Bellido Recoder, Lucía (Date of defense: 2021-10-25)
Railway bridges located at seismic zones are particularly complex structures that present exceptional difficulties due to the existence of the track and the phenomena associated to it called track-bridge ...
Hernández Navarro, Olver Olfrey (Date of defense: 2018-02-22)
Rainfall nowcasting based on the extrapolation of most recent radar rainfall fields usually shows better skill than NWP models for short lead times, since it benefits from observations of the initial ...
Buil Martínez, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2017-07-05)
The nowcasting of rainfall based on the extrapolation of the radar precipitation field is a common technique used in different operational and research centers. However, this deterministic forecasting ...
Alvarado de Menéndez, Clara Elena (Date of defense: 2017-05-18)
Rockfill is a coarse material widely used in geotechnical works such as earth-fill dams (shoulders and toe drains), as well as in embankments and well-graded quarry materials for railway infrastructures. ...
Hidalgo Leiva, Diego (Date of defense: 2017-01-30)
The damage assessment of structures under seismic actions, must seek the implementation of new theories, tools and procedures that reduce the uncertainty associated to the expected structural response ...
Aguilar Meléndez, Armando (Date of defense: 2011-07-23)
In the present work a probabilistic methodology to estimate the seismic risk of buildings in urban areas is proposed. The seismic risk obtained through this methodology is expressed in terms of annual ...
Maidana, Manuel Augusto (Date of defense: 2007-09-14)
En esta tesis se ha desarrollado y validado un modelo tridimensional de circulación costera en elementos finitos capaz de simular una región limitada del océano. La escala de longitud de las aplicaciones ...
Londoño-Linares, Juan Pablo (Date of defense: 2016-02-03)
The available literature on Landslide Risk Assessment is less than the available on Hazard zonation topics. A reason is the inherent difficult to develop quantitative landslide risk assessment; this ...
Ávila Haro, Jorge Arturo (Date of defense: 2021-07-01)
Despite the fact that masonry is one of the oldest and most used building materials, the number of existing studies and experimental data, as well as the applicability of its results (i.e. extrapolation), ...
Caro Camargo, Carlos Andrés (Date of defense: 2016-01-25)
Distributed hydrological modeling occurs as a historical consequence of the different developments and advances in conceptual hydrology, first, through deepening and adaptation of hydrology through ...