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Management DIRECTOR António Pereira SUBDIRECTOR – Industrial Cooperation António Completo SUBDIRECTOR – International Relations Robertt Valente SUBDIRECTOR – Science and Technology Management Margarida Coelho SUBDIRECTOR – New Areas of Specialization Paula Marques SUBDIRECTOR – Commercial and Communication Fernando Neto

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TEMA is a multidisciplinary research unit of excellence. Follows the natural evolution of the engineering for the future, combining classical and new areas, with a focus on fundamental and applied research at different areas of intervention.

Our mission is to develop and provide research competencies that can be applied to the technological needs of the society.

the newsletter HIGHLIGHTS With the launch of the newsletter of TEMA, the board of the research unit intends to deepen communication between its members and with the community in general.

In a world of constant change, the capacity of adjustment is essential. TEMA is highly aware of this factor and fully comprehends the relevance of the R&D conducted in the research unit and its impact on society (academic, industrial/business and civil) and is experiencing a crucial transition period of structural adaptation to ensure the continued pursuit of scientific excellence with a contextualized translation in(to) innovation, competitiveness and citizenship of the community.

This transition aims to ensure the essence of TEMA and to capitalize the background of expertise of its members that is enriched by the diversity of scientific fields, distributed in six main areas of knowledge: applied mechanics; applied energy; biomechanics; modelling & simulation; nanoengineering and transportation technologies.

TEMA is focused on current societal challenges and upcoming global requirements, aiming to contribute to a sustainable industry (specially SMEs) and to the wellbeing of people, translated into two new main mobilizer projects (MP) and an ongoing one: Mobilizer Project 1 – Sustainable Manufacturing Solutions; Mobilizer Project 2 - Technologies for the Wellbeing and the ongoing Mobilizer Project 3 - Research Infrastructure, involving TEMA’s members as one coherent group.

MP1 is focused on the development and innovation on manufacturing engineering and technologies, with subsequent industrial applications. It is intended to increase productivity, improve products'quality and reduce waste in production processes. The strategy of the MP2 aims to increase the quality of life of society by means of engineering systems, focusing on people and their needs. MP3 aims at a rational and efficient management of TEMA’s material and human resources (including its 14 laboratories), its vast array of scientific equipment in a large diversity of areas available to society, making the research infrastructure an "open facility" for a number of (academic, research and industry) end-users.

The 1st conference of TEMA, entitled “O TEMA em questão: Investigação” occurred on the 11th of July and already embraced the mobilizer projects 1 and 2 as umbrellas for the scientific presentations, reinforcing their relevance for today’s needs and demands within the scientific and technological field.

TEMA keywords: change, diversity, citizenship, mobilizer, society, impact, multidisciplinary research, manufacturing, wellbeing

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Research Infrastructure – Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation TEMA ID: CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-022083 Funding Entity: CENTRO 2020, FCT Principal Investigator (PI): António Pereira TEMA Team: António Pereira, António Completo, A. Gil Andrade-Campos, António Ramos, Cátia Pôncio, Fernando Neto, João Oliveira, Margarida Coelho, Paula Marques, Ricardo Sousa, Robertt Valente, Rui Moreira, Tânia Barbosa, Victor Neto Consortium: TEMA-UA Total Budget: 1 202 880,91 € TEMA Budget: 1 202 880,91 € Duration: From 2017 to 2020 Summary: The research infrastructure TEMA has its origin in the research unit with the same name, created in 1996. It supports a multidimensional structure embracing three strategic specialization vectors focused in research, innovation, technological development and technology transfer and consulting, training and services.

TEMA has the goal of supporting research activities, both fundamental and applied. It considers the openness to the community - inner and outer as one of its pillars. Addressing the current technological and societal challenges, it With the support of the projects:

offers a wide range of services, by accessing several laboratories that are grounded in a set of equipment in a single site, located in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Aveiro. Advanced mechanical engineering, applied energy, biomechanics, nanoengineering, transport technologies and development of simulation software, are the six main areas of intervention in the mechanical engineering field. The multiplicity of equipment enriches the multidisciplinary essence of the Research Infrastructure allowing the development of complex and integrated projects, aligned with the challenges of society nowadays.

TEMA is included in the “Portuguese Roadmap of Research Infrastructures of Strategic Relevance”, in alignment with the European Strategic Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI), having been classified by FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia with the highest rating ("Category 1 those that have demonstrated high scientific potential and are considered to have high strategic regional and/or national relevance").

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CISMOB – Cooperative information platform for low carbon and sustainable mobility ID: PGI01611 Funding Entity: Interreg Europe Principal Investigator (PI): Jorge Bandeira TEMA Team: Jorge Bandeira, Margarida Coelho, José Paulo Santos, Eloísa Macedo, Carlos Sampaio Consortium: TEMA-UA (lead promoter), Stockholm University (SU), City of Águeda (CA), Intelligent Transport Systems Romania (ITS-R), Bucharest Metropolitan Transport Authority (BMTA), Extremadura Energy Agency (AGENEX) Total Budget: 1 044 777,00 € TEMA Budget: 384 000,00 € Duration: From 2016 to 2020 Summary: CISMOB main vision is to promote innovative ways to reduce carbon footprint and increase the sustainability of urban areas, by improving the efficiency in the use of urban transport infrastructure through ICT. CISMOB will focus on improving the implementation of regional policies and local mobility programmers.

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DICA-VE – Driving information in a connected and autonomous vehicle environment: impacts on safety and emissions ID: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029463 Funding Entity: POCI 2020 Principal Investigator (PI): Margarida Coelho TEMA Team: Margarida Coelho, Fernando Neto, Paulo Fernandes, Jorge Bandeira, Eloísa Macedo, Nagui Rouphail Consortium: TEMA-UA Total Budget: 193 800,83 € TEMA Budget: 193 800,83 € Duration: From 2019 to 2021 Summary: The main objective of DICA-VE is to develop an integrated research focused on advanced algorithms, to reduce driving behavior volatility through safety warnings and emissions reductions in a connected vehicle environment. A particular attention will be given to the interaction of motor vehicles with vulnerable road users.

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InFLOWence – Optimizing the influence of connected and autonomous vehicles on the environmental efficiency of road traffic flows ID: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029769 Funding Entity: POCI 2020 Principal Investigator (PI): Jorge Bandeira TEMA Team: Jorge Bandeira, Margarida Coelho, Paulo Fernandes, Eloísa Macedo Consortium: TEMA-UA (lead promoter), CESAMUA Total Budget: 228 803,66 € TEMA Budget: 189 000,00 € Duration: From 2018 to 2021 Summary: The main vision of InFLOWence is to take advantage of the predictable market penetration of CAVs to influence in a positive way the performance of the road traffic flows, in terms of congestion, energy use and pollutant emissions.

This will be achieved through the development of a digital mapping platform to support advanced eco driving commands for CAVs.

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MobiWise – From mobile sensing to mobility advising ID: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016426 Funding Entity: POCI 2020 Principal Investigator (PI): Susana Sargento TEMA Team: Margarida Coelho, Fernando Neto, Paulo Fernandes, Jorge Bandeira, José Paulo Santos Consortium: IT-Aveiro (lead promoter), IT-Porto, TEMA-UA, CISUC-UC, CMUC-UC Total Budget: 2 370 571,24 € TEMA Budget: 456 904,81 € Duration: From 2017 to 2020 Summary: MobiWise will build a 5G platform that encompasses the access infrastructure filled with sensors, people and vehicles, to improve mobility in the cities, both for commuters and for tourists.

The project will connect any sensor, person and vehicle, and will use all possible information to improve the user mobility.

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@CRUiSE – Advanced impact integration platform for cooperative road use ID: PTDC/EMS-TRA/0383/2014 Funding Entity: POCI 2020 Principal Investigator (PI): Margarida Coelho TEMA Team: Margarida Coelho, Paulo Fernandes, Jorge Bandeira, José Paulo Santos, Nagui Rouphail Consortium: TEMA-UA (lead promoter), CESAMUA, IT-Aveiro, ITRE-NCSU Total Budget: 184 320,00 € TEMA Budget: 116 462,00 € Duration: From 2016 to 2019 Summary: The fundamental goal of this project is to integrate road traffic impacts into a single analytical framework for use in advanced traffic management systems. The work plan is founded on designing a methodology for assigning a linkbased indicator that can evaluate different trafficrelated externalities, adjusted to local contexts of vulnerability.

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Driving2Driverless – Urban and regional transport management under a scenario of shared electric fully automated mobility ID: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-031923 Funding Entity: FEDER Principal Investigator (PI): Gonçalo Correia TEMA Team: Margarida Coelho (Co-PI), Paulo Fernandes, Jorge Bandeira Consortium: CITTA-UC (lead promoter), TEMA-UA Total Budget: 235 301,18 € TEMA Budget: 59 686,46 € Duration: From 2018 to 2021 Summary: This project addresses the system management challenges of a future mobility with shared electric automated vehicles. The project will pursue the creation of methods that allow managing the mobility system at an urban and interurban scale using automated vehicles, which are shared and are powered by electricity.

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MULBIOIMPLANT – Multifunctional and bio-inspired implant to improve bone integration ID: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-032486 Funding Entity: POCI 2020 Principal Investigator (PI): António Ramos TEMA Team: António Ramos, Marco Santos, Rui Moreira, Mónica Oliveira, Susana Olhero (CICECOUA), Paula Torres (CICECO-UA) Consortium: TEMA-UA (lead promoter), CICECOUA, University of Évora Total Budget: 239 035,38 € TEMA Budget: 165 660, 38 € Duration: From 2018 to 2021 Summary: Analyzing the success rates in orthopedic records, it is observed that in the last decade the success of the implants has not increased. The proposed project aims to develop a new bio-inspired intramedullary implant based on the concept of bone structure. This implant will consist of biomaterials with variable density and multilayer, allowing it to have a multifunctional behavior.

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CARTIL@FACTORY – Development and construction of a large - scale engineered cartilage - like manufacturing - system combining electrospinning of chondrocyte - laden 3d scaffolds with direct 3d cell expansion and mechanical stimulus on bioreactor ID: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-028424 Funding Entity: POCI 2020 Principal Investigator (PI): António Completo TEMA Team: António Completo, Paula Marques (Co-PI), Fernando Fonseca Consortium: TEMA-UA (lead promoter), University of Minho, University of Coimbra Total Budget: 237 469,00 € TEMA Budget: 126 211,00 € Duration: From 2018 to 2021 Summary: Development and construction of an innovative automated manufacturing-system for large-scale engineered cartilage-like production, starting from isolated chondrocytes, combining electrospinning of cell-laden 3D scaffolds and direct cell expansion on 3D scaffold tailed of mechanical stimulation on a bioreactor, increasing tissue properties reproducibility, safety and costeffectiveness.

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ARCADELIKE – Development of a physiological collagen architecture in engineered tissue cartilage through a combined approach of mechanical stimulus with anisotropic fibrous scaffolds on a bioreactor environment ID: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016574; P2020-PTDC/EMS-TEC/3263/2014 Funding Entity: POCI 2020 Principal Investigator (PI): António Completo TEMA Team: António Completo, Paula Marques Consortium: TEMA-UA (lead promoter), CNC-UC, University of Minho Total Budget: 178 812,00 € TEMA Budget: 105 128,00 € Duration: From 2016 to 2019 Summary: This project consists on improvement of the functionality of tissue engineered cartilage through a combined approach of mechanical stimulus with anisotropic fibrous scaffolds provided on a bioreactor culture environment, in order to bring the structural organization of engineered cartilage close to the native tissue.

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SelfMED – The next-generation of biomechanical self-powering systems for multifunctional implantable medical devices ID: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-031132 Funding Entity: POCI 2020 Principal Investigator (PI): Marco Santos TEMA Team: Marco Santos, Jorge Ferreira, António Ramos, José Simões.

Consortium: TEMA-UA (lead promoter), CICECOUA Total Budget: 243 487,31 € TEMA Budget: 121 737,16 € Duration: From 2018 to 2021 Summary: Twenty per cent of failures of implantable bioelectronic medical devices are related to electrical power systems. The main goal of this project is to develop an autonomous generator of intelligent energy that integrates electromagnetic systems (based on magnetic levitation), peptide systems and triboelectric systems.

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Watch4ming – Monitoring the stamping of advanced high strength steels ID: PTDC/EMS-TEC/6400/2014 Funding Entity: POCI 2020 Principal Investigator (PI): Luís Menezes (1/2 time), Marta Cristina Cardoso de Oliveira (now) TEMA Team: A.Gil Andrade-Campos (Co-PI), João P. Martins, José Aquino Consortium: CEMMPRE-FCTUC (lead promoter), TEMA-UA, INEGI, MEMS-UM Total Budget: 194 017,00 € TEMA Budget: 49 382,00 € Duration: From 2016 to 2019 Summary: The goal is to understand the role of AHSS forming conditions on the deformation induced heating and the contact conditions, in order to be able to supply guidelines for improving their forming and tool virtual try-out.

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TherMechChar-Xsteels – Toward virtual forming and design: thermomechanical characterization of high strength steels through full-field measurements and a single designed test ID: CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-029713 Funding Entity: POCI 2020 Principal Investigator (PI): A. Gil Andrade-Campos TEMA Team: A. Gil Andrade-Campos, Robertt F. Valente, João Alexandre Oliveira, João P. Martins Consortium: TEMA-UA (lead promoter), CEMMPRE-UC Total Budget: 233 409,83 € TEMA Budget: 224 034,83 € Duration: From 2018 to 2021 Summary: Nowadays, the characterization of materials has received increasing attention due to the need of precise input data to computational analysis software. Simulation software uses complex material constitutive models and its success reproducing the real behaviour is inherently dependent on the quality of this material-model implemented and the related material parameters. The aim of this project is to develop an efficient and automatic methodology for determining the material parameters of thermo-mechanical models, from a novel dedicated test that involve non-homogeneous temperature and strain fields.

the newsletter RDFORMING – Robust design of sheet metal Forming processes to reduce productivity losses ID: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-031243 Funding Entity: POCI 2020 Principal Investigator (PI): José Valdemar Bidarra Fernandes TEMA Team: A. Gil Andrade-Campos (Co-PI), João A. Oliveira Consortium: FCTUC-CEMMPRE (lead promoter), TEMA-UA, INEGI Total Budget: 225 222,66 € TEMA Budget: 7 991,87 € Duration: From 2018 to 2021 Summary: This proposal seeks to establish an efficient and accurate robust approach for measuring and modelling the influence of the different sources of scatter, in order to enable robust design of sheet metal forming processes.

The main objective of this work is to build a numerical tool able to perform robustness analysis of sheet metal forming processes, for predicting and avoiding the most common forming problems, such as flow localization and fracture, in order to increase the overall productivity.

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ifDAMAGElse – Modelling and numerical simulation of damage in metallic sheets: anisotropic behaviour and tension compression asymmetry coupled approach for formability prediction ID: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030592 Funding Entity: POCI 2020 Principal Investigator (PI): Marta Cristina Cardoso de Oliveira TEMA Team: A. Gil Andrade-Campos (Co-PI), Robertt Valente Consortium: CEMMPRE-FCTUC (lead promoter), TEMA-UA, INEGI, MEMS-UM Total Budget: 235 605,78 € TEMA Budget: 15 125,00 € Duration: From 2018 to 2021 Summary: Experimental monotonic strain-path tests and it is known to present significant strainpath dependency. This proposal aims to develop a new framework for plasticity-damage coupling, with the goal of eliminating the need of the expensive FLD experimental determination, while enabling the detection of formability problems early in the design process.

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NanosFLiD – Formability of third generation advanced high strength steels ID: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-032466 Funding Entity: POCI 2020 Principal Investigator (PI): Marilena Butuc TEMA Team: Marilena Butuc, António Pereira (CoPI), Gabriela Vincze , Catalin Picu, Frederic Barlat, Augusto Lopes (CICECO-UA) Consortium: TEMA-UA (lead promoter), CICECOUA, INEGI Total Budget: 237 809,36 € TEMA Budget: 204 709,36 € Duration: From 2018 to 2021 Summary: The project focuses on the formability of the third generation advanced high strength steels with emphasis on the development of a general theoretical framework, experimental procedures and computational modeling promoting their use and optimization of manufacturing processes of automotive industry.

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ID: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030493 Funding Entity: POCI 2020 Principal Investigator (PI): Joaquim Cruz TEMA Team: : Joaquim Cruz, Pedro Antunes, João Oliveira Consortium: TEMA-UA (lead promoter), CICECOUA, CIDMA-UA Total Budget: 237 988,87 € TEMA Budget: 237 988,87 € Duration: From 2018 to 2021 Summary: TAMAZ3D aims to present a new support tool for additive manufacturing of alumina-zirconia 3-D structures, enabling to assess the thermomechanical behavior of DWA technical ceramics, and the availability of a design tool that contributes to a business production system with well-defined specifications, minimizing time and production costs.

the newsletter THERMACORE – Performance of a wall or slab with a thermally active core in Portugal buildings ID: FCT/PAS20/030364 Funding Entity: FCT, COMPETE 2020 Principal Investigator (PI): António Samagaio UA Team: António Samagaio (DAO-UA), Teresa Nunes (DAO-UA), Fernanda Rodrigues (DECivilUA), Ana Velosa (DECivil-UA), Romeu Vicente (DECivil-UA), João Labrincha (DEMaC-UA), Vítor Costa (TEMA-UA) Consortium: DAO-UA (lead promoter), TEMA-UA, DECivil-UA, DEMaC-UA Total Budget: 230 515,95 € TEMA Budget (estimated): 57 000,00 € Duration: From 2018 to 2021 Summary: The THERMACORE project aims to contribute the improvement of the energy efficiency of buildings (new or to be rehabilitate), through the use of composite materials with PCMs in walls or slabs with a 'thermally active core’.

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FAMASI – Sustainable and intelligent manufacturing by machining ID: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-031556 Funding Entity: POCI 2020 Principal Investigator (PI): J. Paulo Davim TEMA Team: J. Paulo Davim, Ana Horovistiz, Carlos Lauro, Robson Pereira, Celestino Veiga, Diego Carou Consortium: TEMA-UA Total Budget: 208 777,33 € TEMA Budget: 208 777,33 € Duration: From 2018 to 2021 Summary: Development of an innovative methodology for the sustainable and intelligent manufacture of components for application in the biomedical industry, using CNC machining (3 to 5 axes) for complex surfaces. During the machining, technologies of minimum amount of lubricant (MQL), chip recovery and tool recycling will be implemented.

the newsletter NeuroStimSpinal - A step forward to spinal cord injury repair using innovative stimulated nanoengineered scaffolds ID: Project no. 829060 Funding Entity: Horizon 2020 Principal Investigator (PI): Paula Marques TEMA Team: Paula Marques, António Completo, Gonzalo Irurueta Consortium: TEMA-UA (lead promoter), TECNALIA Research & Innovation, Complutense University of Madrid, Stichting Katholieke University, Foundation of Research and Technology (FORTH), Graphenest S.A, Biotecnologia e Medicina Regenerativa S.A (Stemmatters) Total Budget: 3 503 922,50 € TEMA Budget: 1 075 260,00 € Duration: 2019 to 2021 Summary: Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating pathology with dramatic lifetime consequences affecting thousands of people worldwide.

Therefore, and considering the very limited regeneration ability of the central nervous system, in this project we propose to develop a neural tissue engineered scaffold capable of not only combining fibrous and porous topographic cues in order to mimic the morphology of the native spinal cord, but also potentiating the properties of graphene related materials (GRM) supported in a protein-rich decellularized matrix (adECM). In fact, the suggested 3D microenvironment should present electrical, chemical, mechanical and topographic features able to preserve neural cell survival and enhance neural progenitor cell differentiation towards neuronal and glial cells.

Progress in this sense will contribute to a better understanding of the key factors controlling repair in damaged neural tissues and, consequently, bring insights into new therapeutic approaches for spinal cord recovery.

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An integrated approach using stimulus responsive 3D graphene/collagen scaffold for tissue engineering ID: IF/00917/2013/CP1162/CT0016 Funding Entity: FCT, FEDER Principal Investigator (PI): Paula Marques TEMA Team: Paula Marques Consortium: TEMA-UA Total Budget: 50 000,00 € TEMA Budget: 50 000,00 € Duration: From 2014 to 2018 Summary: The cutting-edge research proposed here will be based on the synthesis of 3D smart scaffolds that under specific mechanical and electrical stimulus will modulate cell behaviour and and stimulate the differentiation of stem cells to specific lineages.

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H2OValue – Graphene based materials and water remediation: a sustainable solution for a real problem ID: CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-030513 Funding Entity: CENTRO 2020, FEDER, FCT Principal Investigator (PI): Paula Marques TEMA Team: Paula Marques, Gonzalo Irurueta Consortium: TEMA-UA (lead promoter), CESAMUA Total Budget: 234 935,00 € TEMA Budget: 234 935,00 € Duration: From 2018 to 2021 Summary: Nowadays, new graphene based materials (GBM) for water remediation are emerging as promising solutions to address environmental challenges. H2OValue starts with a case study: heavy metals and metalloids water removal. Project goals are: (1) to develop GBM extending their application for the simultaneous removal of several contaminants; (2) to compare the efficiency vs cost of this technologic product with traditional ones; (3) to evaluate the environmental impacts caused by this new nanotechnological based product, by assessing possible side effects due to the presence of GBM in the environment.

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BrightCD – Carbon nanodots: who is the brightest of them all?

ID: PTDC/NAN-MAT/29317/2017 Funding Entity: CENTRO 2020 Principal Investigator (PI): Ermelinda Maçôas TEMA Team: Paula Marques Consortium: IST (lead promoter), TEMA-UA Total Budget: 239 878,67 € TEMA Budget: 37 850,00 € Duration: From 2018 to 2021 Summary: The goal is to produce carbon dots (Cdots) with high two-photon brightness tailored for imaging in biological media. To meet the challenge we will search for the missing link between the structure and the nonlinear emission of C-dots enabling the controlled synthesis and engineering of such material. We propose a systematic approach that combines novel synthetic methods with sophisticated structural characterization and advanced spectroscopic techniques.

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GAP – New generation of anhydrous proton conductors for operation at intermediate temperatures between 300 - 600oC ID: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-032241 Funding Entity: POCI 2020 Principal Investigator (PI): Duncan Fagg TEMA Team: Duncan Fagg, Pukazh Selvan Consortium: TEMA-UA (lead promoter), IPCP Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics (Russia), ICV-CSIC - Institute for Ceramic and Glass (Spain), FHI-Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society (Germany) Total Budget: 238 154,53 € TEMA Budget: 238 154,53 € Duration: From 2018 to 2021 Summary: The development of anhydrous ceramic proton conducting electrolytes for direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) to work in the temperature range 250-400oC, where distinct operational advantages can be gained but where suitable materials solutions are currently unavailable.

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BioHigh – Upgrading biogas to high H/C ratio synthetic fuels ID: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016756; PTDC/CTM-ENE/6319/2014 Funding Entity: POCI 2020 Principal Investigator (PI): Duncan Fagg TEMA Team: Duncan Fagg, Zinaida Shakel, Aliaksandr Shaula Consortium: TEMA-UA (lead promoter), EASTCHEM-University of St Andrews (Scotland), FHI-Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society (Germany) Total Budget: 199 346,00 € TEMA Budget : 199 346,00 € Duration: From 2016 to 2019 Summary: The electrochemical conversion of two greenhouse gases (CO2 and CH4), with the positive integration of CO2 and renewable energy sources to provide a route to high H/C ratio, carbon neutral, synthetic fuels from non-primary feedstock.

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EMAPETS – Enhanced manufacturing of aluminium alloys products for environmentally transportation sector ID: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-032362 Funding Entity: POCI 2020 Principal Investigator (PI): Gabriela Vincze TEMA Team: Gabriela Vincze, António Pereira, Carmen Butuc, Catalin Picu, Frederic Barlat, Ricardo Sousa, Augusto Lopes (Co-PI, CICECO-UA) Consortium: TEMA-UA (lead promoter), CICECOUA Total Budget: 237 540,35 € TEMA Budget: 237 540,35 € Duration: From 2018 to 2021 Summary: The objective of this project is to improve the features of aluminium alloys used in the automotive and aerospace industries through the combination of experimental work and numerical simulation at various scales, as well as the optimization of the manufacturing processes used for these alloys.

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GHISALLO – Research and development of a new urban mobility modular solution, based on a new next-generation electric vehicle concept ID: project no. 033769 Funding Entity: POCI 2020 Principal Investigator (PI): António Completo TEMA Team: António Completo, José Santos Consortium: SONAE (lead promoter), VR Motors (VRM), CEiiA, Manuel Soares Gonçalves (MSG), TEMA-UA Total Budget: 819 614,00 € TEMA Budget: 117 963,00 € Duration: From 2018 to 2020 Summary: Development of a new urban switching solution based on a new next-generation electric vehicle concept that ensures a safe, comfortable, fast, healthy, eco-sustainable, intelligent and multimodal journey.

the newsletter SambucusValor – Integrated valorisation of the elder as a function of healthy consumption standards: from the plant to the creation of new added value food products ID: PDR2020-101-031117 Funding Entity: PDR 2020 Principal Investigator (PI): Sílvia Rocha UA Team: Sílvia Rocha (DQ-UA), Manuel Coimbra (DQ-UA), Vítor Costa (TEMA-UA), Fernando Neto (TEMA-UA), Jorge Ferreira (TEMA-UA), Armando Silvestre (CICECO-UA) Consortium: INOVTERRA (lead promoter), UA, Alberto Luís Branco Miranda de Carvalho Neto, Inovfood, iniav, Oldland Unipessoal Lda, Publindústria Total Budget: 460 000,00 € TEMA Budget (estimated): 53 000,00 € Duration: From 2018 to 2022 Summary: The SambucusValor project aims the development of added value food products from the elder, to increase their market penetration.

The management and enhancement of elder culture, based on the creation of quality indicators and production strategies and sustainable transformations, namely by integrating competences and resources from partner, should lead to the creation of a pilot centre enhancer of this development. This centre should be a nucleus of knowledge sharing and innovation throughout the elder's value chain. The holistic view of this GO will tend to promote the innovation in the production of new healthy and natural products of the process, by combining in a differentiating way, conventional processes and communication and marketing, focused on a stronger relationship building with the consumer, based on the knowledge of the origin, production cycle and nutritional value.

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Tooling4G – Advanced Tools for Smart Manufacturing ID: POCI-01-0247-FEDER-024516 Funding Entity: POCI 2020 Principal Investigator (PI): Victor Neto TEMA Team: Victor Neto, Mónica Oliveira, Jorge Ferreira, Tiago Gomes, Rui Silva (DEMaC-UA) Consortium: Aníbal H. Abrantes (lead promoter), UA, University of Minho, University of Coimbra, IPL, IST, Centimfe, INEGI, IPN, piep, centi, pool-net, mptool, DISTRIM, dt2, INTERMOLDE, VIDRIMOLDE, GLN, TJ AÇOS, TOOLPRESSE, GECO, SET TECNIMOPLÁS, erofio, MOLDESRP, MoldIT, EDILÁSIO, PLANIMOLDE, IBER-OLEFF, ínCentea Total Budget: 7 763 769,70 € TEMA Budget: 114 356,11 € Duration: From 2018 to 2021 Summary: This project aims to make an important contribution to the acquisition of conditions for production flexibility, generation and management of knowledge, allowing to overcome the daily challenges posed by their current and potential customers worldwide by the moulds and plastics industry. The project was structured in 7 large PPS’s, hybrid manufacturing processes; intelligent tools/systems; efficient tools for multi-material products 'manufacturing; multi-process tools; industry digitalization; sustainable "zero defect" production chain; management and dissemination.

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SGH – Smart Green Homes ID: POCI-01-0247-FEDER-007678 Funding Entity: POCI 2020 Coordinators: LD1 - Carlos Silva, Vitor Amaral; LD2 - Luís Tarelho; LD3 - Nelson Martins; LD4 - Filipe Oliveira; LD5 - Rui Aguiar; LD6 - Joaquim Ferreira TEMA Team: Vítor Costa, Victor Neto, Paula Marques, Mónica Oliveira, Nelson Martins, Fernando Neto, Jorge Ferreira, Tatiana Zhiltsova, Hugo Marques, João Dias, Francisco Lamas, Maryam Salimian, André Quintã, Ismael Ehtiwesh, Beatriz Fonseca, Bruno Pereira, Maryam Salimian, Yahya Sheikhnejad, Denise Machado Consortium: Bosch Termotecnologia S.A. (lead promoter), UA Total Budget: 18 832 858,07 € TEMA Budget: 1 471 244,13 € Duration: From 2016 to 2020 Summary: In recent decades there has been a growing awareness of the world population for the alarming shortage of resources associated with the sharp increase in energy consumption, due to the associated effects to the community, namely pollution, global warming, increase of fuel costs.

As a result, profound changes have been identified in the community behaviour, resulting in new consumer trends and market offerings. SGH project was created to respond to these problems, With the support of the projects:

aiming at the development of innovative solutions for domestic environment, with a perception of improved comfort, associated with greater sustainability and less environmental impact. For this purpose, it is intended to take advantage of the continuous developments in the science of materials, in conjunction with innovative strategies of integration of technologies, process control and automation to develop new and innovative products. Potential synergies with the different appliances that integrate the domestic environment will also be explored, with the purpose of improving the ease of use, promoting the benefits of operation thereof, synchronising and complementing their various functions. The realization of this project focuses essentially on six lines of development (LDs) of products and services, focused on: LD1) Heat Pumps & Air conditioning and air treatment systems; LD2) Water Heating by gas combustion; LD3) Electric Water Heating; LD4) Water Treatment; LD5) Interfaces and communication for comfort equipment; LD6) Integrated control of residential systems.

These lines are associated with four main areas of research: materials, energy, environment and ICT (information and communication technologies).

As a leading company in the supply of hot water heating solutions and manufacturer of a diversified range of products for residential environments, Bosch group is in a privileged position to contribute to the challenges identified in domestic equipment, which will be enhanced by the research of excellence developed by University of Aveiro.

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SMART COVER POOL & DECK – Innovative solutions for intelligent, safe and sustainable pools ID: POCI-01-0247-FEDER-017656 Funding Entity: POCI 2020 Principal Investigator (PI): Rui Moreira TEMA Team: Rui Moreira, Mónica Oliveira, António Ramos Consortium: Soprefa (lead promoter), TEMA-UA, University of Minho, CTCP Total Budget: 638 817,00 € TEMA Budget: 99 051,00 € Duration: From 2016 to 2019 Summary: Economic development combined with a growing appreciation of life quality has led to the proliferation of single-family homes construction, or closed condominiums, which privilege the enjoyment of outdoor leisure spaces. Thus, outdoor furniture, gardening equipment, grills and pools, among others, have become part of products produced on a large scale, for a progressively increasing and demanding market.

Safety, simple maintenance and comfort, are thus essentials. In this project will be studied and developed three products, to contribute to solve safety aspects and efficiency in the use of swimming pools, namely: (i) rigid cover for periods of non-use; (ii) deck to be used in the space surrounding it; and (iii) deck substructure.

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ID: POCI-01-0247-FEDER-024241 Funding Entity: FEDER Principal Investigator (PI): Mónica Oliveira TEMA Team: Mónica Oliveira, Vítor Santos, Jorge Ferreira, Rui Moreira, António Ramos, Tatiana Zhiltsova Consortium: S. F. Moldes S. A. (lead promoter), TEMA-UA Total Budget: 522 721,87 € TEMA Budget: 131 505,00 € Duration: From 2017 to 2019 Summary: This project intends to develop and implement a monitoring system for gathering data, from instrumentation placed within the molding cavity and relevant parts in the molding tool to monitor the cyclic nature of the process, establishing the premises for both product quality and mold durability.

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ANOD – Optimization of the anodizing process and surface self-regeneration of aluminum profiles ID: Project no. 033912 Funding Entity: FEDER Principal Investigator (PI): António Pereira TEMA Team: António Pereira, Paula Marques, Duncan Fagg, António Completo, Gabriela Vincze, Alfredo Morais, Nélia Silva (DMAT-UA) Consortium: Bi-silque - Produtos de Comunicação Visual, S.A. (lead promoter), TEMA-UA Total Budget: 873 117,00 € TEMA Budget: 261 900,00 € Duration: From 2018 to 2021 Summary: The ANOD project focuses on the economic optimization of aluminum profiles currently available in the market, reducing energy consumption during anodizing processes. It also study and validate the ability of the profile coating to self-repair, offering the final consumer an intelligent product with superior features.

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Author: António Festas Supervisor: João Davim (TEMA-UA), António Ramos (TEMA-UA) Start Date: 2017 Summary: The evolution of production processes, especially the additive manufacturing methods applied to the devices manufacture for medical application has constantly changed the design and manufacturing paradigms of these, with a positive economic and especially social level impact. The use of a hybrid production system in which an additive process is used at an initial stage to obtain the shape, followed by a subtractive process to ensure the functionality, is a solution to high geometric complexity components production.

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Automation and control of electromagnetic energy harvesting systems for multifunctional medical devices Author: Pedro Carneiro Supervisor: Marco Santos (TEMA-UA), Jorge Ferreira (TEMA-UA), Andrei Kholkin (CICECO-UA) Start Date: 2018 Summary: Implantable medical devices are becoming more widely acceptable and available to millions of patients. However, around 20% of implant failures, are directly related to their electric power system. Besides, current powering technologies present limited service time, exposing patients to avoidable replacement surgeries, or are unable to operate throughout the routine activities of patients. Multifunctional/ intelligent implants, capable of simultaneously performing intensive monitoring, processing, actuation and communication operations, will be useless without self-powering systems with superior performance. This research aims to investigate new approaches to the implementation of generators with multiple sources of energy, including energy harvesting by electromagnetic induction, which must allow personalized integration inside bone structures for biomechanical energy harvesting.

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Development of a physiological arcadelike collagen structure in engineered cartilage through a joined approach of anisotropic fibrous/porous scaffolds and mechanical stimulus Author: Ă‚ngela Semitela Supervisor: AntoĚ nio Completo (TEMA-UA) Start Date: 2017 Summary: Tissue engineering (TE) strategies for repairing and regenerating articular cartilage face critical challenges to approximate the biochemical and biomechanical microenvironment of native tissues. The major challenge of TE cartilage is the difficulty to mimic their mechanical properties to the native ones. The importance of the arcade-like collagen structure for the load-bearing properties of native cartilage is well emphasized in literature.

However, despite extensive cartilage TE research, few studies have assessed the importance of collagen fibril depth-orientation on the mechanical properties of engineered-cartilage. A new strategy to be explored is the investigation with numerical modelling and experiments in the development of depth-dependent fibrous/porous electrospun scaffolds combined with depth-varying mechanical stimulus protocols on a bioreactor environment, to mimic the native arcade-like collagen organization, reducing the risk of failure of this promise method for osteoarthritis treatment.

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A 3D graphene composite scaffold with a combinatorial fibrous-porous architecture for neural repair in the injured spinal cord Author: André Girão Supervisor: Paula Marques (TEMA-UA), António Completo (TEMA-UA) Start Date: 2017 Summary: Spinal cord injury is a traumatic incident with devastating lifetime repercussions that affects thousands of people worldwide. Therefore, and considering the deficient natural regeneration process of the central nervous system, in this project we purpose a neural tissue engineering scaffold capable of not only combining fibrous and porous topographic cues in order to accurately mimic the morphology of the spinal cord, but also potentiating the properties of graphene. In fact, the suggested 3D microenvironment should present electrical, chemical, mechanical and topographic features able to enhance neural stem cell differentiation towards neuronal and glial cell lines, leading to a better understanding of which factors influence the formation of a functional spinal cord neuronal network in vitro and consequently to new directions for an ultimate spinal cord regeneration strategy.

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Three dimensional graphene-based macrostructures for cleaning contaminated waters: optimization towards a more efficient re-use of water Author: Ana Bessa Supervisor: Paula Marques (TEMA-UA), Maria Pereira (CESAM-UA) Start Date: 2015 Summary: The booming nanotechnology and amazing breakthroughs in research on threedimensional graphene macrostructures (3DGM) have provided great promise for their wide applications namely as environmental materials. A great emphasis is given to the prevention and remediation with the environmental policies becoming more stringent every day. Recently the European Union classified Cd and Hg as “priority hazardous substances” in the field of water policy imposing the cessation of their emissions and discharges. Other potentially toxic elements (PTEs) such as As, Pb and Ni have also their discharges conditioned by strict limits.

The main objective of this work is the development and optimization of three dimensional graphene-based macrostructures for removing heavy metals or other contaminants from contaminated water.

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Tailoring proton ceramic materials for electrochemical ammonia synthesis Author: Vanessa Graรงa Supervisor: Duncan Fagg (TEMA-UA) Start Date: 2017 Summary: A principal aim of the Horizon 2020 program is reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by the development of new technologies for industries and their processes. Ammonia is the second most produced chemical in the world, with high societal impact due to extensive application in agriculture and pharmacy. Nonetheless, its current production from natural gas accounts for ~5% of global CH4 consumption, with associated high levels of CO2 emission. Work focuses on development of active materials for the disruptive technology of carbon-free, electrochemical synthesis of ammonia at ambient pressure, using a protonic ceramic membrane with nitrogen and steam as primary reactants. Significant advances are provided by original concepts of i) in-situ formation of composite electrodes containing transition-metal nitrides as innovative ammonia formation electrocatalysts, ii) composite mixed protonic and electronic conducting steam dissociation electrodes containing metallic behavior higher-order, layered Ruddlesden Popper phases and iii) thin film fabrication of cathodesupported membrane electrode assemblies.

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Development of an active cathode composed of non-noble materials for H-SOFC Author: Francisco Loureiro Supervisor: Duncan Fagg (TEMA-UA) Start Date: 2013 Summary: Development of a functional device for the electrochemical synthesis of ammonia at ambient pressure, using a protonic ceramic membrane with nitrogen and steam as primary reactants.

the newsletter Nanotechnology applied to construction: experimental and numerical study of building solutions with phase change materials Author: Clรกudia Amaral Supervisor: Romeu Vicente (DECivil-UA), Paula Marques (TEMA-UA), Ana Barros-Timmons (CICECO-UA) Start Date: 2013 Summary: The present concerns to increase comfort and to optimize the energy efficiency of buildings and the challenges of NZEB ( "Nearly Zero Emissions Buildings") are the major challenges for technological innovation associated with this sector. The main objective of this work is to develop a layer to apply in building solutions for the opaque envelope. It is expected that the analysis and the development of its application should be compatible with different opaque elements of new or existing buildings. To attain the proposed objectives, the layer will be developed resourcing to new materials that enhance the thermal behaviour, such as nanoparticles and phase change materials (PCM, phase change materials). Using these materials it is intended to give to the solution the capacity to adjust in accordance with the imposed boundary conditions to which subjected to optimize the thermal efficiency and consequently reduce the energy consumption of the building. The PCMs disadvantage is their low thermal conductivity, which can be overcome by the addition of nanoparticles into the PCM to optimize the thermal reaction according the imposed conditions. Amongst a wide range of nanoparticles that have been studied in the literature for this purpose, carbon nanoparticles are those with the best results due to their high thermal conductivity and low mass density.

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Energetic efficient and fire-retardant lightweight structures: a new approach based on open-cell aluminium foam filled with nanocellulose foams containing phase change materials and carbon nanostructures Author: Susana Pinto Supervisor: Paula Marques (TEMA-UA), Isabel Duarte (TEMA-UA) Start Date: 2014 Summary: Development of multifunctional nanocomposite materials based on graphene/cellulose foams integrated within aluminium skeleton foams.

the newsletter Electrochemical nitric oxide production Author: Laura Holz Supervisor: Duncan Fagg (TEMA-UA), AdĂŠlio Mendes (FEUP), Diogo Mendes (Bondalti) Start Date: 2018 Summary: The chemical industry is one of the major economic sectors responsible for the emission of NOx and N2O (comprising more than 25% of the non-CO2 industrial related greenhouse gas emissions). The main anthropologic source of these pollutants is the production of nitric acid, one of the largest chemical commodities at the global scale, which contributes to an annual global emission of N2O of approximately 400 kt. Current European Union directives aim for a reduction in the emissions of these gases by 42% by 2030, leading to an urgent need to develop more efficient technologies to reduce these pollutants.

In this context, the primary objective of the current project is to develop an innovative and disruptive technology that can potentially overcome the limitations of traditional catalytic reactors for the abatement of industrial N2O and NOx emissions.

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Heat transfer phenomena of MWCNT nanofluids in micro heat exchanger: a numerical approach Author: Wagd Ajeeb Supervisor: Nelson Martins (TEMA-UA), MĂłnica Oliveira (TEMA-UA) Start Date: 2015 Summary: A new thermal fluid called nanofluid has been developed with improved its heat transfer coefficient by adding a few nanoparticles to a base fluid. In particular, CNT nanofluid is being recognized as among the most interesting one, due to the feature of having a remarkable thermal conductivity in carbon nanotubes compared to other nanoparticles. It will present an investigation of CNT nanofluid characteristics such as, concentration, Reynolds number etc. Especially in microchannel where numerous aspects of micro heat exchangers affect the performance such as channel geometry, fluid inlet and style of construction. Moreover, the work searches in different CFD strategies employed in numerical studies of nanofluid flow in order to find the appropriate method for the CNT nanofluid which gives more reliable results when it flows in microchannel as compared to experimental results. However, the aim is to achieve the required investigations on CNTs nanofluid for the micro heat transfer applications.

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Negajoules counter Author: Marcos Fernández Gomes Supervisor: Nelson Martins (TEMA-UA), José Paulo Santos (TEMA-UA) Start Date: 2011 Summary: This work presents a new concept to change the way we analyze the industrial equipment energy consumption. This concept involves the development of a lost energy counter in real time, which takes into account, the loss due to improper use of equipment but also saving opportunity through more efficient equipment.

The work developed uses artificial intelligence algorithms for consumption and production histories analysis, to estimate the equipment energy loss.

Heat transfer and energy storage in phase change materials: a CFD approach Author: Bruno Pereira Supervisor: Fernando Neto (TEMA-UA) Start Date: 2017 Summary: Development and evaluation of a CFD model for the analysis of thermal energy systems with PCM integration.

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Analysis of the limits of the functional design in the efficiency of heat exchangers in polymeric materials Author: Hugo Marques Supervisor: Mónica Oliveira (TEMA-UA), Nelson Martins (TEMA-UA) Start Date: 2017 Summary: The present research focuses on optimizing the design of a heat exchanger in polymeric material. Based on the development of air-to-air and water-water heat exchangers, the thermal and structural performance of these heat exchangers will be studied using simulation software. The investigation culminates with the construction of prototypes and consequent experimental validation.

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Natural refrigerant heat pumps for space and domestic hot water heating

Adsorption heat pumps for central and domestic water heating

Author: Francisco Lamas Supervisor: Vítor Costa (TEMA-UA) Start Date: 2017 Summary: Driven by environmental restrictions, natural refrigerants as CO2 and propane have been used in vapor compression heat pumps’ systems.

However, unsolved safety/ efficiency issues demand a deep research, particularly for the design and optimization of sanitary hot water and comfort heating heat pumps.

Author: João Dias Supervisor: Vítor Costa (TEMA-UA) Start Date: 2017 Summary: Adsorption heat pumps (AHPs) work with zero global warming potential fluids, being an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional vapour compression heat pumps.

They can be driven by renewable energy sources like solar and geothermal energies, waste heat, natural gas and electricity.

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Study, modelling and validation of solar façade for heating and ventilation Author: Luís Martins Supervisor: Fernando Neto (TEMA-UA) Start Date: 2015 Summary: This work intends to create a model of an existent solar energy façade, allowing the preview of its energy production through the use of meteorological data at a determinate site. This approach is essential for providing information about the estimate amount of energy produced during one working year at the chosen site facilitating an economical analysis about the overall investment and its feasibility. From the several options available for modelling purposes, artificial neural networks (ANN) are being studied aiming the best layout for this solar energy production system.

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Toward virtual forming and design: the challenges of thermo-mechanical characterization and parameter identification of high strength steels Author: João Martins Supervisor: António G. Andrade-Campos (TEMAUA), Sandrine Thuillier (University of Southern Brittany) Start Date: 2016 Summary: Nowadays, one of the real challenges concerns the determination of the material parameters, on a low-cost basis but with an optimal quantity of information to guarantee the reliability of the predictions. A promising way to achieve this is to combine full-field measurement systems (e.g. digital image correlation) and dedicated test that promotes non-homogeneous strain fields. The aim of this project is to develop an efficient methodology for determining the material parameters of thermo-mechanical models, from dedicated tests that involve nonhomogeneous temperature and strain fields. This strategy will rely on two inverse methods, the Virtual Fields Method (VFM) and Finite Element Model Updating (FEMU), two methods that take fully advantage of the information given by fullfield measurement systems. Given the increasing interest of the industry in advanced high strength steels, the focus will be this type of material.

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Micro machining of ultra hard materials Author: Daniel Figueiredo Supervisor: JoĂŁo Paulo Davim (TEMA-UA) Start Date: 2018 Summary: The micro hard machining are getting a big expansion, however these process are largely link to the production process, the improvements on the cutting tools and the applied materials. The possibility to direct machining have a direct input on the cost chain. The demand for complex microfeature-based miniaturised products has grown over the last few decades due to their higher utility in many fields such as micro fluidic devices, biomedical devices, orthopaedic implants, automotive industries, aerospace industries, etc.

To fulfil the growing demand of these microfeature-based products, several micromanufacturing techniques are being developed. With this work and the achieve results is it possible de optimize cutting tools and linked technologies, study related variables of these process is the main goal always on very hard materials.

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Methodologies for optimum thermomechanical design of aerospace structures obtained from additive manufacturing Author: Bruno Barroqueiro Supervisor: Gil Campos (TEMA-UA), Robertt Valente (TEMA-UA) Start Date: 2017 Summary: Additive manufacturing has the potential to revolutionize the way products are designed and manufactured. Still, there are significant hurdles to its widespread adoption, particularly in the aerospace industry. Its thermomechanical behaviour is not yet fully known and there is no robust optimum design methodologies for aerospace parts manufactured

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Impact of motor vehicles - bicycles interaction on route selection, traffic performance, emissions and safety Author: Behnam Bahmankhah Supervisor: Margarida Coelho (TEMA-UA) Start Date: 2012 Summary: Individual benefits of bicycles along with positive effects on pollutants and environmental issues have led to the increase of cycling rate at urban areas. However, different road users have different criteria and it is important to assess our routes based on their preferences. The study of bicycle-motor vehicle (MV) interaction might be more important than interaction between MVs since cyclists are more vulnerable and potentially exposed to damage of a collision than MVs’ drivers. Regarding the probable safety concerns associated with the number of conflicts and impact of volatility driving (hard accelerations/decelerations and aggressive maneuvers) between MVs and cyclists, roundabouts and intersections with traffic lights and stop-controlled junctions are the critical traffic points. There were several studies focused on impacts of cycling regarding safety concerns, traffic performance and emissions at intersections (about traffic performance-safety: about traffic performance-emissions: and about MVs volatility driving impacts in urban areas). However, there is

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a lack of research focused on the impacts of cycling in an integrated way. In this thesis the transportation impacts as a result of bicycle-MV interactions selected with route choices modeled using an integrated three-dimensional multiobjective model to achieve all identified goals simultaneously. Minimizing delay, traffic queue and emissions and maximizing the safety are the main objectives of this work at different roads. The thesis main questions are: (i) What are the main criteria in urban transportation network for passengers who are using a motor vehicle or a bicycle?; (ii) What are the main factors of driving volatility as a result of bicycle-motor vehicle interactions and their impacts on traffic performance, emissions, and safety? All the necessary traffic data were extracted from the network, then a modeling platform of traffic (VISSIM), emissions (VSP) and safety (SSAM & PCCrash) were used to evaluate the impacts of volatility on above outputs. The main findings are: (I) The presence of bicycles may dictate a trade-off in the network; (II) Dedicated lane for cyclists improves traffic performance, safety and emissions at urban areas; (III) Bicycle demand variation (9-270 bph) can increase energy impacts up to 7% in the network; (IV) Instantaneous decisions can result in volatility driving with impact on cyclist safety.

the newsletter UPCOMMING EVENTS Mobilizing Projects and Conferences Following the strategy defined by the board of TEMA of deepening the dissemination of the R&D conducted by the members of the Research Unit and the cooperation between them, two typologies of events will occur during the next academic year, related to the Mobilizing Projects: ▪ One session with scientific presentations and debate per Mobilizing Project, MP1 Sustainable Manufacturing Solutions and MP2 -Technologies for the Wellbeing ”, each one with a duration of two hours (date to be confirmed).

▪ 2nd Edition of the Conference TEMA: “Research in TEMA 2.0”, a two days event that reinforces the success of the previous edition on June 11, 2019 (date to be confirmed).

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Conference on Nanomaterials Science and Mechanical Engineering and 1st Workshop on Characterization and Analysis of Nanomaterials Date: July 9-12, 2019 Venue: TEMA-UA Organizing Committee: Vítor Costa, António Pereira, Paula Marques, Duncan Fagg, Igor Bdikin, Gonzalo Irurueta Website: http://icnmsme2019.web.ua.pt Description: 2nd ICNMSME-2019 / 1st WCANM2019 looks for significant modern problems of nanomaterials science and mechanical engineering, to provide a platform to the global researchers and practitioners from both academia as well as industry to meet and share cutting-edge development in the fields, to give possibility for young scientists and students present results and find your place in the future world.

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Other Events GRIDS Code18 Date: October 15-21, 2018 Venue: TEMA-UA Coordinator: A.Gil Andrade-Campos Description: Event within the EU Code Week initiative, a grassroots initiative which aims to bring coding and digital literacy to engineering students.

GRIDS SRGx 2018 Date: October 31, 2018 Venue: TEMA-UA Coordinator: A.Gil Andrade-Campos Description: An internal conference to share experiences and work from research and master dissertations.

Rotura do ligamento cruzado anterior alterações biomecânicas e reconstrução ligamentar Date: December 12, 2018 Venue: TEMA-UA Coordinator: António Completo Description: TEMA and DEM, in the scope of the biomechanics curricular unit, promote a seminar dedicated to the topic "Rotura do ligamento cruzado” by professor José Carlos Noronha.

Artroplastias: passado, presente e futuro?

Date: November 7, 2018 Venue: TEMA-UA Coordinator: António Completo Description: TEMA and DEM, in the scope of the biomechanics curricular unit, promote a seminar dedicated to the topic "Artroplastias: passado, presente e futuro?” by professor Fernando Manuel Pereira Fonseca.

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Título Centre for mechanical technology and automation – the newsletter

Editores António Bastos António Completo Diana Fidalgo Fernando Neto Margarida Coelho Paula Marques Raul Simões Robertt Valente

Editora UA Editora Universidade de Aveiro

1ª edição – outubro 2018

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UID/EMS/00481/2013-FCT CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-022083