The traditional view of quality-related costs (QRC) tries to justify investment in prevention as a way to reduce the costs of failure. But this static view must counter a more dynamic vision that fosters continuous improvement and assesses the costs and benefits of implementing techniques and methods of quality management, such as certification of ISO 9001systems. However, it is unknown whether such companies a...
Tese de doutoramento. Engenharia Civil. Faculdade de Engenharia. Universidade do Porto. 2010
Tese de mestrado integrado em Engenharia da Energia e do Ambiente, apresentada à Universidade de Lisboa, através da Faculdade de Ciências, 2011 ; Desde o início da humanidade que esta consome recursos energéticos para a sua própria sobrevivência e desenvolvimento. Após a revolução industrial, o impacto da actividade humana sobre o meio ambiente tornou-se mais expressivo. As alterações climáticas patentes a nív...
Panniculitis is an inflammation occurring within adipose tissue. This process is often associated with auto-immune diseases, infections, malignancy and others diseases of unknown cause. We report a 16-year-old woman with constitutional symptoms and relapsing nonsuppurative nodular panniculitis. The etiological study didn't identify any associated disease, on admission or in 2,5 years of follow-up. This is a cas...
This paper presents a stereoscopic vision system developed to measure the motion of rigid bodies in real-time along its six degrees of freedom (6DOF). The idea was to use it in the measurement of the motions of a full-scale oil tanker moored at the oil terminal of the Port of Leixões, Portugal, in the scope of an R&D project. Prior to its installation on site the system was tested and validated in laboratory. F...
The project for the New Cruise Ship Terminal of Leixões was considered in the strategic plan for the development of the Port of Leixões in 2004. The intervention has two parallel objectives: commercial efficiency and urban integration. The intervention foreseen for Leixões South Breakwater is composed of three main parts: harbor intervention, which includes a new berth with 360 m in length, a small craft harbor...
For the new multipurpose terminal of the Port of Leixoes, presently under construction on the inner side of the Leixoes south breakwater, a gravitic type solution was chosen. The solution is based on the superposition of unreinforced concrete blocks, with an innovative and patented geometry – NOREF Blocks. These blocks make possible the construction of an open berthing face (less reflective), which aims t...
Moored ship behavior inside harbors, and therefore the operational and security conditions at a port terminal, does not have a straightforward relationship with the local environmental conditions. Due to the diversity and complexity of the involved phenomena, physical modeling is an essential tool to deal with this kind of issues. After the presentation of the Leixoes Oil Terminal, a brief description of the ma...
The Hydraulics Laboratory of the Faculty of Engineering – University of Porto (FEUP) has been recently reequipped (May 2007, with funds from the Project: Financiamento Programático CEHRA1) with a Multi-Element Wave Generation System incorporating Dynamic Wave Absorption (HR Wallingford, UK), which allows the simulation of several kinds of 2D and 3D sea wave states. This way, the wave basin acquired extend...
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