Rodríguez Prieto, Juan Manuel (Date of defense: 2014-03-06)
Metal cutting or machining is a process in which a thin layer or metal, the chip, is removed by a wedge-shaped tool from a large body. Cutting is a complex physical phenomena in which friction, adiabatic ...
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. ...
Sánchez Molina, David (Date of defense: 2013-11-07)
This dissertation is a research about the mechanical behavior of the human esophagus. This work is intended to be applied in the treatment of stenosis and other esophageal diseases that frequently require ...
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 ...
Velásquez Villada, César Augusto (Date of defense: 2016-02-01)
The natural hazard risk is a contingent liability and, thus, a sovereign risk for national governments and, therefore, it is important to assess properly the potential losses in order to design suitable ...
Escrig Pérez, Christian (Date of defense: 2015-10-02)
The global tendency to apply sustainability criteria in most of productive fields, as well as, the limited durability and the pathologies that suffer the reinforced concrete elements, are aspects that ...
Yamin Lacouture, Luis Eduardo (Date of defense: 2016-01-28)
The probabilistic seismic risk assessment in terms of economic losses for building portfolios aims at the estimation of the probability distribution functions of losses. This can be done for a specific ...
Mora Cuevas, Miguel Genaro (Date of defense: 2016-02-02)
In the situation to make decisions about which risk mitigation measures -RMM- to implement and the performance level required, arises the need for a quantitative analysis of benefits that may be obtained ...
Barbu, L. G. (Lucia Gratiela) (Date of defense: 2016-02-01)
The present thesis aims at advancing an innovative computational methodology that simulates steel and composite material fracture under cyclic loading following a phenomenological approach, with calibration ...
Labra, C. A. (Carlos Andrés) (Date of defense: 2012-07-19)
Modelling of granular materials, soils and rocks has been a challenging topic of investigation for decades. Classical continuum mechanics has been used to idealize soils and rocks, and numerical solution ...