Departament d'Enginyeria Civil i Ambiental: Recent submissions
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Estudio teórico y experimental sobre el comportamiento no lineal de estructuras continuas parcialmente pretensadas
(English) Performance-based design (PBD) is a philosophy for structural design that puts emphasis on the realistic estimation of the structural behaviour and its relationship with the objectives of the final user, or ...
Energy and material circularity in building-integrated agriculture : an environmental approach
(English) Cities are great resource consumers and largely contribute to anthropogenic environmental impacts, urgently requiring a decarbonization plan. Urban agriculture lies on industrial ecology principles; waste resources ...
Population dynamics, interactions and evolution of marine microbes using genomic approaches
(English) There is a myriad of microorganisms on Earth contributing to global biogeochemical cycles. In the surface ocean, the smallest microbes (picoplankton) are responsible for an important fraction of the total atmospheric ...
Visco-plasticity of zero-thickness interfaces with softening, and application to the study of fault reactivation
(English) In the current context of both energy and environmental needs, there has been an increase in activities related to extraction and injection of fluids in the underground. It is known that a possible consequence ...
Citizen sciences technologies for operational monitoring of aquatic ecosystems
(English) Light attenuation is a critical factor in aquatic ecosystems for many physical and biological processes. Water transparency plays an essential role in understanding the variations of the ecological environment ...
Shaping transport infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa (1884-2020). The impact of decision-making on network efficiency and sustainability: the case of Cameroon
(English) The objective of this research is to delve into the decision-making processes that shape the provision of transport infrastructure. To this end, it analyses the historical evolution of transport networks in ...
Environmental impact accounting of organic agricultural production systems: advancing inventory and biodiversity modelling approaches in life cycle assessment
(English) Agriculture not only contributes to more than a quarter of all global greenhouse gas emissions but is also the number one anthropogenic source of nitrogen emissions and a danger to nearly half of threatened ...
Mechanical characterisation of masonry in existing structures by means of laboratory and in-situ experimental techniques
(English) Masonry structures are among the most abundant construction typologies in the world, having been commonly built until the second half of the 20th century. The determination of the mechanical properties of these ...
Methodology for seismic vulnerability assessment of existing masonry buildings in urban centres. Application to the Eixample district in Barcelona
(English) Unreinforced masonry buildings (URM), which prevail in many historic and urban centres, can be considered to be significantly vulnerable to seismic actions due to their peculiar constructive and structural features ...
THM coupled behaviour of a deep poorly indurated argillaceous formation
(English) Deep geological disposal of heat-emitting and long-lived radioactive waste is the solution internationally accepted that offers the most viable and safest way to manage this kind of wastes. Accordingly, the ...
Dinámicas socioecológicas de la producción de durazno bajo el sistema de agricultura familiar periurbana en El Jarillo, Venezuela
(English) The Jarillo, Venezuelan Mirandina parish, has had an intense agricultural development since the end of the 19th century, the peach occupies one of its main crops since the middle of the last century. They are ...
Coupling shallow water models with three-dimensional models for the study of fluid-structure interaction problems using the particle finite element method
(English) This thesis investigates numerical methods for the simulation of surface water flows, focusing on the interaction between the large scale and the local scale and its application to natural hazards. Several families ...
Development of low-cost sensors for structural health monitoring applications
(English) There is increasing interest in developing low-cost sensors for economical structural health monitoring of civil engineering infrastructures. In addition to their price, they have the additional benefit of being ...
Conformal n-dimensional bisection for local refinement of unstructured simplicial meshes
[English] In n-dimensional adaptive applications, conformal simplicial meshes must be lo cally modified. One systematic local modification is to bisect the prescribed simplices while surrounding simplices are bisected ...
Numerical modeling of geological carbon sequestration : enhanced dissolution in randomly heterogeneous media
Geological Carbon Sequestration (GCS) plays a major role in mitigating the global warming due to the increasing concentration of CO2 in atmosphere. It is important to understand the GCS process to analyze and predict its ...
Monitoring and analysis of soil-vegetation-atmosphere interactions at slope and catchment scale : Implications for mass-wasting in natural and man-made slopes
Slope mass-wasting (SMW) due to shallow landslides or debris flows is one of the most important erosional processes in many mountainous regions together with surficial erosion by rainfall runoff. These erosive processes ...
Estudio paleoclimático del afloramiento ecuatorial del Océano Pacífico durante los últimos 160.000 años a partir de biomarcadores moleculares
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 great interest to ...
Building information modeling for facility managers
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 normally data-intensive ...
Dynamic large deformation modelling of soils including static liquefaction
Modelling geotechnical problems involving large deformation is a research field that arouses growing interest since it is fundamental for evaluating the risk and quantifying the magnitude of consequences. However, it is ...
Vegetable Fiber Reinforced Calcium Aluminate Cement based composites for construction materials VFRCCs
Vegetable Fiber Reinforced Cement Composite Materials (VFRCC) have emerged as a potential construction material, providing adequate load-bearing capacity and ductility for non-structural applications. VFRCC have good ...
