Dorribo Dorribo, Daniel (Date of defense: 2017-12-05)
The automotive industry is constantly involved in the development of new projects aimed at reducing weight, fuel consumptions and costs while improving passengers¿ safety. In order to achieve these ...
Aljure Osorio, David Eduardo (Date of defense: 2017-06-02)
Aerodynamic analysis has become one of the most important tools in many engineering applications. In this sense, this thesis work is aimed at performing aerodynamic analysis of different geometries, ...
Comellas Sanfeliu, Ester (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)
Living biological tissues are complex structures that have the capacity of evolving in response to external loads and environmental stimuli. The adequate modelling of soft biological tissue behaviour ...
Lupala, Cecylia Severin (Date of defense: 2016-01-28)
GPCR are integral membrane receptor proteins that are characterized by heptahelical transmembrane domains connected by intracellular and extracellular loops. GPCRs are an attractive class of proteins ...
Marques, André Canal (Date of defense: 2016-02-23)
The growing demand for innovation and the ever-shorter product lifespan result in a great amount and diversity of waste disposal at dumps and landfills. One of the fastest growing waste types nowadays ...
Souaihi, Oussama (Date of defense: 2017-12-22)
Numerical simulation play an important role in the design, engineering, operation and management of buildings. It can help reducing energy consumption, improving indoor air quality and thermal comfort ...
Cruz Matías, Irving Alberto (Date of defense: 2014-01-13)
Bio-CAD and in-silico experimentation are getting a growing interest in biomedical applications where scientific data coming from real samples are used to compute structural parameters that allow to ...
Marzeddu, Andrea (Date of defense: 2016-04-19)
The aim of this work is the study of laboratory effects on the measurement of wave impact induced loads on rigid maritime structures. A high number of experiments (more then 4000 using regular wave ...
Giuntoli, Guido (Date of defense: 2020-01-30)
This thesis aims to develop a High-Performance Computing implementation to solve large composite materials problems through the use of the FE2 multi-scale method. Previous works have not been able to ...
Barbu, L. G. (Lucia Gratiela) (Date of defense: 2016-02-01)
The present thesis aims at advancing an innovative computational methodology that simulates steel and composite material fracture under cyclic loading following a phenomenological approach, with calibration ...