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Experimental Study on the Seismic Behavior of Shell-Base Connections in Large Storage Tanks

When an unanchored tank is subjected to strong motion, the impulsive mass of the contained liquid generates a moment which if strong enough could cause partial uplifting of the base plate. As the tank undergoes uplifting, the shell-base welded connection i ...

2011

Seismic Behavior of Shell-Base Connections in Large Storage Tanks

Alain Nussbaumer, Gustavo Cortes

Unanchored steel tanks subjected to strong ground motion may experience rocking motion if the moment generated by the inertial mass of the content stored is greater than the resisting moment provided by the weight of the tank and its content. Rocking of th ...

K.U. Leuven2011

Reliable and Improved Nanoscale Stencil Lithography by Membrane Stabilization, Blurring and Clogging Corrections

Jürgen Brugger, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Andreea Veronica Savu, Oscar Vazquez Mena, Katrin Sidler Arnet

Abstract— The reliable and reproducible fabrication of nanostructures by stencil lithography faces three main challenges: the stability of the thin stencil membranes with nanoapertures, the blurring of the deposited structures, and the clogging of the nano ...

2011

Robust and Hierarchical Stop Discovery in Sparse and Diverse Trajectories

Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Zhixian Yan, Le Hung Tran, Ngoc Hoan Do

The advance of GPS tracking technique brings a large amount of trajectory data. To better understand such mobility data, semantic models like “stop/move” (or inferring “activity”, “transportation mode”) recently become a hot topic for trajectory data analy ...

2011

Powder formation in SiH[sub 4]–H[sub 2] discharge in large area capacitively coupled reactors: A study of the combined effect of interelectrode distance and pressure

Christoph Hollenstein, Benjamin Strahm

One of the main challenges for silicon thin film deposition for solar cell applications is to achieve high rate deposition in order to reduce the manufacturing costs. However, when silane and hydrogen are used as precursor gas in parallel plate plasma-enha ...

American Institute of Physics2010

Bioinspired Jumping Locomotion for Miniature Robotics

Mirko Kovac

In nature, many small animals use jumping locomotion to move in rough terrain. Compared to other modes of ground locomotion, jumping allows an animal to overcome obstacles that are relatively large compared to its size. In this thesis we outline the main d ...

EPFL2010

Modifier-Adaptation Methodology for Real-Time Optimization

Dominique Bonvin, Alejandro Gabriel Marchetti

The ability of a model-based real-time optimization scheme to converge to the plant optimum relies on the ability of the underlying process model to predict the plant's necessary conditions of optimality (NCO). These include the values and gradients of the ...

2009

Sport Players Detection and Tracking With a Mixed Network of Planar and Omnidirectional Cameras

Pierre Vandergheynst, Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Laurent Jacques

A generic approach is presented to detect and track people with a network of fixed and omnidirectional cameras given severely degraded foreground silhouettes. The problem is formulated as a sparsity constrained inverse problem. A dictionary made of atoms r ...

2009

Assessing the Impact of Individual Attitude towards Otherness on the Structure of Urban Residential Space: A Multi-actor Model

André Ourednik

One of the main challenges of today’s analytical geography is the back-linking of observed phenomena to individual actions, as not determined by individuals’ structural situation in a one-goal society but by their very choice of spatial goals, i.e. by what ...

Springer2009

Pose Estimation for Category Specific Multiview Object Localization

Pascal Fua, Vincent Lepetit, Mustafa Özuysal

We propose an approach to overcome the two main challenges of 3D multiview object detection and localization: The variation of object features due to changes in the viewpoint and the variation in the size and aspect ratio of the object. Our approach procee ...

IEEE2009

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