Publications by Aurèle Parriaux

Embodied Energy and Lifecycle Costs: Questioning (Mis)conceptions about Underground Construction

Aurèle Parriaux, Philippe Thalmann, Michael Robert Doyle

In the construction community, underground construction is perceived as being significantly more costly and more energy-consuming than comparable surface construction. Although the literature is scarce, studies that have attempted to quantify this differen ...

2019

Méthode de caractérisation in situ des formations superficielles meubles et application à l’étude des coulées de boue

Aurèle Parriaux, Séverine Bilgot

2018

Données nouvelles sur les circulations karstiques du Jura valdo-neuchâtelois

Aurèle Parriaux

2017

Données nouvelles sur la géologie des collines de Chiètres

Aurèle Parriaux

La géologie des collines de Chiètres et de l’ancien sillon glaciaire du Rhône a été révisée. Les excavations de la couverture meuble de la carrière de Sous-Vent ont révélé une succession de dépôts où l’on identifie les débris de deux éboulements majeurs, d ...

2017

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

Underground Potential for Urban Sustainability: Mapping Resources and Their Interactions with the Deep City Method

Aurèle Parriaux, Philippe Thalmann, Michael Robert Doyle

In the process of urban growth, the underground is often only addressed once all surface alternatives have been exhausted. Experience shows that this can lead to unforeseen conflicts (e.g., subsidence, groundwater pollution) and to lost opportunities (e.g. ...

Mdpi Ag2016

Geotypen : ein neues Konzept zur Optimierung geologischer Informationen für die Raumplanung

Aurèle Parriaux, Pascal Turberg

When we have to valorise the geological information for land planning or engineering applications, it is difficult to integrate the large complexity of the maps of the Swiss Geological Atlas at the scale of 1:25'000. The heterogeneity of the legends betwee ...

2015

An Integrated Planning Concept for the Emerging Underground Urbanism: Deep City Method Part 1 Concept, process and application

Aurèle Parriaux, Philippe Thalmann, Huanqing Li

Four underground resources have been seen as having a long-term potential to support sustainable urban development: underground space, groundwater, geomaterials and geothermal energy. Utilization of these resources proposes a new paradigm of economic devel ...

Elsevier2013

An Integrated Planning Concept for the Emerging Underground Urbanism: Deep City Method Part 2 Case study for resource supply and project valuation

Aurèle Parriaux, Philippe Thalmann, Huanqing Li

Elsevier2013

An X-ray computed tomography-based index to characterize the quality of cataclastic carbonate rock samples

Aurèle Parriaux, Vincent Labiouse, Pascal Turberg, Reto Meuli, Pierre Guillaume Christe

X-ray computed tomography (XRCT) can reconstruct, in a nondestructive way and in three-dimension, the distribution of densities within opaque materials. Consequently, it provides an effective possibility to characterize the inner content of rock core sampl ...

2011

GIS-based 3D modelling for landslide hazard assessment: increasing the objectivity of hazard maps

Aurèle Parriaux, Séverine Bilgot

Recent decades have been marked by many disasters caused by natural hazards.Gravitational phenomena in particular have resulted in several deaths and extensive damage to infrastructure. Nearly 10% of Swiss territory is considered unstable. It therefore req ...

Swiss Academy of Sciences2010

Stream Temperature Response to Three Riparian Vegetation Scenarios by Use of a Distributed Temperature Validated Model

Aurèle Parriaux, Martin Vetterli, Guillermo Barrenetxea Kobas, Marc Parlange, Wolf Hendrik Huwald

Elevated in-stream temperature has led to a surge in the occurrence of parasitic intrusion proliferative kidney disease and has resulted in fish kills throughout Switzerland's waterways. Data from distributed temperature sensing (DTS) in-stream measurement ...

2010

Using geotypes for landslide hazard assessment and mapping: a coupled field and GIS-based method

Aurèle Parriaux, Séverine Bilgot

Switzerland is exceptionally subjected to landslides; indeed, about 10% of its area is considered as unstable. Making this observation, its Department of the Environment (BAFU) introduces in 1997 a method to realize landslide hazard maps. It is routinely u ...

Copernicus GmbH2009

On the truly meshless solution of heat conduction problems in heterogeneous media

Aurèle Parriaux, Jiannong Fang, Jian Zhao, Gaofeng Zhao

A truly meshless method based on the weighted least-squares (WLS) approximation and the method of point collocation is proposed to solve heat conduction problems in heterogeneous media. It is shown that, in the case of strong heterogeneity, accurate and sm ...

2009

Road runoff management using over-the-shoulder infiltration: real-scale experimentation

Michaël Bensimon, Aurèle Parriaux, Pascal Piguet

A new management policy regarding road runoff was proposed in 2002 by the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). This new concept is based on the diffuse infiltration of road runoff into embankment slopes, where soils will filter particles and co ...

IWA Publishing2009

Rare earth elements in groundwater from different Alpine aquifers

Michaël Bensimon, Aurèle Parriaux

Rare earth elements (REE) were determined in 39 groundwater samples collected at 14 sites under low- and high-flow conditions. Water samples derived from aquifers hosted in crystalline, molasse, flysch, carbonate and evaporite rocks located in Western Swit ...

2009

The combined use of radio-frequency electromagnetics and radiomagnetotellurics methods in non-ideal field conditions for delineating hydrogeological boundaries and for environmental problems

Aurèle Parriaux, Pascal Turberg

Radio frequency geophysical methods are known for being very versatile tools in ground- and groundwater investigation at shallow depths. They are fast and easy to use and allow a high density of information over large surfaces, which makes them very suitab ...

2009

Improved SPH methods for simulating free surface flows of viscous fluids

Aurèle Parriaux, Jiannong Fang, Christophe Ancey, Martin Rentschler

2009

Coupling GIS and field methods to forecast landslide hazard: a methodology suitable for long term territorial planning as for emergency case

Aurèle Parriaux, Séverine Bilgot

T. V. Tuzova2009

The diffuse infiltration of road runoff: an environmental improvement

Michaël Bensimon, Aurèle Parriaux, Pascal Piguet

The Laboratory of Engineering and Environmental Geology (GEOLEP) has been mandated by Swiss authorities (Swiss Federal Road Office FedRO) to test a new road runoff management concept. This concept promotes the diffuse infiltration of road runoff into infil ...

2008