Palacios Pierluissi, Andrea Viviana (Date of defense: 2021-09-16)
Seawater intrusion (SWI) consists in the movement of seawater (SW) into freshwater (FW) aquifers, contaminating drinking water resources. SWI, along with the parallel reduction of Submarine Groundwater ...
Mension i Camps, Josep (Date of defense: 2019-09-10)
High-level service bus systems, even though in many different forms and local particularities, have been spread out around the globe over the last decades, driven by the administration and the transport ...
Ziaei-Rad, Vahid (Date of defense: 2016-05-02)
The phase field method has proven to be an important tool in computational fracture mechanics in that it does not require complicated crack tracking and is able to predict crack nucleation and branching. ...
Sala Sanmartí, Marcel (Date of defense: 2019-10-29)
Freeway traffic management is necessary to improve capacity and reduce congestion, especially in metropolitan freeways where the rush period lasts several hours per day. Traffic congestion implies delays ...
Delgadillo Ayala, Rick Milton (Date of defense: 2022-03-23)
In recent years the scientific community has been developing new techniques in structural health monitoring (SHM) to identify the damages in civil structures specially in bridges. The bridge health ...
Germano, Nicola (Date of defense: 2021-12-14)
This thesis aims to propose and validate an innovative, fully open-source framework capable of performing multiscale analysis for the assessment of local wind flows within the urban fabric. Each part ...
Garolera Vinent, Daniel (Date of defense: 2017-09-18)
This thesis describes the extension of the Finite Element Method with zero-thickness interface elements (FEM+z) to 3D, large and complex problems in geomaterials, with special interest in petroleum ...
Castro-Alcalá, Eduardo (Date of defense: 2019-05-30)
Tracer visualization in the laboratory at high spatial and temporal resolution can help advance the study of mixing processes. However, grain borders, fluctuations in lighting and non-uniform brightness ...
Khadivipanah, Peiman (Date of defense: 2022-02-03)
The main objective of this thesis is to describe and implement a rate-dependent (viscoplastic) constitutive equations for copper based canister using a single internal state variable and use it for ...
Barbat Vlad, Gabriel (Date of defense: 2021-02-11)
The numerical modelling of fracture has been an active topic of research for over five decades. Most of the approaches employed rely on the use of the Finite Element Method, which has shown to be an ...