Sadowska, Joanna Maria (Date of defense: 2018-07-24)
Bone has a natural ability to regenerate. However, it cannot bridge large defects without the additional help of a supporting material. Among the different synthetic bone grafts, calcium phosphates ...
Sapezanskaia, Ina (Date of defense: 2016-07-21)
Metastable austenitic stainless steels feature an abundance of different deformation mechanisms, which contribute to the distinguished mechanical properties of these alloys. However, these properties ...
Camposilvan, Erik (Date of defense: 2015-07-08)
Tetragonal polycrystalline zirconia stabilized with 3 mol% of yttria (3Y-TZP) is a biocompatible ceramic showing superior mechanical properties, which are partly the consequence of phase transformation: ...
Abt, Tobias (Date of defense: 2014-07-11)
The thesis at hand deals with the modification of cyclic butylene terephthalate (CBT) with the aim to improve its final properties. CBT polymerizes in an entropically-driven ring-opening polymerization ...
Casas Quesada, Casimir (Date of defense: 2015-01-21)
In this thesis, the microstructure and mechanical properties of bulk samples manufactured with nanocrystalline iron powder are analyzed. This iron powder was obtained by a severe plastic deformation ...
Wang, Liang (Date of defense: 2015-12-16)
Foam-like aerogels based on biodegradable polymers and sodium montmorillonite (Na+-MMT) clay were prepared through an environmentally friendly freeze-drying process. Both synthesized and bio-based ...
Ramírez Sandoval, Giselle (Date of defense: 2012-07-25)
In recent years hard coatings have acquired a significant importance in the microstructural and micromechanical design of forming tools. Among the wide range of surface modification techniques, physical ...
Serra, Tiziano (Date of defense: 2014-04-29)
The design of smart biodegradable scaffolds plays a crucial role in the regeneration of tissues and restoration of their functionality. Advances in material science and manufacturing and in the understanding ...
Gutiérrez Castillo, Joan David (Date of defense: 2012-11-28)
La conformabilidad de chapas metálicas suele evaluarse mediante los diagramas FLD (Forming Limit Diagrams), que informan sobre el límite de conformado de un material representado por la curva FLC (Forming ...
Cuadrado Lafoz, Núria (Date of defense: 2013-10-02)
Mechanical characterization of micro-volume systems, as thin films or micro-sized phases embedded in multiphase materials, has attracted special interest in the last decades since different micromechanical ...
620 - Materials testing. Commercial materials. Power stations. Economics of energy (52)
66 - Chemical technology. Chemical and related industries (26)
616.7 - Pathology of the organs of locomotion. Skeletal and locomotor systems (6)
616.3 - Pathology of the digestive system. Complaints of the alimentary canal (5)