Quintana i Badosa, Guillem (Date of defense: 2010-01-14)
La millora de la productivitat i la qualitat són indubtablement dues de les principals exigències del sector productiu modern i factors clau per la competitivitat i la supervivència. Dins aquest sector,la ...
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 ...
Ximinis Tarrés, Joan (Date of defense: 2022-09-07)
First part of this research is focused in validating the Exhaust Gas Heater (EGH) viability in reducing NOx emissions without negative effects in a standard exhaust gas circuit. Experimentation was held ...
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. ...
Massaguer Colomer, Eduard (Date of defense: 2016-07-26)
In this work, we investigate harvesting thermoelectric energy from wasted heat in fluid networks and propose a generic tool for the simulation and sizing of thermoelectric energy harvesters, that can ...
Abdel Monsef, Said Ahmed Ibrahim (Date of defense: 2020-07-02)
Cohesive zone models are widely used for modelling delamination and bonded joints under different loading conditions. In the current thesis, an objective inverse method has been developed to extract the ...
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 ...
Iglesias, Alex (Date of defense: 2016-02-04)
Chatter is one of the major problems in today’s milling processes. Theoretical models to calculate stability lobes are used to predict and avoid chatter onset. However, current predictions are not ...
Bagudanch Frigolé, Isabel (Date of defense: 2017-11-16)
Incremental Sheet Forming (ISF) technology has been mainly applied on metallic sheets during the last years. ISF is used due to its flexibility, low costs, low batch production, production of complex ...