Santasusana Isach, Miquel (Date of defense: 2016-12-01)
This works encompasses a broad review of the basic aspects of the Discrete Element Method for its application to general granular material handling problems with special emphasis on the topics of ...
Salazar González, Fernando (Date of defense: 2017-02-23)
Dam behaviour is difficult to predict with high accuracy. Numerical models for structural calculation solve the equations of continuum mechanics, but are subject to considerable uncertainty as to the ...
Irazábal González, Joaquín (Date of defense: 2017-10-06)
The development of high-speed train lines has increased significantly during the last twenty-five years, leading to more demanding loads in railway infrastructures. Most of these infrastructures were ...
Kamram, Kazem (Date of defense: 2013-06-21)
The development of efficient algorithms to understand implosion dynamics presents a number of challenges. The foremost challenge is to efficiently represent the coupled compressible fluid dynamics of ...
Larese de Tetto, Antonia (Date of defense: 2012-07-05)
Rockfill dams are nowadays often preferred over concrete dams because of their economic advantages, their flexible design and thank to the great advance achieved in geosciences and geomechanics. ...
Labra, C. A. (Carlos Andrés) (Date of defense: 2012-07-19)
Modelling of granular materials, soils and rocks has been a challenging topic of investigation for decades. Classical continuum mechanics has been used to idealize soils and rocks, and numerical solution ...
Cardoso Nungaray, Víctor Eduardo (Date of defense: 2018-04-27)
This thesis presents a proposal to simulate mechanics and dynamics of brittle fracture. A variational formulation is used to describe Lagrangian mechanics, by minimizing the difference between potential ...
Lafontaine, Nelson M. (Date of defense: 2016-01-18)
The stated goal of this work is to develop a numerical explicit finite element method able to effectively address the strain localization process, discrete fracture and fragmentation process in ...
Pouplana, I. de (Ignasi de) (Date of defense: 2018-01-25)
The objective of this thesis is the derivation and implementation of a robust Finite Element formulation for the solution of solid-pore fluid coupled problems in multi-fractured porous media. A coupled ...
Casas González, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2018-10-30)
In this work we study the numerical simulation of particle-laden fluids, with a focus on Newtonian fluids and spherical, rigid particles. We are thus dealing with a multi-phase (more precisely, a ...