Dialamishabankareh, Narges (Date of defense: 2014-03-12)
This thesis deals with the numerical simulation of welding processes. The analysis is focused either at global level, considering the full component to be jointed, or locally, studying more in detail ...
Vieira Chaves, Eduardo Walter (Date of defense: 2003-04-01)
El estudio de la mecánica computacional de fallo ha ganado creciente popularidad en los últimos años. Modelizar el comportamiento poscrítico de estructuras puede alcanzar un grado elevado de complejidad, ...
Guerrero Catells, Ángel (Date of defense: 2009-06-02)
El progresivo incremento de la altura de los Edificios de Gran Altura (EGA) ha aumentado las consecuencias reales y potenciales cuando irrumpen en ellos incendios naturales. A la vista de dichas pérdidas, ...
Valdés Vázquez, Jesús Gerardo (Date of defense: 2007-10-18)
Problemas de interacciónn fluido-estructura representan hoy en día un gran desafío en diferentes áreas de ingeniería y ciencias aplicadas. Dentro de las aplicaciones en ingeniería civil, el flujo del ...
Kouhi Esfahani, Mohammad (Date of defense: 2013-09-30)
This work covers a contribution to two most interesting research elds in aerodynamics, the fi nite element analysis of high-speed compressible flows (Part I) and aerodynamic shape optimization (Part ...
Pelà, Luca (Date of defense: 2009-03-26)
The present work focuses on the formulation of a Continuum Damage Mechanics model for nonlinear analysis of masonry structural elements. The material is studied at the macro-level, i.e. it is modelled ...
Dadvand, Pooyan (Date of defense: 2007-07-13)
The world of computing simulation has experienced great progresses in recent years and requires more exigent multidisciplinary challenges to satisfy the new upcoming demands. Increasing the importance ...
Kamram, Kazem (Date of defense: 2013-06-21)
The development of efficient algorithms to understand implosion dynamics presents a number of challenges. The foremost challenge is to efficiently represent the coupled compressible fluid dynamics of ...
Larese de Tetto, Antonia (Date of defense: 2012-07-05)
Rockfill dams are nowadays often preferred over concrete dams because of their economic advantages, their flexible design and thank to the great advance achieved in geosciences and geomechanics. ...
Bernat Masó, Ernest (Date of defense: 2014-02-07)
A significant number of buildings are supported by load-bearing masonry walls. The preservation of these worldwide used structures is a sustainable alternative. However, there is little research about ...