Benavides, Jaime (Date of defense: 2020-02-18)
Air pollution is known to cause detrimental health effects in cities and specially on the most vulnerable population. Having access to reliable air pollutant concentration data at street-level in urban ...
Villota Cadena, Angel Patricio (Date of defense: 2020-07-09)
The objective of the doctoral thesis is to perform the numerical approximation of the transient convection-diffusion-reaction (CDR) vector equation in 2D with high order finite elements, quadratic, ...
Castellón López, Javier (Date of defense: 2020-02-18)
Soil behavior in the range of small strains should be considered in the analysis of geotechnical problems when sensitive elements are affected, which is very common in urban environments. However, some ...
Reis, Jonatha Oliveira de Matos (Date of defense: 2020-12-29)
A significant part of the current research efforts in computational mechanics is focused on analyzing and handling large amounts of data, exploring high dimensional parametric spaces and providing answers ...
Makoond, Nirvan Chandra (Date of defense: 2020-12-16)
Many cultural heritage sites across the globe consist of masonry structures. To ensure the preservation of such structures, an accurate evaluation of their current structural condition is often of utmost ...
Ruiz Restrepo, Daniel Felipe (Date of defense: 2020-06-12)
Bentonite-based materials are being currently considered in several countries as a backfill component in the multi-barrier concept for deep geological disposal of radioactive waste. The bentonite barrier ...
Garcia Ramonda, Larisa (Date of defense: 2020-12-18)
As one of the main historical construction materials, masonry is abundant among the architectural heritage of earthquake-prone areas of the Mediterranean countries. Earthquake mitigation approaches are ...
Segura Domingo, Jorge (Date of defense: 2020-12-22)
Masonry has been used for millennia to build all sort of constructions. As a result, a significant part of the building stock around the world is made of masonry. In the need of structural assessment, ...
624 - Civil and structural engineering in general (16)
55 - Earth Sciences. Geological sciences (9)
004 - Computer science and technology. Computing. Data processing (5)
620 - Materials testing. Commercial materials. Power stations. Economics of energy (5)
69 - Building (construction) trade. Building materials. Building practice and procedure (3)