[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 ...
Company Rodríguez, Julio; Ruiz-Omeñaca, José Ignacio; Pereda-Suberbiola, Xabier(Cambridge University Press, 1999)
[EN] Fragmentary remains, including cervical vertebrae and limb bones, of a large pterosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Tous, province of Valencia (Spain), are described. The material was recovered from lacustrine beds ...
Company Rodríguez, Julio; Pereda-Suberbiola, Xavier; Ruiz-Omeñaca, José Ignacio; Buscalioni, Angela D.(Taylor & Francis, 2005-06)
[EN] A new species of a ziphodont crocodyliform is described on the basis of newly-discovered material from
the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Sierra Perenchiza Formation of Valencia, Spain. It is referred to the genus ...
[EN] This paper presents a parametric study of reinforced concrete bridge tall piers with hollow, rectangular sections. Such piers are typically used in railway construction of prestressed concrete viaducts.Twenty one ...
Goerlich Sanchis, Francisco José; Cantarino Martí, Isidro(Taylor & Francis: STM, Behavioural Science and Public Health Titles, 2013-06-21)
This article describes a high-resolution land cover data set for Spain and its application
to dasymetric population mapping (at census tract level). Eventually, this vector layer
is transformed into a grid format. The ...
[EN] A landslide susceptibility map is a crucial tool for landuse spatial planning and management in mountainous areas. An essential issue in such maps is the determination of susceptibility thresholds. To this end, the ...
Hidalgo Sgnes, Carlos; Martínez Fernández, Pablo; Garzón Roca, Julio; Garrido de la Torre, Mª Elvira; Insa Franco, Ricardo(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2016-06-01)
[EN] Over the last years rubber from scrap tyres has been reused in different civil works such as road embankments and railway platforms due to its resilient properties, low degradation and vibration attenuation. Unfortunately, ...
[EN] Urban sprawl is now a common and threatening phenomenon in Europe, severely affecting
environmental and economic sustainability. An analytical characterization and measurement of
urban sprawl are required to gain a ...
[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 ...
Ballesteros Pérez, Pablo; González-Cruz, María Carmen; Fuentes Bargues, José Luis; Skitmore, M.(Taylor & Francis, 2015-09-02)
The number of bidders, N, involved in a construction procurement auction is known to have an important effect on the value of the lowest bid and the mark-up applied by bidders. In practice, for example, it is important for ...
[EN] This paper focuses on the assessment of the vibration behaviour of granular sub-ballast materials mixed with rubber particles from scrap tyres. The main objective is to evaluate whether these mixes attenuate vibrations ...
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 ...
Picazo Utiel, David(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-09-24)
[EN] An analysis is performed to optimize the design of the foundation for a single-family home, in which it is intended to integrate a geothermal exchanger, for the use of low enthalpy geothermal energy. The final designed ...
Ordaz Navarro, José Daniel(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2022-04-08)
[ES] En la actualidad, los tráficos captados por la nueva Autovía A-33, provenientes de la RM-A15, tienen que recorrer distancias entre 5,4 y 12 km. para acceder a la Autovía, generando costes y demoras a los usuarios. La ...
Paz García, Mónica Giuliana(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-11-12)
[EN] The Building Information Modelling (BIM) methodology represents an evolution in the way infrastructures are designed, built and maintained and implies a change beyond simply applying better-featured software. BIM ...
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 ...