• openAccess   Influence of track modelling in modal parameters of railway bridges composed by single-track adjacent decks 

      Sánchez Quesada, Juan Carlos; Moliner, E.; Romero, A.; Galvín, Pedro; Martínez-Rodrigo, María D. Universitat Politècnica de València (2022-05-01)
      A significant number of railway bridges composed by simply-supported (SS) spans are present in existing railway lines. Special attention must be paid to short to medium span length structures, as they are prone to ...
    • openAccess   Integrating humour into a design methodology based in generative questions (Quchane) for unbloking creativity. Study case: Universitat Jaume I 

      Chulvi, Vicente; Royo González, Marta; Ruiz-Pastor, Laura; Bort-Martínez, Marina; Mulet, Elena Asociación Española de Dirección e Ingeniería de Proyectos (AEIPRO) (2021-07-06)
      Previous studies have demonstrated that humour as external stimulus, applied before the idea generation phase, leads to more creative results. This paper explores how to integrate humour into the design method itself, ...
    • openAccess   KATCH_e: Training materials and tools for circular economy in practice 

      Rocha, Cristina; Camocho, David; Alexandre, Jorge; Kirsten Schmidt; Celades López, Irina; Ros Dosdá, Teresa; Barros, Fiilipe; Kalleitner-Huber, Maria; Hernaez, Oihana; Atin, Eugenia; Pamminger, Rainer; Schmidt, Stephan; sampaio, joao; Afonso, Ana; Mulet, Elena; Ruiz-Pastor, Laura Institute for Sustainability Science and Technology , Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (2019-10-15)
      KATCH_e is a knowledge alliance between research centres, universities and companies to build competences in the field of product-service development for the circular economy and sustainability. This ERASMUS + funded project ...
    • openAccess   Leveraging Mechanical 3D CAD Systems Through Improved Model Quality Based on Best Practices and Rubrics 

      Company, Pedro; Otey, Jeffrey; Dorribo Camba, Jorge; Contero, Manuel The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) (2014)
      CAD data quality may be leveraged by quality-oriented CAD instructional strategies, but current mechanical CAD practice fails in enforcing quality. The concept of CAD model quality is reviewed to discover how to convey ...
    • openAccess   Low cost greenhouse gas sensor: Gida-Gei 

      Juan Cazalla, Pablo; Ibáñez, Iván; Vidal, Rosario Universitat Jaume I (2023-06-19)
      This paper presents a low-cost compact Bluetooth sensor de signed to periodically measure both in and out of water the con centration of greenhouse gases such as CO2, CH4 and N2O. For this purpose, it has several sensors ...
    • closedAccess   Malleability Implementation in a MPI Iterative Method 

      Martín Álvarez, Iker; Aliaga Estellés, José Ignacio; Castillo Catalán, María Isabel; Mayo, Rafael; Iserte, Sergio IEEE (2021-09)
      In this poster is evaluated the data redistribution stage for two malleable versions of the Conjugate Gradient. One version is based on synchronous communications, while the other one uses asynchronous communications to ...
    • openAccess   Numerical analysis of mechanical reliability of multi-coated phase change materials 

      Forner Escrig, Josep; Navarrete Argilés, Nuria; Palma Guerrero, Roberto; La Zara, Damiano; Valdesueiro, David; van Ommen, J. Ruud; Hernandez, Leonor; Mondragon, Rosa EDP Sciences (2021)
      Nanoencapsulated phase change materials (nePCMs) are nowadays under research for thermal energy storage purposes. NePCMs are composed of a phase change core surrounded by a shell that confines the core when molten. One of ...
    • openAccess   On the Internationalization of CAD Learning Through an English Glossary 

      Plumed, Raquel; Pérez-Belis, Victoria; Agustín Claramonte, Anna; Jarque-Bou, Néstor J; González-Lluch, Carmen; Piquer, Ana Springer (2020-03-10)
      The internationalization of higher education is an essential factor to improve the quality and efficiency of Spanish universities, providing students with the main skills, and knowledge to interact effectively in an ...
    • openAccess   ParSketch: a Sketch-based Interface for a 2D Parametric Geometry Editor 

      Naya, Ferran; Contero, Manuel; Aleixos, Nuria; Company, Pedro Springer (2007)
      ParSketch is a software prototype to evaluate the usability and functionality of a sketching interface aimed at defining 2D parametric sections. Currently, ParSketch interprets strokes which can be recognized as geometry ...
    • openAccess   Particle Swarm Optimisation Based 3D Reconstruction of Sketched Line Drawings 

      Piquer, Ana; Company, Pedro; Contero, Manuel IOS Press (2004)
      The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the application of particle swarm optimisation to line drawings reconstruction. The paper’s new contribution is the application of swarm intelligence in dealing with machine ...
    • openAccess   Perimeter detection in sketched drawings of polyhedral shapes 

      Company, Pedro; Varley, Peter Ashley Clifford; Plumed, Raquel The Eurographics Association (2017)
      This paper describes a new “envelope” approach for detecting object perimeters in line-drawings vectorised from sketches of polyhedral objects. Existing approaches for extracting contours from digital images are unsuitable ...
    • openAccess   Personal development in the virtuality; online activities for individual and group growth 

      Saiz Sánchez, Héctor; Martínez de la Torre, Javier; Esteller Curto, Roger; Serradell López, Enric; Gallego Navarro, Teresa; Rubert Albiol, Andrea Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València (2017)
      Online teaching is commonly offered for courses and it is aimed students acquire specific skills based on the subject requirements. Regarding soft-skills, collaborative and creative activities are usually deployed ...
    • openAccess   Preparation and exploitation of digital resources in the settlement of trigonometrical problems 

      Braulio-Gonzalo, Marta; Juan, Pablo; Lorenzo, Gil; Camarero, Jorge IATED (2013)
    • openAccess   Project Based Learning experience with engineering students for the design of steel structures 

      Ibáñez Usach, Carmen; Hernández-Figueirido, David Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València (2017)
      This work describes the Project Based Learning (PBL) experience carried out with engineering students in the field of steel structures design during the academic year 2016-2017 at the Universitat Jaume I of Castellón de ...
    • openAccess   Rail-bridge interaction effects in single-track multi-span bridges. Experimental results versus numerical predictions under operating conditions 

      Martínez-Rodrigo, María D.; Galvín, Pedro; Moliner, Emma; Romero Ordóñez, Antonio National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). Institute of Structural Analysis and Antiseismic Research (2020-09)
      This paper is devoted to the analysis of rail-bridge interaction effects in railway bridges under the circulation of moving trains. In a first approach, a bidimensional Finite Element model is implemented. The rail and ...
    • openAccess   Round robin test on the measurement of the specific heat of solar salt 

      Muñoz Sánchez, Belén; Nieto Maestre, Javier; González-Aguilar, José; Juliá Bolívar, José Enrique; Navarrete Argilés, Nuria; Faik, Abdessamad; Bauer, Thomas; Bonk, Alexander; Navarro, María Elena; Ding, Yulong; Uranga, Nerea; Veca, Elisabetta; Sau, Salvatore; Giménez, Pau; García, Pierre; Burgaleta, Juan Ignacio AIP (2017)
      Solar salt (SS), a well-known non-eutectic mixture of sodium nitrate (60% w/w) and potassium nitrate (40% w/w), is commonly used either as Thermal Energy Storage (TES) material (double tank technology) or Heat Transfer ...
    • openAccess   Skewed Mirror Symmetry for Depth Estimation in 3D Line-Drawings 

      Piquer, Ana; Martin, Ralph; Company, Pedro Springer (2004)
      We aim to reconstruct three-dimensional polyhedral solids from axonometric-like line sketches. A new approach is proposed to make use of planes of mirror symmetry detected in sketches. Taking into account mirror symmetry ...
    • openAccess   Skewed mirror symmetry in the 3D reconstruction of polyhedral models 

      Piquer, Ana; Company, Pedro; Martin, Ralph Center of Computer Graphics and Visualization Faculty of Applied Sciences University of West Bohemia (2003)
      We aim to reconstruct three-dimensional polyhedra from axonometric line drawings. Existence of mirror symmetry in polyhedra can assist the reconstruction process. We present a new approach for determining planes of mirror ...
    • openAccess   Smart Sketch System for 3D Reconstruction Based Modeling 

      Naya, Ferran; Conesa, Julián; Contero, Manuel; Company, Pedro; Jorge, Joaquim Springer (2003)
      Current user interfaces of CAD systems are still not suited to the initial stages of product development, where freehand drawings are used by engineers and designers to express their visual thinking. In order to exploit ...
    • openAccess   Spanish social housing in the 20th century: Typological analysis of residential complexes built in Castellón in the 1950s 

      Cabeza González, Manuel; Sáez Riquelme, Beatriz; Ruá, María José; Huedo, Patricia; Agost-Felip, Mª Raquel WIT Press (2019-10-07)
      Since the 1940s, populations of Spanish cities have grown intensely, which was motivated mainly by rural emigration. In order to provide housing for such population growth, a great deal of social housing was built. The ...