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 ...
Maso Sotomayor, Miguel (Date of defense: 2022-09-29)
(English) This thesis investigates numerical methods for the simulation of surface water flows, focusing on the interaction between the large scale and the local scale and its application to natural ...
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 ...
Lops, Camilla (Date of defense: 2020-12-15)
European building stock is characterised by low energy efficiency and high structural vulnerability with respect to earthquakes, especially in seismic prone areas like Italy. In fact, the vast majority ...
Komarizadehasl, Seyedmilad (Date of defense: 2022-10-27)
(English) There is increasing interest in developing low-cost sensors for economical structural health monitoring of civil engineering infrastructures. In addition to their price, they have the additional ...
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 ...
Delgadillo Ayala, Rick Milton (Date of defense: 2022-03-23)
In recent years the scientific community has been developing new techniques in structural health monitoring (SHM) to identify the damages in civil structures specially in bridges. The bridge health ...
Refachinho de Campos, Paulo Roberto (Date of defense: 2022-09-27)
(English) This work presents a new updated reference Lagrangian Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) algorithm for the analysis of large deformation by introducing a novel system of first order conservation ...
Emadi, Seyyedbehrad (Date of defense: 2020-12-11)
According to Timoshenko’s beam theory, nodal rotations in beam-like structures are produced by bending and shear effects. On the one hand, bending rotations can be easily calculated by the Euler-Bernoulli ...
Germano, Nicola (Date of defense: 2021-12-14)
This thesis aims to propose and validate an innovative, fully open-source framework capable of performing multiscale analysis for the assessment of local wind flows within the urban fabric. Each part ...