Torres Serra, Joel (Date of defense: 2021-02-26)
In the packaging industry, a wide range of powders and bulk solids are handled in bagging equipment using different bulk feeding techniques. Quality of the packaging is critically affected by feeder ...
Cuadrado Cabello, Agustín (Date of defense: 2019-03-07)
Coupled processes between the soil and the atmosphere control soil water evaporation in its first stage, which leads to soil shrinkage and cracking by drying. However, soil-atmosphere interaction has ...
Ferrero, Chiara (Date of defense: 2021-07-20)
Since ancient times, master builders have used arches to cover large spans in masonry structures. As a consequence, nowadays the safety assessment of these structural elements plays a fundamental role ...
Irazábal González, Joaquín (Date of defense: 2017-10-06)
The development of high-speed train lines has increased significantly during the last twenty-five years, leading to more demanding loads in railway infrastructures. Most of these infrastructures were ...
Sánchez Calderón, Luis Alberto (Date of defense: 2018-01-16)
A system that attempts to find cracks in a RGB picture of a concrete beam, measure the cracks angles and widths; and classify crack patterns in 3 pathologies has been designed and implemented in the ...
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 ...
Fàbrega Alsina, Carles (Date of defense: 2020-12-17)
The granitic basement below the Triassic unconformity in the Guilleries and Roc de Frausa massifs (NE Iberia), presents widespread red stained facies characterized by plagioclase albitization, biotite ...
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, ...
Aidarov, Stanislav (Date of defense: 2022-05-06)
Fibre reinforced concrete (FRC) has proven to be a suitable material for statically indeterminate elements. The FRC column-supported flat slabs with partial or even total substitution of reinforcing ...
Vendrell Miguel, Lluís (Date of defense: 2017-11-10)
This thesis aims to test the ability of a non-hydrostatic multiscale mineral dust model to reproduce the physical processes associated with the dust cycle at meteorological scales ranging from synoptic ...
624 - Civil and structural engineering in general (133)
55 - Earth Sciences. Geological sciences (75)
004 - Computer science and technology. Computing. Data processing (44)
69 - Building (construction) trade. Building materials. Building practice and procedure (36)
628 - Public health engineering. Water. Sanitation. Illuminating engineering (23)