Diseño de recintos blindados para gammagrafía industrial.

[ES]El proyecto incluido en este trabajo de fin de grado trata sobre el diseño de una instalación blindada para realización de gammagrafía industrial. Para poder realizar este ensayo es necesario un escudo que haga frente a la radiación de manera efectiva, con el fin de reducir la posibilidad de daños en la salud de aquellos individuos que se encuentren en las inmediaciones. Para calcular el espesor necesario se usará el software MCNPX, herramienta para el estudio de interacción de radiación con la materia. Debido a la naturaleza invisible e indetectable por medios naturales son necesarios unos protocolos de uso muy estrictos y grandes medidas de seguridad con la finalidad de evitar problemas de salud o accidentes

Virtual Sensors for On-line Wheel Wear and Part Roughness Measurement in the Grinding Process

Grinding is an advanced machining process for the manufacturing of valuable complex and accurate parts for high added value sectors such as aerospace, wind generation, etc. Due to the extremely severe conditions inside grinding machines, critical process variables such as part surface finish or grinding wheel wear cannot be easily and cheaply measured on-line. In this paper a virtual sensor for on-line monitoring of those variables is presented. The sensor is based on the modelling ability of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) for stochastic and non-linear processes such as grinding; the selected architecture is the Layer-Recurrent neural network. The sensor makes use of the relation between the variables to be measured and power consumption in the wheel spindle, which can be easily measured. A sensor calibration methodology is presented, and the levels of error that can be expected are discussed. Validation of the new sensor is carried out by comparing the sensor's results with actual measurements carried out in an industrial grinding machine. Results show excellent estimation performance for both wheel wear and surface roughness. In the case of wheel wear, the absolute error is within the range of microns (average value 32 mu m). In the case of surface finish, the absolute error is well below R-a 1 mu m (average value 0.32 mu m). The present approach can be easily generalized to other grinding operations.

Plan de internacionalización de una empresa industrial concreta (area marketing)

[ES]Este proyecto recoge el plan de internacionalización comercial a Brasil, Marruecos y Francia de la empresa de ámbito industrial; concretamente del sector de la siderurgia, en adelante, A.P.S., que se dedica a la elaboración de productos auxiliares para la desulfuración del acero. El plan se ha desarrollado de forma que impulse a la empresa a cumplir una serie de objetivos como son un mayor crecimiento, mejora de la rentabilidad o un aumento de cuota de mercado, entre otros. Las pautas seguidas en la elaboración del plan de acciones, han sido desarrolladas gracias a un adecuado análisis tanto para la empresa como para el entorno, que ha sido de especial ayuda para ajustarnos a las necesidades de esta.

Análisis tipológico de la serie industrial achelense de Puyo (Lannemezan, Hautes-Pyrénées, France). Ensayo de clasificación de piezas “hacheroides”

[ES] El conjunto industrial achelense de Puyo (Lannemezan, Hautes-Pyrénées), descubierto por G. Laplace en 1954 en posición estratigráfica rissiense, está compuesto por 360 ejemplares líticos tallados en cuarcita local. Este efectivo industrial se reparte entre: 218 piezas retocadas (en las que se han definido 226 tipos primarios), 136 lascas y 6 núcleos. Tecnológicamente, la mayor parte de las industrias parecen estar en relación con un debitado sobre yunque; técnica de talla que ha procurado unas lascas con unos atributos muy específicos, en las que, en varios casos, son más que evidentes sus analogías morfológicas con los "hachereaux". En este sentido, la elevada presencia de "hachereaux" bien formateados y de otras piezas hacheroides más elementales, menos elaboradas, así como de varias formas particulares de utillaje macrolítico (ojivas, puntas), nos ha llevado a plantear una propuesta de definición y clasificación analítica particular para estos temas. La contribución global de estas piezas macrolíticas es superior a la de los útiles convencionales o más habituales. Por último, en lo que concierne a la valoración tipológica, este original complejo achelense está definido esencialmente, además de por los más numerosos tipos hacheroides, por una casi similar presencia de denticulados y una importante contribución de puntas carenoides. Más complementariamente, deben estimarse las aportaciones de ojivas y raederas, y son francamente minoritarios los restantes grupos tipológicos considerados (de cantos tallados, truncaduras, puntas planas, abruptos, raspadores, "becs", fragmentos de piezas bifaciales indeterminadas y "écaillés").

Advanced techniques for diagnostics and control applied to particle accelerators

201 p.

Modernización y cambio social en Bizkaia durante el siglo industrial, 1877-1975. Claves de un proceso

375 p.

Sensing parasites: proteomic and advanced bio-detection alternatives

[EN] Parasitic diseases have a great impact in human and animal health. The gold standard for the diagnosis of the majority of parasitic infections is still conventional microscopy, which presents important limitations in terms of sensitivity and specificity and commonly requires highly trained technicians. More accurate molecular-based diagnostic tools are needed for the implementation of early detection, effective treatments and massive screenings with high-throughput capacities. In this respect, sensitive and affordable devices could greatly impact on sustainable control programmes which exist against parasitic diseases, especially in low income settings. Proteomics and nanotechnology approaches are valuable tools for sensing pathogens and host alteration signatures within microfluidic detection platforms. These new devices might provide novel solutions to fight parasitic diseases. Newly described specific parasite derived products with immune-modulatory properties have been postulated as the best candidates for the early and accurate detection of parasitic infections as well as for the blockage of parasite development. This review provides the most recent methodological and technological advances with great potential for biosensing parasites in their hosts, showing the newest opportunities offered by modern “-omics” and platforms for parasite detection and control.

Analysis of multivariate stochastic signals sampled by on-line particle analyzers: Application to the quantitative assessment of occupational exposure to NOAA in multisource industrial scenarios (MSIS)

In multisource industrial scenarios (MSIS) coexist NOAA generating activities with other productive sources of airborne particles, such as parallel processes of manufacturing or electrical and diesel machinery. A distinctive characteristic of MSIS is the spatially complex distribution of aerosol sources, as well as their potential differences in dynamics, due to the feasibility of multi-task configuration at a given time. Thus, the background signal is expected to challenge the aerosol analyzers at a probably wide range of concentrations and size distributions, depending of the multisource configuration at a given time. Monitoring and prediction by using statistical analysis of time series captured by on-line particle analyzers in industrial scenarios, have been proven to be feasible in predicting PNC evolution provided a given quality of net signals (difference between signal at source and background). However the analysis and modelling of non-consistent time series, influenced by low levels of SNR (Signal-Noise Ratio) could build a misleading basis for decision making. In this context, this work explores the use of stochastic models based on ARIMA methodology to monitor and predict exposure values (PNC). The study was carried out in a MSIS where an case study focused on the manufacture of perforated tablets of nano-TiO2 by cold pressing was performed

Analytical strategies to solve problems in industrial and official laboratories

210 p.