Bascompta Massanés, Marc (Date of defense: 2016-04-25)
Mine ventilation is a crucial factor for the sake of underground operations. Not only does it affect efficiency and effectiveness rates, but it also influence the health and safety of the employees. ...
Pérez Madrigal, Domingo (Date of defense: 2018-06-20)
The use of bituminous material milled from the pavement (known as Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement, or RAP) in the manufacture of recycled bituminous mixtures is growing day by day due to the economic and ...
Tapias Camacho, Mauricio Alberto (Date of defense: 2016-12-21)
This thesis presents a study of the mechanical behaviour of coarse-crushable aggregates, using the discrete element method (DEM). A novel DEM model has been developed taking into account particle breakage, ...
García León, Manuel (Date of defense: 2018-07-10)
The action of sea storms is one of the most complex littoral processes with deep management implications. Along the Catalan shoreline which is about 700 km long, 190 km are subject to erosion and/or ...
Aparicio Bernat, Francisco Luis (Date of defense: 2016-09-22)
In the coming decades, global warming will affect the biogeochemical cycles evolution, particularly the carbon cycle. In this context, it is necessary to gain knowledge on the Earth natural mechanisms ...
Guerrero, Elena (Date of defense: 2017-07-14)
Planktonic cnidarians are those species or their stages in the phylum Cnidaria that spent their life in the water column and therefore, are tightly linked to oceanographic dynamics and water mass ...
Solsona Berga, Alba (Date of defense: 2019-01-30)
Marine mammals face numerous anthropogenic threats, including fisheries interactions, ocean noise, ship strikes, and marine debris. Monitoring the negative impact on marine mammals through the assessment ...
Fernández Álvarez, Fernando Ángel (Date of defense: 2018-05-03)
Flying squids develop all its life cycle in the water column, as planktonic paralarvae and then as nektonic subadults and adults. In this Ph. D. Thesis, light was shed over several poorly understood ...
Costa Rodríguez, Jordi (Date of defense: 2016-01-21)
Municipal services, particularly waste collection and street cleaning have unique characteristics that make particularly difficult their management and often make that the scientific community and ...
Ibáñez Pinillo, Rubén (Date of defense: 2019-09-02)
Simulation Based Engineering Science (SBES) has brought major improvements in optimization, control and inverse analysis, all leading to a deeper understanding in many processes occuring in the real ...
624 - Civil and structural engineering in general (84)
55 - Earth Sciences. Geological sciences (64)
004 - Computer science and technology. Computing. Data processing (36)
69 - Building (construction) trade. Building materials. Building practice and procedure (33)
620 - Materials testing. Commercial materials. Power stations. Economics of energy (21)