Díaz Alvarado, Sergio Alberto (Date of defense: 2017-09-18)
The main objective of this thesis is the probabilistic assessment of the expected seismic damage in steel buildings located in Mexico City. Although a deterministic analysis is performed both, seismic ...
Parera Morales, Ferran (Date of defense: 2020-01-27)
The understanding of soil behavior is the foundation where the geotechnical engineering is built on. Experimentation is essential to improve this comprehension, and then to be able to translate it into ...
Alavi, Hamidreza (Date of defense: 2022-10-11)
A Decision Support System (DSS) can help facility managers to improve building performance, occupants’ comfort, and energy efficiency during the Operation and Maintenance (O&M) phase. These DSSs are ...
Puig Damians, Ivan (Date of defense: 2016-07-28)
Soil reinforced retaining wall structures are materiallymore efficientthan competing construction solutions such as gravity and cantilever walls. Nevertheless, the behaviour and interactions between the ...
Elkherbawy, Ahmed Abdelbasset (Date of defense: 2019-10-22)
Lean Construction is regarded as an innovative approach of management for various types of projects in the field of construction. As much as it is currently applied in some countries, its expansion is ...
Carlesso, Débora Martinello (Date of defense: 2020-03-06)
Fibre reinforced concrete (FRC) is recognized as suitable material for structural applications. The number of national codes that have approved it is an evidence. Structures where FRC is generally used ...
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 ...
Jiménez Torres, Adrià (Date of defense: 2021-12-22)
The design rules on Reduced Beam Sections (RBS) are covered in the Eurocodes in EN1998-3 as a possible solution to improve rotation capacity of beams for the retrofit of existing structures. The design ...
Rasol, Mezgeen Abdulrahman Rasol (Date of defense: 2021-01-20)
The study of surface geology by means of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) can provide information about abrupt lateral changes in the terrain. The location ofthese changes is very useful in seismic ...
Cornejo Velázquez, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2020-12-21)
It is well known that in civil engineering structures are designed so that they remain,whenever possible, in an elastic regime and with their mechanical properties intact. The truth isthat in reality ...
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