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Análisis Geoespacial del Impacto del Aumento del Nivel del Mar en la Infraestructura del Área Metropolitana de Puerto Rico
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2015)
Climate change is a phenomenon that
is affecting different places and countries around
the world. Among its consequences are global
warming and sea level rise (SLR) on the coast. The
SLR is largely caused by the melting ...
Estudio de Falla y Metodología de Remediación del Pavimento de la Autopista Duarte en la República Dominicana
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2015)
Se presenta una solución para la
remediación del pavimento en un tramo de la
autopista Juan Pablo Duarte en la República
Dominicana. Esta autopista es la vía de
comunicación más importante en este país ya que
conecta ...
Geospatial Analysis of Female Labor Outcomes: Spatial Entrapment
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2015)
The seminal literature of feminist and
critical geographers has proven that women live in
a constrain pattern of space-time that stops her to
discover her opportunities to work and travel. Using
the available data in ...
Packaging Line Efficiency Improvements with the Implementation of a Centralized Packaging Line Control System
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2015)
Efficiency is a process measurement of
the ability of generating a required output with the
minimum amount of resources. A high efficiency is
crucial for a packaging line as it is an important
aspect of cost control ...
Nonlinear Static Analysis and Evaluation of an Existing Structure
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2015)
A seismic evaluation was performed to
an existing structure in the city of Carolina, who is
a municipality located on the northeast coast of
Puerto Rico. It is a concrete structure of two levels
with a lateral resistance ...
Packaging Lines Minor & Minor/Major Changeover Time Reduction on a Pharmaceutical Company
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2015)
Every company that wants to be
competitive has to implement SMED or changeover
reduction in every process that this technique could
be applied. The two major difficulties that
companies encounters are: Product ...
Using Design of Experiments to Characterize the Design Space of “Like-for- Like” Packaging Equipment
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2015)
Industries with high volume demand
tend to have various equipments that can perform
the same task. Many of these tasks produce itemsthat
in order to sample them would require destroying
them. Validation is necessary ...
Cost Reduction in the Accumulator Process in Welding Operations
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2015)
For the last few weeks, the heating,
ventilation, and air conditioning manufacturing
company Thermo King Arecibo has been increasing
the operational cost due to leak problems on the
accumulator area in the welding ...
A Quadcopter Test Bed for Academic and Research on Control Systems Design
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2015)
This article presents the development
of a quadcopter platform to be used for future
academic and research studies in control systems in
the Mechanical Engineering Department at the
Polytechnic University of Puerto ...
Countermeasures Analysis for an Existing Scour Critical Bridge (Bridge # 1200) Over Río Grande de Loíza at Road PR-3 Carolina, Puerto Rico
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2015)
Scour is the most common reason for
the failure of highway bridges in the United States.
In Puerto Rico, there are more than 350 scour
critical bridges. Bridge 1200 has been classified as
a scour critical bridge by the ...