García Aguirre, Karen Adriana (Date of defense: 2020-03-26)
Twinning induced plasticity (TWIP) steels possess both, very high tensile strength and large elongation together with high formability and an outstanding high strain hardening. The unique combination ...
Torres Garrido, Diego (Date of defense: 2021-10-07)
Titanium (Ti) has been used for decades for bone prostheses due to its mechanical performance and good biocompatibility. However, the stress shielding effect, as a result of the stiffness mismatch between ...
Cano Casas, Francesc (Date of defense: 2020-07-17)
The world of technical textiles is present every day in more sectors. In the work presented, a new facet of textile materials has been shown, textiles as a drug excipient and functional matrix. It is ...
Monterde Gascón, María Carmen (Date of defense: 2023-02-27)
(English) The transition towards to low carbon energy generation is promoting the installation of renewable energy sources, their successful deployment requires efficient energy storage systems in order ...
Sánchez Artigas, Marina (Date of defense: 2021-02-17)
This doctoral thesis has been carried out at the company VAC-TRON S.A., together with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, in the Besós (EEBE) and ...
Lorente Soteras, Itzel (Date of defense: 2023-09-14)
(English) One of the main goals of the powder metallurgical (PM) industry has been to develop powders that have favourable handling, geometrical and optimal metallurgical properties. Currently, there ...
Fernández Cano, Jessica (Date of defense: 2022-03-18)
(English) The engineering design process uses a systemic model that stands out for a common pattern that has evolved from Archer (1968), through French (1985), Nigel Cross (2000) and Michael F. Ashby ...
Macías García, Ana Isabel (Date of defense: 2022-11-08)
(English) In this thesis, the ability to refine the grain size of a low carbon steel (deep drawing quality, DDQ) was studied by means of two different techniques of Severe Plastic Deformation (SPD). ...