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Interdependencia entre segregación y reología de flujos granulares bidispersos.

En general, los flujos granulares gravitacionales están formados por granos de diversos tamaños. Estos flujos son comúnmente encontrados en la naturaleza (e.g. avalanchas, aluviones, lahares) y la industria (e.g. silos, procesadoras de alimentos). Cuando u ...

2018

Response of thin lightly-reinforced concrete walls under cyclic loading

Katrin Beyer, João Saraiva Esteves Pacheco de Almeida

During the last two decades, thin concrete walls have been frequently used to brace mid- to high-rise buildings in some Latin American countries. This structural system differs significantly in terms of wall geometry and reinforcement layout from tradition ...

2018

iNVESTIGA: Connecting the Colombian Scientific Diaspora with Secondary Schools in Colombia

Rafael Eduardo Carrillo Rangel, Ricardo Alberto Corredor Jerez

According to recent studies, Latin America is the region with the highest emigration rate in the world, specially affecting the highly educated population. One of the consequences of this process is the expansion of business and scientific diasporas. Colom ...

2016

Petro-physical properties of the Main Fault at the Mont Terri Laboratory

Marie Estelle Solange Violay, Christophe Nussbaum, Luis Felipe Orellana Espinoza, Eduardo David Gramajo Silva

This work focuses on the petro-physical characterization of the Main Fault zone at the Mont Terri Laboratory, in Switzerland. ...

2016

Snow instability evaluation: calculating the skier-induced stress in a multi-layered snowpack

Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume, Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen

The process of dry-snow slab avalanche formation can be divided into two phases: failure initiation and crack propagation. Several approaches tried to quantify slab avalanche release probability in terms of failure initiation based on shear stress and stre ...

2016

Urbanización, medio ambiente y sociedad

Jean-Claude Bolay

El mundo se urbaniza de forma ininterrumpida en los países industrializados y de manera acelerada en las regiones del mundo todavía fuertemente rurales, transformando sociedades siempre más vulnerables y paralelamente siempre más integradas a las redes de ...

2010

Leaf area index for northern and eastern North America ad the Last Glacial Maximum: A data-model comparison

Jed Oliver Kaplan

Aim To estimate the effects of full-glacial atmospheric CO2 concentrations and climate upon leaf area index (LAI), using both global vegetation models and palaeoecological data. Prior simulations indicate lowered LAIs at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), but ...

2008

Air quality modelling over Bogota, Colombia: Combined techniques to estimate and evaluate emission inventories

Hubert van den Bergh, Alain Clappier, Luis Carlos Belalcazar Ceron, Erika Maria Zarate Torres

Two versions of the Emission Inventory (EI) are generated for the city of Bogota, Colombia. In the first version (EI-1), CORINAIR traffic emission factors (EFs) are used. In the second (EI-2), bulk traffic EF's calculated for the city, using in situ measur ...

2007

Development and application of UV-visible and mid-IR differential absorption spectroscopy techniques for pollutant trace gas monitoring

Rodrigo Jimenez Pizarro

Spatial representativeness is an important quality criterion in trace gas monitoring, especially if measurements are intended for regulatory and model validation purposes. Open-path absorption spectroscopy techniques meet the representativeness requirement ...

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