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Tapias Camacho, Mauricio Alberto (Date of defense: 2016-12-21)
This thesis presents a study of the mechanical behaviour of coarse-crushable aggregates, using the discrete element method (DEM). A novel DEM model has been developed taking into account particle breakage, the influence ...
Marín Vindas, Carolina Alexandra (Date of defense: 2023-09-06)
(English) Marine microorganisms are fundamental for life on Earth. For example, they have produced most of the oxygen existing in our planet and are essential in biogeochemical cycles and energy flow to different trophic ...
Ballesteros Mascarell, Ainara (Date of defense: 2023-01-13)
(English) Jellyfish stings cause discomfort to users of the marine environment, who sometimes require medical assistance. Although jellyfish stings are common today, the scientific community remains in disagreement on how ...
Bado, Mattia Francesco (Date of defense: 2021-07-26)
The employment of a novel cutting edge strain monitoring technique named Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors (DOFS) as Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) tools is becoming increasingly common. Its popularity can be attributed ...
Barba Ferrer, Carme (Date of defense: 2018-11-16)
Worldwide water demand has been increasing over time, mainly due to population growth and society development. In addition, climate change is causing a significant alteration of the periodicity and intensity of precipitation ...
Latorre Pérez, Francisco (Date of defense: 2023-02-03)
(English) There is a myriad of microorganisms on Earth contributing to global biogeochemical cycles. In the surface ocean, the smallest microbes (picoplankton) are responsible for an important fraction of the total atmospheric ...
Salgado-Gálvez, M. A. (Date of defense: 2016-07-04)
Calderón Vega, Felícitas (Date of defense: 2021-04-20)
This thesis encompasses a set of different subjects related to metocean variables but studied from different perspectives. The metocean variables are mainly significant wave heights and wind velocities and, to a lesser ...
Arias, Dulce María (Date of defense: 2018-09-28)
Cyanobacteria are prokaryotic aerobic photosynthetic microorganisms with the capacity to remove nutrients from wastewater and synthesize a large variety of bioactive compounds and valuable byproducts. Among those valuable ...
Molins Delgado, Daniel (Date of defense: 2017-12-01)
In this PhD. Thesis the results of eleven studies about the presence, distribution, and effects of personal care products (PCPs) in the environment are presented with the intention of giving a consolidated vision and to ...
El-Ghamrawy, Karim (Date of defense: 2021-04-23)
Composite materials are gaining popularity as an alternative to classical materials in many different applications. Moreover, their design is even more flexible due to the potential of additive ...
Ramírez Melgarejo, Monserrat G. (Date of defense: 2021-02-26)
A wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) is a system that aims to reduce the negative impact to bodies of water where the effluent is discharged. reducing the pollutants discharged. Treatment plants have an impact on the ...
Balabanov, Oleg (Date of defense: 2019-10-11)
Solutions to high-dimensional parameter-dependent problems are in great demand in the contemporary applied science and engineering. The standard approximation methods for parametric equations can require computational ...
Gobbi, Andressa (Date of defense: 2019-01-25)
A significant part of the pathologies found in concrete dams is related with the presence of unsound aggregates that react with the cement paste. Such reactions may lead to expansions, causing damage and compromising the ...
Valhondo, Cristina (Date of defense: 2017-02-03)
Artificial recharge of aquifers through infiltration basins (AR) improves water quality and in- creases groundwater resources, which make of it an appropriate technique for the renaturalization of waters affected directly ...
Moaven, Arash (Date of defense: 2023-07-04)
(English) The Proper Generalized Decomposition (PGD) is a mathematical framework belonging to the Model Order Reduction (MOR) class of techniques. To the best of the author's knowledge, this methodology has not been applied ...
Bellido Recoder, Lucía (Date of defense: 2021-10-25)
Railway bridges located at seismic zones are particularly complex structures that present exceptional difficulties due to the existence of the track and the phenomena associated to it called track-bridge interaction. The ...
Arashiro, Larissa Terumi (Date of defense: 2020-07-02)
Water is undoubtedly the most essential resource of humanity. However. supplying the human population with clean water has been a major challenge for decades. Contaminants in wastewaters endanger water bodies and the ...
González Guzmán, Carlos Alberto (Date of defense: 2021-03-18)
The efficient and equitable use of urban road space considered as a public good and a scarce resource, leads to giving priority to sustainable transport modes (walking, cycling and public transport). Private vehicle sees ...
Malik, Muhammad Haris (Date of defense: 2017-02-28)
This thesis presents the study of the model order reduction for power grids and transmission networks. The specific focus has been the transient dynamics. A mathematical viewpoint has been adopted for model reduction. Power ...