Fernández Pérez, Ignasi (Date of defense: 2015-07-20)
Many reinforced concrete structures suffer damage due to aging and due to the environmental agressivity, thus affecting their serviceability performance and safety. Structural evaluation of a deteriorated ...
Jiménez Fernández, Cristián (Date of defense: 2015-07-02)
Due to the related problems and the ongoing awareness on environmental issues is that efforts are put in different areas of knowledge, in order to determine, analyze and formulate solutions towards a ...
Macarulla Martí, Marcel (Date of defense: 2013-12-17)
Literature usually suggests that construction organization can reduce the costs derived from rework implementing quality management systems. Most common challenges and obstacles that construction ...
Bedynek, Agnieszka (Date of defense: 2014-03-31)
Tapered plate girders often form part of large-scale structures such as long continuous bridges or industrial buildings where due to considerable loads the higher resistance is required. There are several ...
Laranjeira de Oliveira, Filipe (Date of defense: 2010-03-26)
En los últimos años la industria viene exigiendo el empleo del hormigón reforzado con fibras de acero (HRFA) en aplicaciones estructurales. Debido al hecho de que la resistencia pos-fisuración del ...
Camós Andreu, Carles (Date of defense: 2015-03-13)
Tunneling construction represents an alteration to the distribution of soil pressures that will almost inevitably generate ground subsidence, which can endanger the adjacent buildings in urban areas. ...
Sarmiento Comesías, Marta (Date of defense: 2015-11-23)
Spatial Arch Bridges (SABs) are defined as bridges in which vertical deck loads produce bending moments and shear forces not contained in the arch plane due to their geometrical and structural configuration. ...
Etxeberria Larrañaga, Miren (Date of defense: 2004-06-18)
The use of recycled aggregates in concrete opens a whole new range of possibilities in the reuse of materials in the building industry. This could be an important breakthrough for our society in our ...
Ahmed Elyamani Ali Mohamed (Date of defense: 2015-02-20)
Historical structures are vital to the realization of how the technical, artistic, and scientific skills of the human kind have developed over time. These structures are one of the motors of the tourism ...
Liao, Lin (Date of defense: 2015-09-25)
Concrete technology has changed greatly in the past decades. Steel fibre reinforced concrete (SFRC) is an example of the development in this field. It is obtained by adding fibres that act as a reinforcement ...