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CFD Applications in Long-span Bridges: An Erasmus+ Traineeship International Mobility Experience
(REDINE, Red de Investigación e Innovación Educativa, 2021)[Abstract:] An international mobility experience framed within the Erasmus+ Traineeship programme is reported. The topic of the traineeship is related with Computer Science and Engineering, more specifically, CFD applications ... -
Comparación de la seguridad al deslizamiento de seis presas españolas. Criterios de diseño empleados frente al estado del arte actual
(CSIC, 2021)[Resumen:] Se ha desarrollado y aplicado un método simplificado para reevaluar de forma más precisa la seguridad al deslizamiento en seis presas de gravedad y contrafuertes en base a los resultados de modelos lineales ... -
Computational Techniques for Novel Design of Long-Span Bridges Considering Aeroelastic Phenomena
(ASCE, 2020)[Abstract] Optimization techniques have demonstrated their capability to obtain economic and sustainable designs while meeting the performance and safety requirements in a number of engineering disciplines. In the bridge ... -
Crashworthiness Analysis and Enhancement of Aircraft Structures Under Vertical Impact Scenarios
(American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2020)[Abstract] This research focuses on the crashworthiness study and enhancement of commercial aircraft structures by developing crushable energy absorbers to work as vertical struts. To assess their contribution on a ... -
Crashworthiness optimization of aircraft hybrid energy absorbers enclosing honeycomb and foam structures
(ARC (Aerospace Research Central), 2017)[Abstract:] This research proposes a new design for a vertical strut used in aircraft fuselages. It consists of a hollow aluminum vertical strut filled with a glass-fiber-reinforced polymer honeycomb-shaped structure and ... -
Crashworthiness study on hybrid energy absorbers as vertical struts in civil aircraft fuselage designs
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2019)[Abstract:] This research concerns the crashworthiness study and enhancement of commercial aircraft fuselage structures by incorporating crushable hybrid energy absorbers to work as vertical struts. To assess their ... -
Crushing analysis and multi-objective crashworthiness optimization of GFRP honeycomb-filled energy absorption devices
(Elsevier, 2014)[Abstract:] Fuel efficiency and occupant safety are two of the most important concerns in the automotive industry nowadays. Encouraged by the importance of this field of study, this research attempts an improvement in the ... -
Efficient Modal-Based Method for Analyzing Nonlinear Aerostatic Stability of Long-Span Bridges
(Elsevier, 2021)[Abstract] An efficient method for analyzing the nonlinear aerostatic stability of long-span bridges using a modal formulation is proposed. First, a simplified linear version defined as modal-based approach is introduced, ... -
Energy Absorption of Aluminium Extrusions Filled with Cellular Materials Under Axial Crushing: Study of the Interaction Effect
(MDPI, 2020)[Abstract] This investigation focuses on the interaction effect during the quasi-static axial crushing of circular and square thin-walled aluminium extrusions filled with polymeric foam or cork. The increment in the absorbed ... -
Experiences on structural optimization under uncertainty in aerospace components
(WIT Press, 2018)[Abstract:] Nondeterministic optimization methods have been studied in depth from an academy and industrial point of view. The main drawback when implementing probabilistic optimization methods to complex structures is the ... -
Experimental and Computational Studies on the Performance of Solar Trackers Under Vortex Shedding, Torsional Divergence, and Flutter
(WIT Press, 2020)[Abstract] The current development of renewable energies has originated a number of new structural typologies that are the physical support of the energy production systems. Photovoltaic energy is a very mature source and ... -
Experimental investigation on wind energy harvesting by aeroelastic excitation of a semi-circular cylinder with flat side parallel to the incoming flow
(WIT Press, 2021)[Abstract:] In this work, the performance of a semicircular cylinder with the flat side parallel to the incoming flow has been studied experimentally in a wind-excited energy harvester. Preliminary sectional model wind ... -
Fail-safe optimum cable system under cable breakage in cable-stayed bridges. Application to the Queensferry Crossing Bridge
(Elsevier, 2023)[Abstract:] This paper presents a methodology to optimize the cable system in cable-stayed bridges, whose main novelty is to take into account the accidental breakage of one cable within the design process. To this end, a ... -
Inclusion of Mechanical Dampers in the Multimodal Flutter Analysis of Slender Structures
(WIT Press, 2020)[Abstract] Sometimes slender structures are reinforced with mechanical dampers to reduce the vibrations caused by aeroelastic phenomena like flutter. However the formulation of flutter analysis only considers the classical ... -
Multi-bubble scheme and structural analysis of a hypersonic stratospheric flight vehicle
(Elsevier, 2022)[Abstract:] The STRATOFLY MR3 vehicle is the main objective of the STRATOFLY project, which aims to develop a hypersonic air breathing concept capable of covering antipodal routes in less than three hours. The aircraft ... -
Numerical simulations of the aerodynamic response of 2D circular segments by means of URANS
(WIT Press, 2016)[Abstract:] In the wind engineering field, the so-called D-section (semi-circular cylinder) has attracted some attention from researchers, since it is a galloping prone geometry. In fact, a modest number of references where ... -
Numerical simulations of the aerodynamic response of circular segments with different corner angles by means of 2D URANS. Impact of turbulence modeling approaches
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)[Abstract:] This paper presents the results of numerical and experimental investigations on the force coefficients and Strouhal numbers of circular segments considering different corner angles or chord to sagitta ratios. ... -
Optimisation of Thin-Walled Hybrid Vertical Struts for Crashworthy Aircraft Designs
(Springer, 2020)[Abstract] This research concerns the crashworthiness enhancement of a model of a Boeing 737-200 fuselage section. Using a validated numerical specimen, four thin-walled crushable hybrid energy absorbers are added to the ... -
Optimum design of cable-stayed bridges considering cable failure
(WIT Press, 2022)[Abstract:] A methodology to obtain the minimum weight of cables in cable-stayed bridges when a cable fails has been developed. To this end, a multi-model strategy is proposed that takes into account design constraints in ... -
Reliability index based strategy for the probability-damage approach in fail-safe design optimization (β-PDFSO)
(Springer Nature, 2023)[Abstract:] This research proposes a new formulation for fail-safe size optimization, considering the probability of occurrence of each failure scenario and the random structural parameters as sources of uncertainty. ...