Roigé Montornés, Núria (Date of defense: 2020-07-15)
This Doctoral Thesis addresses aspects of interest for hydraulic infrastructure managers, such as investment decision support tools, in order to provide both decision support and the justification tools ...
Baltà Salvador, Rosó (Date of defense: 2022-06-29)
One of the main goals of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development is to guarantee quality education for all students, especially the most vulnerable. Engineering studies are a key element in educating ...
Riba Porras, Sergi (Date of defense: 2022-06-14)
Over the last 40 years, in Europe in general and in many mountainous regions in particular, there have been major instances of severe flood episodes (more than 100) which have resulted in more than 700 ...
Morral Molto, Eloi (Date of defense: 2021-12-03)
The growth in world population has led to a significant increase in the generation of wastes (solid, liquid and gaseous). Waste gas is probably the major issue in the case of waste treatment, due to the ...
Solanellas Terés, Àngel (Date of defense: 2021-11-09)
Roman architect Mario Ridolfi (1904-1984) made a substantial contribution to the transformation of European cities and to collective housing after the Second World War. For a period of twenty years, he ...
Baldrich Aragó, Ana (Date of defense: 2022-03-15)
There is ample evidence to show that in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sector, implementation is underway of the Building Information Modelling (BIM) methodology, which is changing ...
Coronas Herrero, Sergio (Date of defense: 2022-10-21)
(English) In recent years, the development of a generation system based on renewable energies has become the backbone of the energy policies of most countries in the world in the search for the ...
Canudas Ventura, Miquel (Date of defense: 2020-07-24)
The leather manufacturing process consists of a sequence of complex chemical reactions and mechanical processes that allow turning skin, a putrefiable by-product of alimentary industry, into leather, a ...
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 ...
Nolla Colomer, Carme (Date of defense: 2021-05-28)
In 2019 the data published by the World Health Organization showed that the cardiac ischemia is the first cause of death worldwide. These diseases are caused by irregularities of the contractile mechanism’s ...