Navas, Daniel (Date of defense: 2018-11-20)
The Cerda project defines for the first time Barcelona as a metropolis, providing the territorial incorporation framework to other municipalities for more than 150 years. Oasis and center of a larger ...
Terán Cobo, Pablo (Date of defense: 2018-06-25)
This Thesis addresses common operational issues related to maritime container terminals. In the last decades, containerization of maritime transportation has grown very rapidly, forcing terminal operators ...
Mánica Malcom, Miguel Ángel (Date of defense: 2018-10-11)
Materiales arcillosos rígidos, que se encuentran en la zona de transición entre suelos duros y rocas blandas, están siendo considerados actualmente en varios países como la roca huésped para el ...
Galarza Bogotá, Cesar Mauricio (Date of defense: 2018-01-29)
The study of the seas is a field of science that is in constant development. At the technological level, in recent years, important advances have been made in the design of platforms and measurement ...
Schwender, Jill (Date of defense: 2018-11-12)
In recent years, carbon nanotube and graphene mechanical resonators have attracted considerable attention because of their unique properties. Their high resonance frequencies, high quality factors and ...
Escobar Ruiz, Violeta (Date of defense: 2018-02-08)
Several studies have been performed demonstrating the Ventilated Roof effectiveness (VR) in the reduction of heat transfer due to high solar radiation. The present study analyses and classifies the ...
Fernández Rubio, Cristina (Date of defense: 2018-03-16)
The shrinkage of concrete and the current methods to mitigate this phenomenon are mainly based on the realization of retraction joints approximately 24 hours after the mixing. These joints represent a ...
Gamarra Montes, Ana (Date of defense: 2018-07-13)
In recent years, the increasing public concern about the environmental pollution caused by persistent plastic wastes has stimulated the interest in replacing synthetic polymers by biopolymers. The term ...
König, Caroline Leonore (Date of defense: 2018-10-30)
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are cell membrane proteins with a key role in regulating the function of cells. This is the result of their ability to transmit extracellular signals, which makes ...
Salazar Cortés, Jean Carlo (Date of defense: 2018-05-30)
This thesis presents sorne contributions to the field of Health-Aware Control (HAC) of dynamic systems. In the first part of this thesis, a review of the concepts and methodologies related to reliability ...