Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya: Recent submissions
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Assessment of the biological risks associated to the use of biosolids and wastewater
(English) The circular economy is an emerging concept presented as a solution to counteract the damage caused by the linear economic scheme followed in the past decades. It is based on the principle of "closing the life ...
El costo del impacto sobre el litoral debido al cambio climático en Cataluña
(English) Climate change is a major issue that is having a significant impact on coastal areas globally. This phenomenon is generating processes of erosion, flooding and sea level rise, which is of great concern. These ...
Pelagia noctiluca (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) as an industrial research model: improvements in aquaculture techniques and preventive measures against their stings
(English) Jellyfish stings cause discomfort to users of the marine environment, who sometimes require medical assistance. Although jellyfish stings are common today, the scientific community remains in disagreement on how ...
La Khôra del común : una exploración de los componentes espaciales de la cooperación a lo largo del río Llobregat en el Baix Berguedà
(English) The first entry of the Diccionario de la lengua española (RAE) defines cooperate as "to work together with one or more agents to achieve a common goal". Perhaps this idea of aligned agents with a shared objective ...
Development of fractional step methods for compressible flow solvers using variational multi-scale finite element formulations
(English) This thesis deals with finite element methods to solve compressible flow problems, an important branch of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) whose applications are widespread in many areas of engineering and ...
Urban mobility safety in Barcelona: an evaluation of risk factors and techniques to achieve Vision Zero
(English) In order to converge towards Vision Zero concept in road safety, traffic crashes need great study and analysis. This thesis is aimed at this goal, applied to the urban and metropolitan environment of Barcelona. ...
Detection and diagnosis of faults and damage in wind turbines
(English) Wind turbines are huge structures with technological and industrial development on land and sea. These structures are located in remote areas with difficult access, with extreme environmental conditions. These ...
Definition of multidimensional reduced order models for the elastic analysis of large composite structures
(Engilsh) Modern composite materials, primarily based on the union of polymeric matrices and fibers of glass, carbon or any other fiber of remarkable rigidity, have paved the way for the design and manufacture of lightweight ...
El ciment natural a Catalunya
(English) In the area of architecture and construction, natural cement is the least known of traditional conglomerates. Most professionals in the sector who are interested in conglomerates have broad knowledge of the two ...
Towards the automation of colon segmentation in magnetic resonance images
(English) The study of the colonic volume has strong relevance in gastroenterology and contributes to the diagnosis and research of lowseverity diseases such as constipation, diarrhea, or Irritable Bowel Syndrome. In the ...
Towards computational modeling of electrohydrodynamics in microfluidics-based manufacturing
(English) The high precision controllability and versatility of Electrohydrodynamic (EHD) processes are enabling and accelerating the development of novel microfluidic-based manufacturing techniques. This technology relies ...
Las One-Stop-Shops, ventanillas únicas para la rehabilitación energética residencial. Estrategia para fomentar la renovación del parque edificado en España
(English) Global warming and climate change are undeniable and must be combated with urgent measures. In this sense, the rehabilitation of the building stock is crucial to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In Europe, 35% ...
Contributions to real-time monitoring of the ionosphere using GNSS signals
(English) This document presents the collection of four manuscripts published during my Doctoral academic formation, which main goal has been the real-time implementation of tools to monitor the ionosphere using Global ...
Colloidal quantum dots based bolometers
(English) Bolometer technology, crucial for uncooled thermal detection in thermography, industrial inspection, monitoring, and surveillance applications, relies on thermistors primarily made of VOx, a-Si, and Si/SiGe QWs ...
Improving the performance of synthetic and biomimetic 3D-printed bone grafts
(English) Bone is the second most frequent tissue transplantation right after blood transfusion. Although it has natural self-healing abilities, bone grafts are required in critical size defects to provide mechanical ...
Algunos aspectos de la ciencia cierta de la construcción medieval
(Español) La tesis pretende a través del estudio de las fuentes de la época y de los textos interpretativos más notables acotar la verdadera dimensión de los conocimientos reales de los constructores medievales. No parece ...
Resiliencia y panarquía en los procesos de regeneración de la ciudad postindustrial. Una aproximación a las dinámicas urbanas a través del caso de Mataró (Barcelona)
(English) This research deepens in the knowledge of the processes and changing dynamics of cities from the perspective of their resilience. The thesis proposes as object the processes of regeneration and transformation of ...
Habitatge i vulnerabilitat: la millora de les condicions d’habitabilitat en barris desafavorits: una aproximació espacial a la qüestió de l’habitatge
(English) This thesis addresses the connections between housing and vulnerability by studying habitability in two of Barcelona’s most underprivileged neighbourhoods, as part of the debate on policies for housing rehabilitation ...
Multiscale subsurface characterization for geo-energy applications
(English) Geological Carbon Storage (GCS) holds immense promise for mitigating atmospheric CO2 emissions, making the sealing capacity of caprocks pivotal as storage scales up. Despite excellent sealing capacities observed ...
Arquitectura moderna en la latitud 0º: la ciudad de Quito y la Cordillera de los Andes
(English) This doctoral thesis examines the process of adaptation of Modern Architecture in Quito over a period of twenty years (1960-1980). The city's location at latitude 0 and an elevation of 2850 meters above sea level ...
