Barragán, Bryan Erick (Date of defense: 2002-03-22)
La tesis se enmarca en la caracterización, a nivel material, de la fractura del hormigón reforzado con fibras de acero (SFRC) bajo solicitaciones de tracción y cortante, y sobre la determinación de ...
Dorribo Dorribo, Daniel (Date of defense: 2017-12-05)
The automotive industry is constantly involved in the development of new projects aimed at reducing weight, fuel consumptions and costs while improving passengers¿ safety. In order to achieve these ...
Trapote Barreira, Ana (Date of defense: 2015-01-19)
The use of concrete in disposal facilities to store low- and intermediate-level nuclear waste requires that the durability of this material is optimal for the lifetime of these repositories. One of the ...
Abdollahi, Amir (Date of defense: 2012-10-18)
The unique electro-mechanical coupling properties of ferroelectrics make them ideal materials for use in micro-devices as sensors, actuators and transducers. Nevertheless, because of the intrinsic ...
Giuntoli, Guido (Date of defense: 2020-01-30)
This thesis aims to develop a High-Performance Computing implementation to solve large composite materials problems through the use of the FE2 multi-scale method. Previous works have not been able to ...
Quiroga Méndez, Jabid E. (Date of defense: 2018-06-29)
This thesis presents some approaches for guided wave based stress monitoring as a part of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM). SHM systems include different levels, from damage detection to prognosis, ...
Moreira Filho, Carlos Augusto (Date of defense: 2022-07-21)
This thesis develops numerical methods to improve the accuracy and computational efficiency of the part-scale simulation of Additive Manufacturing (AM) (or 3D printing) metal processes. AM is characterized ...
Valdés Alonzo, Gabriel Rolando (Date of defense: 2022-06-03)
Identifying the constitutive relations of materials is an essential task to understand their behavior. Classical methods like testing can be effective in understanding these relationships, but introducing ...
Sciandra, Dario (Date of defense: 2024-02-09)
(English) Geological Carbon Storage (GCS) holds immense promise for mitigating atmospheric CO2 emissions, making the sealing capacity of caprocks pivotal as storage scales up. Despite excellent sealing ...