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Mitigation of Vacuum and Illumination-Induced Degradation in Perovskite Solar Cells by Structure Engineering

Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Fan Fu, Shih-Chi Yang, Yan Jiang

y High specific power, high stowed packing efficiency, low processing cost, and high tolerance against environmental threats (high energy and charged particle radiation) make perovskite solar cell (PSC) a promising candidate for power generation in space. ...

CELL PRESS2020

The compass in the eye: The "geometric mechanics" of Viviani at the bedside of the Brunelleschi dome

Simon François Dumas Primbault

During the 17th century, being an engineer at the Medici Court was a discipline at the intersection of mathematics, and the pictorial and mechanical arts. Born out of the heritage of Alberti, Vinci, and Vasari, the Accademia del disegno - founded on the th ...

ARMAND COLIN2020

Architecture / Philosophy: how, why, and what the questions seek in three case-studies from the late 20th century

André Patrão Neves De Frias Martins

Architecture and philosophy are no strangers to one another. In philosophical writings, architecture appears referred to, spoken of, described, defined, categorized, and figuratively used. In architectural discourse, by theoreticians and practitioners alik ...

EPFL2020

Research on a New Class of Planar Tensegrity Trusses Consisting of Repetitive Units

Yafeng Wang

Tensegrity structure is a prestressed self-equilibrated system consisting of compressed struts and tensioned cables. Planar truss is one of the most common forms of engineering structures with a wide application. This paper proposes a new class of planar t ...

2020

Seismic retroﬁt of existing steel concentrically braced frame with friction dampers

Inthecontextoflowtointermediateseismichazardregion,thisMasterprojectevaluate,thanks to a case study, the potential of friction dampers as retroﬁt solution of existing Concentrically Braced Frames (CBF). Simple to design and economic to build, they are comm ...

2020

The Neigborhood Unit: Relevance of an architectural tool

Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon, Chiara Monterumisi

Over the last few decades, the notion of common has occupied an increasingly prominent place in the interdisciplinary debate as an alternative political horizon to neo-liberal dynamics and in turn as an envision of new social engagement also in the domain ...

2020

The Neighbourhood Unit. The relevance of an architectural tool

Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon, Chiara Monterumisi

2020

Abaqus models and input files for simplified micro models of in-plane loaded masonry walls

Katrin Beyer, Bastian Valentin Wilding, Kiarash Mohtasham Dolatshahi

The data set contains the Abaqus input files of the numerical analyses presented in two research papers. 1) Influence of load history on the force-displacement response of in-plane loaded unreinforced masonry walls, Engineering Structures, 2017, L ...

Zenodo2019

Protofigurations, geometries of transindividuation

Julien Lafontaine Carboni

In recent years prefigurative phases of architectural or urban projects have been rising. However, in the context of prefiguration a precise definition of what could be characterized as a design methodology, a temporal space or also as a political practice ...

2019

Holzbau heute und in Zukunft

Yves Weinand

In recent years, the necessity of using renewable and sustainable resources in the building sector has become obvious, and interest in timber as a building material has revived. Toward this end, Laboratory for Timber Construction (IBOIS) aims to develop a ...

2019

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