Elkoro Ugarteburu, Ander (Date of defense: 2018-10-26)
This thesis discusses the development of a new methodology for 3D printing of TiO2 nanoparticles and its applications in air purification and hydrogen production. A dosage has been obtained that allows ...
Pérez Carreras, Adrià (Date of defense: 2018-12-04)
The study of hydro-mechanical (HM) coupled problems in different areas of civil, environmental or petroleum engineering is common in literature, but the effect of a thermal field by means of the heat ...
Pérez Madrigal, Domingo (Date of defense: 2018-06-20)
The use of bituminous material milled from the pavement (known as Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement, or RAP) in the manufacture of recycled bituminous mixtures is growing day by day due to the economic and ...
Fernández Álvarez, Fernando Ángel (Date of defense: 2018-05-03)
Flying squids develop all its life cycle in the water column, as planktonic paralarvae and then as nektonic subadults and adults. In this Ph. D. Thesis, light was shed over several poorly understood ...
Mirsalehi, Sajjad (Date of defense: 2018-04-30)
This research focusses on an experimental investigation on the hydro-mechanical behaviour of binary ‘all-one’ mixtures. These mixtures –originated from the excavation of selected materials during earthwork ...
Paipuri, Mahendra (Date of defense: 2018-03-21)
This thesis proposes a coupled continuous and hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin formulation to solve conjugate heat transfer problems. This model is then used to find the thermal response of Glass ...
Villarraga Díaz, Claudia Juliana (Date of defense: 2018-02-28)
The environmental conditions may play a relevant role in the stability of rock slopes. In fact, weathering can contribute to the reduction of strength of the material, while atmospheric actions may ...
López Montero, Teresa (Date of defense: 2018-06-19)
Asphalt mixtures cracking is one of the most common deterioration mechanisms in flexible pavements. This phenomenon is due to both the application of loads and the degradation of the material as a result ...
Gasser i Rubinat, Marc (Date of defense: 2018-11-19)
The Mediterranean Outflow Water (MOW) is a dense (¿>1028.5 kg/m3), saline (38.5 g/kg) ocean stream originated in the evaporative Mediterranean basin flowing westward past Espartel Sill as a fast (>1 ...
Comolli, Alessandro (Date of defense: 2018-06-14)
Solute transport in heterogeneous porous media in general exhibits anomalous behaviors, in the sense that it is characterized by features that cannot be explained in terms of traditional models based ...