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Enabling simultaneous reprocessability and fire protection via incorporation of phosphine oxide monomer in epoxy vitrimer

The conception of epoxy thermosets with both reprocessability and flame retardancy delineates a new horizon in polymer science, offering a material solution that is not only superior in fire safety but is also environment friendly. Herein, a flame-retardan ...

Journal Mater Sci Technol2024

Fire performance evaluation of GFRP-balsa sandwich bridge decks

Niloufar Vahedi

Bridges are a critical component of national infrastructures and economies. A significant percentage of bridges built all around the world are made of reinforced concrete which according to building codes have a life span between 80-100 years. However, str ...

EPFL2022

Early-stage oxidation behavior at high temperatures of SiSiC cellular architectures in a porous burner

Sophia Haussener, Ehsan Rezaei, Alberto Ortona

Early stage oxidation behavior of SiSiC cellular lattices with different cell types was studied at 1400 degrees C in two different environments: a porous burner and an electric furnace with stagnant air. Oxidation and silicon alloy bead formation were obse ...

Elsevier2016

A review of the fire behaviour of pultruded GFRP structural profiles for civil engineering applications

Thomas Keller, Yu Bai

Pultruded glass fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP) profiles are finding increasing applications in civil engineering structures, owing to the several advantages they offer over traditional materials. However, due to the combustible nature of their polymer mat ...

Elsevier2015

Fire Design of Concrete Structures based on a Levels-of-Approximation Approach

Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Miguel Gomez

Concrete structures, contrary to steel or timber structures, have not been traditionally considered as significantly sensitive to fire conditions. As a consequence, their performance in fire conditions has generally been assessed on the basis of quite simp ...

fib Symposium 20152015

Exploring potential drivers of European biomass burning over the Holocene: a data-model analysis

Jed Oliver Kaplan

AimTo reconstruct spatial and temporal patterns of European fire activity during the Holocene and to explore their potential drivers, by relating biomass burning to simulated biotic and abiotic parameters. LocationEurope. MethodsHolocene fire activity was ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

A model for global biomass burning in preindustrial time: LPJ-LMfire (v1.0)

Jed Oliver Kaplan, Mirjam Pfeiffer

Fire is the primary disturbance factor in many terrestrial ecosystems. Wildfire alters vegetation structure and composition, affects carbon storage and biogeochemical cycling, and results in the release of climatically relevant trace gases including CO2, C ...

Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh2013

Punching shear strength of R/C slabs subjected to fire

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz

This paper illustrates a study on the punching shear strength of reinforced concrete slabs in fire conditions. To this end, a set of experimental data on the punching strength of heated slab specimens was interpreted by adapting the well-known Critical She ...

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Structures in Fire - SiF2012 (Eds. M. Fontana, A. Frangi, M. Knobloch)2012

Fire Performance of Water-Cooled GFRP Columns. Part II: Postfire Investigation

Thomas Keller, Yu Bai

The postfire mechanical performances of water-cooled full-scale GFRP cellular columns subjected to axial compression were evaluated after exposure to an ISO-834 fire from one side for periods of 60 and 120 mins. The elastic modulus and postfire buckling lo ...

American Society of Civil Engineers2011

Improved Similarity Measures for Small Sets of Spike Trains

Wulfram Gerstner, Richard Naud, Skander Mensi, Joao Emanuel Felipe Gerhard

Multiple measures have been developed to quantify the similarity between two spike trains. These measures have been used for the quantification of the mismatch between neuron models and experiments as well as for the classification of neuronal responses in ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press2011

Fire protection systems for building floors made of pultruded GFRP profiles. Part 1: Experimental investigations

Thomas Keller, Yu Bai

This paper presents results of experimental investigations on the behaviour of GFRP pultruded profiles exposed to fire, in order to study the viability of their structural use in floors of buildings, taking into account the fulfilment of fire resistance re ...

Elsevier2010

Fire protection systems for building floors made of pultruded GFRP profiles. Part 2: Modeling of thermomechanical responses

Thomas Keller, Yu Bai

A recently developed thermomechanical model to predict the time-dependent thermal and mechanical responses of pultruded glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) profiles subjected to fire was extended to include the beneficial effects of passive fire protecti ...

Elsevier2010

Fire Detection and Localization Using Wireless Sensor Networks

Martin Hasler, Alireza Khadivi

A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a network of usually a large number of small sensor nodes that are wirelessly connected to each other in order to remotely monitor an environment or phenomena. Sensor nodes use the data aggregation method as an effective ...

Springer, 233 Spring Street, New York, Ny 10013, United States2010

Forest fire localization using distributed algorithms in wireless sensor networks

Martin Hasler, Alireza Khadivi, Leonidas Georgopoulos

The fire localization using a distributed consensus finding algorithm in a wireless sensor network is described. The fire is circumscribed by a circle. The information is available at all sensor nodes that are alive, which makes it robust against failures ...

Electromagnetics Acad, 777 Concord Avenue, Ste 207, Cambridge, Ma 02138 Usa2009

Material and structural performance of fiber-reinforced polymer composites at elevated and high temperatures

Yu Bai

As the range of applications for fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite materials in civil engineering constantly increases, there is more and more concern with regard to their performance in critical environments. The fire behavior of composite material ...

EPFL2009

Load sensing surgical instruments

Peter Ryser, Thomas Maeder, Caroline Jacq

Force and pressure sensing technology applied to smart surgical instruments as well as implants allow to give a direct feedback of loads to the surgeon lead to better reliability and success of surgical operations. A common technology used for sensors is l ...

Springer Verlag2009

Fire endurance of loaded and liquid-cooled GFRP slabs for construction

Thomas Keller, Craig Tracy

This paper presents an experimental study on the fire behavior of glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) load- carrying slabs for building and bridge applications. Fire experiments were performed on cellular full-scale slabs with and without internal liquid ...

2006

Prevention of forest fires in a changing climatic context in Ticino, southern Switzerland : a social and environmental approach

Michael Reinhard

Switzerland is not a place commonly associated with forest fires, unlike many areas of the nearby Mediterranean Basin. However, in this Alpine country, forest fires occur every year and destroy forests that fulfil various functions, the most socially and e ...

EPFL2006

Structural response of liquid-cooled GFRP slabs subjected to fire - Part I: Material and post-fire modeling

Thomas Keller, Craig Tracy

Temperature-dependent material properties of glass fiber-reinforced polymer composites were derived from tests performed on the material itself, from references concerned with similar polymer materials and from observations during full-scale fire experimen ...

Elsevier2006

High-Voltage Sensitivity Studies of Model Thick-Film Resistors

Peter Ryser, Claudio Grimaldi, Thomas Maeder, Caroline Jacq, Niklaus Johner, Adrian Kambli

In this work we seek to better understand the mechanisms governing pulse voltage trimming in disordered conductor-insulator composites. Therefore, we investigate the effect of the composition of thick-film resistors (TFRs) on sensitivity to high voltage pu ...

2006