Riba Porras, Sergi (Date of defense: 2022-06-14)
Over the last 40 years, in Europe in general and in many mountainous regions in particular, there have been major instances of severe flood episodes (more than 100) which have resulted in more than 700 ...
Regalado López, Francisco Javier (Date of defense: 2022-06-22)
The constant and rapid population growth goes hand in hand with an increased demand for services that governments have the duty to satisfy with the problem of limited financial resources. Transport ...
Delgadillo Ayala, Rick Milton (Date of defense: 2022-03-23)
In 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 ...
Refachinho de Campos, Paulo Roberto (Date of defense: 2022-09-27)
(English) This work presents a new updated reference Lagrangian Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) algorithm for the analysis of large deformation by introducing a novel system of first order conservation ...
Khadivipanah, Peiman (Date of defense: 2022-02-03)
The 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 ...
Hashemi, Mohammad Reza (Date of defense: 2022-02-22)
In 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 ...
Moreira Filho, Carlos Augusto (Date of defense: 2022-07-21)
This thesis develops numerical methods to improve the accuracy and computational efficiency of the part-scale simulation of Additive Manufacturing (AM) (or 3D printing) metal processes. AM is characterized ...
Cavaliere, Fabiola (Date of defense: 2022-04-06)
In 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 ...
Nasika, Christina (Date of defense: 2022-06-28)
The latest monitoring and asset management technologies for large infrastructures involve digital representations that integrate information and physical models, exist in parallel to the real-life ...
Valdés Alonzo, Gabriel Rolando (Date of defense: 2022-06-03)
Identifying the constitutive relations of materials is an essential task to understand their behavior. Classical methods like testing can be effective in understanding these relationships, but introducing ...