Sasikumar, Aravind (Date of defense: 2019-07-18)
Despite the weight savings, composite materials are vulnerable to impact loads mainly due to the alarming reduction in the compression after impact strength (CAI). This thesis exploits the potential of ...
Carreras Blasco, Laura (Date of defense: 2019-07-17)
The overall purpose of this Ph.D. thesis is to contribute to the reliable design of composite structures subjected to fatigue-driven delamination. The aim is motivated by a wish to reduce the amount of ...
Quintanas Corominas, Adrià (Date of defense: 2019-10-11)
his doctoral thesis aims at developing and implementing a computational framework for performing virtual testing of composite structures using a High-Performance Computing (HPC) environment. In this ...
Dorf, Tomasz (Date of defense: 2019-06-05)
Polymeric materials, which are suitable for high performance applications for example human implants are one of the most expensive available polymers. Standard injection micromoulding process, dedicated ...
Guerra Sánchez, Antonio (Date of defense: 2019-06-06)
The main motivation of this work was to analyse the feasibility of the current stent’s manufacturing process to produce the new bioresorbable stents (BRS) as well as study new manufacturing methods. ...
Fernandes Freitas, Dino Miguel (Date of defense: 2019-11-29)
Tissue Engineering plays a vital role in tissue construct to repair, maintain or replace tissues. Those tissues can be cultivated in vivo or in vitro using devices such as bioreactors. There are several ...
Comamala Laguna, Martí (Date of defense: 2019-07-31)
Since the beginnings of the automotive driven with internal combustion engines all the cycles used in the alternative motors share a thermal characteristic, a large amount of heat released by the fuel ...