The theses presented were: Interfacial adhesion testing in polymer matrix composites (Genoveva Kelly supervised by Dr. J. Molina); Implementation and calibration of a rate-dependent crystal plasticity constitutive model for Magnesium alloy AZ31B (Julián García supervised by Dr. A. Jerusalem) and; Influence of cold plasma treatments on the mechanical behavior of PBO HM fiber (Eduardo Lorenzo supervised by Dr. K. Tamargo)