the completion of the course students will be able to:

  • - Read and interpret charts, maps or aerial photographs anywhere on the Earth's surface
  • - Referencing and transmitting points, areas and other terrain features
  • - Measure angles and distances in both the letter and in the field
  • - Calculate areas
  • - Run profiles and calculate gradients by performing geometric leveling

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Land modeling

  • General concepts of geodesy. The geoid and the ellipsoid.
  • Systems of Cartographic representation. Projections, Gauss, UTM and UPS
  • Referral systems. Geographical coordinates and rectangular coordinates. Main Portuguese charts

2. Topographic surveying

  • Directions and Azimuths. Transport Routes and coordinate transportation. Planimetry. Scales. Altimetry. Representation of Relief. Method of contour lines. Measuring distances and areas on the chart and on the ground.
  • Leveling

3. Processes and Geographic information system

  • Photogrammetry. Reading and interpretation of aerial photographs. Orthophotomaps. Stereoscopy.

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - MATHEMATICS III

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 1600015

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

This Mathematics curricular unit (CU) aims to obtain the fundamental knowledge of differential and integral multivariable calculus, understood as skills necessary to formulate and solve problems in the scope of engineering.

  • - Correct use of vocabulary and mathematical symbology;
  • - Correct domain of calculation of determinants and their properties;
  • - Domain in the calculation of values ​​and proper vectors of a matrix and its applications;
  • - Correct domain of the calculation in R, namely the differential and integral calculus;
  • - Interpretation and critique of the results in the context of the problem;
  • - Communication of concepts, reasoning and ideas with clarity and logical rigor.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1- Determinants

  • 1.1. Definition, calculation and properties of the determinant
  • 1.2. Principal determinant method. Laplace's theorem.
  • 1.3. Calculation of the inverse matrix from the attached one.
  • 1.4. Rule of Cramer, Rouché Theorem

2. Values ​​and eigenvectors of an endomorphism

  • 2.1. Definition
  • 2.2. Characteristic polynomial
  • 2.3. Calculation of the values ​​and eigenvectors of a matrix
  • 2.4. Diagonalization

3. Differential calculation in R

  • 3.1. Introduction to R
  • 3.2. Scalar, partial derivatives, directional and gradient fields
  • 3.3. Hessian matrix and stationarity points

4. Integrals in R

  • 4.1. Representation, parameterization and domain of scalar fields
  • 4.2. Double integrals of scalar fields. Fubini's theorem
  • 4.3. Change of limits of integration and of variable in double integrals
  • 4.4 Triple integrals of scalar fields

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - PHYSICS II

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 1600016

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

This curricular unit (C.U.) aims to provide students with tools for the scientific approach to a problem and at the same time to teach the concepts of applied Newtonian mechanics and fluid mechanics. The unit is designed to be a continuation of Physics I taught in the previous semester, which was an introduction to the study of physics with the foundations of Newtonian mechanics. At the end of the contact time, the students should have sufficient knowledge and practice in order to examine and evaluate situations that occur in their daily lives, according to the principles and laws of physics.

When they have completed the curricular unit, students should be able to understand the concepts and physical principles taught, meaning by understanding not only being able to articulate them but also to be able to apply them to a variety of practical problems.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Rotation

  • 1.1 Angular Kinematics
  • 1.2. Moment of inertia
  • 1.3. Newton's second law
  • 1.4 Angular momentum
  • 1.5 Torque

2. Static Equilibrium

  • 2.1 Equilibrium
  • 2.2 Elasticity
  • 2.3 Flexibility
  • 2.4 Torsion
  • 2.5 Compressibility

3. Fluids Static

  • 3.1 Pressure
  • 3.2 Pascal's principle
  • 3.3 Boyle-Mariotte's Law
  • 3.4 Archimedean Principle
  • 3.5 Compressibility

4 Fluids Dynamic

  • 4.1 Steady flow
  • 4.2 Bernoulli's Theorem
  • 4.3 Torricelli's Theorem
  • 4.4 Viscosity
  • 4.5 Flow Regimes

5. Intermolecular Forces

  • 5.1 Intermolecular forces
  • 5.2 Surface tension
  • 5.3 Capillarity

6. Kinetic Theory of Gase

  • 6.1 Thermal equilibrium
  • 6.2 Absolute scale
  • 6.3 Kinetic theory

7. First Law of Thermodynamics

  • 7.1 Thermal Capacity
  • 7.2 Change of Phase
  • 7.3 Work and the PV diagram

8. Second Law of Thermodynamics

  • 8.1 Thermal Machines
  • 8.2 Coolers
  • 8.3 Thermal Pumps

9. Thermal Processes

  • 9.1 thermal expansion
  • 9.2 Phase diagrams
  • 9.3 Heat transfer

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - STRENGHT OF MATERIALS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 1600017

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The main objective of this course is the study of fundamental concepts of structural mechanics applied to linear elements, extrapolating always conceptual analysis to the field of frame structures. Efforts, stresses, strains and displacements in linear and, concomitantly, in framed structures will be studied. In terms of deformations, the field of bending deformation will be studied. At the end, the student should be able to interpret, formulate, develop and solve any kind of problems related to the content covered in this course, including the theory of extensions and strains, the constitutive law that governs the behavior of materials, problems and axial bending moment bar elements.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Definitions

  • - Types of load
  • - Influence of temperature and weather
  • - Fundamental principles of materials mechanics
  • - Elements for reduction External force

2. Mechanical properties of materials

  • - Elasticity Hooke`s
  • - Law Force superposition principle
  • - Tensile tests
  • - Safety coefficient

3. Tension and compression

  • - Prismatic bar subjected to normal, constant force
  • - Choosing permissible tension
  • - Poisson coefficient
  • - Deformation work pieces with non-negligible weight
  • - Hyperstatic structures pieces with different materials
  • - Thin-walled rings and tubes
  • - Real distribution of tension concentration of tension
  • - Tension and deformation in cables
  • - Strain in two or three directions

4. Simple bending

  • - Tension and deformation in a beam
  • - Rational form of straight sections of flexed pieces
  • - Transversal deformation of straight section and its effects
  • - Unsymmetrical bending
  • - Deformed through unsymmetrical bending
  • - Cutting force in flexed beams
  • - Deformation in straight flexed beams

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - SOIL AND FOUNDATIONS MECHANICS I

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 1600019

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

Understand the main concepts underlying the mechanics apply to bodies consisting of soil material. In particular, acquire basic knowledge that would allow understanding and estimating the behavior of soil masses in terms of engineering work.

At the end of the course students should be able to:

  • 1. Identify and classify soils and, based on this knowledge, to estimate their ability foundation of road pavements;
  • 2. Understand the objectives and the factors to which the compression as well as plan and carry out control of compaction "in situ";
  • 3. Assess the implications of free water existing in the soil, whether it is at rest or in motion;
  • 4. Determine the stresses and deformations arising in massive soil by application request to the surface or inside;
  • 5. Identify conditions that can lead to settlement by consolidating of the soil and to estimate its extent and evolution.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Identification and Soil classification

  • 1.1. Granulometric tests
  • 1.2. Determination of moisture content
  • 1.3. Determination liquidity limit
  • 1.4. Determination of plasticity limit
  • 1.5. Determination of the limit contraction / retraction

2. Compaction and stabilization

  • 2.1. Compaction tests
  • 2.2. Determination of wet and dry densities

3. Interstitial water in the soil. Principle of effective stress

4. Permeability and percolation

  • 4.1. Permeability tests

5. Stress and strain in massive semi-indefinite soils

6. Compressibility and consolidation


 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - HERITAGE HISTORY

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 1600020

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

  • 1. Approach Architectural Heritage concepts
  • 2. The evolution of the Patrimonial practice history and reflection on the current project practices
  • 3. Raising awareness about respect for built heritage, addressing its multiple aspects that distinguish conservation, recovery, restoration, rehabilitation and maintenance
  • 4. Critical study about the project and planning interventions related to Historical and Cultural Heritage
  • 5. Scale approach: the building and the city
  • 6. Frame the scientific and cultural promotion of Heritage
  • 7. Introduction to techniques: implementation of ideas and feasibility of the project

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Heritage Definition

  • - History and Theory
  • - Concepts, ideologies, origin and evolution
  • - Value criteria

2. Identity and memory

  • - Concepts and practices
  • - Society and Culture
  • - Patrimonial Typologies

3. Architecture

  • - Conservation of Architectural Heritage
  • - Value theories
  • - Rehabilitation, restoration and recovery project
  • - Improvement and maintenance of the building
  • - Buildings of high historical value - Monuments
  • - Relationship with other disciplines
  • - Construction and built space - ecological, economic, functional and aesthetic motivations

4. The Portuguese case

  • - Integration in the European context
  • - Concepts, policies and practices
  • - Interventions - 20th and 21st centuries
  • - Criticism

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - CONSTRUCTION, REHABILITATION AND SUSTAINABILITY

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 1600021

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

  • 1. Provide basic knowledge of construction technology necessary for direction and monitoring of works and the structuring of projects
  • 2. Enable students to identify the main construction processes
  • 3. Framing of Waste management and Recycling in sustainable construction processes
  • 4. Approach to Rehabilitation as a new paradigm that contributes positively to the sustainable development of cities
  • 5. Acquisition of knowledge related to quality of indoor air in buildings, energy certification and applicable law
  • 6. Provide students contact with traditional building techniques, sustainable construction, methods for proper design of buildings
  • 7. Placement of Bioclimatic Architecture in support of the work
  • 8. Check environmental profile of building materials and built-in power management
  • 9. Recognize the advantages and the importance of new information technologies (Space Sintax, Ecotect and Cityzoom programs).

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Sustainability in construction

  • - Concepts and definitions
  • - Sustainable building and Natural ecosystem Unsustainability and consumer society
  • - Waste management of Construction and demolition and recycling Habitability and comfort ideal conditions – indoor air quality
  • - Consumption of Energy and water
  • - Support systems - heating, cooling, biogas, water treatment and dry toilets Sustainable building materials
  • - New technologies for analysis and simulation
  • - Traditional techniques constructive and sustainable building

2. Rehabilitation

  • - Strategic solutions opposed to construction
  • - Construction versus Rehabilitation
  • - Condition of buildings: pathologies and sustainable types of intervention
  • - Local circumstances (geographical) and community
  • - Energy efficiency in old buildings
  • - Rehabilitation of Building: from demolition to the intervention of specificity (structures, coatings, openings, ...)

3. Bioclimatic architecture

  • - Definitions and concepts
  • - Constructive processes
  • - Carbon Zero homes
  • - Study cases

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - MATERIALS PATHOLOGIES AND CONSTRUCTION ANOMALIES AND DIAGNOSIS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 1600022

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The Knowledge of various pathologies in buildings and respective causes as well as the anomalies attributed to the performance of the materials themselves, it is essential in developing a diagnostic study.

Diagnostic study should be an integral part of the assessment of the type and the deterioration level of the cause.

This review will be operationalized  through visual analysis, intrusive techniques, destructive, partially destructive and nondestructive.

It is, thus, intended to:

  • - Know the most common pathologies detectable in different parts of the building;
  • - Identify and classify the causes of malfunctions and some agents responsible for the degradation of the buildings and their constituent materials;
  • - List the most common anomalies with their probable causes;
  • - Develop diagnostic studies through analysis and / or techniques appropriate to the specific nature of the problem identified. 

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Abnormalities of the different parts of the construction

  • 1.1. Premature anomalies
  • 1.2. Recidive anomalies
  • 1.3. Current anomalies
  • 1.3 Structural and non structural anomalies

2. Causes of malfunctions

3. Decay agents (water, temperature variations, loads, differential land settlements, CO2, chlorides, action freeze / thaw)

4. Pathologies of concrete

5. Pathologies of the masonry

6. Pathologies of Woods

7. Methods of diagnosis

8. Techniques and Diagnostic Tests


 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - BUILDING YARDS AND CONSTRUCTION PLANNING

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 1600024

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

To provide students with the basic knowledge related to the legal framework of construction and to enable them by equipping them with techniques that allow them to plan, execute and control construction works. In the end students should be able to:

  • 1. Know and apply legislation related to the construction sector associated with the execution of works.
  • 2. Apply, analyze and execute the measurement of the different components of the engineering projects.
  • 3. Understand the cost structure of construction and apply it in budgeting.
  • 4. Identify and apply the procedures for submitting a proposal.
  • 5. Use the planning methods usually used in construction.
  • 6. Apply principles and procedures for planning and organization of construction sites.
  • 7. Apply the different methods for selection and efficient use of construction equipment.
  • 8. Perform cost control, billing, and closing a contract.

It is, thus, intended to:

  • - Know the most common pathologies detectable in different parts of the building;
  • - Identify and classify the causes of malfunctions and some agents responsible for the degradation of the buildings and their constituent materials;
  • - List the most common anomalies with their probable causes;
  • - Develop diagnostic studies through analysis and / or techniques appropriate to the specific nature of the problem identified. 

PROGRAM CONTENTS

  • 1. Organization of Construction Companies. Types of societies. Construction industry in Portugal and in the European Union. Rules of access and permanence in the activity.
  • 2. Classification, forms of execution and phases of works.
  • 3. Projects. Measurements. Estimate and Budget. Proposal elaboration. Contests. Evaluation of proposals. Adjudication and Consignment.
  • 4. Planning of the works: term, personnel loads and costs.
  • 5. Organization and preparation of the work.
  • 6. Organization of the yard. Shipyard Plant and Descriptive Memory.
  • 7. Construction equipment.
  • 8. Cost control. Monthly maps.
  • 9. Supervision. Measuring cars. Provisional and Definitive Reception.
  • 10. Construction Warranty. Technical Compilation.

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - STRUCTURE ANALYSIS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 1600025

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

  • 1. Formulate and apply the method of forces and the displacement method, while systematic methods for the analysis of reticulated structures
  • 2. Capacity to critically evaluation of results when methods of forces and displacements to a structure
  • 3. Mechanize calculation operations and be able to analyze critically the results in particular on calculation efforts, displacements and support reactions
  • 4. Applying the method of forces and the displacements method to frame structures with bar elements axially deformable and non-deformable
  • 5. Formulate, from a numerical point of view, the conditions of equilibrium, compatibility and constitutive relations
  • 6. Define calculation models to simulate specific problems in the area of ​​structural design

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Introduction to the analysis of structural

  • - Objectives of the structural analysis
  • - The models
  • - Types of Request
  • - Behavior of structural material

2. Structures Isostatic

  • - The bar element
  • - Formulation of equilibrium and compatibility
  • - Duality
  • - Constitutive relations

3. Methods to calculation Energetic structures

4. Symmetry and anti-symmetry

5. Introduction to the forces method

6. Introduction to the displacement method

7. Introduction to the method Cross


 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - SOIL AND FOUNDATIONS MECHANICS II

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 1600026

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

Apply knowledge acquired in the soil Mechanics and Foundations 1 unit to analyzing and checking the safety of soil retaining structures and superficial foundations.

At the end of the unit students should be able to:

  • 1. Understand the criteria for soil ruptures. Know the main aspects related to tests for testing properties in laboratory and "in situ" for soil cutting resistance;
  • 2. Calculate pulses on support structures
  • 3. Proceed to analyzing the stability of support walls, piles and trenches
  • 4. Proceed to quickly sizing suoerficial foundations.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Shear strenght

2. Conditions of rupture in massive soil

3. Impulses of soils

4. Support structures

4.1. Walls of Gravity and reinforced concrete

  • 4.2. Blind Sheet pile
  • 4.3. Bolstered Trenching

5. Shallow foundations


 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - REINFORCED CONCRETE

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
3rd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 1600027

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The discipline of Reinforced Concrete is a fundamental subject in the course of Rehabilitation and Construction Engineering and in the training of the future Engineer since concrete as a structural material is, in our country, the most common material used in the implementation of most structures, including in building construction, so from the viewpoint of view of rehabilitation, it is necessary that students to understand the behavior of concrete structures to proceed subsequently to its rehabilitation.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Introduction to concrete

2. Bases of design and actions according to Eurocode 2

3. Properties of materials: concrete and steel according to Eurocode 2

4. Durability

5. Ultimate limit states of resistance

  • 5.1. tensile and compressive
  • 5.2. flexural simple
  • 5.3. shear
  • 5.4. to bending with axial force and biaxial bending
  • 5.5. Torsional

6. Provisions relating to Constructive beams and columns

7. States limit Cracking and warping

8. Ultimate limit states due to structural deformation

9. Provisions relating to constructive pillars and walls

10. Characterization and verification of the safety of concrete laminar structures

11. Ultimate limit states and use

12. Dimensioning and detailing of slabs

13. Limit State: Cracking, deflection and control voltages

14. Ultimate limit states

  • 14.1. Efforts Normal, flexion and transverse
  • 14.2. Local pressure in the concrete

15. Design of concrete foundations


 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - GENERAL HYDRAULICS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
3rd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 1600028

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

Recognize, define and distinguish basic concepts of fluid mechanics, with special emphasis on liquids, in especially water. Study of the physical parameters associated with the fluids (in particular, physical characteristics of water). Study of basic concepts of Hydrostatics and Hydrodynamics. Study of hydraulic engineering problems involving free surface flows in and flows under pressure. Approach to equipment associated with hydraulic pumps, turbines, valves, measuring equipment.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Brief history of Hydraulics

2. Properties of liquids

  • - Definition of fluid and liquid
  • - Volume weight, volume mass and density
  • - Dynamics and kinematics Viscosity

3. Dimensional Analysis - application to fluid mechanics

4. Hydrokinetics

  • - Idea of yields
  • - Particle trajectory, streamlines, emission lines filaments

5. Hydrostatic

  • - Fundamental ideas of mechanics
  • - Balancing of forces, Moment of a force, resulting force
  • - Balancing of moments
  • - Fundamental laws of hydrostatics

6. Hydrodynamics

- Bernoulli`s Theorem

- Energy and hydraulic grade lines

7. Transport liquids

  • - Continues Loss of energy in yields uniform in pressure
  • - Laminar and turbulent flow, Reynolds experiments
  • - Empirical equations for turbulent flows

8. Immersed solids

9. Flows under pressure, permanent regime

10. Hydraulic Measurement: trough’s and spillways

11. Hydraulic machines


 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - WOODEN STRUCTURES SIZING

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
3rd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 1600029

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

It is intended that with this course students acquire skills associated with the design of timber structures, their construction details and structural connections.

It is important to provide students with proper skills in calculation for timber, whether it be an action for replacement of structural elements, of reinforcement or a new construction. Knowing the structural system and its operation when rehabilitating an old wood construction means confer the intervention a high degree of safety and quality. It is not possible to intervene in rehabilitation without prior knowledge of materials and associated pathologies, structural systems, their operation and type abnormalities which are intrinsically characteristic. For this reason and because a substantial part of the old building consists of old wooden structures, it is important learning on such structures, as well as knowledge of all the current regulations.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Types of wooden structures

2. Physical and mechanical properties of wood

3. Structural systems (old buildings and new constructions)

4. Scaling the ultimate limit states

  • - Traction (parallel and perpendicular to the wire)
  • - Compression (parallel and not parallel to the wire)
  • - Simple bending and composed
  • - Cutting and twist
  • - Beams

5. Fasteners

6. Constructive details

7. Limit states

8. Provisions Constructive

9. Regulation

10. Rehabilitation of old structures


 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - STEEL AND COMPOSITE STRUCTURES SIZING

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
3rd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 1600030

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

Taking advantage of the knowledge obtained in the course “Strength of Materials”, and having as support specific design codes (EC3 and EC4), typical problems of steal and steal-concrete composite structures will be solved.

The main objectives of this course read:

  • - Understanding of theoretical and normative models applicable to the analysis and design of steel structures
  • - Understand how to use the European design standards for steel and steel-concrete composite structures - Eurocodes 3 and 4.
  • - Application of theoretical knowledge in problem solving for the design of steel and steel-concrete composite structures.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Analysis of Metallic Structures

  • 1.1. Global analysis
  • - 1st order
  • - 2nd order
  • - Imperfections

1.2. Structural stability

2. Steel connection behavior / section classification / selecting the type of analysis

3. Structural elements Design

  • 3.1. Traction
  • 3.2. Bending
  • 3.3. Shear
  • 3.4. Torsion
  • 3.5. Compression
  • 3.6. Buckling
  • 3.7. Combined forces
  • 3.8. Shear buckling and concentrated forces

4. Steel connections design

  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Bolted connections
  • 4.3. Welded connections
  • 4.4 Component method

5. Introduction to the design of steel-concrete composite structures

  • 5.1. Shear connection
  • 5.2. Composite slabs
  • 5.3. Composite girders
  • 5.4. Composite columns
  • 5.5 Composite connections

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - REHABILITATION TECHNIQUES I

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
3rd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 1600031

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

It is intended in this curriculum unit that students acquire objective notions of protection concepts, repair and reinforcement when applied to different constructive typologies and different materials. Learn to define the best intervention strategies and, concomitantly, learn the implementation techniques better suited to use in different situations. In old building of masonry and wood, the understanding of the structural system, knowledge of unique construction techniques and understanding of the degradation of structural elements is a key factor for the success of intervention strategies. Because of that, the knowledge acquired previously to this course is paramount for a successful acquisition of knowledge about rehabilitation techniques in masonry and wood construction.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Masonry

  • - Classification of Masonry
  • - Resistant masonry
  • - Indexing of building typologies with different types of masonry
  • 1.1. Interventions in the Masonry
  • - Repair (structural / non-structural)
  • - Replacement
  • - Reinforcement
  • 1.2. Structural repair techniques in stone masonry and brick
  • 1.3. Techniques reinforcing stone masonry and brick
  • 1.4. Technical repair nonstructural masonry stone and brick
  • 1.5. Remaining rehabilitative non-structural masonry
  • 1.6. Case Study

2. Wood structures

  • - Definition of intervention strategies
  • - Curative and preventive actions on wood
  • 2.1. Technical repair of wood
  • 2.2. Techniques for enhanced wood
  • - Repair (structural / non-structural)
  • - Replacement
  • - Reinforcement

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - OPERACIONAL RESEARCH

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
3rd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 1600032

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

To provide the skills to tackle complex real-life problems in several areas, (i) identifying components that can be formulated as models or their associations from the vast repertoire of tools integrating the field of operational research (ii) and using specific software to solve some problems.

To Identify problems in various areas and put them in the mathematical formulation of linear programming. To Know how to analyze the results regarding sensitivity and to make re-optimization using matrix methods, the concept of duality and software’s like Excel and QM-Windows.

To Identify transportation and allocation problems, adopting appropriate procedures to solve them.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Introduction to Operations Research (OR)

  • 1.1. Mathematics modeling and optimization
  • 1.2. Methodology of OR

2. Linear Programming (LP)

  • 2.1. introduction
  • 2.2. Formulation and Graphical solving
  • 2.3. Definitions and Properties
  • 2.4. Graphical representation of problems in LP
  • 2.5. Particular Cases
  • 2.6. Use of QM-Windows to solve problems

3. Simplex Algorithm

  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Augmented from and basic allowable solutions
  • 3.3. The Simplex algorithm

4. Sensitivity Analysis

  • 4.1. Economical interpretation; Shadow Price.
  • 4.2. Changes in the resources
  • 4.3. Changes in the objective function coefficient
  • 4.4. introduction of new variables
  • 4.5. introduction of new restrictions

5. Transportation and Affectation

  • 5.1. introduction
  • 5.2. Transportation problem
  • 5.3. Affectation problem
  • 5.4. Using Excel solver and Qm - Windons

6. Network analysis

  • 6.1. The Network concept
  • 6.2. The Shortest path problem
  • 6.3. The Minimum Spanning Tree problem
  • 6.4. The Maximum Flow problem

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - BUILDINGS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
3rd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 1600033

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

Applying scientific knowledge to designing and constructing Buildings; Basic knowledge on Specifications and evaluation of its realization through Quality Rules, specifically in the context of Temperature and Humidity, Ventilation and Soundproofing. Competences:

Formulating Functional Needs and Building Quality Rules and construction elements;

Thermal aspects: Applying concepts for transferring and conserving energy; Identifying the minimum requirements for Buildings; Calculating energy needs for a building in terms of its thermal balance; Identifying the most appropriate construction solutions for functional thermal needs.

Damp: Identifying types of damp, causes and effects, symptoms and diagnosis methods, ways to prevent and treat it; Ventilation: Identify the criteria, requirements and building solutions for natural ventilation of dwellings; Acoustics: Apply the concepts of the sound transmission.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

  • 1 Specifications and Building Quality Rules;
  • 2 Thermal aspects: transferring heat, permanent and variable regime, thermal bridges; thermal balance in buildings; introduction to regulations; minimum requirements; nominal useful energy needs and limits; construction solutions; case study.
  • 3 Damp: Types; causes; symptoms; prevention and treatment; case study;
  • 4 Ventilation: Concepts: flow and pressure differences; ventilation through thermal action and wind action; minimum requirements; construction solutions; case studies;
  • 5 Soundproofing: sound propagation and measurement; introduction to regulations; requirements and evaluation of acoustic quality: reverberation time and sound absorption; requirements and evaluation of sound insulation against exterior and vibration noise; construction solutions; case study.

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - COLD FORMED STEEL STRUCTURES SIZING

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
3rd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 1600036

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The aim of this curriculum unit is for the students to acquire skills in cold-formed or light steel framing structures.

This building system is based in cold-formed steel profiles, which are highly streamlined, and therefore are highly efficient in terms of their resistance/weight ratio. Because they are so highly streamlined, light steel framing structures are also highly susceptible to local and global instability phenomena. Due to this fact, the structural dimensioning of these structures has particularities which are distinct from those of traditional metal structures.

One of the goals of the course is thus to learn the dimensioning rules of LSF structures regarding local instability, distortional instability, vertical buckling, and global buckling by flexion of flexion-torsion. The importance of structural coatings and of the resisting walls for the good performance of these structures are also included in the goals of this unit.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Structural behavior

2. EC3–1-3 regulations

3. Structural instabilities

4. Section safety verification:

  • - Tension
  • - Compression
  • - Bending
  • - Shear
  • - Concentrated forces

5. Structural connections


 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - FACILITIES IN BUILDINGS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
3rd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 1600037

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

Understand the importance of the technical facilities and supporting systems in the overall functioning of a building and in the comfort of its occupants. Acquire the skills needed for the design of different types of networks in buildings. Interpret, prepare and submit a complete project to supply sanitary water in a building. Interpret, prepare and present a project complete of drainage of sewage and rainwater in a building. Measure and understand the operation of special facilities for pumping wastewater and domestic water booster installations. To understand the functioning of heating water, including gas systems, electrical systems and systems of solar thermal collectors. Understand the operation of networks in a specific building as heat networks, ventilation and air conditioning, electrical networks and installations computer / telecommunications. Develop preventive maintenance plans.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

  • 1. Building water supply;
  • 2. Special elements in water networks: central pumping; reservoirs, and pressurized tanks;
  • 3. Water supply networks with return;
  • 4. Water network for space heating: central heating and underfloor heating;
  • 5. Production systems of hot water with solar thermal collectors;
  • 6. Sewerage;
  • 7. Rainwater drainage;
  • 8. Pumping stations wastewater and stormwater;
  • 9. Wastewater reuse and rainwater;
  • 10. Treatment facilities and disposal of wastewater;
  • 11. Networks fires;
  • 12. Preventive maintenance plans.