Departament d'Enginyeria Mecànica

El Departament d’Enginyeria Mecànica participa activament en transferència de tecnologia dins els convenis de col·laboració amb empreses públiques i privades, com ara el disseny de màquines i assessorament per a la seva construcció; alguns han donat lloc a patents.


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Recent Submissions

Control strategies for exoskeleton gait training after stroke: understanding the importance of parameter tuning 

Miguel Fernández, Jesús de (Date of defense: 2023-11-17)

(English) The control strategies implemented in exoskeletons play a crucial role in determining the interaction between the device and user. However, it is unclear what is the most suitable control strategy and settings ...

Machine-learning to promote better practices of low-cost wearable devices in tremor diseases 

Loaiza Duque, Julián David (Date of defense: 2023-10-27)

(English) The most common tremor disorders worldwide are Parkinson's Disease and Essential Tremor. The gold standard for diagnosing these movement disorders is medical evaluation by neurologists, but its accuracy depends ...

Application of the vibration-assisted ball burnishing process on rotational symmetric parts to improve their fatigue strength and wear properties 

Velázquez Corral, Eric (Date of defense: 2023-09-05)

(English) This thesis is an experimental investigation into the beneficial effects of the ultrasonic vibration-assisted ball burnishing process on the wear resistance and fatigue life-cycle enhancement of rotational symmetric ...

Clinical evaluation towards the development of a lower limb exoskeleton for people with spinal cord injury: from gait biomechanics to motor learning 

Rodríguez Fernández, Antonio (Date of defense: 2023-07-21)

(English) People with spinal cord injury (SCI) may suffer lifelong sequels that influence every aspect of their lives, including motor and/or sensory impairment, difficulty breathing and/or swallowing, bladder/bowel weakness, ...

A virtual environment to evaluate and predict recovery of human hand motion post-stroke 

Padilla Magaña, Jesús Fernando (Date of defense: 2022-11-18)

(English) The Action Research Arm Test (ARAT) is a measurement tool to assess post-stroke upper extremities motor function. However, ARAT scoring can be subjective and limited only to determining performance quality. ...

Active flow control optimization on Selig Donovan 7003 airfoil 

Monshi Tousi, Navid (Date of defense: 2023-06-16)

(English) The PhD focuses on the study of the flow around an airfoil at different Angles of Attack (AoA) with and without the implementation of Active Flow Control (AFC), while maintaining the Reynolds number constant at ...

Tool-part tribological interaction assessment for continuous deformation processes 

Torres Chamorro, Lisbeth Alejandra (Date of defense: 2023-07-03)

(English This dissertation is an experimental assessment of the tool-part tribological interaction of continuous deformation processes: ball burnishing as a superfinishing process and wire drawing as a bulk deformation ...

Parametrització d'una bomba d'engranatges externs i validació en condicions reals 

Torrent Gelmà, Miquel (Date of defense: 2023-03-31)

(English) Pumps of positive volumetric displacement (PDVP) drive a volume of fluid from suction to discharge for each revolution of its shaft, called derived capacity, and therefore, in an ideal constant capacity pump the ...

Study of the characterization of the mechanical properties of materials with elastomeric behavior for biomedical applications 

Adrover Monserrat, Bàrbara (Date of defense: 2023-02-24)

(English) The mechanical characterization of new materials used in the Material Extrusion technique (MEX) in 3D printing is essential. The use of this technique is growing and with it the possible applications of printed ...

Anàlisi del comportament de bigues de formigó armat reforçades amb FRCM vegetal sota càrregues de flexió cíclica 

Mendizábal Dinucci, Virginia Dolores (Date of defense: 2023-03-23)

(English) Fiber-Reinforced Cementitious Matrix (FRCM) is a strengthening method that has been increasing its importance versus Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) due the lower cost and lower toxicity of its materials. The ...

A high-performance electromagnetic vibration energy harvester based on ring magnets with Halbach configuration: design, optimization, and applications 

Ordóñez Izquierdo, Víctor Hugo (Date of defense: 2022-09-22)

Electromagnetic vibration energy harvesting is a relatively modern technology that has received relevant attention in the last decade from the research community and industry as a potential complement or alternative to the ...

Advanced 2.5D meshless methodologies to deal with soil-structure interaction problems in elastodynamics 

Liravi, Hassan (Date of defense: 2022-07-29)

This thesis is concerned with the development of efficient and practical numerical methodologies to deal with longitudinally invariant soil-structure interaction problems in elastodynamics. All the approaches appearing in ...

Solving the nearest rotation matrix problem in three and four dimensions with applications in robotics 

Sarabandi, Soheil (Date of defense: 2021-04-27)

Since the map from quaternions to rotation matrices is a 2-to-1 covering map, this map cannot be smoothly inverted. As a consequence, it is sometimes erroneously assumed that all inversions should necessarily contain ...

Estudio del coeficiente de rigidez y de amortiguación de una suspensión neumática multicámara 

Río Cano, Carlos (Date of defense: 2022-04-20)

Heavy vehicles are generally equipped with Shock Absorber Suspension Cylinders, which, in addition to integrating in the same element, the damping and suspension mechanism, allow obtaining greater suspension travels, ...

Active control of noise transmitted from barriers 

Sohrabi, Shahin (Date of defense: 2022-03-11)

Active noise cancellation is a unique approach that helps passive noise control in reducing sound levels at low frequencies; nevertheless, successful use of active noise cancellation necessitates performing numerous and ...

A new computational approach to topology optimization in solid mechanics problems 

Yago Llamas, Daniel (Date of defense: 2022-01-24)

This doctoral thesis addresses topology optimization problems at a single scale. Based on this purpose, a new topology optimization approach is developed in order to improve existing and widespread techniques in the research ...

Specific energy consumption of metal cutting with thin abrasive discs 

Awan, Muhammad Rizwan (Date of defense: 2021-11-02)

The aim of this research is to provide an in-depth understanding of energy consumption in abrasive disc cutting processes. The specific energy consumed in cutting is measured,analysed, and then characterised in to three ...

Microfluidic platforms: from 3D printing to µPADs for chemical and biological applications 

Mehrdel, Pouya (Date of defense: 2021-09-14)

Over the past decade, microfluidic technology has proven its capabilities to start bringing detection and quantification capacities to novel miniaturized devices. The current generation of microfluidic platforms provide ...

Improved condition monitoring of hydraulic turbines based on artificial intelligence techniques 

Zhao, Weiqiang (Date of defense: 2021-07-21)

As a type of renewable energy that can provide rapid response to the requirement of the power grid, hydropower plays a fairly important position in the energy market. In recent years, with the enormous entrance of new ...

Contribución a la metodología de caracterización dinámica de materiales resilientes para aplicaciones ferroviarias 

Reina, Salvatore (Date of defense: 2021-07-09)

This thesis is focused on the enhancement and development of advanced methodologies for the dynamic characterisation of resilient elements used in railway applications. On the one hand, this thesis proposes several ...

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