Sprayed concrete is widely used as structural support for the stabilization of tunnel walls and underground constructions. The performance of sprayed cementitious matrices containing accelerators is strongly related to ...

Under severe seismic excitation, structural behavior of buildings and other constructions is highly complex. It involves, among other issues, soil-structure interaction, large strains and displacements, damage, plasticity, ...

The damage assessment of structures under seismic actions, must seek the implementation of new theories, tools and procedures that reduce the uncertainty associated to the expected structural response of a building. This ...

Coupled processes between the soil and the atmosphere control soil water evaporation in its first stage, which leads to soil shrinkage and cracking by drying. However, soil-atmosphere interaction has received little attention ...

Collision between adjoining buildings is relevant, since the huge impact forces significantly modify the buildings dynamic behaviour. The separation required by the regulations avoids pounding; however, even in recent ...

The water currents and the wave field at the Catalan coast (in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea) are investigated. However, the main research is focused at the northern margin of the Ebro Shelf, where there is a relatively ...

The conceptualisation of a groundwater system involves continuous monitoring and evaluation of a large number of parameters (e.g., hydraulic parameters). Regarding hydraulic properties of the aquifers, their quantification ...

The construction and conservation of road networks represent a major part of public expenditure. For instance, the EU-28 countries annually spend approximately EUR 20.000 million on roadway preservation. These figures ...

In this thesis an assessment of the parameterization of the Aerosol-Radiation Interaction (ARI) in online integrated meteorology-chemistry models has been conducted. The model estimates of ARI radiative effects are still ...

This Thesis conducts the study of bedform development and dynamics in the inner shelf integrating observations at different spatial and temporal scales. An initial assumption is that different scales of sedimentary processes ...