Solé Marzo, Josep Ramón (Date of defense: 2017-03-03)
An unprecedented calculation model for slabs of post-tensioned concrete is proposed, based on the general theory of thin plate analysis, using the finite element method, taking into account the degradation ...
Awan, Ahsan Javed (Date of defense: 2017-12-15)
The sheer increase in volume of data over the last decade has triggered research in cluster computing frameworks that enable web enterprises to extract big insights from big data. While Apache Spark ...
Caron, Daniele (Date of defense: 2017-02-17)
Contemporary territories are increasingly subject to tensions and contradictions resulting from the logic of capitalism. Urban and territorial planning, in turn, faces the challenge of interpreting these ...
Schaefer, Markus (Date of defense: 2017-11-08)
Control schemes for inverters of different topologies and various numbers of voltage levels are of great interest for many standard as well as special applications. This thesis describes a novel, robust ...
Rajović, Nikola (Date of defense: 2017-06-30)
In the late 1990s, powerful economic forces led to the adoption of commodity desktop processors in High-Performance Computing(HPC). This transformation has been so effective that the November 2016 TOP500 ...
Derqui Zaragoza, Belén (Date of defense: 2017-12-04)
Context: Globalization, increased competition for natural resources, the rise of non-financial performance indicators in decision making, among other new trends have made sustainability more and more ...
Bonilla Martínez, Juan Manuel (Date of defense: 2017-11-27)
Fire is the most common phenomenon that characterizes major accidents that take place in both industrial establishments and in the transport of dangerous goods by road and rail. The formation of a ...
Maione, Silvana (Date of defense: 2017-09-14)
In the last decade, conductive polymers have received great interest in both scientific and technological levels due to the electroactive properties exhibited by these materials. For this reason, the ...
Cavalheiro, David (Date of defense: 2017-05-19)
There has been a tremendous evolution in integrated circuit technology in the past decades. With the scaling of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) transistors, faster, less power consuming ...
Guerrero, Elena (Date of defense: 2017-07-14)
Planktonic cnidarians are those species or their stages in the phylum Cnidaria that spent their life in the water column and therefore, are tightly linked to oceanographic dynamics and water mass ...