Departament d'Enginyeria Civil i Ambiental
Recent Submissions
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Methodology for seismic vulnerability assessment of existing masonry buildings in urban centres. Application to the Eixample district in Barcelona
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-05-26)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) Unreinforced masonry buildings (URM), which prevail in many historic and urban centres, can be considered to be significantly vulnerable to seismic actions due to their peculiar constructive and structural features ... -
THM coupled behaviour of a deep poorly indurated argillaceous formation
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-11-19)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) Deep geological disposal of heat-emitting and long-lived radioactive waste is the solution internationally accepted that offers the most viable and safest way to manage this kind of wastes. Accordingly, the ... -
Dinámicas socioecológicas de la producción de durazno bajo el sistema de agricultura familiar periurbana en El Jarillo, Venezuela
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-04-21)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) The Jarillo, Venezuelan Mirandina parish, has had an intense agricultural development since the end of the 19th century, the peach occupies one of its main crops since the middle of the last century. They are ... -
Development of low-cost sensors for structural health monitoring applications
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-10-27)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) There is increasing interest in developing low-cost sensors for economical structural health monitoring of civil engineering infrastructures. In addition to their price, they have the additional benefit of being ... -
Coupling shallow water models with three-dimensional models for the study of fluid-structure interaction problems using the particle finite element method
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-09-29)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) This thesis investigates numerical methods for the simulation of surface water flows, focusing on the interaction between the large scale and the local scale and its application to natural hazards. Several families ... -
Conformal n-dimensional bisection for local refinement of unstructured simplicial meshes
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-10-28)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access[English] In n-dimensional adaptive applications, conformal simplicial meshes must be lo cally modified. One systematic local modification is to bisect the prescribed simplices while surrounding simplices are bisected ... -
Numerical modeling of geological carbon sequestration : enhanced dissolution in randomly heterogeneous media
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-07-11)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessGeological Carbon Sequestration (GCS) plays a major role in mitigating the global warming due to the increasing concentration of CO2 in atmosphere. It is important to understand the GCS process to analyze and predict its ... -
Monitoring and analysis of soil-vegetation-atmosphere interactions at slope and catchment scale : Implications for mass-wasting in natural and man-made slopes
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-07-19)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessSlope mass-wasting (SMW) due to shallow landslides or debris flows is one of the most important erosional processes in many mountainous regions together with surficial erosion by rainfall runoff. These erosive processes ... -
Estudio paleoclimático del afloramiento ecuatorial del Océano Pacífico durante los últimos 160.000 años a partir de biomarcadores moleculares
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-06-27)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThe present PhD thesis is focused on the paleoclimatic reconstruction of the Pacific Ocean equatorial upwelling conditions, east of the Galapagos Islands, over the last 160.000 years. This region is of great interest to ... -
Building information modeling for facility managers
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-10-11)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessA Decision Support System (DSS) can help facility managers to improve building performance, occupants’ comfort, and energy efficiency during the Operation and Maintenance (O&M) phase. These DSSs are normally data-intensive ... -
Dynamic large deformation modelling of soils including static liquefaction
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-11-30)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessModelling geotechnical problems involving large deformation is a research field that arouses growing interest since it is fundamental for evaluating the risk and quantifying the magnitude of consequences. However, it is ... -
Vegetable Fiber Reinforced Calcium Aluminate Cement based composites for construction materials VFRCCs
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-09-15)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessVegetable Fiber Reinforced Cement Composite Materials (VFRCC) have emerged as a potential construction material, providing adequate load-bearing capacity and ductility for non-structural applications. VFRCC have good ...
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