The topic of urban security has become highly relevant in the urban agendas of cities and metropolitan areas. One of the main requirements for well- functioning cities and their sustainability is that they have secure ...

Sediments play a fundamental role in the aquatic environment, especially for their interaction with the aquatic life. However, in the last decades, due to the increasing anthropic activities, a large amount of contaminants ...

Optimization of wastewater treatment plants include different aspects of water treatments such as the development of mathematical models, the parametric setting and related sensitivity analysis. Computational Fluid Dynamics ...

The main objective of the present thesis work is to develop an efficient methodology for setting up and managing up-to-date and updatable Monitoring ECO-Systems, intended as Enriched COoperative Systems. It is thus organised ...

One of the most common ways to conceive seismic-resistant steel structures is by adopting the Moment Resisting Frames (MRFs). This approach ensures that the building withstands the seismic event through the development of ...

The development of the direct biomass utilization for diverse industrial applications is turning the organic solid waste into one of the most promising feedstocks for the production of wide spectrum of competitive bio-based ...

It is now 48 years since Eastman theorized what would become known as BIM: Building Information Modelling. Despite this, we can observe that the methodolo- gy, together with its associated tools, is still considered an ...

The Theory oj Plastic Mechanism Control (TPMC), based on the application oj the kinematic theorem oj the plastic collapse, has been developed in the nineties with rejerence to moment-resisting jrames (MRFs) and progressively ...

Most of the world economy is based on maritime freight transport and plays a key role in international trade, being a determining factor in the economic growth of countries. The steady and continuous increase in the demand ...

The current evolution of vehicles with the development of new on-board technologies, allow for increasingly more connected vehicles, which also enables the development of more intelligent and autonomous vehicles. The result ...