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Making Bridges Sustainable

Lack of incentives mainly explains why the implementation of novel methods and technologies in bridge engineering practice is generally postponed by the engineering community despite the urgent need to advance also bridge engineering to meet the objectives ...

Taylor and Francis / CRC Press2023

Excitonic devices with van der Waals heterostructures: valleytronics meets twistronics

Andras Kis, Fedele Tagarelli, Ahmet Avsar, Alberto Ciarrocchi

2D semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides comprise an emerging class of materials with distinct properties, including large exciton binding energies that reach hundreds of millielectronvolts and valley-contrasting physics. Thanks to the van der Wa ...

2022

OMiLAB: A Smart Innovation Environment for Digital Engineers

Dimitrios Kyritsis

This position paper introduces a Smart Innovation Environment for experimentation related to digital transformation projects, for the consolidation of a proposed "Digital Engineer" skill profile (with a business-oriented facet labelled as "Digital Innovato ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2021

Adaptive isogeometric analysis on two-dimensional trimmed domains based on a hierarchical approach

Annalisa Buffa, Pablo Antolin Sanchez, Rafael Vazquez Hernandez, Luca Coradello

The focus of this work is on the development of an error-driven isogeometric framework, capable of automatically performing an adaptive simulation in the context of second- and fourth-order, elliptic partial differential equations defined on two-dimensiona ...

2020

Hydraulic stimulation of pre-existing discontinuities in tight rocks

Federico Ciardo

Hydraulic stimulation is an engineering technique whose aim is to enhance the permeability of fractured rock masses at depths ranging from one to five kilometers. It consists in the injection of fluid at sufficiently high pressure in order to shear pre-exi ...

EPFL2020

Advanced models for stress evaluation and safety assessment in steel-lined pressure tunnels

Anton Schleiss, Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Alexandre Jean Pachoud

An accurate estimation of the stress in a steel liner is required for the design of steel-lined pressure shafts, both with regard to safety assessment of ageing steel-lined waterways of hydropower plants built in the 20th century, and for new projects whic ...

2018

Turbulent planar wakes under pressure gradient conditions

Fernando Porté Agel, Sina Shamsoddin

Accurate prediction of the spatial evolution of turbulent wake flows under pressure gradient conditions is required in some engineering applications such as the design of high-lift devices and wind farms over topography. In this paper, we aim to develop an ...

Cambridge University Press2017

Improved analytical solutions for the response of underground excavations in rock masses satisfying the generalized Hoek-Brown failure criterion

Vincent Labiouse

Analytical solutions for tunnel design are widely used in practical engineering, as they allow a quick analysis of design issues such as estimation of support requirement. In recent years, several papers analyzing the behavior of rock masses that obey the ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015

Response of soil subjected to thermal cyclic loading: experimental and constitutive study

Lyesse Laloui, Alice Di Donna

The response of soil subjected to thermal cyclic loading plays an important role in certain engineering applications, such as high-level nuclear waste disposal, heat storage systems, CO2 sequestration plant and energy geostructures. For instance, energy ge ...

Elsevier2015

A methodology for creating sequential multi-period base-case scenarios for large data sets

François Maréchal, Laurent Gabriel Félix Alexandre Stéphane Bungener, Greta Martha Van Eetvelde

Key performance indicators in engineering problems include but are not limited to financial, operational, management and environmental factors, which are significantly affected by aspects such as seasonality, fouling, economic climate, production rates, su ...

AIDIC Servizi2013

Exploring G-Protein Coupled Receptor Activation with Multiscale Molecular Simulations

Stefano Vanni

This thesis is devoted to the study of the activation mechanism of G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), one of the largest and most diverse protein families in mammalian genomes, by means of different computer-based simulation techniques. Using force field ...

EPFL2011

Phase Extraction in Dynamic Speckle Interferometry with Empirical Mode Decomposition and Hilbert Transform

Pierre Jacquot, Sébastien Equis

In many respects, speckle interferometry (SI) techniques are being considered as mature tools in the experimental mechanics circles. These techniques have enlarged considerably the field of optical metrology, featuring nanometric sensitivities in whole-fie ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

The empirical mode decomposition: a must-have tool in speckle interferometry?

Pierre Jacquot, Sébastien Equis

In a wider and wider range of research and engineering activities, there is a growing interest for full-field techniques, featuring nanometric sensitivities, and able to be addressed to dynamic behaviors characterization. Speckle interferometry (SI) techni ...

Optical Society of America2009

Constitutive modelling of unsaturated soils with hydro-geomechanical couplings

Mathieu Nuth

Even though the saturation in water of most natural and engineered soils is partial, constitutive models in geotechnical engineering have long made the assumption of complete saturation. The increasing knowledge of the rheological behaviour of unsaturated ...

EPFL2009

Requirements Engineering Education in the 21st Century, an Experiential Learning Approach

Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann

RE use in industry is hampered by a poor understanding of RE practices and their benefits. Teaching RE at the university level is therefore an important endeavor. This education can ideally be provided at the university level as an integrated part of devel ...

IEEE2008