The behaviour of prestressed precast beams is directly affected by the rotational stiffness of the end connections. Although the prestressed beam presents a linear behaviour in service, the effective behaviour of the precast ...

The development of a greater number of projects, besides those traditionally elaborated (foundations, architecture, structure, electrical and sanitary-hydraulic installations), have made the constructive process more ...

This research focuses the evaporative cooling by water aspersion on wavy cement fiber tiles in the city of São Carlos, SP, seeking to use it to reduce the buildings heat gains. A theoretical model was developed, based on ...

This research had for purpose comparatively to verify the accuracy of the techniques of transverse vibration and ultrasound to the values gotten in static testings, for sawed wood used in structures. With the results gotten ...

This work aims to investigate the influence of solar chimneys in the natural ventilation in buildings located in Brazil. Considering that Brazil is a tropical country and has a great potential for the harnessing of solar ...

This work presents an exploratory study on the coordinating meetings, in the stage of production of the Civil Engineering in the subsector constructions, classifying the different forms of management, raising the ways of ...

This dissertation deals with the use of fiberglass as a concrete addition, in order to improve its mechanical properties such as better crack distribution, or as polymer reinforcement, in order to form a composite to be ...

There are several cases of out-of-plane loaded masonry such as earth retaining walls, water reservoir, wind loaded panels and other. Thus, there is a lack of Brazilian technical literature in this topic. The aim of this ...

This work deals on the identification and quantification of pointers of project of buildings in structural masonry. Several projects of different types are analyzed from which each material is quantified relative to the ...

Traditional and recycled mortar and concrete have been produced and the results from simple compression strength and water absorption tests have been compared. Recycled mortar and concrete have been produced out of sludge ...