Celada Blesa, Ulric (Date of defense: 2019-12-16)
Partially Prestressed Concrete (PPC) is an intermediate design approach between reinforced and totally prestressed concrete, that enables controlled cracks in service phase. Conversely, totally prestressed ...
Cuadrado Cabello, Agustín (Date of defense: 2019-03-07)
Coupled processes between the soil and the atmosphere control soil water evaporation in its first stage, which leads to soil shrinkage and cracking by drying. However, soil-atmosphere interaction has ...
Quintero Perez, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2019-07-08)
For the production of representative noise maps, a large amount of information is necessary, which includes, among others, on-site measurements of environmental noise. Thus, for noise maps based on ...
Balabanov, Oleg (Date of defense: 2019-10-11)
Solutions to high-dimensional parameter-dependent problems are in great demand in the contemporary applied science and engineering. The standard approximation methods for parametric equations can require ...
Rorato, Riccardo (Date of defense: 2019-11-08)
The shape of particles is known to play an important role in soil behaviour, with significant effects of engineering responses. Investigating how the shape of particles can be measured and quantified ...
Elkherbawy, Ahmed Abdelbasset (Date of defense: 2019-10-22)
Lean Construction is regarded as an innovative approach of management for various types of projects in the field of construction. As much as it is currently applied in some countries, its expansion is ...
Civancik-Uslu, Didem (Date of defense: 2019-05-16)
Mineral masterbatches, in other words mineral fillers, are concentrates of calcium carbonate or talc in a polymer base. In addition to their optimal cost, their use improves mechanical properties of ...
Puig Montellà, Eduard (Date of defense: 2019-07-16)
Numerical simulations at the pore scale are a way to study the behavior of multiphase flows encountered in many natural processes and industrial applications. In this work, liquid morphology and capillary ...
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 ...
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 ...