• Intergenerational perception of the utility of major transport projects 

  Penyalver, Domingo; Turro Calvet, Mateo; Zavala Rojas, Diana (Elsevier, 2018-10)
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  A basic question for the assessment of the fairness of a project financing formula on successive generations is to determine what is the most appropriate method to group the affected individuals over the years. The ...
• Use of BCN test for controlling tension capacity of fiber reinforced shotcrete in mining works 

  Carmona Malatesta, Sergio; Molins i Borrell, Climent (Elsevier, 2019-02)
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  Fiber reinforced shotcrete (FRS) is widely used for tunnel construction. However, the systematic control of FRS properties is hampered by the complexities of the experimental procedures used. The experiments are normally ...
• Creep of recycled aggregate concrete: experimental database and creep prediction model according to the fib Model Code 2010 

  Tošic, Nikola; Fuente Antequera, Albert de la; Marinkovic, Snežana (Elsevier, 2019-01)
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  Recycled aggregate concrete (RAC) is a promising solution to addressing the sustainability issues raised by concrete production. However, its long-term properties are not fully characterised, especially creep behaviour, ...
• A multi-criteria decision support tool for the assessment of household biogas digester programmes in rural areas. A case study in Peru 

  Ferrer Martí, Laia; Ferrer Martí, Ivet; Sánchez, Elena; Garfi, Marianna (2018)
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  Household biogas digesters are a sustainable technology that can help rural families of low income countries meeting their basic energy needs and improving their standard of living. However, household biogas digester ...
• CO2 addition to increase biomass production and control microalgae species in high rate algal ponds treating wastewater 

  Uggetti, Enrica; Sialve, Bruno; Hamelin, Jérôme (Elsevier, 2018-12)
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  Challenges regarding microalgal cultivation need to be solved in order to enhance microalgae potential as a feedstock for biofuel, bioenergy, and bioproducts. The optimization of the operating strategy in high rate algal ...
• Bounds on the k-restricted arc connectivity of some bipartite tournaments 

  Balbuena Martínez, Maria Camino Teófila; González Moreno, Diego; Olsen, Mika (2018-08-15)
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  For k¿=¿2, a strongly connected digraph D is called -connected if it contains a set of arcs W such that contains at least k non-trivial strong components. The k-restricted arc connectivity of a digraph D was defined by ...
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  Piezoelectric mimicry of flexoelectricity 

  Abdollahi Hosnijeh, Amir; Vazquez Sancho, Fabian; Catalan, Gustau (American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2018-11-15)
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  The origin of “giant” flexoelectricity, orders of magnitude larger than theoretically predicted, yet frequently observed, is under intense scrutiny. There is mounting evidence correlating giant flexoelectriclike effects ...
• An upwind cell centred Total Lagrangian finite volume algorithm for nearly incompressible explicit fast solid dynamic applications 

  Haider, Jibran; Lee, Chun Hean; Gil, Antonio; Huerta, Antonio; Bonet, Javier (2018-10-01)
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  The paper presents a new computational framework for the numerical simulation of fast large strain solid dynamics, with particular emphasis on the treatment of near incompressibility. A complete set of first order hyperbolic ...
• A locking-free face-centred finite volume (FCFV) method for linear elastostatics 

  Sevilla, Rubén; Giacomini, Matteo; Huerta, Antonio (2019-02-01)
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  A face-centred finite volume (FCFV) method is proposed for linear elastostatic problems. The FCFV is a mixed hybrid formulation, featuring a system of first-order equations, that defines the unknowns on the faces (edges ...
• A superconvergent HDG method for stokes flow with strongly enforced symmetry of the stress tensor 

  Giacomini, Matteo; Karkoulias, Alexandros; Sevilla, Rubén; Huerta, Antonio (2018-12)
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  This work proposes a superconvergent hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method for the approximation of the Cauchy formulation of the Stokes equation using same degree of polynomials for the primal and mixed variables. ...
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  Sampling-based stochastic analysis of the PKN model for hydraulic fracturing 

  Garikapati, Hasini; V. Verhoosel, Clemens; van Brummelen, Harald; Zlotnik, Sergio; Díez, Pedro (2018-10-02)
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  Hydraulic fracturing processes are surrounded by uncertainty, as available data is typically scant. In this work, we present a sampling-based stochastic analysis of the hydraulic fracturing process by considering various ...
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  Towards productive cities: environmental assessment of the Food-Energy-Water nexus of the urban roof mosaic 

  Toboso, Susana; Nadal, Ana; Petit, Ana; Pons Valladares, Oriol; Villalba, Gara; Gabarrell, Xavier; Josa Garcia-Tornel, Alejandro; Rieradevall, Joan (2018-11-26)
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  Cities are rapidly growing and need to look for ways to optimize resource consumption. Metropolises are especially vulnerable in three main systems, often referred to as the FEW (i.e., food, energy, and water) nexus. In ...

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