Felipe Pedro Álvarez Rabanal

Felipe Pedro Álvarez Rabanal
University of Oviedo | UNIOVI · Department of Construction and Manufacturing Engineering

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Introduction
I am member of the University Institute of Industrial Technology of Asturias (IUTA) and the Research Group on Sustainable Construction, Simulation and Testing (GICONSIME), in which I develop my research activity in fields such as numerical simulation, structural optimization, energy efficiency, sustainable construction, forensic analysis and heritage protection.
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September 2013 - January 2014
University of Oviedo
Position
  • Ensayo de Inercia térmica sobre muro de bloques de Hormigón Ligero
January 2013 - December 2015
University of Oviedo
Position
  • Estudio experimental y numérico de la interacción estructural de HLE con secciones de acero de pared delgada y su aplicación en construcción industrializada de forjados de altas prestaciones. IEHLAFOR (BIA2012-31609)
Description
  • The goal of this research project is to approach the study, both experimentally and numerically, of the interaction between structural lightweight concretes (LWCs) reinforced with fibers and thin-walled steel sections.
January 2013 - June 2013
University of Oviedo
Position
  • Diseño de túnel de viento presurizado de CO2 para validación experimental de modelos de comportamiento de túrbomáquinas de nueva generación
Education
September 2004 - October 2009
University of Oviedo
Field of study
  • Engineering

Publications

Publications (114)
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III Congreso Ibero-Latinoamericano MAD de la Madera en la Construcción (CIMAD 24) : Libro de Actas de Resúmenes Extendidos
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Composite slabs made of lightweight concrete and glulam (TLCC) are sustainable and structurally efficient construction elements, since they combine the compressive strength of concrete with the flexural resistance of glulam. However, there is a lack of information in standards and codes about its behavior in fire conditions. The study of its fire r...
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This study can be applied in order to design geothermal systems in combination with Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS), taking into account their thermal considerations. Abstract: Low-enthalpy geothermal systems are a promising source for renewable and clean energy for heating, cooling, and air conditioning residential buildings, contributing to t...
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Unplanned rapid urbanization is considered to be one of the major drivers of change in cities across the world. It leads to an inadequate transformation of urban environments, affecting strategic energy and water management infrastructure, resulting as well in an escalation in energy demand and a greater pressure on stormwater facilities. It is est...
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Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) have positioned themselves as one of the most widely applied Green Infrastructure (GI) techniques for sustainable stormwater management. In recent decades, new lines of research have emerged leading to the geothermal use of SuDS. The aim is to optimise available space in cities and minimise dependence on non-rene...
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Composite slabs with steel decking profiles are widely used in building construction. However, the literature on the fire resistance of lightweight concrete (LWC) composite slabs with steel decking is limited. In this work, the thermo-structural performance of LWC composite slabs with trapezoidal steel decking was studied under fire conditions. A t...
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The Church of the Laboral University of Gijón has the world’s largest elliptical masonry roof with a 40.8 m major axis. This large structure is vertically self-supported with 20 pairs of masonry ribs crossing each other and horizontally supported by means of two elliptical ring beams at the top of the dome. In order to study this historic building,...
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Timber construction is on the rise, but the regulations for sound insulation, vibration, and deflection are often an expensive obstacle for timber slabs. The use of timber combined with other construction materials can address the design challenges for timber structures. Timber-concrete composite (TCC) slabs are an alternative. They offer a range o...
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One of the most important worries of the construction field is the reduction of the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. Materials such as steel and concrete are widely used in building applications and their manufacturing processes require a significant amount of energy, increasing the GHG emissions. For this reason, governments and public institutions...
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Spain has been pinpointed as one of the European countries at major risk of extreme urban events. Thus, Spanish cities pursue new urban plans to increase their resilience. In this scenario, experiences in the implementation of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) have increased substantially. Nevertheless, few cities have developed a global ur...
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Uncontrolled urban growth causes a number of problems associated with land use, storm-water management and energy generation. Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) are positioned as an alternative to traditional constructive solutions, contributing towards the generation of multifunctional urban spaces for efficient stormwater management and en...
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Structural lightweight concrete (LWC) has recently acquired research importance because of its good thermal insulation properties. However, there is a lack of knowledge about its thermal properties at elevated temperatures. The thermal properties, such as thermal conductivity and specific heat, of porous LWC vary depending on the aggregates, air vo...
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Energy demand in cities is growing significantly, mainly due to the increasing population in urban environments. This is also causing the waterproofing of large areas, as well as the shortage of available space. This research tries to respond to these challenges, combining Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) with Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHP...
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Transportation infrastructures such as ports are facing the challenge to transition towards sustainable management practices in a context of climate change. The Energy and Water nexus is key to that purpose as pointed out by the European Sea Ports Organization (ESPO) in the report 'Priorities of European ports for 2019-2024', focusing on the need f...
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The thermal inertia properties of construction elements have gained a great deal of importance in building design over the last few years. Many investigations have shown that this is the key factor to improve energy efficiency and obtain optimal comfort conditions in buildings. However, experimental tests are expensive and time consuming and the de...
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The aim of this paper is to study and optimize the thermal performance of new lightweight and insulating composite blocks (CBlocks). These CBlocks are made up of a central expanded polystyrene (EPS) layer and two lightweight concrete layers with cavities. The aggregate of the lightweight concrete is pumice. A complete corner wall composed of six co...
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The Church of the Laboral University of Gijón has the world's largest elliptical masonry roof with 40.8 meters of mayor axis. This big structure is vertically supported with no columns using twenty pairs of masonry ribs crossing each other, and horizontally supported by means of two elliptical ring beams located at the top of the Church. In order t...
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The use of rounded dovetail connections has gained popularity in timber floor and ceiling structures due to the advance in computerized numeric control machinery. However, European building regulations for fire safety in timber structures from Eurocode 5 standard does not provide a specific method to calculate the fire performance of this kind of c...
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Vegetated swales are a popular sustainable drainage system (SuDS) used in a wide range of environments from urban areas and transport infrastructure, to rural environments, suburban and natural catchments. Despite the fact that vegetated swales, also known as grassed swales, have received scientific attention over recent years, especially from a hy...
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Severe environmental problems are generated by the excessive amount of waste Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET). A popular way to reuse it is to recycle as filler material in concrete technology. However, some mechanical properties decrease because of adhesion weakness between cement paste and waste polymers, when they are added. One alternative solu...
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This paper presents the experimental study of lightweight concrete (LWC) and normal concrete (NC) composite slabs with steel decking profile exposed to standard time-temperature curve. LWC composite slabs are very efficient in terms of energy savings and sustainability due to their low values of thermal transmittance. In this study NC is used to co...
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Nowadays the excessive amount of waste tire rubber generates serious environmental problems. One of the alternative ways for its recycling is as filler in cement concrete. Nevertheless, as it is known recycled materials added to cement concrete decrease certain mechanical properties due to the poor adhesion between fillers and cement matrix. For re...
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The use of composite slabs in buildings is increasingly widespread in the EU in the last decades. Current standards specified the minimum concrete compressive strength used in its manufacture as 25 MPa. The aim of this work is to study different lightweight concrete mixtures to manufacture composite slabs, taking into account their thermal and stru...
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Cross-laminated timber (CLT) is an engineered timber product manufactured with an odd number of timber layers placed crosswise to each other. These structural elements are widely used in the construction field. Although the behaviour of CLT under fire conditions is known, there are challenges of knowledge that require more in-depth research, such a...
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This paper compares numerical techniques to model the flexural behaviour of concrete, including different constitutive material models to simulate the reinforced concrete behaviour. Several models to characterize the stress-strain and failure behaviour of concrete materials have been developed for other authors. However, one of the major issues of...
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Cities are subjected to intense urbanization processes, leaving limited space available. Multifunctional approaches are demanded by society in order to create attractive spaces to live whilst improving biodiversity, enhancing energy saving, sequestering carbon and managing stormwater related problems. Previous research has stressed the possibility...
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Desde hace unos años, los daños provocados por organismos xilófagos (carcomas, termitas y hongos de pudrición) en las estructuras de madera han aumentado de manera muy significativa. Actualmente, para estimación del grado de deterioro biológico, además de los clásicos punzones, las empresas de control emplean otro tipo de equipos como resistógrafos...
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La madera es un material natural y renovable que, si puede ser producido localmente, permite incrementar de manera notable la sostenibilidad de las construcciones. El uso de la madera como material estructural tiene un buen comportamiento mecánico y la mayoría de las especies tienen buenas propiedades térmicas. Para favorecer la integración de esto...
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Land-use change due to rapid urbanization poses a threat to urban environments, which are in need of multifunctional green solutions to face complex future socio-ecological and climate scenarios. Urban regeneration strategies, bringing green infrastructure, are currently using sustainable urban drainage systems to exploit the provision of ecosystem...
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Although a large number of papers have been published to date on failures in wind turbines, most of them have focused on blade failures and less attention has been paid to the tower failures. This paper analyses the causes that led to the failure of one element that finally caused the whole tower to collapse. A diagnosis of the cause of the failure...
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3D concrete printing is an additive manufacturing method which reduces the time and improves the efficiency of the construction process. Structural behavior of printed elements is strongly influenced by the properties of the material and the interface surfaces. The printing process creates interface surfaces between layers in the horizontal and ver...
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Background: This patent is based on the wind industry technology called Diffuser Augmented Wind Turbines (DAWTs). This technology consists of a horizontal axis wind turbine, which is housed inside a duct with diverging section in the direction of the free air stream. In this paper, a review of preceding patents related to this technology is carried...
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Background: This patent is based on the wind industry technology called Diffuser Augmented Wind Turbines (DAWTs). This technology consists of a horizontal axis wind turbine, which is housed inside a duct with diverging section in the direction of the free air stream. In this paper, a review of preceding patents related to this technology is carried...
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In the research for sustainable construction, cross-laminated timber (CLT) has gained popularity and become a widely used engineered timber product. However, there are few numerical studies of the structural behaviour of CLT. Among other issues, the orthotropic properties of CLT complicate finite element analysis (FEA). This paper presents a finite...
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Lack of city space and conventional drainage systems failures have derived in the need to implement Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) techniques which provide multifunctional areas capable of managing stormwater, treating the pollutants present in the runoff, bringing back biodiversity to the urban environment, and providing amenity whilst impr...
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The heat transfer through wood in a fire situation is controlled by several processes, such as species, rate of heating and reaction kinetics. The article examines the challenges related to the thermal analysis of Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) beams under non-standard fire conditions using ANSYS software. In this work, three numerical simulations ar...
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In 1999, the harmonized standards EN 1317 relating to vehicle restraint systems came into force in Europe, in order to establish specific requirements based on safety features. For this reason, these systems have to overcome successfully the full-scale crash tests defined in these standards. However, some defined criteria are not in correspondence...
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The design and implementation of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) such as Green Infrastructure (GI) has been targeted by the European Union (EU) as a main goal for new developments and retrofitting strategies in urban environments. Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) are the main GI asset when designing and developing stormwater management, playi...
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In the research for sustainable construction, cross-laminated timber (CLT) has gained popularity and become a widely used engineered timber product. However, there are few numerical studies of the structural behavior of CLT. Among other issues, the orthotropic properties of CLT complicate finite element analysis. This paper presents a finite elemen...
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3D concrete printing is an additive manufacturing method which reduces the time and improves the efficiency of the construction process. Structural behavior of printed elements is strongly influenced by the properties of the material and the interface surfaces. The printing process creates interface surfaces between layers in the horizontal and ver...
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Las soluciones basadas en la naturaleza son el núcleo central de los nuevos desarrollos y estrategias de modernización urbana de la Unión Europea. El objetivo principal de esta estrategia es garantizar que la infraestructura verde se convierta en parte de la planificación espacial y el desarrollo te-rritorial, siendo una alternativa a los sistemas...
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Both semi-empirical methods and CFD simulations use real climate datasets as a basis for determining the building facade exposure to wind-driven rain and simultaneous wind pressure. The time resolution of these datasets and the number of variables considered (commonly rainfall intensity, wind speed and wind direction) determine the required calcula...
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This paper describes the effect of different testing parameters (configuration of infrastructure and truck position on road) on truck aerodynamic coefficients under cross wind conditions, by means of a numerical approach known as Large Eddy Simulation (LES). In order to estimate the air flow behaviour around both the infrastructure and the truck, t...
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Combined techniques for flood management and energy saving are the future pathway to create multifunctional spaces that improve the liveability of our urban environments by creating better spaces, reducing flooding problems and reintroducing biodiversity into the heart of our cities. Green Infrastructure such as swales has the potential to be desig...
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Combined techniques for flood management and energy saving are the future pathway to create multifunctional spaces that improve the liveability of our urban environments by creating better spaces, reducing flooding problems and reintroducing biodiversity into the heart of our cities. Green Infrastructure such as swales has the potential to be desig...
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Actualmente se fomenta el aprendizaje en competencias activo basado en aprendizaje por proyectos. Por ello, el profesor ha de enfrentarse al plan-tea-miento de proyectos prácticos sugerentes, que puedan resolverse en ca-da sesión de prácticas académicas. Además, los limitados recursos econó-micos disponibles para la docencia obligan a auxiliarse de...
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Las enseñanzas de ingeniería, y en especial a nivel de Máster, tienen que hacer frente a un reto de gran calado en la sociedad tecnológica del siglo XXI, representado en la alta multidisciplinareidad del mundo profesional. El Plan Bolonia introdujo los conceptos de aprendizaje permanente y resultados del aprendizaje, entre otros, mediante los cuale...
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The aim of the paper is the simulation of cement-based materials by the discrete element method (DEM) and its application to 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing. DEM is a way of simulating discrete matter and it captures the dual nature of granular media which behaves both like a solid and a fluid. DEM is a very useful tool for the st...
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El objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar mediante simulaciones numéricas y ensayos experimentales el comportamiento bajo condiciones de fuego de losas mixtas compuestas de una chapa de acero y hormigón ligero estructural (HLE). Este tipo de estructuras son muy eficientes en términos de sostenibilidad y ahorro de energía debido a sus bajos valores de...
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This paper is focused on truck aerodynamic analysis under crosswind conditions by means of numerical modeling. The truck was located on the crest of an embankment during the study. In order to analyze the performance of three wind fence models, the truck's aerodynamic coefficients were obtained and compared in two different situations either with o...
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Green Infrastructure (GI) when referring to Stormwater Practices is a set of decentralised stormwater techniques that confer climate adaptation benefits and the provision of better spaces through cleaner water and " environmentally friendly " infrastructure. GI can provide amenity benefits for more sustainable communities on top of the runoff pollu...
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This paper is focused on improving traffic safety on bridges under crosswind conditions, as adverse wind conditions can increase the risk of traffic accidents. Two ways to improve traffic safety are investigated: improving vehicle stability by means of wind fences installed on the bridge deck and by modifying the design parameters of the infrastruc...
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The aim of this work is to show the use of research projects as teaching materials. Currently, lecturers develop research projects whose results are important contributions for science and industry. Knowledge from results of research projects are published by papers and conferences. The authors of this paper used the knowledge from research works t...
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Recently two Spanish companies got a contract for the construction of twenty foundation structures for an offshore wind farm that should be installed in the North Sea. The manufacture of these elements requires a considerable area of industrial land, and that is why they rented two of the old naves of the steel factory “Ensidesa”, a very unique str...
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Plaster and composites made up of gypsum have been widely used in building for different purposes. In this work, a new gypsum composite containing diatomite and polypropylene fibers was produced. Diatomite, fossilized of microscopic plants, was used up to 20% while fiber up to 1%. Samples with 120 × 120 × 20 mm and 40 × 40 × 160 mm size were produc...
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El objetivo de este trabajo es el estudio del comportamiento estructural de losas mixtas compuestas de chapa de acero y hormigón ligero estructural (HLE), tanto desde el punto de vista experimental como numérico. Por un lado, las pruebas de laboratorio ejecutadas a partir de ensayos de flexión dinámica en cuatro puntos han permitido obtener tanto l...
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En el contexto actual no cabe ninguna duda que en la redacción de proyectos de nueva construcción o de rehabilitación deberían considerarse siempre tres aspectos fundamentales: el impacto sobre el medio ambiente, la repercusión social y su sostenibilidad económica. Partiendo de esta premisa, tanto si se trata de componentes estructurales como de re...
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The current society and the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) provide several changes in learning methodologies in order to adapt educational system to real world. Taking into account necessities of companies and society, new educational system must increase student participation, as well as cooperative learning. The aim of this paper is to dev...
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The aim of this paper is to understand the structural behaviour of composite slabs. These composite slabs are made of steel and different kinds of concrete. The methodology used in this paper combines experimental studies with advanced techniques of numerical simulations. In this paper, four types of concrete were used in order to study their diffe...
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The aim of this work is to show the use of research projects as teaching materials. Currently, lecturers develop research projects whose results are important contributions for science and industry. Knowledge from results of research projects are published by papers and conferences. The authors of this paper used the knowledge from research works t...
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La construcción de un puente es la etapa más comprometida de su vida; se dice que si un puente es capaz de superar su fase de ejecución, entonces puede permanecer durante siglos. Esto es particularmente cierto en casos como los puentes empujados. La estructura debe soportar diferentes esfuerzos durante el lanzamiento, incluso superiores a los de se...
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Esta ponencia explica cómo se vertebra el proceso de transferencia de conocimientos procedentes de proyectos de investigación relacionados con la construcción sostenible e industrializada a alumnos de diferentes niveles de estudios de titulaciones superiores. Este estudio se engloba en el campo de la Ingeniería de la Construcción y se aplicará a es...
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The accurate determination of a facade's watertightness performance is important for optimizing design. Different micro-climatic conditions can affect water penetration. The recently developed Bayesian method allows this performance to be estimated for any operating condition and location, based on the results of standardized watertightness tests....
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De los cambios en el mercado laboral y en el Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior surge la necesidad de adaptarse a las nuevas situaciones que demandan una mayor participación de los alumnos y la creación de entornos de trabajo cooperativos. En el presente artículo se pretende diseñar una propuesta de trabajo cooperativo para un grupo específico d...
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Dispositivo de aceleración del flujo del aire de entrada a un aerogenerador, que comprende un difusor configurado para albergar un aerogenerador. Las superficies interior y exterior de dicho difusor presentan una pluralidad de hendiduras configuradas para transformar la capa límite laminar generada respectivamente en cada una de dichas superficies...
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The thermal conductivity of building envelope materials varies according to the conditions of temperature and moisture content. Precisely determining the thermal conductivity is a primary challenge in developing more appropriate, realistic thermal designs for buildings. However, a detailed implementation of environmental conditions requires either...
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This paper studies the optimum way to design both type and position of the stiffeners when a steel bridge is assembled by means of the new protect-patented launching method based on a selfsupporting deck system. This procedure is able to launch bridge up to a span of 150 m, in an economical and sustainable way. The main objective of this research p...