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• Structural health monitoring with distributed optical fiber sensors of tunnel lining affected by nearby construction activity 

  Gómez i Esteve, Judit; Casas Rius, Joan Ramon; Villalba Herrero, Sergi (2020-09)
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  This paper addresses the implementation of a Distributed Optical Fiber Sensor system (DOFS) to the TMB L-9 metro tunnel in Barcelona for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) purposes as the former could potentially be affected ...
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  A sustainability-based model for dealing with the uncertainties of post-disaster temporary housing 

  Hosseini, S.M. Amin; Pons Valladares, Oriol; Fuente Antequera, Albert de la (2019-03-21)
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  In the aftermath of natural disasters, temporary housing (TH) needs to be provided for displaced people to mitigate human suffering. In the numerous cases in which a chosen TH strategy is unsuitable for the case-specific ...
• Constrained observability techniques for structural system identification using modal analysis 

  Peng, Tian; Nogal, María; Casas Rius, Joan Ramon; Lozano Galant, José Antonio; Turmo Coderque, José (2020-08)
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  The characteristics of civil structures inevitably suffer a certain level of damage during its lifetime and cheap, non-destructive and reliable methods to assess their correct performance are of high importance. Structural ...
• Multi-objective interior design optimization method based on sustainability concepts for post-disaster temporary housing units 

  Hosseini, Seyed Mohammad Amin; Yazdani Aminabadi, Reza; Fuente Antequera, Albert de la (2020-04)
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  Temporary housing units (THUs), which are provided after disasters, are crucial in terms of sustainability pillars (economic, social, and environmental). In general, THUs, which are regular houses with minimum space and ...
• Pile supported self-compacting fibre reinforced concrete flat slabs 

  Aidarov, Stanislav; Fuente Antequera, Albert de la; Mena Sebastià, Francisco (2019-06)
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  A challenging application of Steel Fibre Reinforced Concrete (SFRC) is in pile supported flat slabs. The implementation of this relatively new material for this type of structures could provide considerable advantages in ...
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  Dovelas innovadoras de alta durabilidad reforzadas sólo con fibras no metálicas 

  Navarro, Paz; Sánchez, María; Martín, Elena; Segura Pérez, Ignacio; Cruz Romero, Janill Marie de la; Fuente Antequera, Albert de la (2019-09)
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  Los anillos de dovelas prefabricadas de HRF son un revestimiento habitual en túneles excavados con tuneladora. DRAGADOS-gGRAVITY Engineering-UPC han querido ir un paso más allá estudiando el comportamiento de dovelas ...
• Avances en el diseño de anillos prefabricados de concreto para el revestimiento de túneles con TBM 

  Arnau Delgado, Oriol; Fuente Antequera, Albert de la (Asociación Mexicana de Ingeniería de Túneles y Obras Subterráneas (AMITOS), 2019-01)
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  El uso de máquinas tuneladoras (TBMs) para la construcción de túneles se ha incrementado significativamente durante los últimos años como resultado de las ventajas que presenta para ciertas longitudes y condiciones del ...
• A system designed to monitor in-situ the curing process of sprayed concrete 

  Aparicio Secanellas, Sofía; González Hernández, Margarita; Segura Pérez, Ignacio; Morata Royes, Miquel; Anaya, José Javier (Elsevier, 2019-11)
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  In this paper a system is presented to monitor in-situ the curing process of sprayed concrete. This system consists of an instrumented trough based on wireless sensor networks for monitoring temperature/relative humidity ...
• Infrastructures and society: from a literature review to a conceptual framework 

  Josa i Culleré, Irene; Aguado de Cea, Antonio (2019-11)
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  While economic and environmental aspects of civil engineering have attracted the greatest attention among contemporary academy, its social side has frequently been set aside. However, the social impact that infrastructures ...
• Structural system identification including shear deformation of composite bridges from vertical deflections 

  Emadi, Seyyedbehrad; Lozano Galant, José Antonio; Xia, Ye; Ramos Schneider, Gonzalo; Turmo Coderque, José (2019-09)
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  Shear deformation effects are neglected in most structural system identification methods. This assumption might lead to important errors in some structures like built up steel or composite deep beams. Recently, the ...
• Design-oriented approach to determine FRC constitutive law parameters considering the size effect 

  Galeote Moreno, Eduardo; Blanco Álvarez, Ana; Fuente Antequera, Albert de la (2020-05)
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  Tensile strength constitutive laws for fibre reinforced concrete (FRC) are commonly defined through the parameters of flexural tests conducted on standard prismatic specimens. However, there are no specific criteria to ...
• Crack width design approach for fibre reinforced concrete tunnel segments for TBM thrust loads 

  Nogales Arroyo, Alejandro; Fuente Antequera, Albert de la (Elsevier, 2020-04)
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  Concentrated loads induced during the excavation stage by Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) is still a matter of discussion into the tunnelling construction field, this having a strong impact from both the technical (e.g., ...

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