Sánchez Egea, Antonio José (Date of defense: 2016-01-26)
This thesis presents a study on the variation of the mechanical properties of some materials. These variations are registered for processes as bottom bending, wire drawing or round turning, which are ...
Puig Damians, Ivan (Date of defense: 2016-07-28)
Soil reinforced retaining wall structures are materiallymore efficientthan competing construction solutions such as gravity and cantilever walls. Nevertheless, the behaviour and interactions between the ...
Zhan, Zhifeng (Date of defense: 2012-06-19)
Based on the laboratory, field and numerical results, the post-rupture strength defined firstly by Burland (1990) is verified and introduced in this thesis to describe the two-stage post-peak ...
Navarro Requena, Claudia (Date of defense: 2017-11-20)
Chronic skin wounds are a major socioeconomic burden in developed societies, affecting specially elder and diabetic people. It is estimated that 1 to 2% of the population will suffer a chronic wound ...
Elkherbawy, Ahmed Abdelbasset (Date of defense: 2019-10-22)
Lean Construction is regarded as an innovative approach of management for various types of projects in the field of construction. As much as it is currently applied in some countries, its expansion is ...
Pallarés Valls, Oriol (Date of defense: 2016-11-30)
This thesis deals with the development of a time synchronization algorithm for underwater sensor networks. The ease of deployment and maintenance of wireless networks leaded this research to the use of ...
Rubio Romano, Antonio (Date of defense: 2021-07-23)
Performing semantic interpretation of fashion images is undeniably one of the most challenging domains for computer vision. Subtle variations in color and shape might confer different meanings or ...
Rudé Moreno, Miquel (Date of defense: 2016-12-01)
Photonic devices are key to implement future communication and information technologies. Their success is largely determined by our capability to appropriately control light in such devices, especially ...
Deza, Juan Ignacio (Date of defense: 2015-02-26)
This Thesis is devoted to the construction of global climate networks (CNs) built from time series -surface air temperature anomalies (SAT)- using nonlinear analysis. Several information theory measures ...
Creus López, Carles (Date of defense: 2016-05-24)
Automata are a widely used formalism in computer science as a concise representation for sets. They are interesting from a theoretical and practical point of view. This work is focused on automata that ...