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The paper presents the recent advances and their relevance in the study of the geomechanical behavior of shales considering both experimental and modelling aspects. Shales are involved in several energy-related engineering applications where complex multip ...

2016

Capital gains and architectural losses: the transformative journey of Caudill Rowlett Scott (1948–1994)

Paolo Tombesi

The history of Caudill Rowlett Scott (CRS) provides a powerful account of the cultural transformations, technological shifts and socio-political opportunities that shaped the idea of professional practice in the United States of America between the end of ...

2016

Framework for efficient synthesis of spatially embedded morphologies

Lida Kanari, Julian Charles Shillcock, Liesbeth Maria L Vanherpe, Guy Antoine Atenekeng Kahou, Juan Pablo Palacios

Many problems in science and engineering require the ability to grow tubular or polymeric structures up to large volume fractions within a bounded region of three-dimensional space. Examples range from the construction of fibrous materials and biological c ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

A leap of faith in the realm of the possible.

Caroline Dionne

The architectural projects and building operations conducted over the past three decades by Patrick Bouchain and his collaborators challenge a series of assumptions regarding architecture’s authorship, its purpose and usage. Examined in light of Paul Ricoe ...

2016

Social Housing in Vienna and Frankfurt: two complementary architectural models

Alessandro Porotto

The paper discusses urban policies for social housing in Vienna and Frankfurt in the inter World War years of the twentieth century. It provides not only historical knowledge, but also examines social housing ensembles within the contemporary city from an ...

2016

Advanced Timber Structures - Architectural Designs and Digital Dimensioning

Wood is usually perceived as a "traditional" material. However, the properties of this material have now for some time made it possible to design free shapes and highly complex structures. Today, the wood laboratory of the EPF Lausanne, which was originall ...

Birkhäuser2016

Londres, capitale du post-modernisme?

Nicolas Bruno Jacquet

The advantage of the dynamism of the London architectural scene seems rather ignored by historians and theorists. Not only is London absent from the grand narrative of modernity, but it is also denied the status of avant-garde, although since the 1960s, th ...

EPFL2016

Enabling HPC for QoS-sensitive applications: the MANGO approach

David Atienza Alonso

In this paper, we provide an overview of the MANGO project and its goal. The MANGO project aims at addressing power, performance and predictability (the PPP space) in future High-Performance Computing systems. It starts from the fundamental intuition that ...

Ieee2016

Measuring the effect of nuisance variables on classifiers

Pascal Frossard, Alhussein Fawzi

In real-world classification problems, nuisance variables can cause wild variability in the data. Nuisance corresponds for example to geometric distortions of the image, occlusions, illumination changes or any other deformations that do not alter the groun ...

2016

Architectural design scenarios with building-integrated photovoltaic solutions in renovation processes: Case study in Neuchâtel (Switzerland)

Sophie Lufkin, Sergi Aguacil Moreno

In view of the importance of urban renewal processes, building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) systems can potentially provide a crucial response to the energy turnaround challenges. Functioning both as envelope material and electricity generator, they can ...

2016

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