Marin-Esteve, Blanca (Date of defense: 2023-05-18)
(English) The aim of this thesis is to improve our understanding of the behaviour of mountain rivers and to predict their morphological functioning under conditions of low relative submergence. Mountain ...
Palau Berastegui, Rosa Maria (Date of defense: 2021-09-23)
Rainfall triggered shallow slides and debris flows constitute a significant hazard that causes substantial economic losses and fatalities worldwide. Regional-scale risk mitigation for these processes ...
Baquero Mosquera, Juan Sebastián (Date of defense: 2023-06-22)
(English) When analyzing structures for seismic design and performance assessment purposes, it has been common to assume that the ground motions or their equivalent representations correspond to that ...
Eskenati, Amir Reza (Date of defense: 2023-06-09)
(English) The most common composite materials for strengthening building structures are divided into two dif ferent types based on the matrix’s composition, organics (polymers) or inorganics (cement, ...
Martín Balet, Alejo (Date of defense: 2023-06-23)
(English) This thesis proposes to determine a damaged structure using the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of modal frequency variation of sorne damaged and undamaged configurations. The estimators ...
Najdi, Abdallah (Date of defense: 2023-06-20)
(English) The thesis presents part of an ongoing nvestigation on the Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical (THM) behaviour and cracking of deformable unsaturated soils undergoing cycles of drying and wetting. An ...
Su, Hang (Date of defense: 2023-06-19)
(English) The steel-concrete composite structural solution has been widely applied in the execution of simply supported bridges since the merits of concrete compressive strength and steel tensile strength ...
Castañar Pérez, Inocencio (Date of defense: 2023-07-24)
(English) Topology optimization of incompressible structures, in which the loads on the structure come from the stresses exerted by a surrounding fluid, is a highly complex problem. This work presents ...
Moaven, Arash (Date of defense: 2023-07-04)
(English) The Proper Generalized Decomposition (PGD) is a mathematical framework belonging to the Model Order Reduction (MOR) class of techniques. To the best of the author's knowledge, this methodology ...
Wu, Haiqing (Date of defense: 2023-07-28)
(English) Understanding the triggering mechanisms of induced seismicity remains one of the most critical challenges in geo-energy applications. This Thesis aims at assessing (1) fault stability and ...
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