Granular flows, such as debris avalanches, debris flows and rock avalanches, involve the rapid motion of granular mixtures consisting of sediments, water and air. They occur on steep slopes and in the hydrographic network ...

The increasing demand of food to satisfy the needs of a growing world population alongside the rate of economic development and high population are putting incomparable pressure on water resources. As a result of this ...

In the last decades, atmospheric pollution has become an increasingly alarming problem, due to its adverse effects at the global, regional and local scales. In this context, the emissions of Greenhouse Gases (GHGs), Volatile ...

The will to face the issue of small towns in inland areas comes from the awareness of the importance of these realities for the sustainable development of territories. There is a growing need to establish valorization ...

The Theory oj Plastic Mechanism Control (TPMC), based on the application oj the kinematic theorem oj the plastic collapse, has been developed in the nineties with rejerence to moment-resisting jrames (MRFs) and progressively ...

Textile Reinforced Mortar (TRM) composites represents nowadays an innovative and efficient technique for strengthening of masonry structural elements. In recent years, the use of plant fibres within the composite, instead ...

This dissertation presents continuum and discrete approaches to the statics of masonry vaults. The thrust surface concept is introduced within Heyman’s safe theorem and extends the funicular curve to the3D case. A variational ...

Il progetto di riqualificazione delle strutture per la salute rappresenta una valida occasione per restituire un servizio essenziale ad un intero contesto territoriale. Ma, ancora di più, la qualità progettuale/architettonica ...

The development of the direct biomass utilization for diverse industrial applications is turning the organic solid waste into one of the most promising feedstocks for the production of wide spectrum of competitive bio-based ...

Ph.D. Thesis proposes a Soft-Computing approach capable of supporting the engineer judgement in the selection and design of the cheapest solution for seismic retrofitting of existing RC framed structure. Chapter 1 points ...