Medina Tapia, Marcos (Date of defense: 2021-06-15)
Cities face problems influencing urban mobility, such as traffic growth, congestion, explosive population growth, urban sprawl. According to the literature, traffic, congestion, and urban development ...
Tarragó Munté, Daniel (Date of defense: 2021-06-03)
The starting point of this thesis is the failure of part of a quay wall under construction. The quay was divided in two phases, failure affected Phase 1 only. The failure and all the relevant associated ...
Blanca Alcubilla, Gonzalo (Date of defense: 2021-11-26)
Air transport, in 2018, was the means of transport chosen by 8.8 billion people around the world. This is a sector that expected continued passenger growth in the following years, but due to the current ...
Madrid Argomedo, Manuel Ricardo (Date of defense: 2021-07-21)
The design and construction of vertical caisson breakwaters on soft soils represents a significant challenge for the engineering of marine structures. Past experience reveals that this type of structures ...
de Vreese, Steffen (Date of defense: 2021-06-17)
While marine, anthropogenic noise pollution is a scientific and societal matter of concern, there is limited knowledge on how sea animals, particularly cetaceans, perceive their environment through ...
Bado, Mattia Francesco (Date of defense: 2021-07-26)
The employment of a novel cutting edge strain monitoring technique named Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors (DOFS) as Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) tools is becoming increasingly common. Its popularity ...
De Vriendt, Kevin (Date of defense: 2021-07-16)
Seawater intrusion presents one of the most unique and ubiquitous groundwater problems in the field of hydrogeology. Its complex boundary conditions coupled with variable density flow results in non-uniform ...
Gasparini, Andrea (Date of defense: 2021-03-04)
CO2 geological storage is considered one of the options technologically viable in order to decrease the industrial emissions of this gas species that strongly contribute to the greenhouse effect in the ...
Requejo Castro, David (Date of defense: 2021-07-13)
We live in a complexand interconnected world which permeates ditterent scales. sectors or decision problems. This fact is acknowledged by the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, ...
Hospital Bravo, Raúl (Date of defense: 2021-07-05)
The design of offshore power stations (for wind, wave or tidal energy generation) requires assessing their environmental impact. In particular, it is of the major importance to predict the impact of the ...
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004 - Computer science and technology. Computing. Data processing (6)