Pinzón Ureña, Luis (Date of defense: 2020-09-18)
Earthquakes are defined as a "violent shaking of the Earth's crust and mantle, caused by forces acting inside the Earth". In most cases, these forces are caused by an energy release process generated ...
Díaz Loaiza, Manuel Andrés (Date of defense: 2015-11-20)
Floods and Drought are some of the most catastrophic natural disasters for humanity, averaging 1 to 5 billion dollar of annually damage for flood events and 6 to 8 billion dollars respectively for drought ...
Alvarado Bueno, Mauricio (Date of defense: 2018-04-23)
Risk associated with landslides of natural or man-made origin depends on the prediction of the post-failure behaviour of the mobilized mass. Numerical models capable of integrating the landslide geometry ...
Ávila Haro, Jorge Arturo (Date of defense: 2021-07-01)
Despite the fact that masonry is one of the oldest and most used building materials, the number of existing studies and experimental data, as well as the applicability of its results (i.e. extrapolation), ...
Piscal Arévalo, Carlos Mario (Date of defense: 2018-10-22)
An important percentage of Colombian population is located in medium-to-high seismicity zones (NSR-10, 2010). Therefore, it is important to protect the buildings, principally the highly crowded ones, ...
Portilla Gamboa, Modesto Eusebio (Date of defense: 2014-10-28)
En este documento de Tesis Doctoral, se presenta la recopilación, reconstrucción y análisis de los inventarios de movimientos en masa (MM) y los campos de lluvias para tres eventos históricos en los ...
Abancó Martínez de Arenzana, Clàudia (Date of defense: 2013-06-27)
Debris flows are very fast mass movements and are considered as one of the most hazardous phenomenain mountainous regions. Research on this field has strongly improved during the last decades. However,many ...
Vargas Alzate, Yeudy Felipe (Date of defense: 2013-07-09)
Esta tesis propone una metodología de evaluación del daño sísmico basada en el método del espectro de capacidad pero con un enfoque probabilista que se apoya en simulaciones Monte Carlo. Así la acción ...
Butlanska, Joanna (Date of defense: 2014-07-21)
Cone penetration test (CPT) is a fast and reliable site investigation tool for exploring soils and soft ground. While the interpretation of the test results in clay has advanced considerably from a ...
Rorato, Riccardo (Date of defense: 2019-11-08)
The shape of particles is known to play an important role in soil behaviour, with significant effects of engineering responses. Investigating how the shape of particles can be measured and quantified ...