Marín Beltrán, Isabel (Date of defense: 2017-07-21)
The Mediterranean Sea is an oligotrophic basin, while the atmosphere above is affected by continuous emissions of anthropogenic aerosols and episodic Saharan dust events. These atmospheric inputs finally ...
Ziaei-Rad, Vahid (Date of defense: 2016-05-02)
The phase field method has proven to be an important tool in computational fracture mechanics in that it does not require complicated crack tracking and is able to predict crack nucleation and branching. ...
Lops, Camilla (Date of defense: 2020-12-15)
European building stock is characterised by low energy efficiency and high structural vulnerability with respect to earthquakes, especially in seismic prone areas like Italy. In fact, the vast majority ...
Sala Sanmartí, Marcel (Date of defense: 2019-10-29)
Freeway traffic management is necessary to improve capacity and reduce congestion, especially in metropolitan freeways where the rush period lasts several hours per day. Traffic congestion implies delays ...
Bado, Mattia Francesco (Date of defense: 2021-07-26)
The employment of a novel cutting edge strain monitoring technique named Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors (DOFS) as Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) tools is becoming increasingly common. Its popularity ...
Roig Planasdemunt, Maria (Date of defense: 2016-06-27)
The main objective of this thesis is to characterize hydrological processes in a Mediterranean mountain catchment, by combining distributed hydrological measurements and environmental tracers in order ...
Delgadillo Ayala, Rick Milton (Date of defense: 2022-03-23)
In recent years the scientific community has been developing new techniques in structural health monitoring (SHM) to identify the damages in civil structures specially in bridges. The bridge health ...
Emadi, Seyyedbehrad (Date of defense: 2020-12-11)
According to Timoshenko’s beam theory, nodal rotations in beam-like structures are produced by bending and shear effects. On the one hand, bending rotations can be easily calculated by the Euler-Bernoulli ...
Germano, Nicola (Date of defense: 2021-12-14)
This thesis aims to propose and validate an innovative, fully open-source framework capable of performing multiscale analysis for the assessment of local wind flows within the urban fabric. Each part ...
Gasparini, Andrea (Date of defense: 2021-03-04)
CO2 geological storage is considered one of the options technologically viable in order to decrease the industrial emissions of this gas species that strongly contribute to the greenhouse effect in the ...
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