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Surface roughness evolution in adhesive wear processes

Geological faults movements generating earthquakes, a vehicles' tyres rolling on the pavement, and a chalk writing on a blackboard are all different examples of frictional systems. In these systems, which are everywhere around us, two separate bodies are i ...

EPFL2020

Simulation of silicon KOH and dry etching methods for micromould fabrication

Laurène Tribolet

The purpose of this project is to investigate the suitability of wet etching methods such as KOH etching for silicon micromoulds fabrication. Those moulds are intended for preceramic polymer (PCP) casting and specific requirements regarding the profile of ...

2020

A mechanistic approach to topsoil damage due to slip of tractor tyres

Lyesse Laloui, Andrea Battiato, Etienne Diserens

Tractor traction tyres interact with soil by a system of normal and tangential stresses along the soil-tyre contact surface. In this interaction both soil and tyre deform according to their own stress-strain relationships. Soil deformation results in the f ...

2013

Mm-size bistable zipping dielectric elastomer actuators for integrated microfluidics

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Luc Maffli

We report on a new structure of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators (DEAs) called zipping DEAs, which have a set of unique characteristics that are a good match for the requirements of electrically-powered integrated microfluidic pumping and/or valving units as ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2013

Pass-by noise acoustic sensing for estimating speed and wheelbase length of two-axle vehicles.

Jean-Marc Odobez, Hervé Lissek, Xavier Falourd, Patrick Marmaroli

This paper focuses on acoustic road traffic monitoring and looks, more specifically, into the problem of speed and wheelbase length estimation of two-axle vehicles as they pass by. It is known that both front and rear axle trajectories may be dissociated u ...

2013

Influences of polymer concrete surfacing and localised load distribution on behaviour up to failure of an orthotropic FRP bridge deck

Thomas Keller, Wendel Michael Sebastian

This paper presents experimental results which demonstrate the important, but to date little-studied influence of surfacing on the response up to failure of orthotropic GFRP bridge decking local to concentrated loading. Four bonded deck specimens were test ...

Elsevier2013

High aspect ratio sub-micron trenches on silicon-on-insulator and bulk silicon

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Cyrille Hibert, Daniel Grogg, Marion Hermersdorf

This paper reports on the fabrication of sub-micron trenches on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) required in many MEMS devices and on bulk silicon. Trenches in the range of 100-500 nm had been etched with the deep reactive ion etching (DRIE) by using the SHARP ( ...

2011

New Method for Pavement Rutting Prediction

André-Gilles Dumont, Mehdi Ould Henia

In recent years, pavement rutting rate has increased significantly due to constant traffic intensity increment. These solicitations affect the bituminous layers that can quickly attain their permanent deformation limit resistance. This phenomenon can lead ...

ISAP2006

TASC-eine PC-Anwendung zur Vorbeugung von Schadverdichtungen.

Gilbert Steinmann, Etienne Diserens

TASC (TYRES/TRACKS AND SOIL COMPACTION) is an Excel tool designed foremost as an aid in arable farming. The vulnerability of the soil to the passage of wheels or tracks is assessed after considering soil and load property factors. Danger of soil compaction ...

2005

Predictive method for evaluation of pavement rutting

André-Gilles Dumont, Mehdi Ould Henia

Pavement rutting not only decreases the road service life but also creates a danger for the security of road users. In recent years, pavement rutting rate has increased significantly due to constant traffic intensity increment. It is well known that the in ...

2005

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