Montaño Sarria, Andrés Felipe (Date of defense: 2021-03-18)
In-hand dexterous manipulation of an object is the ability to change the configuration (position and/or orientation) of an object held in the hand. This is an ability that has allowed humans to use tools ...
Roslan, Nurul Fazlin (Date of defense: 2021-12-16)
Distributed Generation (DG) provides an alternative to the Centralized Generation (CG) by means of generating electricity near to the end user of power with the employment of small-scale technologies ...
Sau Valenzuela, Núria (Date of defense: 2021-11-19)
(English) Deep geological disposal of heat-emitting and long-lived radioactive waste is the solution internationally accepted that offers the most viable and safest way to manage this kind of wastes. ...
Mocci, Alice (Date of defense: 2021-07-22)
Piezoelectricity, the two-way coupling between electric polarization and strain is the basic mechanism behind most electromechanical transduction technologies. It is possible only in a limited number ...
Kalkbrenner, Philip (Date of defense: 2021-11-03)
Cutting-edge methods in the computational analysis of structures have been developed over the last decades. Such modern tools are helpful to assess the safety of existing buildings. Two main finite ...
Fernández Sánchez, Pablo Gonzalo (Date of defense: 2021-12-20)
Reinforced concrete members, especially when subjected to concentrated loads, can fail in shear. This is an undesirable and brittle failure mode preventing the structure from deforming and reaching ...
Cardona Aguilar, Robert (Date of defense: 2021-05-26)
In this thesis, we make a deep investigation of the geometry and dynamics of several objects (singular or not) appearing in nature. The main goal is to study rigidity versus flexibility dynamical behavior ...
Pumarola Peris, Albert (Date of defense: 2021-10-13)
3D reconstruction and image synthesis are two of the main pillars in computer vision. Early works focused on simple tasks such as multi-view reconstruction and texture synthesis. With the spur of Deep ...
Rallo Tolós, Héctor (Date of defense: 2021-02-09)
The mobility of the future undoubtedly involves the electrification of vehicles. The increase in social awareness towards a reduction in CO2 emissions, together with the introduction of new laws regulating ...
Morakabatchiankar, Shabnam (Date of defense: 2021-07-22)
Towards sustainability forces process industries to change their traditional patterns. Therefore, efficient retrofitting has been a significant challenge and raised several issues, motivating the process ...