Sadrolodabaee, Payam (Date of defense: 2022-07-11)
Cementitious materials have one of the highest compressive strength-to-weight ratios compared to other construction materials. Nonetheless, both tensile strength capacity and toughness result to be an ...
Quirós Collazos, Lucía (Date of defense: 2022-06-27)
The present PhD thesis is focused on the paleoclimatic reconstruction of the Pacific Ocean equatorial upwelling conditions, east of the Galapagos Islands, over the last 160.000 years. This region is of ...
Rodríguez Rey, Daniel (Date of defense: 2022-03-21)
Persistent high levels of NO2 have severe health effects on population. These are often found in large urban conurbations with high vehicle densities. In Barcelona, with one of the highest vehicle ...
Barra, Anna (Date of defense: 2022-04-22)
Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (InSAR) and Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI) are now consolidated tools for ground movement detection and monitoring. Sentinel-1 (S1) is the ...
Aidarov, Stanislav (Date of defense: 2022-05-06)
Fibre reinforced concrete (FRC) has proven to be a suitable material for statically indeterminate elements. The FRC column-supported flat slabs with partial or even total substitution of reinforcing ...
Fernández-Pedrera Balsells, Marta (Date of defense: 2022-05-24)
This thesis analyses the relationships between hydrodynamics (and their forcings) and biological variables in Fangar Bay based on in situ observations, numerical models and satellite data. Fangar Bay ...
Nogales Arroyo, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2022-04-11)
The construction industry is one of the industrial sectors with the largest output worldwide and, thus, of great economic interest. In this sector, reinforced concrete plays a significant role since it ...
Beretta, Mattia (Date of defense: 2022-07-21)
The energy sector has undergone drastic changes and critical revolutions in the last few decades. Renewable energy sources have grown significantly, now representing a sizeable share of the energy ...
Alavi, Hamidreza (Date of defense: 2022-10-11)
A Decision Support System (DSS) can help facility managers to improve building performance, occupants’ comfort, and energy efficiency during the Operation and Maintenance (O&M) phase. These DSSs are ...
Santín Muriel, Andreu (Date of defense: 2022-01-24)
Sponge assemblages dominate several distinctive, hard-bottom environments, being one of the most important structural organisms at several locations around the world. Although the Mediterranean sponge ...