Detection and diagnosis of faults and damage in wind turbines 

    Puruncajas Maza, Bryan (Date of defense: 2023-05-26)

    (English) Wind turbines are huge structures with technological and industrial development on land and sea. These structures are located in remote areas with difficult access, with extreme environmental conditions. These ...

    The variational approach to brittle fracture in materials with anisotropic surface energy and in thin sheets 

    Li, Bin (Date of defense: 2016-03-08)

    Fracture mechanics of brittle materials has focused on bulk materials with isotropic surface energy. In this situation different physical principles for crack path selection are very similar or even equivalent. The situation ...