Palacios Pierluissi, Andrea Viviana (Date of defense: 2021-09-16)
Seawater intrusion (SWI) consists in the movement of seawater (SW) into freshwater (FW) aquifers, contaminating drinking water resources. SWI, along with the parallel reduction of Submarine Groundwater ...
Benzal Montes, Eva (Date of defense: 2021-01-28)
In the current economical context, the use of waste material with economic potential should be a priority. In this sense, the increasing production of electrical and electronic equipment waste (WEEE) ...
Awan, Muhammad Rizwan (Date of defense: 2021-11-02)
The aim of this research is to provide an in-depth understanding of energy consumption in abrasive disc cutting processes. The specific energy consumed in cutting is measured,analysed, and then characterised ...
Bordalba Llaberia, Ricard (Date of defense: 2021-10-29)
This work proposes a methodology for kinodynamic planning and trajectory control in robots with closed kinematic chains. The ability to plan trajectories is key in a robotic system, as it provides a ...
Cerra Flórez, Mauro Andrés (Date of defense: 2021-10-04)
The aging heat treatments in maraging steels are fundamental to achieving their excellent mechanical properties and, in some applications using oxidation surface treatments lead to induce a superficial ...
Expósito Creo, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2021-02-05)
Plant resistance through grafting susceptible scions onto resistant rootstocks is an effective measure to supress root-knot nematode (RKN) populations and to reduce crop yield losses. However, the ...
Oliveres Solé, Jordi (Date of defense: 2021-02-02)
Fire regimes are changing under the influence of global change. On the European continent, landscape memory in the 21st century is dominated by an accumulation of forest fuel and irrupted by a progressive ...
Ouerfelli, Manel (Date of defense: 2021-11-24)
The present work has focused on the study of two edible plants, with attributable medicinal values, named Anthyllis vulneraria L. (A.vulneraria) and Azadirachta indica L. (A.indica) collected in Tunisia ...
Ponce de León Puig, Nubia Ilia (Date of defense: 2021-12-10)
This doctoral thesis exposes the development of a redesigned Predictive Control strategy that uses hysteresis to improve the performance of the controlled systems in different fields of application. The ...
Bado, Mattia Francesco (Date of defense: 2021-07-26)
The employment of a novel cutting edge strain monitoring technique named Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors (DOFS) as Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) tools is becoming increasingly common. Its popularity ...