Valencia Carreño, Rafael (Date of defense: 2013-04-19)
This thesis reports research on mapping, path planning, and autonomous exploration. These are classical problems in robotics, typically studied independently, and here we link such problems by framing ...
Duarte Correa, María Jazmín (Date of defense: 2013-05-31)
Metallic glasses are often referred as glassy or amorphous alloys. They lack long-range order and microstructural defects that are characteristics in crystals, such as grain and phase boundaries and ...
Abdollahi, Amir (Date of defense: 2012-10-18)
The unique electro-mechanical coupling properties of ferroelectrics make them ideal materials for use in micro-devices as sensors, actuators and transducers. Nevertheless, because of the intrinsic ...
Córdoba Solà, Patricia (Date of defense: 2013-03-25)
Coal-fired power plants are a major source of emissions for a number of air pollutants including SO2, NOx, particulate matter (PM), HCl, HF, and Hg amongst. In this work, intensive sampling campaigns ...
Ferreira, Denise Carina Santos (Date of defense: 2013-03-22)
Nonlinear fibre beam models, due to its intrinsic simplicity and computational efficiency, are often an adequate alternative to the complex nonlinear plane and solid FE models for the assessment of ...
Romanini, Michela (Date of defense: 2015-07-22)
The nature of the glass transition and of the glassy state is a fundamental and still unsolved problem of condensed matter physics. Many liquids can be supercooled below their melting point without ...
Pouyan, Peyman (Date of defense: 2015-11-16)
Fast and Complex Data Memory systems has become a necessity in modern computational units in today's integrated circuits. These memory systems are integrated in form of large embedded memory for data ...
Herranz Díez, Carolina (Date of defense: 2014-07-22)
According to a study of the European Commission, approximately one million hips are replaced by prostheses worldwide every year. The interaction of the human body with foreign materials that are subjected ...
Albesa Querol, Joan (Date of defense: 2012-07-18)
This thesis explores the feasibility of using inductive links for a vehicle application where wiring an electronic control unit (ECU) to the sensors or detectors become unfeasible or unpractical. The ...
Fernández Gámiz, Unai (Date of defense: 2013-11-26)
The main objective of this PhD thesis is the fluid dynamic characterization of the flow behind vortex generators (VG) as well as to investigate their influence in the separation of the boundary layer. ...