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• Sustainability assessment of trenches including the new eco-trench: a multi-criteria decision-making tool 

  Casanovas Rubio, Maria del Mar; Pujadas Álvarez, Pablo; Pardo Bosch, Francesc; Blanco Álvarez, Ana; Aguado de Cea, Antonio (2019-11)
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  Narrow trenches are a common technique for the installation of utility pipelines of small diameter. Theexcavated soil is not always appropriate as landfill and, in those cases, an appropriate soil from some-where else (ex. ...
• A probabilistic-based approach to support the comfort performance assessment of existing buildings 

  Bortolini, Rafaela; Forcada Matheu, Núria (2019-11-10)
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  Building performance is focused on maintaining and increasing sustainability while enhancing occupants' comfort levels. Occupants' comfort depends on uncertain, interrelated personal, social and building factors. However, ...
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  Respirometric study of optical brighteners in textile wastewater 

  Salas Olivares, Héctor Manuel; Gutiérrez Bouzán, María Carmen; López Grimau, Víctor; Vilaseca Vallvé, M. Mercedes (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2019-03)
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  Optical brighteners (OBs) are colorless fluorescent dyes, widely used in industry to improve whiteness in materials. Nearly 80% of all OBs in the market are derivatives of stilbene. They absorb the near-ultraviolet light ...
• Towards sustainable business models for electric vehicle battery second use: a critical review 

  Reinhardt, Robert; Christodoulou, Ioannis; Gassó Domingo, Santiago; Amante García, Beatriz (2019-09)
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  A global mass market adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is still hindered by the high costs of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Repurposing degraded EV batteries in second use applications holds the potential to reduce ...
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  Testing the effects of gentle vibrotactile stimulation on symptom relief in fibromyalgia 

  Pujol, Jesús; Ramos López, Daniel; Blanco Hinojo, Laura; Pujol, Guillem; Ortiz Valencia, Héctor; Martínez Vilavela, Gerard; Blanch Rubió, Josep; Monfort Faure, Jordi; Deus Yela, Joan (2019-06-14)
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  Sensory disturbances in fibromyalgia extend beyond nociception. It has been proposed that imbalance in the mutual competition between painful input and non-painful sensory activity may, to a significant extent, account for ...
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  2005-2017 Ozone trends and potential benefits of local measures as deduced from air quality measurements in the north of the Barcelona metropolitan area 

  Massagué Obradors, Jordi; Carnerero Quintero, Cristina; Escudero, M.; Baldasano Recio, José María; Alastuey, Andres; Querol, Xavier (European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2019-06-05)
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  We analyzed 2005–2017 data sets on ozone (O3) concentrations in an area (the Vic Plain) frequently affected by the atmospheric plume northward transport of the Barcelona metropolitan area (BMA), the atmospheric basin of ...
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  Impacto en la salud, socieconómico y ambiental de las medidas para incentivar la reducción del uso del vehiculo privado por los trabajadores 

  Cremades Oliver, Lázaro Vicente; Gómez Yepes, Milena Elizabeth (2019)
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  Es cada vez más evidente que el creciente consumo de combustibles fósiles a nivel mundial es actualmente el mayor responsable de la contaminación atmosférica en todo el planeta y, como consecuencia, de la alteración del ...
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  A text-mining approach to assess the failure condition of wind turbines using maintenance service history 

  Blanco Martínez, Alejandro; Marti Puig, Pere; Gibert, Karina; Cusidó Roura, Jordi; Sole Casals, Jordi (2019-05-23)
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  Detecting and determining which systems or subsystems of a wind turbine have more failures is essential to improve their design, which will reduce the costs of generating wind power. Two of the most critical failures, the ...
• Shear crack width assessment in concrete structures by 2D distributed optical fiber 

  Rodríguez, Gerardo; Casas Rius, Joan Ramon; Villalba Herrero, Sergi (Elsevier, 2019-09)
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  This paper outlines the second part of an experimental study to show the capabilities of distributed optical fiber sensors (DOFS) in their application to the structural health monitoring (SHM) of the shear performance of ...
• Fatigue performance of distributed optical fiber sensors in reinforced concrete elements 

  Barrias, Antonio; Casas Rius, Joan Ramon; Villalba Herrero, Sergi (Elsevier, 2019-09)
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  In this paper, the authors present the results of a laboratory test where two reinforced concrete beams were instrumented with Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors (DOFS) to allow the monitoring g of strain in four different ...
• U-value time series analyses: Evaluating the feasibility of in-situ short-lasting IRT tests for heavy multi-leaf walls 

  Tejedor Herrán, Blanca; Casals Casanova, Miquel; Macarulla Martí, Marcel; Giretti, Alberto (2019-07-15)
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  A gap in standardization of quantitative infrared thermography (IRT) directly leads to a lack of measurement pattern for determining in-situ U-values of heavy multi-leaf walls. Three groups of causal factors might influence ...
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  Special issue on the I International Congress on Water and Sustainability 26–27 June 2017, Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain : editorial 

  Amante García, Beatriz; Canals Casals, Lluc; Olmedo Torre, Noelia (Taylor & Francis, 2018-01-01)
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