Bortolini, Rafaela (Date of defense: 2019-02-28)
The performance of existing buildings is receiving increased concern due to the need to renovate the aging building stock and provide better quality of life for end users. The conservation state of ...
Solsona Berga, Alba (Date of defense: 2019-01-30)
Marine mammals face numerous anthropogenic threats, including fisheries interactions, ocean noise, ship strikes, and marine debris. Monitoring the negative impact on marine mammals through the assessment ...
Ibáñez Pinillo, Rubén (Date of defense: 2019-09-02)
Simulation Based Engineering Science (SBES) has brought major improvements in optimization, control and inverse analysis, all leading to a deeper understanding in many processes occuring in the real ...
Ribera Pi, Judit (Date of defense: 2019-07-23)
The increasing water demand coupled to the depletion of natural water sources has raised the need to investigate and develop in wastewater treatment and reuse. Even more, the application of circular ...
Celigueta Jordana, Miguel Ángel (Date of defense: 2019-11-14)
The work presented in this Thesis is a set of developments focused on the Particle Finite Element Method (PFEM) and its applicability in several fields in Civil Engineering. The PFEM had already been ...
Quaranta, Giacomo (Date of defense: 2019-09-02)
Numerical simulation, the use of computers to run a program which implements a mathematical model for a physical system, is an important part of today technological world. It is required in many ...
Guerrero Sánchez, Queralt (Date of defense: 2019-02-08)
This Thesis conducts the study of bedform development and dynamics in the inner shelf integrating observations at different spatial and temporal scales. An initial assumption is that different scales ...
Shen, Yanfei (Date of defense: 2019-12-02)
In AISC 360-16, the Direct Analysis Method (DM) has been set as the primary method for the stability design of frames. DM, considering initial global sway imperfection, is essentially Geometrically ...
Criollo Manjarrez, Rotman A. (Date of defense: 2019-03-08)
The conceptualisation of a groundwater system involves continuous monitoring and evaluation of a large number of parameters (e.g., hydraulic parameters). Regarding hydraulic properties of the aquifers, ...
Zaghi, Stefano (Date of defense: 2019-01-21)
The improvements in terms of computational power provides the capability to analyze with more detail the materials behavior. On one hand, going deeper in the materials to study an increasingly smaller ...