Ana Beatriz Esteves Macedo — 2022

Airline companies are making great efforts to find ways to optimize various processes. Such as in maintenance to ensure high safety standards and directly to customer service. Economic pressure is increasingly high, and it is a business model with a low payback rate. The goal of this thesis is to le…

Inês Oliveira Ribas Fernandes — 2022

One of the most appealing renewable energy power sources is wind. The greatest challenge of this growing sector is monitoring the condition of wind turbine structures. They are vulnerable to damage and deterioration, because they operate under large mechanical and aerodynamic loads and extreme envir…

Luís Miguel Poeiras Afonso — 2022

The aerodynamics design among Formula Student teams has been seeing increasing complexity. Particularly for the FST Lisbon team, the design phase of new prototypes is currently revolving solely around CFD simulations. This work focus on improving the performance of the car and validating it through …

Rita Alves Baía dos Santos — 2022

Laminated composite plates and sandwich plates present better properties when compared to other similar structures. They are used in a wide range of industries and applications but, to do so, it is important to study their mechanical behaviour. These structures are usually under different kinds of l…

Francisco Manuel Raposo Esteves — 2022

Having emotional awareness is critical to succeed when communicating with other people, even more so when the communication is between humans and robots. This work focuses on implementing Facial Expression Recognition on a social robot that operates in a hospital. Thus, several steps are taken: f…

Vasco António Da Silva Rodrigues — 2022

Composite materials are beginning to gain more space in the new construction and rehabilitation sectors. However, there is still a need to increase the knowledge on the fire resistance behaviour. In the present dissertation, a study on the behavior of multicellular GFRP panels exposed to a external …

Diogo João Correia Lourenço — 2022

Mytilus edulis, also known as the blue mussel, is a mussel species cultivated in Europe, but its aquaculture production has declined in recent decades. Investing in blue mussel aquaculture production practices in Portugal's coastal regions and estuaries is an important step toward reversing …

Frederico Roquete Viana Neto — 2022

This dissertation aims to assess the feasibility and design of a water reclamation system, from the Cacia wastewater treatment station to the Estarreja Chemical Complex, while evaluating the possibility of wastewater reuse as a water source, considering the associated costs and environmental benefit…

João Rodrigues Felício — 2022

DSDV is a distributed distance vector protocol that came to address the looping issues of the RIP protocol. Essentially, in DSDV, each node maintains its routing table, which includes, for all reachable destinations, their length, next hop, and sequence number. Each node updates its routing table by…

Luís Miguel Maia da Cruz Barreira — 2022

Mixed-visual ability musical ensembles often serve as an excellent musical output for the skills of their performers and as a natural social environment for both sighted and visually impaired musicians. However, visually impaired musicians face multiple inclusivity challenges in their musical path. …