Professora Auxiliar

Área Científica: Urbanismo, Transportes e Vias de Comunicação

Coordenadora do Laboratório de Pavimentos Rodoviários

 

Telefone: +351 239797104

E-mail: arminda@dec.uc.pt

 

DOCÊNCIA: Sistemas de Engenharia, Infraestruturas de Transportes, Avaliação e Gestão de Empreendimentos, Projeto de Infraestruturas de Transporte, Mobilidade Sustentável e Transportes e Energia, Vias de Comunicação

 

CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO: CITTA - Centro de Investigação do Território, Transportes e Ambiente

ORCID: 0000-0002-5193-4896

 

ARTIGOS:

  1. Silvino Capitão, Luís Picado Santos, Arminda Almeida (2025). Properties of reclaimed asphalt pavement with Bio-Heating Oil as a rejuvenator considering ageing, Transportation Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.treng.2024.100295
  2. Josué Cardoso, Arminda Almeida, João Santos, Adelino Ferreira (2025). Incorporation of plastic waste into road pavements: Performance of SMA mixtures containing flakes of low-density polyethylene, Construction and Building Materials. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2025.140766
  3. Josué Cardoso, Adelino Ferreira, Arminda Almeida, João Santos (2023). Incorporation of plastic waste into road pavements: A systematic literature review on the fatigue and rutting performances, Construction and Building Materials. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2023.133441
  4. Andre Pascoal, Arminda Almeida, Silvino capitão, Luís Picado Santos (2023). Improvement of Warm-Mix Asphalt Concrete Performance with Lignin Obtained from Bioethanol Production from Forest Biomass Waste, Materials. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16237339
  5. Silvino Capitão, Luís Picado Santos, Arminda Almeida, Fábio Mendes (2023). Assessment of aged and unaged hot and warm asphalt concrete containing high reclaimed asphalt pavement rate rejuvenated with waste cooking oil, Construction and Building Materials.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2023.132801
  6. Arminda Almeida and Luís Picado-Santos (2022). Asphalt Road Pavements to Address Climate Change Challenges—An Overview, Applied Sciences.  https://doi.org/10.3390/app122412515.
  7. Mariana Fonseca, Silvino Captão, Arminda Almeida and Luís Picado Santos (2022). Influence of Plastic Waste on the Workability and Mechanical Behaviour of Asphalt Concrete, Applied Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12042146
  8. Arminda Almeida, John J.M. Moreira, João Pedro Silva and Carlos G.V. Viteri (2021). Impact of traffic loads on flexible pavements considering Ecuador’s traffic and pavement condition, International Journal of Pavement Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1080/10298436.2019.1640362
  9. Arminda Almeida, Silvino Capitão, Carla Estanqueiro and Luís Picado-Santos (2021). Possibility of incorporating waste plastic film flakes into warm-mix asphalt as a bitumen extender. Construction and Building Materials. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2021.123384
  10. Carlos Rodrigues, Silvino Capitão, Luís Picado-Santos and Arminda Almeida (2020). Full Recycling of Asphalt Concrete with Waste Cooking Oil as Rejuvenator and LDPE from Urban Waste as Binder Modifier. Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12198222
  11. Nuno Sousa, Arminda Almeida and João Coutinho-Rodrigues (2020). A Multicriteria Methodology for Estimating Consumer Acceptance of Alternative Powertrain Technologies. Transport Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2019.10.003
  12. Arminda Almeida, Silvino Capitão, Rita Bandeira, Mariana Fonseca and Luís Picado-Santos (2020). Performance of AC mixtures containing flakes of LDPE plastic film collected from urban waste considering ageing. Construction and Building Materials. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2019.117253
  13. Arminda Almeida, João Crucho, César Abreu and Luís Picado-Santos (2019). Moisture susceptibility and ageing effect on nanoclay-modified AC mixtures containing flakes of plastic film collected as urban waste. Applied Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3390/app9183738
  14. Eduardo Natividade-Jesus, Arminda Almeida, Nuno Sousa and João Coutinho-Rodrigues (2019). A case study driven integrated methodology to support sustainable urban regeneration planning and management. Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11154129
  15. Arminda Almeida, Nuno Sousa and João Coutinho-Rodrigues (2019). Quest for Sustainability: Life-Cycle Emissions Assessment of Electric Vehicles Considering Newer Li-Ion Batteries. Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11082366
  16. Arminda Almeida and Michela Sergio (2019). Evaluation of the Potential of Sasobit REDUX Additive to Lower Warm-Mix Asphalt Production Temperature. Materials. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12081285
  17. Nuno Sousa, Arminda Almeida, João Coutinho-Rodrigues and Eduardo Natividade-Jesus (2018). Dawn of autonomous vehicles: review and challenges ahead. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Municipal Engineer. https://doi.org/10.1680/jmuen.16.00063
  18. Arminda Almeida e Luís Picado-Santos (2015). A Methodological Framework for Truck Factor Estimation considering Vehicle-Pavement Interaction. ASCE's Journal Transportation Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000726

CAPÍTULOS DE LIVRO:

  1. Silvino Capitão, Luís Picado-Santos and Arminda Almeida (2025). Rejuvenation of High-Content Reclaimed Asphalt Mixtures with Bio-Heating Oil: Laboratory and Plant-Produced Experience. In: McNally, C., Carroll, P., Martinez-Pastor, B., Ghosh, B., Efthymiou, M., Valantasis-Kanellos, N. (eds) Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility. TRAconference 2024. Lecture Notes in Mobility. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-95284-5_93
  2. Silvino Capitão, Arminda Almeida and Luís Picado-Santos (2022). Volumetric properties, workability, and mechanical performance of waste plastic-modified asphalt mixtures. In: Chapter 7, Editor(s): Filippo Giustozzi, Sabzoi Nizamuddin, In Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering, Plastic Waste for Sustainable Asphalt Roads, Woodhead Publishing, 117-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-85789-5.00007-1

ENCONTROS CIENTÍFICOS INTERNACIONAIS:

  1. XXIII CILA - CONGRESSO IBERO LATINO AMERICANO DEL ASFALTO; MISTURAS BETUMINOSAS TEMPERADAS UTILIZANDO LIGNINA COMO ADITIVO E SUBSTITUTO DE PARTE DO BETUME (Silvino Capitão, Luís Picado-Santos, Arminda Almeida, Fernando Martinho); PARAGUAY.
  2. XXIII CILA - CONGRESSO IBERO LATINO AMERICANO DEL ASFALTO; PROPRIEDADES E IMPACTES AMBIENTAIS DE MISTURAS BETUMINOSAS COM ALTAS TAXAS DE MBR E ÓLEO ALIMENTAR COMO REJUVENESCEDOR (Silvino Capitão, Luís Picado-Santos, Luís Castro, Marisa Almeida, Arminda Almeida); PARAGUAY.

ENCONTROS CIENTÍFICOS NACIONAIS:

  1. GET2025 - GRUPO DE ESTUDOS EM TRANSPORTES. INCORPORATION OF PLASTIC WASTE INTO ROAD PAVEMENTS: PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF SMA-11 MIXTURE CONTAINING FLAKES OF WASTE LOW-DENSITY POLYETHYLENE (LDPE) FROM A RECYCLING FACILITY (Josué Cardoso, Arminda Almeida, João Santos, Adelino Ferreira); Portugal; Alcobaça.
  2. I Conferência Nacional sobre Cidades Sustentáveis e Inteligentes; 2025; Infraestruturas para mobilidade aérea urbana – vertiportos (Santos S., Almeida A.); Portugal; Coimbra; https://www.uc.pt/fctuc/dec/cidades2025/

ORIENTAÇÕES DOUTORAMENTO:

  • 2026 - Josué Cardoso, RECYCLING OF PLASTIC WASTE BY INCORPORATION INTO ROAD PAVEMENT; Orientação: Adelino Ferreira, Arminda Almeida, João Santos
  • 2026 - Daniel António Patel dos Santos, PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF HOT SAND ASPHALT AS A SUSTAINABLE ALTERNATIVE MATERIAL FOR ROAD WEARING COURSES IN MOZAMBIQUE; Orientação: Luís Picado-Santos, Arminda Almeida