Publications associées à Système d'unités impériales

Reaching mK-scale stability in CP-ɸOTDR over daily measurements

Luc Thévenaz, Tiago Filipe Pimentel Das Neves, Luis Costa

We propose several processing methods to mitigate the probability of large errors in Chirped-pulse ɸOTDR, improving performances for long-term measurements. For no perturbation applied, we reach a 2 mK error after a 24 h experiment. ...

2020

Shake table testing of aggregate masonry buildings

Katrin Beyer, Igor Tomic, Andrea Penna

Masonry building aggregates can be found throughout historical city centers of Europe. Adjacent buildings have often developed during the long densification process, without consistent planning or engineering. It is common for neighboring units to share a ...

2020

Measurement-system design for structural identification

Numa Joy Bertola

In developed countries, the management of existing civil infrastructure is challenging due to evolving functional requirements, aging and climate change. Due to conservative approaches in construction design and practice, infrastructure often has hidden re ...

EPFL2020

Predicting the dynamic behavior of Francis turbine generating units

Joao Gomes Pereira Junior

To reduce CO2 emissions and tackle global warming, an increasing amount of electrical power consumed around the world must be obtained from renewable sources. Among these sources, hydropower has not only the advantage of leaving a very small carbon footpri ...

EPFL2019

Critical lssues on lntegrated Solutions for Seismic and Energy Retrofitting of High-rise Building in Reinforced Concrete Walls and Panels: The M4 in Tor Bella Monaca - Rome

Lorenzo Diana

In Italy, after the destructions of World War II, due the particular development of economy and the political decision in the field of reconstruction, a government option for building construction industrialization comes up only at the beginning of ‘60s. A ...

EdicomEdizioni2018

Slow dynamics in structured neural network models

Samuel Pavio Muscinelli

Humans and some other animals are able to perform tasks that require coordination of movements across multiple temporal scales, ranging from hundreds of milliseconds to several seconds. The fast timescale at which neurons naturally operate, on the order of ...

EPFL2018

The mouse genome displays highly dynamic populations of KRAB-zinc finger protein genes and related genetic units

Didier Trono, Julien Léonard Duc, Gabriela Ecco, Marco Cassano, Annamaria Kauzlaric, Michaël Imbeault

KRAB-containing poly-zinc finger proteins (KZFPs) constitute the largest family of transcription factors encoded by mammalian genomes, and growing evidence indicates that they fulfill functions critical to both embryonic development and maintenance of adul ...

Public Library of Science2017

Thermal water purification system and method for operating said system

Chin Lee Ong

The present invention relates to a thermal water purification system (10) for producing a distillate liquid from a raw liquid (LP, LB) comprising: - a plurality of distilling units (1 a-1h) which are consecutively flowed through by the raw feed liquid (LP, ...

2017

Imaging and manipulation of skyrmion lattice domains in Cu2OSeO3

Helmuth Berger

Nanoscale chiral skyrmions in noncentrosymmetric helimagnets are promising binary state variables in high-density, low-energy nonvolatile memory. Skyrmions are ubiquitous as an ordered, single-domain lattice phase, which makes it difficult to write informa ...

Amer Inst Physics2016

Practical Intramolecular Symmetry Adapted Perturbation Theory via Hartree-Fock Embedding

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Jérôme Florian Gonthier

We develop a simple methodology for the computation of symmetry-adapted perturbation theory (SAPT) interaction energy contributions for intramolecular noncovalent interactions. In this approach, the local occupied orbitals of the total Hartree-Fock (HF) wa ...

American Institute of Physics2015

Smart Knee Prosthesis for Orthopedic Surgery: the implantable and wearable Measurement System

Kamiar Aminian, Philippe Renaud, Arash Arami, David Forchelet

Recent advances in remote powering and telemetry permitted the use of sensors inside body. A few studies have been already done on smart knee prostheses, but all focused on monitoring the in-vivo contact forces and moments. A smart design, compatible with ...

2015

Surge Wave Propagation in a Common Tailrace Channel for Two Large Pumped-Storage Plants

Anton Schleiss, Giovanni De Cesare, Martin Peter Bieri, Stéphane Christian Olivier Terrier

Sudden starting and stopping of turbines and pumps lead to highly unsteady flow in tailrace channels of hydropower plants (HPP). Submergence of Pelton turbines and air entrainment in pumps due to surge waves must be avoided by technical measures. The exist ...

Asce-Amer Soc Civil Engineers2014

Frequency capping in online advertising

Moran Feldman

We study the following online problem. There are n advertisers. Each advertiser has a total demand and a value for each supply unit. Supply units arrive one by one in an online fashion, and must be allocated to an agent immediately. Each unit is associated ...

Springer2014

Implantable and wearable measurement system for smart knee prosthesis

Kamiar Aminian, Philippe Renaud, Arash Arami, David Forchelet

In this work we present the implantable and wearable measurement system developed for smart knee prostheses monitoring. The kinematic measurement system contains three anisotropic magnetoresistive sensors embedded into the polyethylene part of the prosthes ...

IEEE2014

A Novel Approach to Reducing Number of Sensing Units for Wearable Gait Analysis Systems

Kamiar Aminian, Brigitte Jolles-Haeberli, Arash Salarian

Gait analysis methods to estimate spatiotemporal measures, based on two, three or four gyroscopes attached on lower limbs have been discussed in the literature. The most common approach to reduce the number of sensing units is to simplify the underlying bi ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

A Fully Integrated Hall Sensor Microsystem for Contactless Current Measurement

Maher Kayal, Marc Pastre, Andrea Ajbl

Contactless current measurement based on Hall-effect sensors can be performed in either closed-or open-loop configuration. In this paper an open-loop sensor system with a current-mode output is described. The system measures the magnetic field induced arou ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

Remotely powered implantable heart monitoring system for freely moving animals

Philippe Renaud, Catherine Dehollain, Harald Van Lintel, Enver Gürhan Kilinç, Alejandro Coronado Moya, Franco Maloberti

This paper presents a remotely powered implantable heart monitoring system for freely moving animals. The system measures the blood pressure in the left ventricle of the heart and transmits the data to a database unit. The implanted unit is remotely powere ...

IEEE2013

Passive components for millimeter, submillimeter and terahertz electromagnetic waves made by piling up successive layers of material

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Emile Jacques de Rijk, Alessandro Macor

The passive component for the transmission and manipulation of electromagnetic signals having frequencies from 30 GHz to 100 THz, comprises a corrugated or smooth wall unit alone or an assembly of at least one corrugated or smooth wall unit in a hollow gui ...

2012

A Fully Integrated Hall Sensor Microsystem for Contactless Current Measurement

Maher Kayal, Marc Pastre, Andrea Ajbl

Contactless current measurement based on Hall-effect sensors can be performed in either closed-or open-loop configuration. In this paper an open-loop sensor system with a current-mode output is described. The system measures the magnetic field induced arou ...

Ieee2012

A hybrid hypercube - genetic algorithm approach for deploying many emergency response mobile units in an urban network

Nikolaos Geroliminis

Emergency response services are critical for modern societies. This paper presents a model and a heuristic solution for the optimal deployment of many emergency response units in an urban transportation network and an application for transit mobile repair ...

2011