Heavy rainfall on steep hillslopes may cause either shallow landslides or soil superficial erosion and different flow-type phenomena may originate in adjacent/overlapping source areas. Consequently, great amount of water ...

Nanoelectronic devices based on nanomaterials, such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have attracted remarkable attention as a promising building block for future nanoelectronic circuits due to their exceptional electrical, ...

Proton Exchange Membrane, also named Polymer Electrolyte Membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) are interesting devices for energy conversion. Their development is due to the high efficiency, acceptable power density, quick start-up ...

The enhancing waste productions, the change in its composition along with the widespread awareness of environmental issues have increased the technical interest towards the implementation of suitable waste management ...

The understanding and the modeling of mechanisms involved in organic semiconductors are the aims of this Ph.D. thesis. In particular, the document focuses the attention on the role played by organic semiconductor defectson ...

The economic viability of photovoltaic (PV) devices is strongly dependent upon equipment cost and durability. During their usage, these devices are exposed to several atmospheric degradation agents and thus they need to ...

The present dissertation illustrates the complete procedure of developing a model-based diagnosis algorithm and shows its application to a pre-commercial Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) system. The main motivations of this ...

Nel mondo si registrano sistematicamente danni sociali, economici e ambientali indotti da subsidenza o fenomeni franosi a cinematica lenta. Per tale ragione appaiono di indubbio interesse sia per la Comunità scientifica ...

In the early decade, a rapid increase in oil consumption was recorded, that led to a widening between the predicted demand for oil and the known oil reserves. Such trend, mainly due to the growing new economies, is causing ...

The goal of this thesis is the study of the automotive push-type dry clutches used in the Automatic Manual Transmissions (AMTs) and in the Dual Clutch Transmissions (DCTs) in order to improve their performances dur- ing ...