Ortego Martínez, María Isabel (Date of defense: 2015-02-04)
The estimation of occurrence probabilities of extremal quantities is essential in the study of hazards associated with natural phenomena. The extremal quantities of interest usually correspond to phenomena ...
Tamayo Mas, Elena (Date of defense: 2013-12-05)
A new strategy to describe failure of quasi-brittle materials -concrete, for example- is presented. Traditionally, numerical simulation of quasi-brittle failure has been tackled from two different points ...
Fuad Mohammad Naser, Mohammad (Date of defense: 2014-01-30)
Hysteresis is a nonlinear behavior encountered in a wide variety of processes including biology, optics, electronics, ferroelectricity, magnetism, mechanics, structures, among other areas. One of the ...
Araúz Lombardía, Cristina (Date of defense: 2014-06-19)
The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the field of discrete boundary value problems on finite networks. Boundary value problems have been considered both on the continuum and on the discrete fields. ...
Díaz Cereceda, Cristina (Date of defense: 2013-11-15)
Modelling vibroacoustic problems in the field of building design is a challenging problem due to the large size of the domains and the wide frequency range required by regulations. Standard numerical ...
Millán, Daniel (Date of defense: 2012-11-12)
In many applications, one would like to perform calculations on smooth manifolds of dimension d embedded in a high-dimensional space of dimension D. Often, a continuous description of such manifold is ...
Rahmi, Mohammad (Date of defense: 2013-04-09)
Biological membranes are continuously brought out of equilibrium, as they shape organelles, package and transport cargo, or respond to external actions. The dynamics of lipid membranes are very complex ...
Rabiei, Nima (Date of defense: 2014-10-27)
Limit analysis is relevant in many practical engineering areas such as the design of mechanical structure or the analysis of soil mechanics. The theory of limit analysis assumes a rigid, perfectly-plastic ...