A contribution to an understanding of landscape development through three-dimensional morphological analysis of a pedological cover (Paulinia, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil)/Contribution de l'analyse morphologique tridimensionnelle de la couverture pédologique à la reconstitution de l'évolution du modelé (Paulinia, Etat de Sao Paulo, Brésil)

1995 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
René Boulet ◽  
Pierre Curmi ◽  
José Pereira de Queiroz-Neto ◽  
Jöel Pellerin
Author(s):  
Lydia Lopes Correia da Silva

Pressures of international organizations and governmental regulations have increased substantially when it comes to the reduction of dependence on fossil fuels and transport pollutants emissions. To meet these challenges, the automotive industry invests large sums in research and development on a broad portfolio of new technologies related to vehicular propulsion. Considering the alternatives under development, electric vehicles, specifically, have received increased attention both in Brazil and abroad. This study aims to contribute with the construction of future scenarios in 2020 concerning the introduction of electric vehicles in São Paulo´s urban traffic, an integral part of the CNPq/FINEP research project which is being undertaken at the University of São Paulo (USP/FEA), coordinated by Prof. James T. C. Wright. The Morphological Analysis method was adopted given the fact that it facilitates the structuring of the managerial and technological complexities of the proposed problem, with views to identifying the variables and their critical relations for the prospection of scenarios. The variables that influence an urban transport system were structured into four logical groups: scope of usage, structural architecture and propulsion system of the vehicle, road and energy supply/recharge infrastructure and finally, business models. These groups, in turn, were analysed at distinct levels, leading to other variables. Subsequently, alternative forms, which the selected variables could take on, were generated. The multidimensional matrix resulting from this set of combinatorial possibilities was then carefully verified in terms of feasibility and consistency in order to identify the basic settings of greatest interest to the scenarios prospecting effort.Key words: Prospective scenarios. Morphological analysis. Electric vehicles.


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 45-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Maroko ◽  
Juliana Maantay ◽  
Reinaldo Paul Pérez Machado ◽  
Ligia Vizeu Barrozo

Author(s):  
Gonzalo Carnero ◽  
Erasmo Carnero Carnero

<p align="center"><strong>RESUMEN</strong></p><p>La compactación de suelos en lugares con elevada precipitación pluvial presenta dificultades que afectan los cronogramas físicos y financieros de las obras. Comúnmente, el suelo requiere ser secado cerca a la humedad óptima (+/- 3%), sin embargo, existe la posibilidad de emplear la técnica constructiva de “terraplenes húmedos” que consiste en compactar el suelo con humedades altas, en las cuales, el suelo se encuentra en el “estado quasi-saturado”. Para poder emplear esta técnica, es importante conocer la succión que el suelo tendrá durante la construcción que puede ser obtenida en laboratorio mediante el tensiómetro de alta capacidad (HCT), equipo moderno que monitora la succión en tiempo real. El presente trabajo realiza una revisión de las investigaciones ejecutadas por Marinho y Massad (2011) y Carnero (2014) ambas realizadas con un suelo residual de la Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brasil que fue estudiado ampliamente para conocer su comportamiento en condición no saturada. Los investigadores realizaron ensayos de confinamiento constante (PH), ensayos triaxiales en condición saturada (CU) y no saturada (CW). Los valores de succión de los ensayos PH y CW fueron obtenidos con el HCT y demostraron la eficiencia del equipo. La investigación concluye definiendo el valor de presión de positivación, los parámetros de resistencia efectivos, las ecuaciones de resistencia no saturada según Bishop (1959) y Fredlund et al. (1978) y la representación tridimensional de resistencia en condición no saturada.</p><p> </p> <p> </p><p align="center"><strong>ABSTRACT</strong></p><p>The compaction of soils in places with high rainfall has problems that affects the physical and financial schedule of works. Commonly, the soils requires to be dry in the vicinity of the optimum water content (+/-3 %), however, there is the possibility to use the constructive technique of “wet fills” consisting in compact the soils with high moisture values, in which, the soils is the “quasi-saturated state”. To employ this technique, it is important to know the soil suction during the construction, which it may be obtained in laboratory using the high capacity tensiometer (HCT), modern equipment that monitors the suction in real time. The present work makes a revision of the investigations conducted by Marinho y Massad (2011) and Carnero (2014), both performed with a residual soil from the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brasil which was broadly studied in order to know its behaviour in unsaturated condition. The researchers conducted constant confined test (PH), saturated (CU) and unsaturated (CW) triaxial tests. The values of suction of the PH and CW tests were obtained by the HCT and validated the equipment efficiency. The research concluded defining the positivation pressure value, the effective strength parameters, the equations of unsaturated resistance according to Bishop (1959) and Fredlund et al. (1978) and the resistance three-dimensional representation in unsaturated condition.</p>


2020 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Daiane Regina Valentini ◽  
Ana Laura Vianna Villela ◽  
Alexandre Maurício Matiello ◽  
Tomé Coletti ◽  
Vera Regina Tângari ◽  
...  

Os processos ecológicos, compreendidos a partir do desenvolvimento científico e tecnológico e das práticas integrativas do conhecimento no século XXI, incluíram a complexidade dos ecossistemas à discussão do planejamento urbano e regional. Assim, a concepção de espaço social tem, no território, uma de suas múltiplas faces, o que permite a reflexão da dinâmica da paisagem em sua essência física, material, objetiva e categorizável, bem como emsua essência simbólica, experimental e processual, ou seja, em sua profundidade cultural. Nesse contexto, o Planejamento Ambiental se coloca como um entrelaçamento inter, multi e transescalar do planejamento sob o enfoque dos ecossistemas urbanos, dos  agroecossistemas e dos ecossistemas naturais, buscando preservar a heterogeneidade da paisagem e sua diversidade social, funcional e tipológica. Nesta discussão, objetiva-se realizar uma análise das qualificadoras tipo-morfológicas da paisagem urbana: o desenho da paisagem, a estrutura morfológica, os conflitos socioambientais e os padrões de ocupação.Elaborado por meio de pesquisas qualitativas e quantitativas, o método aplicado se estruturou a partir de mapeamentos, de levantamentos de campo e de oficinas de trabalho realizados com base no sistema de categorização e de análise da paisagem utilizada pelo grupo de pesquisa Sistema de Espaços Livres da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro eLaboratório Quadro de Paisagismo do Brasil II da Universidade de São Paulo. Os resultados da análise tipo-morfológica remetem a uma nova agenda de pesquisa e de trabalho no que tange à compreensão e à contextualização dos elementos que compõem o sistema de espaços livres, a partir dos processos de origem, dos padrões de acessibilidade ao meio urbano, das dinâmicas de prática social, bem como dos atributos perceptivos, paisagísticos e socioculturais, para sua efetiva sistematização em prol da qualidade ambiental e de vida nos núcleos urbanos.


Author(s):  
J. Almeida e Sousa ◽  
A. Negro ◽  
M. Matos Fernandes ◽  
A. S. Cardoso

Author(s):  
Alexandre Silveira Pupo

Fuel market is facing political, economic, social and environmental problems that are fuzzing the future of fossil energy sources and in face of these facts, countries are looking for hybrid and electric vehicles as part of solution in transportation sector due to the fact of electric vehicles use few or no fossil fuel. The objective in this article was to identify options until 2020 to introduce electric vehicle in the urban traffic of São Paulo city and to develop this study the method of literature review in secondary sources was used to present electric vehicle technologies and to identify parameters that were assessed through morphological analysis technique. In morphological analysis, sets of values were defined by the author for these parameters, possible combinations were structured, clearly impractical deployment options before 2020 were discarded and some viable solutions were analyzed in details. These analyses concluded that there are viable options for actual days in São Paulo city, but important requirements regarding technology, politic, market, infrastructure and innovation in products and services still need to be addressed and it is the main reason of electric vehicle remain unnoticed by consumers as an viable option. The challenges are great and the actors who are willing to solve them will find a promising market to explore.


Author(s):  
Luiz Henrique Herling ◽  
Marcus Vinicius Andrade de Lima ◽  
Gilberto De Oliveira Moritz ◽  
Pedro Henrique Marangoni

Fuel market is facing political, economic, social and environmental problems that are fuzzing the future of fossil energy sources and in face of these facts, countries are looking for hybrid and electric vehicles as part of solution in transportation sector due to the fact of electric vehicles use few or no fossil fuel. The objective in this article was to identify options until 2020 to introduce electric vehicle in the urban traffic of São Paulo city and to develop this study the method of literature review in secondary sources was used to present electric vehicle technologies and to identify parameters that were assessed through morphological analysis technique. In morphological analysis, sets of values were defined by the author for these parameters, possible combinations were structured, clearly impractical deployment options before 2020 were discarded and some viable solutions were analyzed in details. These analyses concluded that there are viable options for actual days in São Paulo city, but important requirements regarding technology, politic, market, infrastructure and innovation in products and services still need to be addressed and it is the main reason of electric vehicle remain unnoticed by consumers as an viable option. The challenges are great and the actors who are willing to solve them will find a promising market to explore.


2017 ◽  
pp. 39-45
Author(s):  
Mariana Guimarães Marchezi Chaves ◽  
Arlete Maria Francisco

The implantation of the railroad in the state of São Paulo allowed the exploration and occupation of unpopulated areas. In the region of Alta Sorocabana, the railway gave rise to urban cores from its stations. This research studied two cities, Quatá and Paraguaçu Paulista, which emerged in this context and have common characteristics in its formation. The aim was to accomplish morphological analysis and understand the logic of the urban cores formation. The methodology was defined based on Panerai (2006) and Lamas (1993), focused on the study of the urban tissue and its forming elements, using bibliography and documentation available about the cities and fieldwork. It was concluded that these cities followed the standard in chessboard and was organized from the station and railway. It was observed that there was no aesthetics and urbanistic concern in these layouts implantation, whichare preserved, while the main modification was the esplanade occupation.


Crisis ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Hideki Bando ◽  
Fernando Madalena Volpe

Background: In light of the few reports from intertropical latitudes and their conflicting results, we aimed to replicate and update the investigation of seasonal patterns of suicide occurrences in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Methods: Data relating to male and female suicides were extracted from the Mortality Information Enhancement Program (PRO-AIM), the official health statistics of the municipality of São Paulo. Seasonality was assessed by studying distribution of suicides over time using cosinor analyses. Results: There were 6,916 registered suicides (76.7% men), with an average of 39.0 ± 7.0 observed suicides per month. For the total sample and for both sexes, cosinor analysis estimated a significant seasonal pattern. For the total sample and for males suicide peaked in November (late spring) with a trough in May–June (late autumn). For females, the estimated peak occurred in January, and the trough in June–July. Conclusions: A seasonal pattern of suicides was found for both males and females, peaking in spring/summer and dipping in fall/winter. The scarcity of reports from intertropical latitudes warrants promoting more studies in this area.


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