Garzón Roca, Julio; Torrijo Echarri, Francisco Javier; Cobos Campos, Guillermo(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-09-30)
[EN] The development of soft skills during the engineering student’s academic life
is becoming more and more important due to the increasing interest of
engineering companies for hiring students that own both good ...
Garzón Roca, Julio; Adam Martínez, José Miguel; Calderón García, Pedro Antonio; Valente, Isabel B.(Elsevier, 2012-07)
Steel caging is an effective, economical, easily applied and widely used method of strengthening RC columns. Based on the results of two experimental studies, this paper proposes the finite element modelling of RC columns ...
[EN] Enhancing resilience against flooding events is of great importance. Eastern Iberian Peninsula coastal areas are well known for high intensity rainfalls known as DANA or "cold drop ". Extreme records in 24 h can exceed ...
[EN] Flysch materials are one of the most challenging geological materials and often give rise to slope instability problems. Due to its natural heterogeneity, geomechanical characterization of flysch materials is somewhat ...
Torrijo Echarri, Francisco Javier; Garzón Roca, Julio; Cobos Campos, Guillermo(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020-06-22)
Infrastructures and buildings are built on a material that is heterogeneous in nature and whose properties are imposed by its origin: the ground. Soil or rock, the ground plays an important role in the cost and viability ...
Aguilar, V.; Sandoval, Cristian; Adam Martínez, José Miguel; Garzón-Roca, Julio; Valdebenito, Galo(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2016-03)
This paper analyses the accuracy of a selection of expressions currently available to estimate the in-plane shear strength of reinforced masonry (RM) walls, including those presented in some international masonry codes. ...
[EN] Spanish latitudes and meteorological conditions cause the snow phenomena to mainly take place in mountainous areas, playing a key role in water resource management, with the Pyrenees as one of the most important and ...
Torrijo Echarri, Francisco Javier; Garzón Roca, Julio(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-03-09)
The loads on structures and infrastructures as well as their self-weight are as a set of forces that need to be always transmitted to the ground.This is achieved by means of a foundation,a system composed of a structural ...
Hidalgo Signes, Carlos; Garzón-Roca, Julio; Martínez Fernández, Pablo; Garrido de la Torre, Mª Elvira; Insa Franco, Ricardo(Elsevier, 2016-11)
[EN] During construction of road and railway projects, expansive soils may be encountered. Their use as construction material for embankments presents difficulties, due to their tendency to swell or shrink. Traditional ...
Núñez Collado, Gala; Garzón Roca, Julio; Paya-Zaforteza, I.; Adam Martínez, José Miguel(Elsevier, 2013-11)
This paper analyzes the structural behavior and the context of the roof designed by the Spanish engineer Eduardo Torroja for the San Nicolas Church in Gandia (Spain). The roof is an unknown, unique, elegant and sustainable ...
Hidalgo Signes, Carlos; Garzón-Roca, Julio; Grima Palop, José María; Insa Franco, Ricardo(Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), 2017)
[EN] One of the approaches for solving the problem of induced vibrations in railways is by slightly modifying the materials that form the track. A study is presented of the attenuation capacity of mixes composed of granular ...
Garzón Roca, Julio; Torrijo Echarri, Francisco Javier; Cobos Campos, Guillermo; Fernández, Luis(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-09-26)
[EN] Geotechnical engineering is usually an awkward topic for many students of civil engineering degrees who are often more focused on getting the final number of a given problem than in the process conducted to arrive to ...