Geng, Linlin (Date of defense: 2021-01-28)
Cloud cavitation is a unwanted phenomenon taking place in many hydraulic machines which damages the surfaces of the solid walls due to the erosive aggressiveness induced by the collapse process. Therefore, ...
Martín Navarrete, Rocío (Date of defense: 2021-02-02)
The acoustic field inside a car cabin for low driving speeds is dominated by the engine or the tire noise. However, for mid to high velocities, the noise generated by the interaction of the car with the ...
Bellafont Peralta, Ignasi (Date of defense: 2021-01-25)
The Future Circular Hadron Collider (FCC-hh) is a proposal for a 100 km long hadron collider conceived as the successor of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The FCC-hh is designed to reach 50 TeV of beam ...
Rallo Tolós, Héctor (Date of defense: 2021-02-09)
The mobility of the future undoubtedly involves the electrification of vehicles. The increase in social awareness towards a reduction in CO2 emissions, together with the introduction of new laws regulating ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bossio, Matias (Date of defense: 2021-06-01)
In food and pharmacological industries, reducing the production time and improving the machine flexibility to be adapted to new products is a constant necessity. This generate changes on the initial ...
García Vilana, Silvia (Date of defense: 2021-02-04)
In this document, a non-linear constitutive model with micro-cracking and irreversibility is proposed for cortical bone of the human rib, extended with a stochastic fracture model, based on acoustic ...