Valcárcel Torres, Jairo Andrés (Date of defense: 2013-02-01)
Los daños por terremotos en edificios y sistemas esenciales han motivado la definición de estándares de comportamiento de estas instalaciones, buscando reducir las pérdidas económicas y la pérdida de ...
Jaramillo Santana, Nayive (Date of defense: 2014-06-12)
The risk coming from natural hazards is usually assessed in physical terms by estimating the losses they may cause. Nevertheless, the risk assessment can involve such aspects as the lack of economic and ...
Ugel Garrido, Ronald David (Date of defense: 2015-09-18)
In this study it was assessed the seismic behavior of framed buildings with composite structure of steel and reinforced concrete (RC) in a specific configuration formed with lower levels with RC (primary ...
López Carreño, Rubén-Daniel (Date of defense: 2018-07-31)
The construction and conservation of road networks represent a major part of public expenditure. For instance, the EU-28 countries annually spend approximately EUR 20.000 million on roadway preservation. ...
Amorim, Samuel (Date of defense: 2012-05-14)
Human and economic losses caused by landslides have attracted the interest of the scientific community for the identification of the threatened areas and preventing their consequences. The goal of the ...
Bernal Granados, Gabriel Andrés (Date of defense: 2014-11-09)
In the assessment of seismic risk, hazard is one of its main components, given that, from a probabilistic perspective, provides the annual rates of exceedance of the intensities of strong motion in the ...
Caballero Gómez, Alberto Adán (Date of defense: 2016-06-17)
The process of control of a construction project involving the whole life cycle is a complex task. The version of control of a project on the basis only of the execution of the work is a limited version, ...
Clua Uceda, Álvaro (Date of defense: 2017-12-04)
This document sets out the results of a comprehensive and consistent view on the interstitial condition present in urban articulation projects aimed at integrating different parts of a city. This ...
Lafontaine, Nelson M. (Date of defense: 2016-01-18)
The stated goal of this work is to develop a numerical explicit finite element method able to effectively address the strain localization process, discrete fracture and fragmentation process in ...
Pérez Casas, Marc (Date of defense: 2016-07-05)
The informal settlement’s associated predicament must be addressed by concurrent remediation and prevention urban policies. Nevertheless, the growing social pressure to respond to the situation through ...