ENGENHARIA PARA A SOCIEDADE
Presentation
Presentation
Carlos Santos
Head of Unit
The Electrotechnical and Mechanical Systems Unit develops scientific and technological activities in the field of Scientific Instrumentation, namely:
- Design and development of measuring instruments and test equipment for field or laboratory tests, specially designed for application in the broad field of Civil Engineering.
- Transduction of physical quantities, conditioning, data acquisition and digital signal processing, automation and control systems, power electronics and electromechanical drives
- Definition and establishment of test methodologies and participation in multidisciplinary teams aiming to conduct field and laboratory studies and tests.
- Technological consultancy, particularly in the selection and acquisition of diverse instrumentation, to support LNEC’s activities.
- Construction of measuring instruments’ prototypes, testing equipment, test specimens, and physical models.
Activity
Current lines of research:
- Assessment of railway support conditions through modal analysis based on on-board instrumentation.
- Development of instrumentation and control systems for carrying out tests on small-scale physical models.
- Development of modular systems to minimize human intervention in current laboratory tests.
- Development of methodologies, in a distributed environment, for validation, reduction, and management of data flows from the automatic observation of structures.
- Optical measurement systems for monitoring infrastructures, carrying out small-scale model tests, and monitoring test equipment.
- Development of monitoring and remote actuation systems for measuring and communication equipment.
- Fire modelling in naturally ventilated tunnels using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software.