Lu, Xufei (Date of defense: 2022-07-15)
The objectives of this thesis are (i) to understand the thermal, metallurgical and mechanical behavior during AM, (ii) to shed light on the generation of residual stresses and the stress-induced ...
Paillissé Vilanova, Jordi (Date of defense: 2021-07-23)
Overlay networks are a technique to build a new network on top of an existing one. They are a key tool to add functionality to existing networks, and are used in different layers of the Internet stack ...
Cavaliere, Fabiola (Date of defense: 2022-04-06)
In order to be worldwide competitive, the automotive industry is constantly challenged to produce higher quality vehicles in the shortest time possible and with the minimum costs of production. Most of ...
Raafat, Ahmed (Date of defense: 2020-07-22)
The rapid growth of wireless industry opens the door to several use cases such as internet of things and device-to-device communications, which require boosting the reliability and the spectral efficiency ...
Arjona Martínez, Jamie (Date of defense: 2021-02-11)
Nowadays, one of the most important problems in urban areas concerns traffic congestion. This, in turn, has an impact on the economy, nature, human health, city architecture, and many other facets of ...
Kim, Sungchul (Date of defense: 2021-07-21)
In this thesis, two main topics have been covered: the mechanics of strain localization in plasticity and the performance of several mixed finite elements subjected to plastic strain localization. Throughout ...
Duarte-López, Ariel (Date of defense: 2021-02-05)
The Zipf distribution, also known as discrete Pareto distribution, attracts considerable attention because it helps describe skewed data from many natural as well as man-made systems. Under the Zipf ...
Hakoniemi, Tuomas (Date of defense: 2022-03-25)
This thesis concerns the proof complexity of algebraic and semialgebraic proof systems Polynomial Calculus, Sums-of-Squares and Sherali-Adams. The most studied complexity measure for these systems ...
Keridou, Ina (Date of defense: 2021-04-14)
In the last decades, polymeric biomaterials, due to their advanced physical and mechanical properties, have been used in a vast variety of surgical and pharmaceutical applications. In this thesis, a ...
Ramón-Cortés Vilarrodona, Cristián (Date of defense: 2020-09-21)
Data Science workflows have become a must to progress in many scientific areas such as life, health, and earth sciences. In contrast to traditional HPC workflows, they are more heterogeneous; combining ...