Su, Hang (Date of defense: 2023-06-19)
(English) The steel-concrete composite structural solution has been widely applied in the execution of simply supported bridges since the merits of concrete compressive strength and steel tensile strength ...
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 ...
Bertran Oller, Oriol (Date of defense: 2023-07-11)
(English) Groundwater is now under high stress levels and its quality and quantity arise as one of the most interesting and necessary topics our community should address. This doctoral thesis is focused ...
Stamatopoulos, Georgios (Date of defense: 2023-07-07)
(English) This thesis records the evolution of the container throughput dynamics of the European port system from 2001-2020, analyses the dynamics of the European container port hierarchy with methodologies ...
García Díaz, Yineth Paola (Date of defense: 2023-09-27)
(English) A comprehensive evaluation of various industrial and urban by-products was conducted to determine their potential as precursors for alkali-activated materials (AAM) in Spain. Over 15 by-products ...
Segura Valdivieso, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2023-09-22)
(English) This thesis investigates the response of carbon and stainless steel frames in fire, and proposes new and more efficient approaches for their design. The investigation is mainly focused on one ...
González Flórez, Cristina (Date of defense: 2023-10-06)
(English) Atmospheric mineral dust is composed of a variety of mineral particles exhibiting distinct composition, shape, and size. The wide range of diameters exhibited by dust particles, spanning more ...
Wang, Xuejing (Date of defense: 2023-11-28)
(English) During the lifetime of long-span bridges, the traffic conditions are affected by the surroundings and will typically vary and also unpredictably change. In this thesis, a prior site-specific ...
Villar Salinas, Sergio (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)
(English) Axial forces in columns of moment-resisting frames (MRF) have a paramount role for the seismic performance of these structural systems. Nonetheless, there are significant gaps in the literature ...
Obiol Plana, Aleix (Date of defense: 2023-01-27)
(English) Marine heterotrophic flagellates (HF) are very small (2-5 µm) unpigmented protists that are dominant bacterial grazers in the ocean, where they link the transfer of carbon from bacterial cells ...
624 - Civil and structural engineering in general (130)
55 - Earth Sciences. Geological sciences (67)
69 - Building (construction) trade. Building materials. Building practice and procedure (50)
004 - Computer science and technology. Computing. Data processing (31)
620 - Materials testing. Commercial materials. Power stations. Economics of energy (25)