Punset Fuste, Miquel (Date of defense: 2018-05-04)
Material engineering has always played a defining role in industry by improving materials and tribological properties, increasing lite time use and thus ultimately reducing material costs. Over the ...
De Andrés Mosquera, Andrés (Date of defense: 2018-03-13)
The paper studies the behavior of the household savings rate in the period 1985 to 2016. It examines the variables that the literature considers determine the long-term savings rate of households: income, ...
Castedo Rodríguez, Alejandra (Date of defense: 2018-09-21)
The depletion of fossil fuels and increase of global warming lead to a high demand for alternative energy sources that should be cheap and renewable to fulfill the future energy demand. The photocatalytic ...
López González, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2018-12-20)
Currently, around 1.2 billion people remain without access to electricity in rural areas of Africa, Asia and Latin America. To date, rural electrification programs have been carried out mainly using ...
Barrera Alarcón, Itzia Gabriela (Date of defense: 2018-04-27)
This research was conducted with the aim of developing a methodological tool, that allows a sustainable urban evaluation within the environmental premise, from the analysis of bioclimatic characteristics ...
Herrera Mesén, Carlos Manuel (Date of defense: 2018-03-16)
Sprayed cementitious materials are widely used in the construction industry, from buildings to infrastructure. The process of construction consists of spraying a concrete mix that consolidates once it ...
Cárdenas Díaz, Octavio Enrique (Date of defense: 2018-10-19)
This thesis studies the hydro-mechanical behaviour of a compacted clayey sand under generalised stress state. The study, which is mainly experimental, focuses on the analysis of the shear strength at ...
Illescas Marín, Ángel (Date of defense: 2018-04-03)
The initial interpretations of Álvaro Siza’s work outside Portugal put the notion of place at the core of his architecture, in line with certain critical positions that appeared in Europe after the ...
Parga Vázquez, Andrea María (Date of defense: 2018-01-17)
The construction of each building appears with respect to the space between others. These volumes give way to future edifications. Each proposal participates in the inexhaustible character of the urban ...
Arvizu Piña, Víctor Alberto (Date of defense: 2018-04-24)
The building sector environmental impact is specially important in emerging economies such as Mexico, due to the population increase and urban growth that they are currently facing. Due to the holistic ...
71 - Physical planning. Regional, town and country planning. Landscapes, parks, gardens (15)
69 - Building (construction) trade. Building materials. Building practice and procedure (13)
620 - Materials testing. Commercial materials. Power stations. Economics of energy (11)