López-Dóriga Sandoval, Uxía (Date of defense: 2020-12-18)
Coastal areas concentrate very high socio-economic and natural values, which will be highly threatened by climate change, particularly by sea-level rise (SLR). Given the intrinsic characteristics of ...
Pinzón Ureña, Luis (Date of defense: 2020-09-18)
Earthquakes are defined as a "violent shaking of the Earth's crust and mantle, caused by forces acting inside the Earth". In most cases, these forces are caused by an energy release process generated ...
Roca i Sans, Josep-Miquel (Date of defense: 2020-11-12)
This thesis aims to develop simple models that allow evaluating the relevance of the principal parameters that condition the energy flows in the ocean-atmosphere system, and how changes in these parameters ...
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 ...
Martínez Estévez, Ariadna (Date of defense: 2020-06-29)
In order to cope with the serious and urgent problem of global warming, it is imperative to reduce the impact of CO2 emissions in the atmosphere. One of the alternatives proposed involves the injection ...
Matas Casado, Gerard (Date of defense: 2020-11-04)
The fragmentation process in rockfalls is a complex phenomenon that is not well understood and only a few rockfall simulation models consider it explicitly. Fragmentation significantly affects the ...
Benavides, Jaime (Date of defense: 2020-02-18)
Air pollution is known to cause detrimental health effects in cities and specially on the most vulnerable population. Having access to reliable air pollutant concentration data at street-level in urban ...
Castellón López, Javier (Date of defense: 2020-02-18)
Soil behavior in the range of small strains should be considered in the analysis of geotechnical problems when sensitive elements are affected, which is very common in urban environments. However, some ...
Ruiz Restrepo, Daniel Felipe (Date of defense: 2020-06-12)
Bentonite-based materials are being currently considered in several countries as a backfill component in the multi-barrier concept for deep geological disposal of radioactive waste. The bentonite barrier ...