Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyers de Camins, Canals i Ports de Barcelona
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Static and dynamic global stiffness analysis for automotive pre-design
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-04-06)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access
Covenantee: Swansea UniversityIn order to be worldwide competitive, the automotive industry is constantly challenged to produce higher quality vehicles in the shortest time possible and with the minimum costs of production. Most of the problems with ... -
Development of a machine learning based methodology for bridge health monitoring
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-03-23)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessIn recent years the scientific community has been developing new techniques in structural health monitoring (SHM) to identify the damages in civil structures specially in bridges. The bridge health monitoring (BHM) systems ... -
Modelling thermo-mechanical response of metal canister disposed in engineered barrier systems
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-02-03)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThe main objective of this thesis is to describe and implement a rate-dependent (viscoplastic) constitutive equations for copper based canister using a single internal state variable and use it for modelling disposal schemes ... -
Direct numerical simulation of multi-phase flow in complex media
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-02-22)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessIn numerous applications, two-phase liquid-gas transport at sub-millimeter length scales plays a substantial role in the determination of the behavior of the system at hand. As its main application, the present work focuses ... -
Assessing the socio-economic impacts of flash floods for early warning at regional, national, and continental scales
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-07-16)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessFlash floods are one of the most devastating natural hazards, claiming numerous lives and tremendous economic losses. One of the main reasons for their catastrophic potential is the limited time available for precautionary ... -
Geologically constrained joint inversion of hydraulic, tracer and ERT data for process visualization
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-09-16)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessSeawater intrusion (SWI) consists in the movement of seawater (SW) into freshwater (FW) aquifers, contaminating drinking water resources. SWI, along with the parallel reduction of Submarine Groundwater Discharge may lead ... -
Towards stochastic methods in CFD for engineering applications
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-12-21)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessRecent developments of high performance computing capabilities allow solving modern science problems employing sophisticated computational techniques. However, it is necessary to ensure the efficiency of state of the art ... -
Software development for the optimization of the influence of wind flows within energy applications and sustainable town planning
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-12-14)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access
Covenantee: Università degli Studi G.D'AnnunzioThis thesis aims to propose and validate an innovative, fully open-source framework capable of performing multiscale analysis for the assessment of local wind flows within the urban fabric. Each part of the framework is ... -
Quantifying uncertainty in complex automotive crashworthiness computational models : development of methodologies and implementation in VPS/Pamcrash
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-07-23)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThe automotive industry is constantly involved in the development of new methodologies and projects with the aim of reducing costs. During the vehicle design process, one of the most significant cost arises from building ... -
Finite element methods for advection-diffusion-absorption and fluid flow problems
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-07-20)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThe objective of the thesis is to develop a numerical tool to describe how the concentration of one or more substances distributed in a fluid environment changes under the effect of three transport processes: advection, ... -
Essays on second-best pricing schemes for transport infrastructure
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-07-26)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessPricing has been advocated for a long time as a suitable policy instrument to deal with transport externalities. Recent technological developments enable the implementation of more sophisticated pricing schemes at affordable ... -
Evaluación del impacto del Cambio Climático (escenarios B1 y A2) en las aportaciones futuras generadas para el horizonte de proyección 2000-2050 en las cuencas del Fluvià y la Tordera en Catalunya
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-07-29)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThe results presented in this doctoral thesis aims to evaluate the possible Climate Change effects on the water resources yield by the Fluvià river basin and the Tordera river basin, both located in the autonomous region ...
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