Casariego Vales, Pedro (Date of defense: 2014-07-08)
Since a few decades ago, the cold-formed steel industry has developed a press-forming procedure to bend trapezoidal commercial steel sheeting into an arched shape. The main quality of these arches is ...
Eijo, A. (Ariel) (Date of defense: 2014-09-25)
Although laminated materials have been used for decades, their employment has increased nowadays in the last years as a result of the gained confidence of the industry on these materials. This has ...
Silva Araujo Monteiro, Virginia (Date of defense: 2013-06-10)
La propuesta de una vejiga artificial es un obstáculo a trasponer. El cáncer de vejiga está entre los casos más frecuentes de enfermedades oncológicas en Estados Unidos y Europa. Ese cáncer es considerado ...
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 ...
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 ...
Dialamishabankareh, Narges (Date of defense: 2014-03-12)
This thesis deals with the numerical simulation of welding processes. The analysis is focused either at global level, considering the full component to be jointed, or locally, studying more in detail ...
Nadukandi, Prashanth (Date of defense: 2011-05-13)
We present three new stabilized finite element (FE) based Petrov-Galerkin methods for the convection-diffusionreaction (CDR), the Helmholtz and the Stokes problems, respectively. The work embarks upon ...
Baiges Aznar, Joan (Date of defense: 2011-01-14)
The finite element method is a tool very often employed to deal with the numerical simulation of multiphysics problems.Many times each of these problems can be attached to a subdomain in space which ...
Puigvert Cobos, Francesc (Date of defense: 2014-10-20)
En estructures pretesades sotmeses a ambients corrosius, s'està estudiant la possibilitat de substituir els tendons d’acer per tendons que no pateixin els efectes de la corrosió. En aquest sentit, els ...
Diego Íñiguez, Javier (Date of defense: 2013-07-03)
Cell migration is a fundamental element in a variety of physiological and pathological processes. Alteration of its regulatory mechanisms leads to loss of adhesion and increased motility, critical steps ...