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Developing insurance solutions software for natural hazard loss estimation
(2007)
The population explosion in the second half of the twentieth century has caused exponential growth in economic losses associated with the natural and man-made disasters. Efforts to better understand economic consequences ...
Comportamiento mecánico de tubos de material compuesto rellenos de hormigón bajo carga axial en compresión
(2007)
Los tubos de polímero fibro-reforzado (FRP) rellenos de hormigón constituyen una alternativa eficiente para la construcción de elementos de soporte estructural. Para ser utilizados con un nivel adecuado de confianza, estos ...
Development of hurricane based fragility curves for wood-zinc houses in Puerto Rico
(2007)
The costliest natural disasters to strike Puerto Rico in the last century have been caused by tropical storms and hurricanes. Over the years, many attempts were made to reduce vulnerability by improving the infrastructures. ...
Amortiguamiento en estructuras de acero utilizando materiales viscoelásticos
(2007)
En esta tesis se evaluó la efectividad de materiales viscoelásticos para disipar energía en edificios de acero mediante simulaciones numéricas con elementos finitos. El material se aplicó con tratamientos a cortante y ...
Dynamic lateral response of single piles considering soil inertia contribution
(2007-05)
The most widely used model to perform the analysis of piles under lateral loads consists in modeling the pile as a series of beam elements and representing the soil as a group of unconnected, concentrated springs perpendicular ...
Fatigue behavior of ultra high strength structural materials
(2007)
Ultra high strength structural AF1410 steel is commonly used in critical aircraft structural components in aerospace and marine application, because it possesses high toughness and outstanding mechanical properties. However, ...
Methodology to identify hazardous locations for highways in Puerto Rico
(2007)
The main purpose of this research was to establish a procedure for the identification of
hazardous road sections with high incidence of fatalities. The fatal accident database of the Puerto Rico Traffic Safety Commission ...
Development of a regional integrated hydrologic model for a tropical watershed
(2007)
A preliminary hydrologic regional conceptual model was developed for a coastal tropical basin and implemented in an integrated, fully distributed, physically based, numerical model. The model attempts to include features ...
Study of the seismic behavior of steel buildings with a 1/6 scale model and shaking table tests
(2007)
This thesis summarizes the design, construction and instrumentation of a 1/6 scale model of a steel structure typically used in commercial buildings in Puerto Rico, and the evaluation of methods to upgrade its performance ...
Engineering behavior of soft clays treated with circulating fluidized bed combustion fly ash
(2007-07)
This thesis presents results from a comprehensive laboratory study carried out to investigate the feasibility of using Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustion fly ash for improvement of engineering properties, particularly ...