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Méthodes de production par ultrasons, de la théorie à l'application industrielle

The principle of the superposition of ultrasonic frequency vibrations to conventional machining techniques is known and practiced since the 1950s under the name of ultrasonic machining. Using ultrasonics, many good properties appear including reduced thrus ...

EPFL2015

An Operational Indicator System for the Integration of Sustainability into the Design Process of Urban Wasteland Regeneration Projects

Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

In the context of sustainable development of European post-industrial cities, urban wastelands offer an important potential of surfaces to recapture. The regeneration of these sites is indeed an opportunity to simultaneously create density within the exist ...

2014

Integration of Sustainability Issues into the Regeneration of Urban Wasteland: From Theoretical Framework to Operational Monitoring Tool

Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

Abstract: Regeneration of urban wastelands can contribute to revitalize and densify some portions of post-industrial European cities. A growing number of urban wasteland regenerations is now promoted by diverse territorial measures. However, it must be rec ...

2014

Nanotechnology in medicine: European research and its implications

Heinrich Hofmann

In this study, we explore and discuss nanoparticles and nanoscale materials and their use in medicine (nanomedicine) and pharmaceutics (nanopharmaceutics). The study is aimed at shedding light on this highly multidisciplinary research field and at examinin ...

E M H Swiss Medical Publishers Ltd2014

The Functional City between utopia and reality

Sila Karatas

Acting as a decision making institution on the raison d’etre of modern architecture by attributing a utopian role to it, CIAM (Congrés International d’Architecture Moderne), formed by some pioneering modern architects from Europe and USSR, and served betwe ...

2013

A multi-criteria approach to compare urban renewal scenarios for an existing neighborhood. Case study in Lausanne (Switzerland)

Maria Gracia Riera Perez

The post-industrial European city is characterized by dispersed urbanization, resulting in increased travel, substantial use of land, social disparities and costs that are unsustainable in the long term. Consequently, most European countries have set the g ...

2013

Corporate Science, Innovation, and Firm Value

Markus Simeth

Many firms actively disclose research findings in scientific peer-reviewed journals. The literature highlights several potential benefits of such scientific boundary-spanning activities, including privileged access to academic information networks. However ...

EPFL Working Paper Series2013

Using cross stamping to test Zinc sheets formability

Roland Logé

Sheet metal formability has been studied for a half century. The sheet formability is mostly described by the Forming Limit Diagram (FLD). A prediction of this FLD is a source of interest for industrial companies. Indeed knowing the FLD of a material allow ...

2012

En quête d'habitat

Marie-Paule Thomas

This doctoral thesis is based on the observation that the individualization of society that is taking place today has led to new differentiations within the domains of lifestyle and residential choice. Our main hypothesis was that lifestyle influences resi ...

EPFL2011

Changes in Employment Localization and Accessibility

Pierre-Emmanuel Dessemontet

Until about the end of WWII, the territorial organization of the economy could be expressed along a very strong center-periphery gradient, with industries and services concentrated in cities while the countryside supplied agricultural products. Since the i ...

EPFL2011

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