Publications related to Volume

Three-dimensional buoyant hydraulic fractures: finite volume release

Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, Andreas Möri

In impermeable media, a hydraulic fracture can continue to expand even without additional fluid injection if its volume exceeds the limiting volume of a hydrostatically loaded radial fracture. This limit depends on the mechanical properties of the surround ...

Cambridge University Press2023

Spectral Coarse Spaces for the Substructured Parallel Schwarz Method

Tommaso Vanzan

The parallel Schwarz method (PSM) is an overlapping domain decomposition (DD) method to solve partial differential equations (PDEs). Similarly to classical nonoverlapping DD methods, the PSM admits a substructured formulation, that is, it can be formulated ...

2022

An in-situ 3D micro-XRD investigation of water uptake by alkali-silica-reaction (ASR) product

Solène Anne-Lise Albinski, Mahdieh Shakoorioskooie

The ASR products in concrete have various chemical compositions. It is yet unclear whether and how these products develop micro-expansion upon moisture ingress. This paper presents a 3D in-situ observation of the crystallography and volume change of an ASR ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2021

A Non-Exponential Transmittance Model for Volumetric Scene Representations

Wenzel Alban Jakob, Delio Aleardo Vicini

We introduce a novel transmittance model to improve the volumetric representation of 3D scenes. The model can represent opaque surfaces in the volumetric light transport framework. Volumetric representations are useful for complex scenes, and become increa ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Transformations silencieuses : étude sur l'architecture alpine

Patrick Giromini

This thesis addresses the question of abandonment in architecture, not in its negative sense of desertion, but as a possibility offered to buildings which have lost their original purpose, which is to say those buildings from social and economic contexts w ...

EPFL2021

Buckling of pressurized spherical shells containing a through-thickness defect

Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis, Matteo Pezzulla, Dong Yan

We present a study on the pressure buckling of thin, elastic spherical shells containing a thickness defect. Methodologically, we combine precision model experiments, finite element simulations, and a reduced axisymmetric shell model. We observe qualitativ ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Bridging scales in wear modeling with volume integral methods for elastic-plastic contact

Lucas Henri Galilée Frérot

All mechanical systems, naturally occurring or human-produced, are subjected to friction and wear at the interface of solid constituents. Large portions of energy dissipation and loss of material, in every-day life and industrial applications alike, are du ...

EPFL2020

Hydraulic Reconstruction of the 1818 Gietro Glacial Lake Outburst Flood

Christophe Ancey, Tomás Alfredo Trewhela Palacios, Eric Bardou, Martin Funk

In the spring of 1818, ice avalanches from the Gietro Glacier created an ice dam, which in turn formed a glacial lake in the Drance Valley (Canton of Valais, Switzerland). Today, its maximum volume is estimated to have been 25x10(6) m(3). Cantonal authorit ...

2019

Micropipette calibration by differential pressure measurements

Philippe Renaud, David Vincent Bonzon

The pipetting of small volumes, typically ranging between a few and one thousand microliters (mu l), is widely used in many laboratories and essentially relies on air displacement to aspirate and dispense the liquid contained in a small plastic tip. ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

Building Duration / El Portico de los Huespedes

Patricia Guaita, Raffael Baur, Sony Devabhaktuni

El Portico de los Huéspedes is a pedagogical, design-research project that tests the possibility of an open-ended architecture, where duration links between past and future. It is a work of architecture as becoming: ‘work’ meaning the structure, rhythms an ...

Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture2019

On the reverse isodiametric problem and Dvoretzky-Rogers-type volume bounds

Matthias Schymura

The isodiametric inequality states that the Euclidean ball maximizes the volume among all convex bodies of a given diameter. We are motivated by a conjecture of Makai Jr. on the reverse question: Every convex body has a linear image whose isodiametric quot ...

2018

Fast multiscale reconstruction for Cryo-EM

Michaël Unser, Laurène Donati, Masih Nilchian

We present a multiscale reconstruction framework for single-particle analysis (SPA). The representation of three-dimensional (3D) objects with scaled basis functions permits the reconstruction of volumes at any desired scale in the real-space. This multisc ...

Elsevier2018

Modeling of a capacitive sensor dedicated to drug injection

Catherine Dehollain

to follow up patients who inject themselves insulin with injection pen is a quite complex task. Due to the repetition of injections, and the numerous influent parameter the patient can easily made an injection mistake and it is difficult for health-takers ...

IEEE2018

INFLUENCE OF THE INITIAL VOLUME OF LOCK EXCHANGE GRAVITY CURRENTS ON THE SEDIMENT ENTRAINMENT CAPACITY

Jessica Zordan

In the lock-exchange technique used to produce gravity currents, two fluids of different densities are initially at rest in a tank and separated by a vertical barrier, the lock gate. When this gate is suddenly removed, the two fluids come into contact and, ...

2017

Experimental investigation of the mass flow gain factor in a draft tube with cavitation vortex rope

François Avellan, Arthur Tristan Favrel, Christian Landry, Andres Müller, Sébastien Alligné, Keita Yamamoto

At off-design operating operations, cavitating flow is often observed in hydraulic machines. The presence of a cavitation vortex rope may induce draft tube surge and electrical power swings at part load and full load operations. The stability analysis of t ...

2017

The size of the sync basin revisited

Philippe René Joseph Jacquod, Robin Delabays

In dynamical systems, the full stability of fixed point solutions is determined by their basins of attraction. Characterizing the structure of these basins is, in general, a complicated task, especially in high dimensionality. Recent works have advocated t ...

American Institute of Physics2017

Water retention behaviour of compacted bentonites: experimental observations and constitutive model

Anne-Catherine Adolphine M Dieudonné

Bentonite-based materials are studied as potential barriers for the geological disposal of radioactive waste. In this context, the hydro-mechanical behaviour of the engineered barrier is first characterized by free swelling conditions followed by constant ...

EDP Sciences2016

An advanced methodology for the mix design optimization of hot mix asphalt

André-Gilles Dumont, Sara Bressi, Manfred Partl

The bitumen quantity to add to asphalt mixtures depends on the surfaces of aggregates and filler to be coated. The formulas currently available in the literature have limitations such as considering all the fillers with the same specific surface or the agg ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2016

Predicting the yield stress of paraffin-wax suspensions

Paul Bowen

An empirical modification of the Yodel model was developed for the prediction of the yield stress of concentrated, particulate, paraffin-wax suspensions, with a solids loading in the range of 47-57 vol.%, used in the low-pressure injection moulding (LPIM). ...

Elsevier2016

Framework for efficient synthesis of spatially embedded morphologies

Lida Kanari, Julian Charles Shillcock, Liesbeth Maria L Vanherpe, Guy Antoine Atenekeng Kahou, Juan Pablo Palacios

Many problems in science and engineering require the ability to grow tubular or polymeric structures up to large volume fractions within a bounded region of three-dimensional space. Examples range from the construction of fibrous materials and biological c ...

Amer Physical Soc2016