Jurado Elices, Anna (Date of defense: 2013-10-21)
Ensuring good water quality is becoming a major challenge in urban areas. Urban aquifers may suffer pollution from different recharge sources such as water leakage from sewer and septic systems, seepage ...
Herrera Lameli, Christian (Date of defense: 2001-07-06)
La Isla de Fuerteventura se sitúa en el borde oriental del Archipiélago de Canarias, a sólo 100 km del continente africano. Presenta un relieve topográfico relativamente suave respecto a las otras islas ...
Zandarín Iragorre, María Teresa (Date of defense: 2010-11-22)
The thesis presents numerical and experimental studies on joints.<br/>A formulation for the coupled analysis of thermo- hydro- mechanical problems in joints is presented. The work involves the establishment ...
Gran Esforzado, Meritxell (Date of defense: 2015-05-27)
Unsaturated flow plays an important role in numerous environmental phenomena. It is complex in arid regions, where liquid water fluxes are small and vapor fluxes become relevant, so that heat, water and ...
Mena Hernández, Ulises (Date of defense: 2002-07-22)
Las grandes ciudades modernas situadas en áreas de peligrosidad sísmica moderada o baja tienden a minusvalorar el peligro sísmico y a descuidar precauciones básicas de protección frente a los terremotos. ...
Ramon Tarragona, Anna (Date of defense: 2014-10-27)
Geological formations containing sulphates are commonly associated with the development of severe expansions when they are involved in tunnel excavation. The intensity of the observed expansive behaviour ...
Martínez Santafé, Maria Dolors (Date of defense: 1998-11-06)
El objetivo de este trabajo es el estudio de la estructura elástica y anelástica del sistema litosfera-astenosfera de la cuenca del mar Mediterráneo, a partir del análisis de la propagación y la atenuación ...
Aguilar Meléndez, Armando (Date of defense: 2011-07-23)
In the present work a probabilistic methodology to estimate the seismic risk of buildings in urban areas is proposed. The seismic risk obtained through this methodology is expressed in terms of annual ...
Portilla Gamboa, Modesto Eusebio (Date of defense: 2014-10-28)
En este documento de Tesis Doctoral, se presenta la recopilación, reconstrucción y análisis de los inventarios de movimientos en masa (MM) y los campos de lluvias para tres eventos históricos en los ...
Abancó Martínez de Arenzana, Clàudia (Date of defense: 2013-06-27)
Debris flows are very fast mass movements and are considered as one of the most hazardous phenomenain mountainous regions. Research on this field has strongly improved during the last decades. However,many ...