Jou Claus, Sonia (Date of defense: 2022-06-20)
Global change is expected to affect significantly the global hydrological behavior, changing mean annual precipitation patterns, increasing length of drought periods, rising evaporation and atmospheric ...
Collico, Stefano (Date of defense: 2022-06-13)
The task of geotechnical site characterization includes defining the layout of ground units and establishing their relevant engineering properties. This is an activity in which uncertainties of different ...
Wang, Yufei (Date of defense: 2022-07-11)
Geological Carbon Sequestration (GCS) plays a major role in mitigating the global warming due to the increasing concentration of CO2 in atmosphere. It is important to understand the GCS process to analyze ...
Maso Sotomayor, Miguel (Date of defense: 2022-09-29)
(English) This thesis investigates numerical methods for the simulation of surface water flows, focusing on the interaction between the large scale and the local scale and its application to natural ...
Cots Corominas, Carles (Date of defense: 2022-05-06)
This thesis develops a new structural strengthening technique: converting existing reinforced concrete structures to composite sections by inserting connectors after controlled demolition with high-pressure ...
Komarizadehasl, Seyedmilad (Date of defense: 2022-10-27)
(English) There is increasing interest in developing low-cost sensors for economical structural health monitoring of civil engineering infrastructures. In addition to their price, they have the additional ...
Belda Ferrín, Guillem (Date of defense: 2022-10-28)
[English] In n-dimensional adaptive applications, conformal simplicial meshes must be lo cally modified. One systematic local modification is to bisect the prescribed simplices while surrounding ...
Larion, Ygee (Date of defense: 2022-02-01)
In a large number of geo-environmental applications, it is essential to model coupled processes that depend on several design parameters such as material properties and geometrical features. ...
Montemayor, Erica Yvonne (Date of defense: 2022-11-24)
(English) Agriculture not only contributes to more than a quarter of all global greenhouse gas emissions but is also the number one anthropogenic source of nitrogen emissions and a danger to nearly half ...
Gorgani, Nourjemal (Date of defense: 2022-09-15)
Vegetable Fiber Reinforced Cement Composite Materials (VFRCC) have emerged as a potential construction material, providing adequate load-bearing capacity and ductility for non-structural applications. ...