El estudio del comportamiento expansivo del hormigón en presas e instalaciones afines a las mismas comprende diferentes actuaciones que inciden de un modo transversal en aspectos que incluyen a los materiales, la tipología ...

The bi-layer diaphragm wall, a new slurry wall type designed to cope with the problem of watertightness is studied in this paper. These walls consist of two bonded concrete layers, the first, a conventional Reinforced ...

The new generation of innovative projects has led to the use of greater amounts of reinforcement and the development of concrete with specific characteristics. It is necessary to use a material that ensures the uniformity ...

This article presents a part of UPC´s study about the sustainability analysis of 8 drainage pipes (four alternatives made concrete with 400 mm, 800 mm, 1200 mm and 2000 mm of diameter and four alternatives made plastic ...

When fresh concrete is exposed to high levels of water by evaporation in structures with large ratios of surface/thickness these are prone to be altered in their constituent material properties, generating a decreased or ...

En el tècnic és usual que en sentir parlar de sostenibilitat, adopti una actitud|postura de certa incredulitat, en basar-se amb freqüència els arguments en aspectes qualitatius (i en certs casos especulatius) sense una ...

Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) is one of basic steps in Life Cycle Assessment methodology (LCA). This paper presents a comparative study of the LCIA of different life cycle inventories (LCI) for EU cements. The analysis ...

Many researches have been conducted in past decades for promoting the application of steel fibre reinforced concrete (SFRC), either conventional or self-compacting. However, the differences of post-crack behaviour and the ...

El presente artículo se encuadra en el ámbito de las presas de hormigón en etapa de explotación y, dentro de éste, se centra en el análisis de las temperaturas que se alcanzan en la presa frente a la actuación de la acción ...

To make periodic inspections of the buildings is useful to quantify the extent to which deficiencies are severe or not, in order to facilitate decision making and prioritize interventions. In previous works by the authors ...