[EN] This case study presents the engineering approach conducted for stabilizing a landslide that occurred at "El Portalet" Pass in the Central Spanish Pyrenees activated due to the construction of a parking lot. Unlike ...
[EN] Climate change undoubtedly will affect snow events as temperature and precipitation are expected to change in the future. Spanish mountains are especially affected by that situation, since snow storage is there focussed ...
[EN] Floods represent one of the most threatening risks for earthen architectural heritage. Developing risk assessment tools is considered crucial to mitigate the risk and to protect heritage buildings. Due to its hygroscopic ...
[EN] Floods are one of the natural hazards that could be most affected by climate change, causing great economic damage and casualties in the world. On December 2019 in Reinosa (Cantabria, Spain), took place one of the ...
[EN] Quito (Ecuador) has a history of mudflow events from ravines that pose significant risks to its urban areas. Located close to the Pichincha Volcanic Complex, on 31 January 2022, the northwest and central parts of the ...
Garzón Roca, Julio; Torrijo Echarri, Francisco Javier(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-06-08)
La estabilidad de taludes en roca es un aspecto fundamental en el diseño de infraestructuras civiles tales como carreteras o ferrocarriles. La rotura cuneiforme es uno de los tipos de inestabilidad de taludes en roca, en ...
Garzón Roca, Julio; Torrijo Echarri, Francisco Javier(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-06-05)
La estabilidad de taludes en roca es un aspecto fundamental en el diseño de infraestructuras civiles tales como carreteras o ferrocarriles. La rotura plana es uno de los tipos de inestabilidad de taludes en roca, en donde ...
Garzón Roca, Julio; Torrijo Echarri, Francisco Javier(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-06-05)
La estabilidad de taludes en roca es un aspecto fundamental en el diseño de infraestructuras civiles tales como carreteras o ferrocarriles. El vuelco (toppling en inglés) es uno de los tipos de inestabilidad de taludes en ...
Cantarino Martí, Isidro; Torrijo, F.J.; Palencia Jiménez, José Sergio; Gielen, Eric(European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2014)
This paper proposes a method of valuing the stock
of residential buildings in Spain as the first step in assessing
possible damage caused to them by natural hazards. For
the purposes of the study we had access to the ...
García Aznar, César(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-07-05)
[EN] An analysis of the expected behavior will be carried out through a finite element program of the construction of a 7-floor building above the tunnel structure of the Metrovalencia network and it will be verified that ...
[EN] Using a small set of boreholes, as fixed information of basement, combined with the analysis of microtremor surveys, can provide a transversal detailed section of a valley where a dam was constructed. In this paper, ...
Suárez Rosagaray, Adrián(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2017-06-29)
[EN] The final degree project consists of the characterizarion of the rippability of andesitic materials in the "Túnel de Bombolí" in Tandapi (Ecuador). The results have been studied to pose different alternatives for ...
Garzón Roca, Julio; Torrijo Echarri, Francisco Javier(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-02-25)
El diseño geotécnico de una cimentación profunda debe asegurar la integridad de la infraestructura cimentada así como su funcionalidad, para lo cual es necesario garantizar que las solicitaciones de la infraestructura ...
Garzón Roca, Julio; Torrijo Echarri, Francisco Javier(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-02-25)
El diseño geotécnico de una cimentación superficial debe asegurar la integridad de la propia infraestructura cimentada así como su funcionalidad, para lo cual es necesario garantizar que las solicitaciones de la infraestructura ...
[EN] This paper presents the implementation of a learning methodology following a student-centred approach. The methodology is based on the use of project based and cooperative learning and mainly consists of commissioning ...
Garzón-Roca, Julio; Capa-Guachon, Vicente Eduardo; Torrijo, F.J.; Company Rodríguez, Julio(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019-07)
[EN] Soil nailing is a technique commonly used as a temporary or permanent earth-retention system in soft soils. Habitually, the design of a soil nailing focuses on its performance at failure and computing a safety factor, ...
Torrijo, F.J.; Gozalo, Rodolfo; Garzón-Roca, Julio; Company Rodríguez, Julio(Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), 2022)
[EN] This paper describes the petrography and infers the provenance of siliciclastic rocks from the Upper Devonian of the Iberian Chains (Tabuenca, NE Spain), and outlines the tectonic setting associated with the Ebro ...
[EN] The access road to the powerhouse's hydraulic system's facilities in Guarumales (Azuay, Ecuador) presents a medium-sized landslide. Geophysical tests were conducted in the initial research stage, combining electrical ...
Trizio, Francesca; Torrijo Echarri, F. Javier; Mileto, Camilla; Vegas López-Manzanares, Fernando(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2022-09-13)
[EN] Earthen architecture is one of Spain's longest-standing construction traditions, used from antiquity to the mid-twentieth century. Given its hygroscopic nature, earthen architecture is generally seen as barely resistant ...
Torrijo Echarri, Francisco Javier(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-11-23)
En este video se trata de introducir al alumno en los condicionantes y características principales de la rotura de taludes (naturales o antrópicos) por cuñas (rotura cuneiforme).