Puxeu Vaqué, Josep (Date of defense: 2015-12-22)
The use of small Fields has substantially increased in radiotherapy during recent years mainly due to expansion in the use of modulated techniques which are also used at some institutions for Stereotactic ...
Celada Blesa, Ulric (Date of defense: 2019-12-16)
Partially Prestressed Concrete (PPC) is an intermediate design approach between reinforced and totally prestressed concrete, that enables controlled cracks in service phase. Conversely, totally prestressed ...
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 ...
Galeote Moreno, Eduardo (Date of defense: 2018-12-14)
Fibre reinforced concrete (FRC) presents objectively proven advantages in terms of post-cracking strength and manufacturing procedures. As a result, FRC with structural responsibility is increasingly ...
Martínez Bayona, Jonàs (Date of defense: 2013-12-12)
Skeletal representations are important shape descriptors which encode topological and geometrical properties of shapes and reduce their dimension. Skeletons are used in several fields of science and ...
Bohigas Nadal, Oriol (Date of defense: 2013-05-10)
This thesis develops general solutions to two open problems of robot kinematics: the exhaustive computation of the singularity set of a manipulator, and the synthesis of singularity-free paths between ...
Petracca, Massimo (Date of defense: 2016-04-13)
Masonry is an ancient building material that has been used throughout the history, and it is still used nowadays. Masonry constitutes the main building technique adopted in historical constructions, and ...
Resch, Matthias (Date of defense: 2019-01-31)
The increasing integration of renewable energy installations at the distribution grid level has led to a strong increase in grid reinforcement measures in recent years. Since the costs are being passed ...
Sridhar, Susmita (Date of defense: 2016-10-05)
Polarization gating imaging is a popular and widely used imaging technique in biomedical optics to sense tissues, deeper volumes, and also selectively probe sub-superficial volumes. Due to the ...
Agraz Bujan, Fernando (Date of defense: 2012-10-01)
Current network infrastructures are supported on a layered model whereby heterogeneous data traffic can be seamlessly transported. In this architecture, where client/server relationships are established ...