Ziaei-Rad, Vahid (Date of defense: 2016-05-02)
The phase field method has proven to be an important tool in computational fracture mechanics in that it does not require complicated crack tracking and is able to predict crack nucleation and branching. ...
Sala Sanmartí, Marcel (Date of defense: 2019-10-29)
Freeway traffic management is necessary to improve capacity and reduce congestion, especially in metropolitan freeways where the rush period lasts several hours per day. Traffic congestion implies delays ...
Garolera Vinent, Daniel (Date of defense: 2017-09-18)
This thesis describes the extension of the Finite Element Method with zero-thickness interface elements (FEM+z) to 3D, large and complex problems in geomaterials, with special interest in petroleum ...
Trapote Barreira, Ana (Date of defense: 2015-01-19)
The use of concrete in disposal facilities to store low- and intermediate-level nuclear waste requires that the durability of this material is optimal for the lifetime of these repositories. One of the ...
Castro-Alcalá, Eduardo (Date of defense: 2019-05-30)
Tracer visualization in the laboratory at high spatial and temporal resolution can help advance the study of mixing processes. However, grain borders, fluctuations in lighting and non-uniform brightness ...
Díaz Loaiza, Manuel Andrés (Date of defense: 2015-11-20)
Floods and Drought are some of the most catastrophic natural disasters for humanity, averaging 1 to 5 billion dollar of annually damage for flood events and 6 to 8 billion dollars respectively for drought ...
Seco, Raquel Irene (Date of defense: 2014-12-05)
The accumulation of sediments in combined sewer systems may give rise to significant quality problems, which sometimes are overlooked. Solids deposited in the network may lead to more frequent overflows ...
Giorgiani, Giorgio (Date of defense: 2013-04-02)
This PhD thesis proposes a p-adaptive technique for the Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin method (HDG). The HDG method is a novel discontinuous Galerkin method (DG) with interesting characteristics. ...
Ezbakhe, Fatine (Date of defense: 2019-10-31)
Policy-making for sustainable development becomes more efficient when it is reliably backed by evidence-based decision analysis. Concretely, this is crucial in the planning of public services delivery. ...
Chevalier, Guillaume G. (Date of defense: 2013-06-21)
Occurrence of debris flows has received little attention in the Pyrenees, probably due to the small risk faced by most of the debris-flow prone sites in this mountain range. Nevertheless, the event of ...