Unmanned Vehicles, known as UVs, have been developed to accomplish difficult, tedious, and unpleasant missions for human beings. Their usage started in military applications; subsequently, specific industries adopt them ...

Entity authentication is the process allowing a user, in a distributed system, to gain confidence in the identity of one (or more) communication user. Such a process may be either unilateral (the users are involved in a ...

This work describes the finite element modelling and characterization of ultrasonic flextensional transducer arrays. Flexural acoustic transducers can be piezoelectrically actuated plates or capacitive devices based on the ...

The aim of this work has been to obtain bionanocomposites with a degradation rate which can be modulated in time, so that it can be possible to decide a priori the time after which the material will disappear in a given ...

Information technology allows solving numerous problems regarding all the aspects of everyday life, including technical activities related to the design of devices and systems. In the electronic eld, di erent types of ...

Recently, the idea of valorizing industrial agro-food wastes and microalgal biomass, through an efficient recovery of their major bioactive constituents to be used as ingredients in food, feed, pharmaceutical and cosmetic ...

Main objective of this PhD thesis is the development of a new generation of self-healing multifunctional composites able to overcome some of the current limitations of aeronautical materials, such as: absence of auto-repair ...

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 ...

The main aim of the present research work is to project and develop very large scale electronic integrated circuits, with particular attention to the ones devoted to image processing applications and the related topics. ...

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 ...