INSTITUTO FEDERAL DE EDUCAÇÃO, CIÊNCIA E TECNOLOGIA DE SERGIPE

CAMPUS ARACAJU

INGLÊS INSTRUMENTAL - ECV

Class 8
A) Encontre os termos aos quais as palavras grifadas fazem referência.

1. By now, a lot of long span suspension bridges have been built and their lengths keep growing. As a result,
their girder stiffness is relatively reduced and their strengths for wind force are also decreasing.
2. There are plans of constructing bridges longer span like Messina strait bridge. This causes the necessity of
discussing on the problems of instability analysis.
3. One day several years ago, I was sitting in my office in Los Angeles when two barefooted women walked in.
Their feet were dirty, and I can assure you, it is not normal for women to walk around downtown Los Angeles
without shoes.
4. I actually recognized one of the women. She had formerly been a candidate of mine.

5. The students had to think about every aspect of bridge construction, from why they are needed, to
planning and materials, building techniques and health and safety. They also had to work as a team, while
their teachers had to test each bridge to make sure it could be safely crossed.

The project involved Year 8 students from Bishop Wordsworth’s and year 5 and 6 children from Pitton and
St Osmund’s primary schools, who were helped by Bishop Wordworth’s sixth-formers.

6. The GAO has suggested that Veterans Affairs collect as much data as possible on the number of homeless
female veterans while also working to improve their housing and help them find employment by all means
necessary.
7. Joane is working on obtaining a degree in social work but she says there are a number of reasons why it can
be complicated for women veterans to return back to civilian life. She says that these women are often
recovering from military sex abuse or are having a hard time adjusting back to civilian life because they had to
leave their children while on deployment.
8. Mehdi Kalantari has found a way to save money for the US state while ensuring the safety of bridges.
Kalantari who is a researcher of the Maryland University calls his device SenSpot which is a tiny wireless
sensor monitoring and transmitting minute by minute data on a bridge’s structural integrity. Many US bridges
are known to be structurally deficient and or obsolete function wise, but Kalantari believes this new device can
change all this while costing next to nothing compared to the original maintenance approaches.
9. According to a 2009 estimate by the U.S. Society of Civil Engineers, more than one in four U.S. bridges
are either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. While newer "smart" bridges have embedded
wired networks of sensors to monitor their structural integrity, the high cost of installing such systems on
existing bridges is simply unaffordable for strained city, state and federal budgets. Now University of
Maryland electrical engineering researcher Mehdi Kalantari has developed a tiny wireless sensor that
monitors and transmits minute-by-minute data on a bridge's structural integrity that he estimates is one-
hundredth the cost of a wired network approach.
10. The sensors themselves are less than five millimeters thick and are comprised of four thin, flexible
layers. The first senses and measures structural parameters; the second stores energy; the third
transmits data to central computer for analysis; and the outer layer harvests energy from ambient light
and radio waves.
11. Kalantari says the sensors are rugged and, because they are self-adhesive, require no potentially
damaging drilling into the bridge structure. He says they should last at least a decade with practically no
maintenance required. As they harvest energy from ambient light and radio waves, they don't require
any wires, batteries or dedicated external power source.