Schönleber, Kevin (Date of defense: 2018-02-09)
Remote offshore wind power plants (WPPs) are being linked through high-voltage de voltage-source converter (VSC-HVdc) transmission to the main grids. The current deployments of HVdc grid connections for ...
Villarraga Díaz, Claudia Juliana (Date of defense: 2018-02-28)
The environmental conditions may play a relevant role in the stability of rock slopes. In fact, weathering can contribute to the reduction of strength of the material, while atmospheric actions may ...
López Montero, Teresa (Date of defense: 2018-06-19)
Asphalt mixtures cracking is one of the most common deterioration mechanisms in flexible pavements. This phenomenon is due to both the application of loads and the degradation of the material as a result ...
Barba Serrahima, Albert (Date of defense: 2018-11-28)
The development of synthetic bone substitutes with enhanced osteogenic properties is urged by the global ageing population. Sintered calcium-phosphate (CaP) ceramics are the most widely used synthetic ...
Sánchez López, José Antonio (Date of defense: 2018-07-23)
`Today, the industry is facing a new way of organizing production, lndustry 4.0, which aims to create smart factories that improve the adaptability of the means of production, not only to produce more ...
Serra López, Roger (Date of defense: 2018-05-22)
Structural health monitoring has been defined as the acquisition, validation and analysis of technical data to facilitate life- cycle management decisions. It is the result of a convergent path from ...
León Albiter, Noel (Date of defense: 2018-04-13)
Polymers have a wide range of applications. Their ability to be shaped into multiple forms makes it possible to obtain polymer films, which are highly used in industries such as food and pharmaceuticals. ...
Margenat Mas, Anna Maria (Date of defense: 2018-11-27)
Peri-urban agriculture carries out environmental, social and economic functions and services to the nearby urban areas. Nonetheless, most of these fields are impacted with organic and inorganic contaminants ...
Gasser i Rubinat, Marc (Date of defense: 2018-11-19)
The Mediterranean Outflow Water (MOW) is a dense (¿>1028.5 kg/m3), saline (38.5 g/kg) ocean stream originated in the evaporative Mediterranean basin flowing westward past Espartel Sill as a fast (>1 ...
Prades Martell, Lledó (Date of defense: 2018-12-13)
This thesis is focused on the development of one-phase and multiphase models using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques to analyze biosystems behavior at mesoscale. In the first part, the ...