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 ...
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 ...
Cafiero Díaz, Mailhyn E. (Date of defense: 2014-12-18)
The aim of this work is to develop, implement and validate a technique for information transfer, in the domain decomposition methods, able to address coupled thermomechanical problems, with mixed ...
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 ...
Marulanda Fraume, Mabel Cristina (Date of defense: 2013-04-25)
El riesgo sísmico y en general los desastres futuros que puede sufrir una ciudad, una región o un país significan una obligación o pasivo contingente no explícito que puede afectar, desde el punto de ...
Chambi Chuquichambi, José Luis (Date of defense: 2012-11-30)
El continuo deterioro y/o daños causados en las estructuras de hormigón durante su vida útil, son fenómenos inevitables que conlleva el paso del tiempo y viene a ser un problema importante que ha conducido ...
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 ...
Velásquez Villada, César Augusto (Date of defense: 2016-02-01)
The natural hazard risk is a contingent liability and, thus, a sovereign risk for national governments and, therefore, it is important to assess properly the potential losses in order to design suitable ...
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 ...