Departament de Resistència de Materials i Estructures a l'Enginyeria
Recent Submissions
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Análisis del comportamiento frente acciones cíclicas de muros de mampostería reforzados con materiales compuestos de matriz inorgánica y tejidos de fibras vegetales
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-10-04)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessIn order to pursue sustainable objectives in the construction industry, a new composite material using vegetal fabric coated with resin and embedded into mortar was developed, characterized and applied on masonry walls. ... -
Numerical modelling of the growth and remodelling phenomena in biological tissues
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-02-05)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessLiving biological tissues are complex structures that have the capacity of evolving in response to external loads and environmental stimuli. The adequate modelling of soft biological tissue behaviour is a key issue in ... -
Análisis resistente de estructuras de obra de fábrica mediante redes funiculares simuladas computacionalmente
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2006-09-22)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessEste trabajo tiene por objetivo desarrollar una estrategia orientada a resolver de forma computacional el equilibrio estático de las obras pétreas formadas por elementos unidimensionales empleando la analogía clásica de ... -
Modelo constitutivo para tejido óseo humano : propiedades mecánicas del hueso cortical de costilla
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2015-03-23)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThis dissertation deals with obtaining the mechanical properties of the cortical bone of the human ribs. One hundred one samples from 76 donors were tested for this study. The number of tested samples significantly ... -
Análisis beneficio costo probabilista de medidas de mitigación del riesgo por sismo
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-02-02)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessIn the situation to make decisions about which risk mitigation measures -RMM- to implement and the performance level required, arises the need for a quantitative analysis of benefits that may be obtained as well as the ... -
Stabilized finite element formulations for the three-field viscoelastic fluid flow problem
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-03-15)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThe Finite Element Method (FEM) is a powerful numerical tool, that permits the resolution of problems defined by partial differential equations, very often employed to deal with the numerical simulation of multiphysics ... -
Multiscale numerical modelling of microstructured reinforced composites
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-02-09)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessMost of the existing materials around us can be considered composite materials, since they are composed by several phases or components at certain spatial scale. The physical and chemical properties of composites, as occurs ... -
La curva híbrida de riesgo : análisis retrospectivo y prospectivo del riesgo por fenómenos naturales
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-02-01)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThe natural hazard risk is a contingent liability and, thus, a sovereign risk for national governments and, therefore, it is important to assess properly the potential losses in order to design suitable policies and ... -
Numerical simulation of fatigue processes : application to steel and composite structures
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-02-01)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThe present thesis aims at advancing an innovative computational methodology that simulates steel and composite material fracture under cyclic loading following a phenomenological approach, with calibration from both small ... -
Riesgo sísmico de edificaciones en términos de pérdidas económicas mediante integración de costos de reparación de componentes
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-01-28)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThe probabilistic seismic risk assessment in terms of economic losses for building portfolios aims at the estimation of the probability distribution functions of losses. This can be done for a specific seismic event ... -
Modelado de multifractura discreta en materiales quasi-frágiles
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-01-18)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThe stated goal of this work is to develop a numerical explicit finite element method able to effectively address the strain localization process, discrete fracture and fragmentation process in quasi-brittle materials, ... -
Applications of turbulence modeling in civil engineering
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-01-15)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThis thesis explores the use of stabilized finite element formulations for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations to simulate turbulent flow problems. Turbulence is a challenging problem due to its complex and dynamic ...