[ES] Durante las últimas décadas el incremento de construcciones con elementos de hormigón prefabricado mediante sistemas marcos o tipo esqueleto han sido muy significativo, pero a la vez estas estructuras estuvieron ...

[EN] From the early 19th to the middle of the 20th century, brick chimneys formed part of the industrial landscape. As technology advanced, factories were abandoned and became absorbed by the cities growing around them but ...

Clay particles found in many building stones, when in contact with water, suffer aggregation-disaggregation and swelling-shrinking processes which can cause severe pathology. Whilst research has focused on historic buildings ...

This research defines diagnosis criteria in R/C one-way slabs with severe corrosion at the lower prestressed reinforcement of the joists and proposes specific actuation criteria and constructive recommendations to increase ...

The fiber-matrix interfacial shear strength (IFSS) of biobased epoxy composites reinforced with basalt fiber was investigated by the fragmentation method. Basalt fibers were modified with four different silanes, ...

[EN] The need to regulate the water volume as a function of irrigation needs, as well as the availability of hydric resources, caused the building of a high number of irrigation reservoir. This research describes the process ...

[ES] El presente trabajo consta de un estudio de las pinturas murales que se encuentran en el crucero y el altar mayor de la Capilla Virgen de la Fuente en una pequeña localidad llamada Villalonga en València. Mediante un ...

[EN] The current Master’s thesis is titled ‘The autophoto in museums. Towards new preventive conservation policies’ , focuses on the analysis of the risk caused by the making of auto-photographs in museum spaces, as well ...

In May 2011, the city of Lorca, in Spain, suffered an earthquake of magnitude Mw = 5.1. Even though the intensity was not particularly high, as the epicentre was only a few kilometres away from the city severe damage was ...

[EN] In this Máster Thesis an osteon extracted from an electronic microscope image of a sheep tibia cortical bone is modelled using the finite element method. The model is composed by all the compact bone parts, such as ...