Baghaei, Masoud (Date of defense: 2020-07-24)
One of the main advantages of fluidic oscillators is that they do not have moving parts, which brings high reliability whenever being used in real applications. To use these devices in real applications, ...
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 ...
Ghangale, Dhananjay (Date of defense: 2019-07-19)
This thesis presents a methodology for assessing induced ground-borne vibration due to Underground railway infrastructures in the context of an urban environment. The methodology is based on a comprehensive ...
Noori, Behshad (Date of defense: 2019-07-19)
This dissertation is concerned with investigating the efficiency of dynamic vibration absorbers (DVAs) as measures to mitigate ground-borne vibrations induced by railway traffic in double-deck tunnels. ...
Farré Lladós, Josep (Date of defense: 2015-04-28)
Manufacturers of wind turbines have observed a new phenomenon that appears in high power wind turbines: excessive wear in the teeth located at 0º in the pitch bearing. In order to design more efficient ...
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 ...
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 ...
Liravi, Hassan (Date of defense: 2022-07-29)
This thesis is concerned with the development of efficient and practical numerical methodologies to deal with longitudinally invariant soil-structure interaction problems in elastodynamics. All the ...
Roca Cazorla, David (Date of defense: 2020-09-07)
The notion of metamaterials as artificially engineered structures designed to obtain specific material properties, typically unachievable in naturally occurring materials, has captured the attention of ...
Ordóñez Izquierdo, Víctor Hugo (Date of defense: 2022-09-22)
Electromagnetic vibration energy harvesting is a relatively modern technology that has received relevant attention in the last decade from the research community and industry as a potential complement ...