Publications associées à Empathic design

Computational design and additive manufacturing of electromagnetic coils

The modern world is heavily reliant on electromagnetic devices to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy and vice versa. These devices are fundamental to powering our society, and the growing need for automated production lines and electrified tr ...

EPFL2023

Design of a low-loss hybrid silicon-organic terahertz field detector

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Alessandro Tomasino, Francesco Bertot

We propose an innovative design for an integrated, low-loss on-chip terahertz (THz) field detector based on hybrid silicon-organic slot waveguides and THz antennas. We perform a numerical study of the dependency of electro-optic interaction on geometrical ...

IEEE2022

Experimental Study to Validate an Improved Approach to Design Acceleration-Sensitive Nonstructural Components

Dimitrios Lignos, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Elkady

Nonstructural components in buildings can be subjected to very large acceleration and deformation demands during earthquakes. This is particularly true for flexible components that are tuned or nearly tuned to one of the modal frequencies of the supporting ...

Applied Technology Council, Sponse2022

Rhodanian Neighborhoods in Transition: Towards an Integrative Strategy Facilitating Decision-Making for New Sustainable Fluvio-Neighborhoods

Martine Laprise, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni, Emmanuel Rey

In the changing history of city-river relationships, cities are today questioning strategies for “reconciliation”. Thus, rather degraded sites like riverside brownfields represent an important potential for the creation of new sustainable fluvio-neighborho ...

2022

Computational tool for stock-constrained design of structures

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Jonas Warmuth, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting

Designing structures from reused elements is becoming an increasingly important design task for structural engineers as it has potential to significantly reduce adverse environmental impacts of building structures. To allow for a broad application of this ...

2021

A consistent safety format and design approach for brittle systems and application to textile reinforced concrete structures

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Patrick Lorenzo Valeri, Qianhui Yu

Design and verification of structures in modern codes of practice account for a safety format, ensuring that the probability of failure does not exceed a given threshold. Although specific safety formats are proposed in some cases for special types of stru ...

2021

Human-friendly solutions for last-centimeter drone delivery

Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski

The popularity of delivery drones is constantly increasing due to their ability to deliver packages more rapidly and economically than current transportation methods. Consequently, drones have been employed by logistics companies for delivering payloads to ...

EPFL2020

X-Shells: A new class of deployable beam structures

Mark Pauly, Florin Isvoranu, Mina Konakovic Lukovic, Francis Julian Panetta, Etienne Bouleau

We present X-shells, a new class of deployable structures formed by an ensemble of elastically deforming beams coupled through rotational joints. An X-shell can be assembled conveniently in a flat configuration from standard elastic beam elements and then ...

2019

Design guidance from a Data-Driven LCA-Based Design method and tool prototype

Marilyne Andersen, Emmanuel Rey, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme

As of 2020, every new building in the European Union will have to reach the nearly Zero Energy Building (nZEB) performance. However, building nZEB will not be sufficient to reach carbon neutrality in 2050 as required by the last IPCC report: indeed, even n ...

INT BUILDING PERFORMANCE SIMULATION ASSOC-IBPSA2019

Assessing the compressive strength of concrete under sustained actions: From refined models to simple design expressions

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Darko Tasevski

The detrimental influence of high levels of sustained load on the compressive strength of concrete has been acknowledged and investigated since the 1950s. Despite the potential significance of this phenomenon in many situations, current design codes still ...

2019

Usability assessment of building performance simulation tools: a pilot study

Marilyne Andersen, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Stefano Cozza

Due to climate change, the built environment is facing increasingly strict environmental targets. Thus, architects are challenged to design evermore high-performing buildings, a task for which they can no longer depend solely on their experience and intuit ...

2018

Curriculum co-design using participatory rapid prototyping tools

Roland John Tormey

Higher education is experienced by many academics as a highly individualized environment where they work in relative isolation and often do not see how their teaching fits together with other courses and into the wider curriculum. But, when the ultimate go ...

2017

Beam Dynamics Studies in Recirculating Machines

Dario Pellegrini

The LHeC and the CLIC Drive Beam share not only the high-current beams that make them prone to show instabilities, but also unconventional lattice topologies and operational schemes in which the time sequence of the bunches varies along the machine. In ord ...

EPFL2016

Three-dimensional polymeric microtiles for optically-tracked fluidic self-assembly

Jürgen Brugger, Alcherio Martinoli, Massimo Mastrangeli

Self-assembly (SA) is a bio-inspired key coordination mechanism for swarms of intelligent agents as well as a pervasive bottom-up methodology for the fabrication of heterogeneous micro- and nanosystems. Analytical studies of SA at small scales are therefor ...

2014

Progresses and challenges in the development of high-field solenoidal magnets based on RE123 coated conductors

Davide Uglietti

Recent progresses in the second generation REBa2Cu3O7-x (RE123) coated conductor (CC) have paved a way for the development of superconducting solenoids capable of generating fields well above 23.5 T, i.e. the limit of NbTi-Nb3Sn-based magnets. However, the ...

2014

La teoría de la fisura crítica como base teórica para el diseño de losas frente a punzonamiento en el nuevo Código Modelo 2010 (The Critical Shear Crack Theory as a physical model for punching shear design and its implementation into new Model Code 2010)

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Juan Sagaseta Albajar

On April 2010, the first complete draft of new Model Code 2010 was published. It introduced a number of innovative design approaches, some of them with respect to shear and punching shear. Contrary to Model Code 90 (or some national and international codes ...

Hormigón y Acero2012

Alternative Design Methodologies for the Next Generation Logic Switch (invited paper)

Giovanni De Micheli, Davide Sacchetto, Yusuf Leblebici, Michele De Marchi

Next generation logic switch devices are ex- pected to rely on radically new technologies mainly due to the increasing difficulties and limitations of state-of-the-art CMOS switches, which, in turn, will also require innovative design methodologies that ar ...

Ieee Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, Nj 08855-1331 Usa2011

A Tectonic Approach for Integrating Kinesis with a Building in the Design Process of Interactive Skins

Jeffrey Huang

Today, interactive architecture plays an increasingly important role in urban milieus. However, in terms of design principles and guidelines in the age of digital architecture, the design and construction of interactive skins has been under-explored. A new ...

2011