[EN] Recently, the repair and maintenance of structures has been necessary to prevent these structures¿ sudden collapse and to prevent human and financial damage. A natural factor in marine environments that destroys ...
[ES] Cada vez es más evidente que el sector de la construcción desempeña un papel fundamental en la consecución de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible. Las actividades y la infraestructura relacionadas con la construcción ...
Sánchez-Garrido, Antonio J.; Navarro, Ignacio J.; Yepes, V.(IATED Academy, 2020-11-10)
[EN] This paper is based on the contents of the postgraduate course "Prediction and optimization models of concrete structures", taught in the Master of Concrete Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, in ...
Yepes, V.; Sánchez-Garrido, Antonio J.; Navarro, Ignacio J.(IATED Academy, 2021-03-09)
[EN] Traditionally, technical degrees have focused on promoting the functionality and durability of designs, orienting the capacities of their students towards the optimization of economic aspects. The challenges that have ...
Sánchez-Garrido, Antonio J.; Navarro, Ignacio J.; Yepes, V.(Elsevier, 2022-01-01)
[EN] Since the establishment of the Sustainable Development Goals, great concern has arisen on how to diminish the impacts that result from construction activities. In such context, Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) ...
[EN] After the recent establishment of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Agenda 2030, the sustainable design of products in general and infrastructures in particular emerge as a challenging field for the development ...
Sánchez-Garrido, Antonio J.; Navarro, Ignacio J.; Yepes, V.(Elsevier, 2021-07)
[EN] This paper proposes a methodology for the assessment of the sustainability among three different structural design alternatives for a single-family home. The response associated with each alternative has been measured ...
[EN] Recent catastrophic events have aroused great interest in the scientific community regarding the evaluation and prediction of the structural response along the life cycle of infrastructures. Efforts are put into ...
[EN] The deterioration caused by chloride penetration and carbonation plays a significant role in a concrete structure in a marine environment. The chloride corrosion in some marine concrete structures is invisible but can ...
Navarro, I.J.; Martí Albiñana, José Vicente; Yepes, V.(Elsevier, 2019)
[EN] Sustainability is of paramount importance when facing the design of long lasting, maintenance demanding structures. In particular, a sustainable life cycle design for concrete structure exposed to aggressive environments ...
[EN] The recently established Sustainable Development Goals recognize the importance of infrastructures for achieving a sustainable future. Along their long-lasting life cycle, infrastructures generate a series of impacts, ...
Navarro, Ignacio J.; Yepes, V.; Martí Albiñana, José Vicente(Elsevier, 2018)
[EN] Sustainable design of structures includes environmental and economic aspects; social aspects throughout the life cycle of the structure, however, are not always adequately assessed. This study evaluates the social ...
[EN] Essential infrastructures such as bridges are designed to provide a long-lasting and intergenerational functionality. In those cases, sustainability becomes of paramount importance when the infrastructure is exposed ...
Navarro, Ignacio J.; Yepes, V.; Martí Albiñana, José Vicente(WITPress, 2021)
[EN] The establishment of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 claims for a deep paradigm shift in the way infrastructure structures are conceived. The evaluation of the impacts derived from the con- struction, the ...