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Articles indexats publicats per investigadors del Campus de Terrassa: 2013
Aquest informe recull els 228 treballs publicats per 177 investigadors/es del Campus de Terrassa en revistes indexades al Journal Citation Report durant el 2013Preprin
Eleventh International Conference on the Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields
Innovations in Road, Railway and Airfield Bearing Capacity – Volume 3 comprises the third part of contributions to the 11th International Conference on Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields (2022). In anticipation of the event, it unveils state-of-the-art information and research on the latest policies, traffic loading measurements, in-situ measurements and condition surveys, functional testing, deflection measurement evaluation, structural performance prediction for pavements and tracks, new construction and rehabilitation design systems, frost affected areas, drainage and environmental effects, reinforcement, traditional and recycled materials, full scale testing and on case histories of road, railways and airfields. This edited work is intended for a global audience of road, railway and airfield engineers, researchers and consultants, as well as building and maintenance companies looking to further upgrade their practices in the field
SynerCrete’18: interdisciplinary approaches for cement-based materials and structural concrete: synergizing expertise and bridging scales of space and time, vol. 2
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Active thermography for the investigation of corrosion in steel surfaces
The present work aims at developing an experimental methodology for the analysis
of corrosion phenomena of steel surfaces by means of Active Thermography (AT), in
reflexion configuration (RC).
The peculiarity of this AT approach consists in exciting by means of a laser source the sound
surface of the specimens and acquiring the thermal signal on the same surface, instead of the
corroded one: the thermal signal is then composed by the reflection of the thermal wave
reflected by the corroded surface. This procedure aims at investigating internal corroded
surfaces like in vessels, piping, carters etc. Thermal tests were performed in Step Heating and
Lock-In conditions, by varying excitation parameters (power, time, number of pulse, ….) to
improve the experimental set up. Surface thermal profiles were acquired by an IR
thermocamera and means of salt spray testing; at set time intervals the specimens were
investigated by means of AT. Each duration corresponded to a surface damage entity and to a
variation in the thermal response. Thermal responses of corroded specimens were related to
the corresponding corrosion level, referring to a reference specimen without corrosion. The
entity of corrosion was also verified by a metallographic optical microscope to measure the
thickness variation of the specimens
Fuzzy Decision Making and Soft Computing Applications
This Special Issue collects original research articles discussing cutting-edge work as well as perspectives on future directions in the whole range of theoretical and practical aspects in these research areas: i) Theory of fuzzy systems and soft computing; ii) Learning procedures; iii) Decision-making applications employing fuzzy logic and soft computing
Personality Identification from Social Media Using Deep Learning: A Review
Social media helps in sharing of ideas and information among people scattered around the world and thus helps in creating communities, groups, and virtual networks. Identification of personality is significant in many types of applications such as in detecting the mental state or character of a person, predicting job satisfaction, professional and personal relationship success, in recommendation systems. Personality is also an important factor to determine individual variation in thoughts, feelings, and conduct systems. According to the survey of Global social media research in 2018, approximately 3.196 billion social media users are in worldwide. The numbers are estimated to grow rapidly further with the use of mobile smart devices and advancement in technology. Support vector machine (SVM), Naive Bayes (NB), Multilayer perceptron neural network, and convolutional neural network (CNN) are some of the machine learning techniques used for personality identification in the literature review. This paper presents various studies conducted in identifying the personality of social media users with the help of machine learning approaches and the recent studies that targeted to predict the personality of online social media (OSM) users are reviewed
Book of abstracts of the 10th International Chemical and Biological Engineering Conference: CHEMPOR 2008
This book contains the extended abstracts presented at the 10th International Chemical and Biological
Engineering Conference - CHEMPOR 2008, held in Braga, Portugal, over 3 days, from the 4th to the 6th of
September, 2008. Previous editions took place in Lisboa (1975, 1889, 1998), Braga (1978), PĂłvoa de
Varzim (1981), Coimbra (1985, 2005), Porto (1993), and Aveiro (2001).
The conference was jointly organized by the University of Minho, “Ordem dos Engenheiros”, and the IBB -
Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering with the usual support of the “Sociedade Portuguesa de
QuĂmica” and, by the first time, of the “Sociedade Portuguesa de Biotecnologia”.
Thirty years elapsed since CHEMPOR was held at the University of Minho, organized by T.R. Bott, D. Allen,
A. Bridgwater, J.J.B. Romero, L.J.S. Soares and J.D.R.S. Pinheiro. We are fortunate to have Profs. Bott, Soares
and Pinheiro in the Honor Committee of this 10th edition, under the high Patronage of his Excellency the
President of the Portuguese Republic, Prof. AnĂbal Cavaco Silva. The opening ceremony will confer Prof.
Bott with a “Long Term Achievement” award acknowledging the important contribution Prof. Bott brought
along more than 30 years to the development of the Chemical Engineering science, to the launch of
CHEMPOR series and specially to the University of Minho. Prof. Bott’s inaugural lecture will address the
importance of effective energy management in processing operations, particularly in the effectiveness of
heat recovery and the associated reduction in greenhouse gas emission from combustion processes.
The CHEMPOR series traditionally brings together both young and established researchers and end users
to discuss recent developments in different areas of Chemical Engineering. The scope of this edition is
broadening out by including the Biological Engineering research. One of the major core areas of the
conference program is life quality, due to the importance that Chemical and Biological Engineering plays in
this area. “Integration of Life Sciences & Engineering” and “Sustainable Process-Product Development
through Green Chemistry” are two of the leading themes with papers addressing such important issues.
This is complemented with additional leading themes including “Advancing the Chemical and Biological
Engineering Fundamentals”, “Multi-Scale and/or Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Process-Product
Innovation”, “Systematic Methods and Tools for Managing the Complexity”, and “Educating Chemical and
Biological Engineers for Coming Challenges” which define the extended abstracts arrangements along this
book.
A total of 516 extended abstracts are included in the book, consisting of 7 invited lecturers, 15 keynote,
105 short oral presentations given in 5 parallel sessions, along with 6 slots for viewing 389 poster
presentations. Full papers are jointly included in the companion Proceedings in CD-ROM. All papers have
been reviewed and we are grateful to the members of scientific and organizing committees for their
evaluations. It was an intensive task since 610 submitted abstracts from 45 countries were received.
It has been an honor for us to contribute to setting up CHEMPOR 2008 during almost two years. We wish
to thank the authors who have contributed to yield a high scientific standard to the program. We are
thankful to the sponsors who have contributed decisively to this event. We also extend our gratefulness to
all those who, through their dedicated efforts, have assisted us in this task.
On behalf of the Scientific and Organizing Committees we wish you that together with an interesting
reading, the scientific program and the social moments organized will be memorable for all.Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT