Wang, Xuejing (Date of defense: 2023-11-28)
(English) During the lifetime of long-span bridges, the traffic conditions are affected by the surroundings and will typically vary and also unpredictably change. In this thesis, a prior site-specific ...
Villar Salinas, Sergio (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)
(English) Axial forces in columns of moment-resisting frames (MRF) have a paramount role for the seismic performance of these structural systems. Nonetheless, there are significant gaps in the literature ...
Obiol Plana, Aleix (Date of defense: 2023-01-27)
(English) Marine heterotrophic flagellates (HF) are very small (2-5 µm) unpigmented protists that are dominant bacterial grazers in the ocean, where they link the transfer of carbon from bacterial cells ...
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. ...
Pérez Illanes, Rodrigo Alfonso (Date of defense: 2024-01-16)
(English) Aquifers are naturally heterogeneous systems across multiple scales, which poses a known difficulty for grid-based solvers of solute transport. When advection is the dominant transport mechanism, ...
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. ...
Turon Pujol, Francesc (Date of defense: 2024-03-05)
(Engilsh) Modern composite materials, primarily based on the union of polymeric matrices and fibers of glass, carbon or any other fiber of remarkable rigidity, have paved the way for the design and ...
Soltanalipour, Milad (Date of defense: 2023-05-10)
(English) Composite structures are frequently used in the construction of high-rise buildings due to their high ductility and strength. This article-based doctoral thesis has multiple objectives related ...
Bu, Xiangbo (Date of defense: 2023-11-09)
(English) Recent decades have witnessed varying degrees of damage in underground structures, including instances of structural collapse, reported during post-earthquake hazard investigations. Therefore, ...
Leon Medina, Jersson Xavier (Date of defense: 2023-10-06)
(English) In the last years, the condition monitoring of structures has evolved and improved using technologies such as artificial intelligence, sensor networks, and industry 4.0 because of the multiple ...
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