Mercedes Cedeño, Luis Enrique (Date of defense: 2019-10-04)
In order to pursue sustainable objectives in the construction industry, a new composite material using vegetal fabric coated with resin and embedded into mortar was developed, characterized and applied ...
Yamin Lacouture, Luis Eduardo (Date of defense: 2016-01-28)
The probabilistic seismic risk assessment in terms of economic losses for building portfolios aims at the estimation of the probability distribution functions of losses. This can be done for a specific ...
Moreno, E. (Elvira) (Date of defense: 2014-02-26)
The objective of this thesis is to develop and evaluate a methodology for the solution of the Navier-Stokes equations for Bingham Herschel-Bulkley viscoplastic fluids using stabilized mixed velocity/pressure ...
Ferrer Ballester, Miquel (Date of defense: 2005-11-10)
El fallo resistente de las losas mixtas se produce generalmente por el deslizamiento longitudinal entre la chapa nervada de acero y el hormigón. La dificultad de diseño de chapas para losas mixtas reside ...
Viglialoro, Giuseppe (Date of defense: 2007-03-14)
Las membranas son estructuras (sin rigidez a flexión) que conforman una superficie en el espacio, con espesor mínimo. Se aproximan a una superficie geométrica y trabajan sólo mediante esfuerzos de ...
García Espinosa, Julio (Date of defense: 1999-12-20)
La predicción precisa de los efectos producidos por el acoplamiento fluido estructura para cuerpos parcial o totalmente sumergidos, incluyendo superficies libres, es un problema de gran relevancia en ...
Flor López, Silvia de la (Date of defense: 2005-04-29)
El objetivo de este trabajo de investigación es evaluar y adaptar los modelos constitutivos existentes para la caracterización termomecánica de las aleaciones con memoria de forma de níquel-titanio ...
Escrig Pérez, Christian (Date of defense: 2015-10-02)
The global tendency to apply sustainability criteria in most of productive fields, as well as, the limited durability and the pathologies that suffer the reinforced concrete elements, are aspects that ...
Velázquez Ameijide, Juan (Date of defense: 2015-03-23)
This dissertation deals with obtaining the mechanical properties of the cortical bone of the human ribs. One hundred one samples from 76 donors were tested for this study. The number of tested samples ...
Pérez Martínez, M. (Marco) (Date of defense: 2012-02-06)
Composite laminates offer decisive advantages compared to more traditional materials, especially in structural applications where weight is a design-limiting factor. However, they have also shown a ...