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 ...
Dandar, Enkhbayar (Date of defense: 2017-06-23)
Groundwater withdrawals are growing in most developing countries, including Mongolia, where freshwater resources are limited and unevenly distributed, and most surface waters are frozen during winter. ...
Lanko, Iryna (Date of defense: 2022-01-27)
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is currently spread all over the world for sewage sludge stabilisation, volume reduction and green energy production. Its implementation contributes to turn a wastewater treatment ...
Calderón Vega, Felícitas (Date of defense: 2021-04-20)
This thesis encompasses a set of different subjects related to metocean variables but studied from different perspectives. The metocean variables are mainly significant wave heights and wind velocities ...
Arrayago Luquin, Itsaso (Date of defense: 2016-10-17)
This thesis investigates the cross-section and member behaviour of cold-formed stainless steel RHS and SHS elements and proposes an alternative and more efficient design approach. Combined with aesthetic ...
Perez Fonseca, Lazaro J. (Date of defense: 2019-05-17)
Reactive transport modeling is an important tool for the analysis of coupled physical, chemical, and biological processes in Earth systems. Observed reactive transport in heterogeneous porous media shows ...
Benedetti, Lorenzo (Date of defense: 2017-05-11)
Strain localization and quasi-brittle failure in frictional-cohesive materials is still an open and challenging problem in computational mechanics. Owing to its complexity and the significant implications ...
Tejedor Herrán, Blanca (Date of defense: 2019-01-24)
Within the European framework, most of residential buildings do not satisfy the minimum thermal specifications. In fact, the renovation rate across the EU is estimated at 1% per year. To fulfil with the ...
Ràfols Bundó, Laura (Date of defense: 2018-09-13)
The water currents and the wave field at the Catalan coast (in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea) are investigated. However, the main research is focused at the northern margin of the Ebro Shelf, where ...
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628 - Public health engineering. Water. Sanitation. Illuminating engineering (29)