Publications related to Automotive engineering

STEPS 4.0: Fast and memory-efficient molecular simulations of neurons at the nanoscale

Felix Schürmann, James Gonzalo King, Pramod Shivaji Kumbhar, Omar Awile, Christos Kotsalos, Tristan Mathieu Carel, Iain Hepburn, Samuel Marie A Melchior, Weiliang Chen, Baudouin Paul Michel Maria Joseph Del Marmol, Alessandro Cattabiani, Giacomo Castiglioni, Nicola Cantarutti

Recent advances in computational neuroscience have demonstrated the usefulness and importance of stochastic, spatial reaction-diffusion simulations. However, ever increasing model complexity renders traditional serial solvers, as well as naive parallel imp ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Community-based landslide risk reduction: a review of a Red Cross soil bioengineering for resilience program in Honduras

Silvia Hostettler, Antonio D'Acunzi

Effective long-term participation of communities in disaster risk reduction measures in landslide-prone areas continues to be a challenge. This study aims to evaluate the extent to which community-based soil-bioengineering techniques allow for effective mi ...

2019

Behaviour of a scour protection overlay with randomly distributed concrete prisms in plunge pools downstream of mobile barrages for exceptional operation conditions

Anton Schleiss, Giovanni De Cesare, Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Sabine Chamoun, Davide Wüthrich

Uncontrolled scour is affecting multiple mobile dams. The plunge pool of the Chancy-Pougny barrage, located on the Rhone River bordering France and Switzerland, has recently been reported to develop in a potentially unfavourable direction after almost 100 ...

2018

Reinforcing Civil Engineering Curricula With Courses Including Project-Based Software Applications

Gerard Guell Bartrina

Civil engineering (CE) is one of the broadest engineering fields, if not the most, and requires undergraduate students to be exposed to a variety of topics; each can be easily recognized as a major in its own. Establishing a successful curriculum is a majo ...

IATED-INT ASSOC TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT2018

Durability and fatigue performance of a typical cold-curing structural adhesive in bridge construction

Maria Savvilotidou

The science of adhesives and adhesion for structural connections has undergone significant development during the last few decades - and successfully so in a wide variety of industries. Recent applications of structural bonding are being adopted in the con ...

EPFL2017

Multiple resources and their sustainable development in Urban Underground Space

Aurèle Parriaux, Huanqing Li, Chao Liu

Traffic congestion and ground space scarcity are increasing the need to find more space in the urban underground. The demand-driven "top-down" planning of Urban Underground Space (UUS) is common worldwide. As natural resource, the endowments of UUS are dif ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Overview of the IFMIF test facility design in IFMIF/EVEDA phase

The test facility (TF) is one of the three major facilities of the International Fusion Material Irradiation Facility (IFMIF). Engineering designs of TF main systems and key components have been initiated and developed in the IFMIF EVEDA (Engineering Valid ...

Elsevier Science Sa2015

The accomplishment of the Engineering Design Activities of IFMIF/EVEDA: The European-Japanese project towards a Li(d,xn) fusion relevant neutron source

Diane Perez, Matthias Weber

The International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF), presently in its Engineering Validation and Engineering Design Activities (EVEDA) phase under the frame of the Broader Approach Agreement between Europe and Japan, accomplished in summer 2013 ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2015

(Finite) statistical size effects on compressive strength

The larger structures are, the lower their mechanical strength. Already discussed by Leonardo da Vinci and Edme Mariotte several centuries ago, size effects on strength remain of crucial importance in modern engineering for the elaboration of safety regula ...

National Academy of Sciences2014

Evolution of division of labor in artificial societies

Pawel Lichocki

Natural and artificial societies often divide the workload between specialized members. For example, an ant worker may preferentially perform one of many tasks such as brood rearing, foraging and nest maintenance. A robot from a rescue team may specialize ...

EPFL2013

Morphology Engineering of Porous Media for Enhanced Solar Fuel and Power Production

Sophia Haussener, Silvan Suter

The favorable and adjustable transport properties of porous media make them suitable components in reactors used for solar energy conversion and storage processes. The directed engineering of the porous media's morphology can significantly improve the perf ...

Springer Verlag2013

Advances in the Rational Design of Rhodium Nanoparticle Catalysts: Control via Manipulation of the Nanoparticle Core and Stabilizer

Paul Joseph Dyson, Ning Yan, Yuan Yuan

This review describes some of the fascinating advances in the field of rhodium nanoparticle (NP) catalysis that have emerged in recent years. The examples described are categorized according to the research approach applied, involving either direct enginee ...

2012

Metal Matrix Composites

Andreas Mortensen

In metal matrix composites, a metal is combined with another, often nonmetallic, phase to produce a novel material having attractive engineering attributes of its own. A subject of much research in the 1980s and 1990s, this class of materials has, in the p ...

2010

Towards a Rigorous Assessment of Systems Biology Models: The DREAM3 Challenges

Daniel Marbach

Background: Systems biology has embraced computational modeling in response to the quantitative nature and increasing scale of contemporary data sets. The onslaught of data is accelerating as molecular profiling technology evolves. The Dialogue for Reverse ...

Public Library of Science2010

Combining Multiple Results of a Reverse Engineering Algorithm: Application to the DREAM Five Gene Network Challenge

Dario Floreano, Claudio Mattiussi, Daniel Marbach

The output of reverse engineering methods for biological networks is often not a single network prediction, but an ensemble of networks that are consistent with the experimentally measured data. In this paper, we consider the problem of combining the infor ...

Blackwell Publishing, 9600 Garsington Rd, Oxford Ox4 2Dq, Oxen, England2009

Mathematicals Models in Science and Engineering

Alfio Quarteroni

Mathematical models, along with scientific theory and practical experiments, are a crucial part of modern engineering and science. The author takes a look at the role mathematical models play in topics ranging from vascular simulation to weather forecastin ...

2009

Christian Menn's recent bridge designs - Reducing structural elements to the simplest solution

Eugen Brühwiler

The conceptual designs by Christian Menn of four landmark bridges are presented: 1) a 350-m span cable-stayed bridge with jointless deck girder, 2) a cable-stayed bridge with a single “spindle-shaped” pylon, 3) a bridge with an arch reaching high above the ...

CRC Press2009

Generating Realistic In Silico Gene Networks for Performance Assessment of Reverse Engineering Methods

Dario Floreano, Claudio Mattiussi, Daniel Marbach, Thomas Schaffter

Reverse engineering methods are typically first tested on simulated data from in silico networks, for systematic and efficient performance assessment, before an application to real biological networks. In this paper we present a method for generating biolo ...

2009

Compact modeling of high voltage MOSFETs

Yogesh Singh Chauhan

In the automotive industry, there is a strong trend that has increased the electronics in cars for various functions like fuel injection, electric control of doors and windows, electric chair adjustment, air conditioning etc. The 12V battery used in the pr ...

EPFL2007