Cabané Cañas, Albert (Date of defense: 2023-05-17)
(English) Masonry structures are among the most abundant construction typologies in the world, having been commonly built until the second half of the 20th century. The determination of the mechanical ...
Duarte Gómez, Noemí (Date of defense: 2023-05-12)
(English) Performance-based design (PBD) is a philosophy for structural design that puts emphasis on the realistic estimation of the structural behaviour and its relationship with the objectives of the ...
González de León, Isabel (Date of defense: 2023-05-19)
(English) Stainless steel is one of the most promising construction materials due to its long service life, low maintenance requirements, excellent mechanical properties and high residual value. ...
Baquero Mosquera, Juan Sebastián (Date of defense: 2023-06-22)
(English) When analyzing structures for seismic design and performance assessment purposes, it has been common to assume that the ground motions or their equivalent representations correspond to that ...
Eskenati, Amir Reza (Date of defense: 2023-06-09)
(English) The most common composite materials for strengthening building structures are divided into two dif ferent types based on the matrix’s composition, organics (polymers) or inorganics (cement, ...
Martín Balet, Alejo (Date of defense: 2023-06-23)
(English) This thesis proposes to determine a damaged structure using the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of modal frequency variation of sorne damaged and undamaged configurations. The estimators ...
Najdi, Abdallah (Date of defense: 2023-06-20)
(English) The thesis presents part of an ongoing nvestigation on the Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical (THM) behaviour and cracking of deformable unsaturated soils undergoing cycles of drying and wetting. An ...
Su, Hang (Date of defense: 2023-06-19)
(English) The steel-concrete composite structural solution has been widely applied in the execution of simply supported bridges since the merits of concrete compressive strength and steel tensile strength ...
Moaven, Arash (Date of defense: 2023-07-04)
(English) The Proper Generalized Decomposition (PGD) is a mathematical framework belonging to the Model Order Reduction (MOR) class of techniques. To the best of the author's knowledge, this methodology ...
Jaqués Adell, Irene (Date of defense: 2023-02-10)
(English) In the current context of both energy and environmental needs, there has been an increase in activities related to extraction and injection of fluids in the underground. It is known that a ...