Pujades Garnes, Estanislao (Date of defense: 2013-11-27)
Underground constructions below the water table may be problematic if the role of groundwater is not properly acknowledged. Difficulties worsen in urban environments. Two aspects should be taken into ...
Pinyol i Puigmartí, Núria Mercè (Date of defense: 2010-09-13)
La ocurrencia de deslizamientos es uno de los principales problemas presentes durante el diseño, construcción y explotación de presas y embalses. La inundación del pie de los taludes, así como el ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Barahona-Palomo, Marco (Date of defense: 2014-02-28)
Characterization of aquifers hydraulic parameters is a difficult task that requires field information. Most of the time the hydrogeologist relies on a group of values coming from different test to ...
Butlanska, Joanna (Date of defense: 2014-07-21)
Cone penetration test (CPT) is a fast and reliable site investigation tool for exploring soils and soft ground. While the interpretation of the test results in clay has advanced considerably from a ...
Domènech i Surinyach, Guillem (Date of defense: 2015-10-14)
Due to the exponential grown of the population within the last decades, the landslide hazard assessment of earthflows and rockfalls and their hazard mapping have become an essential tool for the territory ...