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Pérez Carreras, Adrià (Date of defense: 2018-12-04)
The study of hydro-mechanical (HM) coupled problems in different areas of civil, environmental or petroleum engineering is common in literature, but the effect of a thermal field by means of the heat transport by a fluid ...
Francescangeli, Marco (Date of defense: 2023-10-30)
(English) The Monitoring of coastal marine ecosystems has been traditionally carried out with man and vessel-assisted methodologies. In the last decades, new technologies have been progressively integrated by platforms ...
Grossmann, Florian (Date of defense: 2023-09-05)
(English) The sustainable management of coastal regions requires profound understanding of the physical processes that govern them. Here, a central aspect is the onshore and offshore migration of sandbars, transporting ...
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 concrete is ...
Samat, Sergio (Date of defense: 2016-11-09)
Natural disasters, such as landslides triggered by heavy rains, rock deformations and soil cracking in presence of temperature changes and other phenomena related to climatic actions, show the relevance of investigating ...
Tourchi, Saeed (Date of defense: 2020-12-04)
Argillaceous rocks (Stiff sedimentary clays) provide the geological background to many civil engineering projects. In recent years, interest in these types of material has increased, because they are being considered as ...
Sau Valenzuela, Núria (Date of defense: 2021-11-19)
(English) Deep geological disposal of heat-emitting and long-lived radioactive waste is the solution internationally accepted that offers the most viable and safest way to manage this kind of wastes. Accordingly, the ...
Narváez Muñoz, Christian (Date of defense: 2023-05-05)
(English) The high precision controllability and versatility of Electrohydrodynamic (EHD) processes are enabling and accelerating the development of novel microfluidic-based manufacturing techniques. This technology relies ...
Aparicio Bernat, Francisco Luis (Date of defense: 2016-09-22)
In the coming decades, global warming will affect the biogeochemical cycles evolution, particularly the carbon cycle. In this context, it is necessary to gain knowledge on the Earth natural mechanisms to relieve the ...
Saloustros, Savvas (Date of defense: 2017-11-29)
Numerical methods aid significantly the engineering efforts towards the conservation of existing masonry structures and the design of new ones. Among them, macro-mechanical finite element methods based on the smeared crack ...
Ros Chaos, Sergi (Date of defense: 2020-12-17)
The rapid evolution of the cruise industry in the last 50 years is evident. In the nineteenth century, cruise ships were simple modes of transport used by immigrants to travel on transoceanic voyages from Europe to North ...
Chaparro Sánchez, M. Carme (Date of defense: 2016-03-04)
Cementitious materials are used as barriers in radioactive waste storage. Hence, transport processes in this kind of material are important. The objective of this thesis is to improve the understanding of transport of water ...
González Flórez, Cristina (Date of defense: 2023-10-06)
(English) Atmospheric mineral dust is composed of a variety of mineral particles exhibiting distinct composition, shape, and size. The wide range of diameters exhibited by dust particles, spanning more than three orders ...
Al Shaiba, Omar (Date of defense: 2020-10-02)
Basemaps are the main resource used in urban planning and in building and infrastructure asset management. These maps are used by citizens and by private and public stakeholders. Therefore, accurate, up-to-date geoinformation ...
Perez Fonseca, Lazaro J. (Date of defense: 2019-05-17)
Reactive transport modeling is an important tool for the analysis of coupled physical, chemical, and biological processes in Earth systems. Observed reactive transport in heterogeneous porous media shows a different behavior ...
Haider, Jibran (Date of defense: 2018-04-20)
In practical engineering applications involving extremely complex geometries, meshing typically constitutes a large portion of the overall design and analysis time. In the computational mechanics community, the ability to ...
Medina Tapia, Marcos (Date of defense: 2021-06-15)
Cities face problems influencing urban mobility, such as traffic growth, congestion, explosive population growth, urban sprawl. According to the literature, traffic, congestion, and urban development have an interrelationship ...
Beretta, Mattia (Date of defense: 2022-07-21)
The energy sector has undergone drastic changes and critical revolutions in the last few decades. Renewable energy sources have grown significantly, now representing a sizeable share of the energy production mix. Wind ...
Baloochi, Hani (Date of defense: 2023-03-17)
(English) Currently, the two most raw material consumer industries are civil engineering and the pulp and paper industry. Meanwhile, these sectors face severe criticism due to their environmental impact. Additionally, by ...
Rivetti, Claudia (Date of defense: 2017-05-19)
Anthropogenic pollution represents a major concern for aquatic ecosystem, which has been affected by a complex cocktail of heterogeneous compounds that may provoke significant toxic effects to the living organisms. Among ...