Programa de Doctorat en Enginyeria de la Construcció

Recent Submissions

Aplicabilidad de la ceniza volcánica de baja actividad como nuevo recurso para materiales cementicios sostenibles 

Játiva Guzmán, Andrés (Date of defense: 2024-05-29)

(English) Volcanic ash (VA), abundantly available in various regions globally, serves as an effective supplementary cementitious material (SCM) for partially substituting Portland cement (OPC). However, its inherently low ...

Social sciences and humanities in civil engineering: a mixed methods analysis in the context of education 

Josa i Culleré, Irene (Date of defense: 2021-10-29)

(English) The challenges that the world is currently facing call for solutions that are interdisciplinary in nature. This implies that engineering professionals need to work together with professionals from different ...

Modelo de priorización de inversiones de soluciones tecnológicas en smart buildings con criterios de desarrollo sostenible 

Vinyeta Medina, Gil (Date of defense: 2024-07-22)

(English) This Doctoral Thesis addresses aspects of interest for designers, promoters, owners, and managers of office buildings, with the intention of providing clarity on the Smart Building paradigm, as well as identifying ...

Use of alternative materials in soil stabilization: mechanical and environmental aspects 

Baloochi, Hani (Date of defense: 2023-03-17)

(English) Currently, the two most raw material consumer industries are civil engineering and the pulp and paper industry. Meanwhile, these sectors face severe criticism due to their environmental impact. Additionally, by ...

WIM-based modelling of traffic load scenarios for extreme load effects in long-span bridges 

Wang, Xuejing (Date of defense: 2023-11-28)

(English) During the lifetime of long-span bridges, the traffic conditions are affected by the surroundings and will typically vary and also unpredictably change. In this thesis, a prior site-specific traffic load spatial ...

Structural behaviour and plastic design of carbon and stainless steel frames in fire 

Segura Valdivieso, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2023-09-22)

(English) This thesis investigates the response of carbon and stainless steel frames in fire, and proposes new and more efficient approaches for their design. The investigation is mainly focused on one bay frames comprised ...

Activación alcalina de residuos urbanos e industriales para la construcción de piezas prefabricadas 

García Díaz, Yineth Paola (Date of defense: 2023-09-27)

(English) A comprehensive evaluation of various industrial and urban by-products was conducted to determine their potential as precursors for alkali-activated materials (AAM) in Spain. Over 15 by-products were identified ...

Structural performance of continuous composite bridges with partial shear connection and double composite action 

Su, Hang (Date of defense: 2023-06-19)

(English) The steel-concrete composite structural solution has been widely applied in the execution of simply supported bridges since the merits of concrete compressive strength and steel tensile strength can be efficiently ...

Structural behaviour of stainless steel frames. Safety against accidental seismic actions 

González de León, Isabel (Date of defense: 2023-05-19)

(English) Stainless steel is one of the most promising construction materials due to its long service life, low maintenance requirements, excellent mechanical properties and high residual value. Nevertheless, for an efficient ...

Estudio teórico y experimental sobre el comportamiento no lineal de estructuras continuas parcialmente pretensadas 

Duarte Gómez, Noemí (Date of defense: 2023-05-12)

(English) Performance-based design (PBD) is a philosophy for structural design that puts emphasis on the realistic estimation of the structural behaviour and its relationship with the objectives of the final user, or ...

Mechanical characterisation of masonry in existing structures by means of laboratory and in-situ experimental techniques 

Cabané Cañas, Albert (Date of defense: 2023-05-17)

(English) Masonry structures are among the most abundant construction typologies in the world, having been commonly built until the second half of the 20th century. The determination of the mechanical properties of these ...

Methodology for seismic vulnerability assessment of existing masonry buildings in urban centres. Application to the Eixample district in Barcelona 

Dimovska, Sara (Date of defense: 2023-05-26)

(English) Unreinforced masonry buildings (URM), which prevail in many historic and urban centres, can be considered to be significantly vulnerable to seismic actions due to their peculiar constructive and structural features ...

Development of low-cost sensors for structural health monitoring applications 

Komarizadehasl, Seyedmilad (Date of defense: 2022-10-27)

(English) There is increasing interest in developing low-cost sensors for economical structural health monitoring of civil engineering infrastructures. In addition to their price, they have the additional benefit of being ...

Building information modeling for facility managers 

Alavi, Hamidreza (Date of defense: 2022-10-11)

A Decision Support System (DSS) can help facility managers to improve building performance, occupants’ comfort, and energy efficiency during the Operation and Maintenance (O&M) phase. These DSSs are normally data-intensive ...

Vegetable Fiber Reinforced Calcium Aluminate Cement based composites for construction materials VFRCCs 

Gorgani, Nourjemal (Date of defense: 2022-09-15)

Vegetable Fiber Reinforced Cement Composite Materials (VFRCC) have emerged as a potential construction material, providing adequate load-bearing capacity and ductility for non-structural applications. VFRCC have good ...

Sustainability, durability and mechanical characterization of a new recycled textile-reinforced strain-hardening cementitious composite for building applications 

Sadrolodabaee, Payam (Date of defense: 2022-07-11)

Cementitious materials have one of the highest compressive strength-to-weight ratios compared to other construction materials. Nonetheless, both tensile strength capacity and toughness result to be an order of magnitude ...

Refuerzo de estructuras de hormigón armado y pretensado por conversión a sección mixta mediante hidrodemolición 

Cots Corominas, Carles (Date of defense: 2022-05-06)

This thesis develops a new structural strengthening technique: converting existing reinforced concrete structures to composite sections by inserting connectors after controlled demolition with high-pressure water. The key ...

Fibre reinforced concrete column-supported flat slabs : from material and structural characterization to design and economic optimization 

Aidarov, Stanislav (Date of defense: 2022-05-06)

Fibre reinforced concrete (FRC) has proven to be a suitable material for statically indeterminate elements. The FRC column-supported flat slabs with partial or even total substitution of reinforcing steel bars constructed ...

Non-linear finite element analysis oriented to optimisation of fibre reinforced concrete structures 

Nogales Arroyo, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2022-04-11)

The construction industry is one of the industrial sectors with the largest output worldwide and, thus, of great economic interest. In this sector, reinforced concrete plays a significant role since it is one of the most ...

Models de priorització d'inversions utilitzant criteris de desenvolupament sostenible 

Roigé Montornés, Núria (Date of defense: 2020-07-15)

This Doctoral Thesis addresses aspects of interest for hydraulic infrastructure managers, such as investment decision support tools, in order to provide both decision support and the justification tools which are required ...