Aragón Hernández, José Luis (Date of defense: 2013-07-02)
El crecimiento continuo de las ciudades, o la ocurrencia de un evento extraordinario de lluvia, en muchas ocasiones sobrepasa las medidas de diseño de algunos de los elementos del drenaje urbano ...
Martín Moreta, Pedro José (Date of defense: 2014-12-18)
El flujo desbordado en secciones de ríos con llanuras de inundación (secciones compuestas) presenta fuertes fenómenos tridimensionales que lo diferencian del flujo confinado en el cauce principal ...
Pros Parés, Alba (Date of defense: 2012-02-06)
One alternative to overcome the main drawbacks of plain concrete in tension (its brittleness and weakness) is Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete (SFRC), a technique introduced in the 70's, which consists ...
Codina Rovira, Ramon (Date of defense: 1992-06-30)
Giorgiani, Giorgio (Date of defense: 2013-04-02)
This PhD thesis proposes a p-adaptive technique for the Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin method (HDG). The HDG method is a novel discontinuous Galerkin method (DG) with interesting characteristics. ...
Díaz Ortíz, Guillermo Fernando (Date of defense: 2014-07-23)
This paper presents a numerical approach for the simulation of reinforced concrete pieces in three dimensions, using embedded discontinuity elements, based on the strong discontinuity approach. In turn, ...
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 ...
Avila, Matías (Date of defense: 2012-11-16)
The general description of a fluid flow involves the solution of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations, a very complex problem whose mathematical structure is not well understood. It is widely accepted ...
Zhan, Zhifeng (Date of defense: 2012-06-19)
Based on the laboratory, field and numerical results, the post-rupture strength defined firstly by Burland (1990) is verified and introduced in this thesis to describe the two-stage post-peak ...
Cavaliere, Fabiola (Date of defense: 2022-04-06)
In order to be worldwide competitive, the automotive industry is constantly challenged to produce higher quality vehicles in the shortest time possible and with the minimum costs of production. Most of ...