El Departament d’Enginyeria Mecànica participa activament en transferència de tecnologia dins els convenis de col·laboració amb empreses públiques i privades, com ara el disseny de màquines i assessorament per a la seva construcció; alguns han donat lloc a patents.
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Martínez Martínez, Borja (Date of defense: 2024-01-11)
(English) The primary goal of this thesis is to unlock the potential of hemp stalk, an agricultural byproduct that currently lacks practical applications. The overarching aim is to promote the use of eco-friendly materials, ...
Babici, Laura Mariana (Date of defense: 2023-12-21)
(English) In this study, the Weierstrass fractal function was used to model the surface roughness of railway tracks and, subsequently, the static coefficient of friction (COF) for Hertzian rail-wheel contact and cylinder-plane ...
Miguel Fernández, Jesús de (Date of defense: 2023-11-17)
(English) The control strategies implemented in exoskeletons play a crucial role in determining the interaction between the device and user. However, it is unclear what is the most suitable control strategy and settings ...
Loaiza Duque, Julián David (Date of defense: 2023-10-27)
(English) The most common tremor disorders worldwide are Parkinson's Disease and Essential Tremor. The gold standard for diagnosing these movement disorders is medical evaluation by neurologists, but its accuracy depends ...
Velázquez Corral, Eric (Date of defense: 2023-09-05)
(English) This thesis is an experimental investigation into the beneficial effects of the ultrasonic vibration-assisted ball burnishing process on the wear resistance and fatigue life-cycle enhancement of rotational symmetric ...
Rodríguez Fernández, Antonio (Date of defense: 2023-07-21)
(English) People with spinal cord injury (SCI) may suffer lifelong sequels that influence every aspect of their lives, including motor and/or sensory impairment, difficulty breathing and/or swallowing, bladder/bowel weakness, ...
Padilla Magaña, Jesús Fernando (Date of defense: 2022-11-18)
(English) The Action Research Arm Test (ARAT) is a measurement tool to assess post-stroke upper extremities motor function. However, ARAT scoring can be subjective and limited only to determining performance quality. ...
Monshi Tousi, Navid (Date of defense: 2023-06-16)
(English) The PhD focuses on the study of the flow around an airfoil at different Angles of Attack (AoA) with and without the implementation of Active Flow Control (AFC), while maintaining the Reynolds number constant at ...
Torres Chamorro, Lisbeth Alejandra (Date of defense: 2023-07-03)
(English This dissertation is an experimental assessment of the tool-part tribological interaction of continuous deformation processes: ball burnishing as a superfinishing process and wire drawing as a bulk deformation ...
Torrent Gelmà, Miquel (Date of defense: 2023-03-31)
(English) Pumps of positive volumetric displacement (PDVP) drive a volume of fluid from suction to discharge for each revolution of its shaft, called derived capacity, and therefore, in an ideal constant capacity pump the ...
Adrover Monserrat, Bàrbara (Date of defense: 2023-02-24)
(English) The mechanical characterization of new materials used in the Material Extrusion technique (MEX) in 3D printing is essential. The use of this technique is growing and with it the possible applications of printed ...
Mendizábal Dinucci, Virginia Dolores (Date of defense: 2023-03-23)
(English) Fiber-Reinforced Cementitious Matrix (FRCM) is a strengthening method that has been increasing its importance versus Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) due the lower cost and lower toxicity of its materials. The ...
Ordóñez Izquierdo, Víctor Hugo (Date of defense: 2022-09-22)
Electromagnetic vibration energy harvesting is a relatively modern technology that has received relevant attention in the last decade from the research community and industry as a potential complement or alternative to the ...
Liravi, Hassan (Date of defense: 2022-07-29)
This thesis is concerned with the development of efficient and practical numerical methodologies to deal with longitudinally invariant soil-structure interaction problems in elastodynamics. All the approaches appearing in ...
Sarabandi, Soheil (Date of defense: 2021-04-27)
Since the map from quaternions to rotation matrices is a 2-to-1 covering map, this map cannot be smoothly inverted. As a consequence, it is sometimes erroneously assumed that all inversions should necessarily contain ...
Río Cano, Carlos (Date of defense: 2022-04-20)
Heavy vehicles are generally equipped with Shock Absorber Suspension Cylinders, which, in addition to integrating in the same element, the damping and suspension mechanism, allow obtaining greater suspension travels, ...
Sohrabi, Shahin (Date of defense: 2022-03-11)
Active noise cancellation is a unique approach that helps passive noise control in reducing sound levels at low frequencies; nevertheless, successful use of active noise cancellation necessitates performing numerous and ...
Yago Llamas, Daniel (Date of defense: 2022-01-24)
This doctoral thesis addresses topology optimization problems at a single scale. Based on this purpose, a new topology optimization approach is developed in order to improve existing and widespread techniques in the research ...
Awan, Muhammad Rizwan (Date of defense: 2021-11-02)
The aim of this research is to provide an in-depth understanding of energy consumption in abrasive disc cutting processes. The specific energy consumed in cutting is measured,analysed, and then characterised in to three ...
Mehrdel, Pouya (Date of defense: 2021-09-14)
Over the past decade, microfluidic technology has proven its capabilities to start bringing detection and quantification capacities to novel miniaturized devices. The current generation of microfluidic platforms provide ...
621 - Mechanical engineering in general. Nuclear technology. Electrical engineering. Machinery (48)
68 - Industries, crafts and trades for finished or assembled articles (10)
620 - Materials testing. Commercial materials. Power stations. Economics of energy (9)
004 - Computer science and technology. Computing. Data processing (6)