El-Ghamrawy, Karim (Date of defense: 2021-04-23)
Composite materials are gaining popularity as an alternative to classical materials in many different applications. Moreover, their design is even more flexible due to the potential ...
Lyu, Haixia (Date of defense: 2020-11-17)
This dissertation focuses on determining the vertical electron content distribution in low and high vertical resolution from ground-based and LEO on board GNSS data and improving the knowledge of ...
Jiménez Torres, Adrià (Date of defense: 2021-12-22)
The design rules on Reduced Beam Sections (RBS) are covered in the Eurocodes in EN1998-3 as a possible solution to improve rotation capacity of beams for the retrofit of existing structures. The design ...
Rasol, Mezgeen Abdulrahman Rasol (Date of defense: 2021-01-20)
The study of surface geology by means of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) can provide information about abrupt lateral changes in the terrain. The location ofthese changes is very useful in seismic ...
Cornejo Velázquez, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2020-12-21)
It is well known that in civil engineering structures are designed so that they remain,whenever possible, in an elastic regime and with their mechanical properties intact. The truth isthat in reality ...
Santín Muriel, Andreu (Date of defense: 2022-01-24)
Sponge assemblages dominate several distinctive, hard-bottom environments, being one of the most important structural organisms at several locations around the world. Although the Mediterranean sponge ...
Codony, David (Date of defense: 2021-03-01)
This PhD thesis focuses on the development of mathematical and computational models for flexoelectricity, a relatively new electromechanical coupling that is present in any dielectric at the micron and ...
Muixí Ballonga, Alba (Date of defense: 2020-11-30)
This thesis proposes a new computational model for the efficient simulation of crack propagation, through the combination of a phase-field model in small subdomains around crack tips and a discontinuous ...
Bosch Pons, Jaume (Date of defense: 2021-07-21)
Heterogeneous platforms had become popular to increase the computational power of the systems within a constrained power budget. They are present in several systems, from embedded platforms and mobile ...
Silini, Riccardo (Date of defense: 2022-07-05)
To advance time series forecasting we need to progress on multiple fronts. In this thesis, we develop algorithms to identify causal relations which allow to identify the driving processes containing ...