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Toward a brightness upgrade to the SwissFEL: A high gradient traveling-wave rf photogun

Mike Seidel, Sven Reiche, Paolo Craievich, Anastasiya Magazinik

The first generation of S-band injectors for free-electron lasers has illustrated high reliability and performance by driving the latest generation of high brightness machines. However, the ultimate electron beam brightness of these devices is limited by t ...

Amer Physical Soc2023

Paper of RILEM TC 282-CCL: mineralogical characterization methods for clay resources intended for use as supplementary cementitious material

Franco Alberto Zunino Sommariva, Ruben Anton Snellings, Alastair Thomas Matthew Marsh, Adrian Alujas Diaz

To respond to the rapid introduction and development of calcined clays as supplementary cementitious material (SCM), the toolbox of characterization methods for cementitious materials requires extension to raw clay characterization. Borrowing concepts and ...

SPRINGER2022

A method for the reliable and reproducible precipitation of phase pure high Ca/Si ratio (>1.5) synthetic calcium silicate hydrates (C-S-H)

Karen Scrivener, Paul Bowen, Maya Nicole Harris, Grace Simpson

Various methods have been developed to synthesize C-S-H; however, these methods have only allowed for the successful production of pure-phase C-S-H with Ca:Si of 1.5 or less. Attempts to form higher Ca:Si ratios by these methods gives C-S-H (Ca:Si 1.5 or l ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2022

Incremental financial analysis of black liquor upgraded gasification in integrated kraft pulp and ammonia production plants under uncertainty of feedstock costs and carbon taxes

François Maréchal, Meire Ellen Gorete Ribeiro Domingos

In this work, the conventional scenario of the black liquor (BL) concentration and combustion is compared with the BL upgrading gasification process for ammonia production. The chemical processes synthesis, modeling and simulation are performed by using As ...

Elsevier2022

Ontology-centric industrial requirements validation for aircraft assembly system design

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Jinzhi Lu, Xiaochen Zheng

The development of an aircraft industrial system faces the challenge of integrative requirements validation with de-correlated modelling languages and distributed proprietary formats. This paper specifies an ontology-centric industrial requirements validat ...

ELSEVIER2022

Techno-economic and environmental analysis of methanol and dimethyl ether production from syngas in a kraft pulp process

François Maréchal, Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego

The conventional configuration of a pulp mill, in which black liquor is concentrated and burnt, is compared to the upgrading gasification routes for methanol (MeOH) or dimethyl ether (DME) co-production. To this end, various exergy-based and environmental ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Distributed Coupled Multiagent Stochastic Optimization

Ali H. Sayed, Sulaiman A S A E Alghunaim

This paper develops an effective distributed strategy for the solution of constrained multiagent stochastic optimization problems with coupled parameters across the agents. In this formulation, each agent is influenced by only a subset of the entries of a ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Empower or Thwart? Insights from Vienna and Helsinki regarding the role of public authorities in the development of MaaS schemes

Matthias Finger, Maxime Ugo Julien Audouin

Recent advances in information and communication technologies have paved the way for the development of new transport solutions that have the potential to revolutionise mobility. At the forefront of those developments, the concept of Mobility-as-a-Service ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Performance Assessment of Double-Layered Timber Plate Shells using Alternative Structural Systems

Yves Weinand, Petras Vestartas, Anh Chi Nguyen, Bertrand Mathieu C Himmer

With recent advances in digital fabrication, innovative wood-wood connections inspired by ancient timber joining techniques have recently been applied to various free-form timber plate structures. This paper focuses on the recently developed double-layered ...

International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE)2019

The caisson – review of a unique wooden construction typology in China

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Jingxian Ye

The caisson is a wooden construction system that covers opera stages for rain protection and sound control. Caissons in China display a diverse range of geometric expressions, delicate manufacturing, structural behaviours, and acoustic qualities. Despite t ...

2018

On Establishing Buckling Knockdowns for Imperfection-Sensitive Shell Structures

Emmanuel Georges Albert Virot

This paper investigates issues that have arisen in recent efforts to revise long-standing knockdown factors for elastic shell buckling, which are widely regarded as being overly conservative for well-constructed shells. In particular, this paper focuses on ...

ASME2018

Validation of a FEA model of structural response of RC-cantilever beams strengthened with a (R-) UHPFRC layer

Eugen Brühwiler, Emmanuel Denarié, Hamid Sadouki

This paper focuses on modelling of structural response of RC cantilever beams retrofitted with a thin layer of Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced cement-based Composite (UHPFRC). The complex cracking phenomenon of the resulting RC-UHPFRC composite sys ...

Elsevier2017

Long horizon input parameterisations to enlarge the region of attraction of MPC

Colin Neil Jones

In this paper, the efficacy of structured and unstructured parameterisations of the degree of freedom within a predictive control algorithm is investigated. While several earlier papers investigated the enlargement of the region of attraction using structu ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Directional Real-Time Optimization Applied to a Kite-Control Simulation Benchmark

Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Sean Costello

This paper applies a novel two-layer optimizing control scheme to a kite-control benchmark problem. The upper layer is a recent real-time optimization algorithm, called Directional Modifier Adaptation, which represents a variation of the popular Modifier A ...

IEEE2015

On the Semi-rigidity of Dovetail Joint for the Joinery of LVL Panels

Yves Weinand, Christopher Werner Matthias Robeller, Laurent Humbert, Stéphane Nicolas Roche

This paper focuses on multiple tab-and-slot joints (MTSJ) for load-carrying assembly of structural wood elements, which are inspired by traditional cabinetmaking joints and adapted for automatic fabrication and engineered wood panels such as laminated vene ...

Springer Verlag2015

Approximation rates for the hierarchical tensor format in periodic Sobolev spaces

André Uschmajew

In this note we estimate the asymptotic rates for the L-2-error decay and the storage cost when approximating 2 pi-periodic, d-variate functions from isotropic and mixed Sobolev classes by the recent hierarchical tensor format as introduced by Hackbusch an ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2014

Reconstruction and stability in acousto-optic imaging for absorption maps with bounded variation

Quoc Hung Nguyen

The aim of this paper is to propose for the first time a reconstruction scheme and a stability result for recovering from acousto-optic data absorption distributions with bounded variation. The paper extends earlier results in [3] and [5] on smooth absorpt ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2014

An Improved Linear Programming Approach for Simultaneous Optimization of Water and Energy

François Maréchal, Maziar Kermani, Zoé Périn-Levasseur

An optimization method based on Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) has been developed for simultaneous optimization of water and energy (SOWE) in industrial processes. The superstructure integrates process thermal streams and optimizes the consumption ...

Elsevier2014

Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Flex-PCB Air-Gap Windings in Slotless BLDC Machines

Yves Perriard, Miroslav Markovic, Bruno Dehez, François Baudart

Slotless brushless dc motors find more and more applications due to their high performance and their low production cost. This paper focuses on the windings inserted in the air gap of these motors and, in particular, to an original production technique tha ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Exploratory numerical analysis of SG-laminated reinforced glass beam experiments

Pieter Christian Louter

The paper focuses on the numerical investigation of SentryGlas®(SG)-laminated reinforced glass beams. This structural typology, rather innovative and currently under investigation, consists of a composite section in which the typical brittle behaviour of g ...

Elsevier2014