Starting from the recent law provisions contained in the MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education) Plan - and aimed to revamp school buildings, this Ph.D. thesis has investigated methods and preliminary criteria applicable to ...

The guarantee of food safety requires a fast and accurate control for all chemicals and bacteria, which are harmful for human health. In the food industry, the safety of a product is evaluated through periodic chemical and ...

Carbon nanotubes are unique nanostructure with remarkable electronic, mechanical and thermal properties, some stemming from the close relation between carbon nanotubes and graphite, and some from their one-dimensional ...

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 ...

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 ...

A methodology to reduce the complexity of the process optimization was applied to multiproduct biorefinery fed by lignocellulosic biomass. A process superstructure was built to consider alternative process pathways to ...

More stringent standards on water quality along with the shortage of vater resources have led to the development of advanced wastewater treatment processes, in order to ensure the respect of discharge limits and the reuse ...

Technologies and, in particular sensors, permeate more and more application sectors. From energy management, to the factories one, to houses, environments, infrastructure, and building monitoring, to healthcare and ...

In the last decade the Housing demand has become heterogeneous and transversal: from the socio-economic demand for job and housing, to the environmental one for energy supply and sustainability, up to the one for the ...

Hip and knee articulations are the main joints in human body and they have the duty of sustaining heavy loads. This task is normally well performed by a healthy joint but, in some cases, the occurrence of diseases can ...