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Quasi-static out-of-plane one-way test of a U-shaped unreinforced brick masonry wall
No full textThe dataset collects the results of the quasi-static out-of-plane one-way cyclic test of a U-shaped unreinforced brick masonry wall, carried out by means of an airbag, at the laboratory facility of the University of Minho.The U-shaped specimen is composed of a front wall (2.9 m wide, 1.40 m high, 0.25 m thick) and two transverse walls (1.6 m wide, 1.40 m high, 0.25 m thick), with solid clay bricks.More details on the test are provided in:Alberto Barontini, Jacopo Scacco, Luis C.M. da Silva, Graça Vasconcelos, Paulo B. Lourenço, Gabriele Milani, Experimental quasi-static out-of-plane test of a U-shaped brick masonry wall, Engineering Structures, Volume 287, 2023, 116195, ISSN 0141-0296, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2023.116195
Misure relative all’influenza della vegetazione su alcune caratteristiche idrauliche e meccaniche dei terreni.
No full text[Poesia] Três poemas de Alberto Secama
No full textThree poems by Alberto Secama. About the author: Alberto Secama is an Angolan poet who has poems published on many websites and on facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Xungurra/abouthttp://www.pordentrodaafrica.com/cultura/africa-em-verso-rio-kwanza-por-alberto-secamahttp://www.pordentrodaafrica.com/cultura/africa-em-verso-zong-por-alberto-secamahttp://www.pordentrodaafrica.com/cultura/coluna-africa-em-verso-o-sol-la-fora-por-alberto-secamaTres poemas de Alberto Secama. Sobre el autor: Alberto Secama es un poeta angoleño que tiene poemas publicados en varios sitios y en el facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Xungurra/abouthttp://www.pordentrodaafrica.com/cultura/africa-em-verso-rio-kwanza-por-alberto-secamahttp://www.pordentrodaafrica.com/cultura/africa-em-verso-zong-por-alberto-secamahttp://www.pordentrodaafrica.com/cultura/coluna-africa-em-verso-o-sol-la-fora-por-alberto-secamaTrês poemas de Alberto Secama. Sobre o autor: Alberto Secama é um poeta angolano que possui poemas publicados em vários sites e no facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Xungurra/abouthttp://www.pordentrodaafrica.com/cultura/africa-em-verso-rio-kwanza-por-alberto-secamahttp://www.pordentrodaafrica.com/cultura/africa-em-verso-zong-por-alberto-secamahttp://www.pordentrodaafrica.com/cultura/coluna-africa-em-verso-o-sol-la-fora-por-alberto-secam
First hypothesis for Optimized Monitoring Strategy through Ambient Vibrations in historic buildings
Get PDFDynamic identification strategies and, in particular, Operational Modal Analysis (OMA) approaches demonstrated to be a significant source of information about the condition of an investigated building, as well as, repeated data acquisitions and processing methods, developed in the field of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), have been successfully used to track the evolution of this condition over time. Nonetheless, planning a cost-effective ambient vibration monitoring campaign is still an open challenge as several uncertainties must be considered to ensure a beneficial trade-off between number of sensors or set-ups and quality of the information collected. This is particularly important when dealing with historical masonry buildings. The present work discusses the preliminary results of a project, currently under development, whose aim is the definition of optimised protocols for data acquisition and processing for built cultural heritage dynamic identification and monitoring, with specific focus on the Venetian palace typology.FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia(UIDB/04029/2020
A Strategy of Optimal Sensor Placement for Dynamic Identification in Cultural Heritage
No full textThe present study describes an approach to boost the cost-effectiveness of the Operational Modal Analysis (OMA) application to historic buildings, through the optimisation of the trade-off between the number of required sensors and the quality of the information provided by them. Such an approach, currently under development and testing, considers a limited level of knowledge and relies on extensive simulations to assess the effect of the sources of uncertainties on the dynamic behaviour of the structure. In particular, the work focuses on a specific building typology, namely the noble palace overlooking Canal Grande in Venice, dating back to Gothic period. To this end, a prototype is defined based on the most relevant typological and morphological features of this typology, and its Finite Element (FE) model is generated. A Monte Carlo simulation technique is employed to sample several different instances from pre-set probabilistic functions for each stochastic variable. An Optimal Sensor Placement (OSP) algorithm is used to rank different recommended locations for a reduced number of sensors under these parameters’ variation, producing an optimal overall topology for the network. These considerations open future developments in view of a possible protocol applied to this historical building typology
The role of the organic matter in the soil water retention: some recent laboratory experiences.
No full textOrizzonti mantovani. Spunti e dinamiche paesaggistiche ne L'Illustrissimo di Alberto Cantoni
Get PDFIn the literary production of Alberto Cantoni, short story writer and novelist between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the novel L'Illustrissimo is highly important both because it is the last publication of the author, from Pomponesco, a small town a few kilometers south of Mantua, both because it summarizes in a single text the different nuances and different directions that his writing has taken over the course of his literary career, also due to a writing and processing time that embraces the entire span of years of his career itself. In the foreground, in addition to the numerous and brilliant characters, one of the protagonists is the Mantuan landscape which, not a simple background, becomes a true literary parameter which in different and significant ways affects the purposes and mechanisms of the novel
Models of performance and value measurement in service systems
No full textThe emergence of service science offers new and renewed research interest to management
accounting and to performance management. In terms of management accounting,
the prospects of cocreation of value and servitisation lead towards analysis objectives that
consider the customer to a greater extent. Secondly, the trend of dissociation between investments
(costs) and sources of revenues questions the validity of the traditional logic
of costing for pricing in the context of service science. In short, problems of cost and
revenue allocation emerge between coproducing partners in a service system. In terms of
performance management, the development of business models in which the relevance
of the service component increases requires reflection on which innovative techniques
should be used to measure value, also with a view to establishing incentive systems oriented
towards value creation
Plenary Session: Luis Alberto Urrea
No full texta) Plenary Session: Luis Alberto Urrea, Mexican American Chicago Writer
Luis Alberto Urrea is a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for non-fiction and member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame. He is a prolific and acclaimed writer who has used his dual-culture life border experiences to explore the complex and interconnected Mexican-US American reality. The critically acclaimed and best-selling Mexican-born author of 13 books, Urrea has won numerous awards for his poetry, fiction and essays.
Moderator: Dr. Héctor García, Loyola University Chicag
O duplo significado do sentir e do pensar nas obras de Alberto Caeiro e Descartes
Get PDFDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em LiteraturaA pretensão desta dissertação intitulada O duplo significado do sentir e do pensar nas obras de Alberto Caeiro e Descartes é investigar a relação entre o sentir e o puro pensar, usando como referência a poesia O Guardador de Rebanhos, de Alberto Caeiro, que apresenta de forma evidente o tema; e como este assunto é tratado nas Meditações Metafísicas de René Descartes, também de forma claramente visível. Podemos perceber em ambos os autores, uma diplopia, uma espécie de duplo olhar sobre a relação sentir e puro pensar. No primeiro capítulo vou falar sobre a tese do duplo olhar de Descartes, a respeito da relação sentir e puro pensar na leitura de Merleau-Ponty, salientando a visão de natureza. No segundo capítulo, parto da leitura das três primeiras Meditações Metafísicas para caracterizar a tensão que se pode verificar entre Descartes e Alberto Caeiro quando se referem ao puro pensar. O foco principal de Descartes, nas três primeiras Meditações, é o pensar puro, e neste ponto Alberto Caeiro critica o pensar puro. No terceiro capítulo, analisando as três últimas Meditações, percebe-se que há uma virada no pensamento de Descartes, no qual o autor inverte seu ponto de vista, aproximando-se da idéia de Alberto Caeiro. No quarto capítulo, mostrarei a leitura que outros autores fazem acerca do sentir e do pensar na obra de Alberto Caeiro, mostrando que assim como Descartes, este também ostenta uma diplopia, não do sentir, mas do pensar. The pretension of this work entitled O duplo significado do sentir e do pensar nas obras de Alberto Caeiro e Descartes is to investigate the relationship between the feeling and the pure thinking, using as reference the poetry O Guardador de Rebanhos, by Alberto Caeiro, that presents in an evident way this theme; and as this subject is treated in René Descartes' Metaphysical Meditations, also in a clearly visible way. It is possible to notice in both authors, the diplopy, a sort of double look about the relationship between feeling and pure thinking. The thesis about Descartes'double look regarding the relation of feeling and pure thinking, in Merleau-Ponty reading, pointing out the nature vision, will be treated in the first chapter. In the second chapter, I start from the reading of the first three Metaphysical Meditations to characterize the tension that can be verified between Descartes and Alberto Caeiro when they refer to the pure thinking. Descartes' main focus in the first three Meditations is pure thinking and, in this point, Alberto Caeiro criticizes pure thinking. In the third chapter, analyzing the last three Meditations, it is possible to notice that there is an alteration in Descartes' thought, in which the author inverts his point of view, approaching of Alberto Caeiro's idea. In the fourth chapter, I will show the reading that other authors do concerning feeling and thinking in Alberto Caeiro's work, showing that as well as Descartes, this also shows a diplopy, not of feeling, but of thinking
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