Xie, Chenyang (Date of defense: 2021-01-08)
Cu-based alloys are widely applied in corrosive environments. The improvement of the alloys' corrosion resistance will significantly reduce energy consumption and overexploitation of resources. To ...
Sánchez Peacham, Daniel Alexander (Date of defense: 2020-01-27)
The continuous development of laser sources delivering ultra-short light pulses underpins much of the current progress in experimental science, particularly in the domain of physics concerned with ...
Mulas, Dani (Date of defense: 2020-02-28)
The Barcelona metropolitan area (BMA; 3.2 M inhabitants) has an integrated urban water cycle management. Different type of treatment plants are located along the drinking, sewerage and reuse networks ...
Tsitsimelis, Achilleas (Date of defense: 2020-10-14)
Since their inception, more than one century ago, electrical grids have played the role of a critical infrastructure. During the majority of this time, power systems have not faced radical changes. In ...
Liu, Xiao (Date of defense: 2022-11-10)
(English) Snapshot positioning is the technique to determine the position of a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver using only a very brief interval of the received satellite signal. In ...
Marazuela Calvo, Miguel Ángel (Date of defense: 2020-07-03)
This thesis aims to advance the knowledge of the hydrogeological functioning of salt flats in order to achieve a sustainable management of their mineral resources and ecosystems. Salt flats are a major ...
González Romero, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2022-03-07)
The thesis starts by giving an introduction to the game of Scrabble, then mentions state-of-the-art computer Scrabble programs and presents some characteristics of our developed Scrabble engine Heuri. ...
Song, Fei (Date of defense: 2021-06-28)
Representing the time-dependent plastic behaviour of geomaterials is a critical issue in the correct application of tunnelling design techniques such as the convergence-confinement method or numerical ...
Michalski, Tomasz Dobromir (Date of defense: 2021-10-18)
In the last decades, the development trends of high efficiency and compact electric drives on the motor side focused on Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines (PMSMs) equipped with magnets based on the ...
Bakkar, Mostafa (Date of defense: 2022-02-07)
Distributed Generators (DGs) are sensible to voltage sags, so the protection devices must trip fast to disconnect the faulted part of the grid. The DG disconnection will not be desirable in the near ...