Environmental concerns are increasing within the industy, especially in the automotive industry. On one hand, they are making efforts to reduce the CO2 emissions and on the other hand, they are working in the development ...

Estudios recientes muestran que las medidas de la UE y los esfuerzos relacionados con la industria deberían aumentarse para alcanzar el objetivo de ahorro de energía. Una de las medidas de ahorro de energía en el entorno ...

Ageing of the population together with the increase of life’s quality in developed societies, has lead to a change of population needs from the health point of view. Dentist placing dentures are increasingly fewer, since ...

Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) are metallic alloys with different thermomechanical properties compared to more conventional ones such as iron or aluminum alloys. This kind of alloys have two types of behaviours depending on the ...

El software se está convirtiendo en un elemento fundamental en los productos electrónicos. Cuando se desarrollan sistemas embebidos, los requisitos a cumplir no sólo se definen en términos de los aspectos funcionales del ...

The purpose of this thesis is to develop a model for implementing an effective and efficient continuous improvement projects, aimed at increasing the performance of production processes. In particular, it aims to innovate ...

Fretting wear is one of the main degradation mechanism produced in steel wire ropes. This phenomenon leads to produce wear scars between the contacting thin steel wires reducing considerably the fatigue life of these ...

This thesis determines a design methodology of robust and multivariable controllers based on the H∞ norm reduction and on LPV (Linear Parameter Varying) techniques for load reduction in wind turbines. In order to do this, ...

A fundamental aim of many industrial sectors is the reduction of structural vibration in order to increase the service life of mechanical components and diminish noise radiation. Viscoelastic sandwiches have been widely ...