Reading Time: 4 minutes Background: Today Brazil has more than 30 thousand kilometers of railways in its territory [1]. These railroads are responsible for the transportation of people and materials along its extensions.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Background: In the last text posted on KOT's Blog, it was evidenced by the work done to evaluate the viability of extending the runway of an overhead crane.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction: Handling and transporting large loads is one of the critical issues in many areas of industry.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Introduction: For a long time now, the world has been presenting a large population growth. According to data from the United Nations, UN, in 1950 the world population was around 2.6 billion people and in 1987 this number had already increased 100%, reaching the mark of more than 5 billion individuals [1].
Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction: The revolution 4.0 present in industries has enabled the development of new techniques and technologies for several areas of engineering. One of the innovations that is becoming increasingly popular is the use of real-time monitoring systems.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Background: Used in stockyards for ore stockpiling, better known as stockyard machines, are large and important assets for mining companies.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Introduction: Inspections to monitor machinery and structures in manufacturing units enable the promotion of their structural integrity through the identification of anomalies and nonconformities.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction: To perform analyses of machine structures, buildings, and conveyors through Finite Element Method (FEM), it is necessary that the professional in charge evaluate the normative criteria that relate to the problem and the behavior of the computational model
Reading Time: 4 minutes Background: As computational power has advanced over the years, a new methodology for solving engineering problems has emerged. Better known as CFD, the Computational Fluid Dynamics
Reading Time: 5 minutes Introduction: The knowledge of the accelerations and vibrations acting on an asset is essential for planning of predictive, planned, preventive and, in extreme cases, corrective maintenance actions on equipment and structures.
