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Determination of the initial detaching volume is one of the major challenges in snow avalanche and debris flow forecast. Soil liquefaction due to loss of cohesion results in landslides, whereas quasi-brittle failure triggers the release of snow avalanches. ...
This paper presents the application of a stabilized mixed strain/displacement finite element formulation for the solution of nonlinear solid mechanics problems involving compressible and incompressible plasticity. The variational multiscale stabilization i ...
It is known that for a convex body K in R-d of volume one, the expected volume of random simplices in K is minimized if K is an ellipsoid, and for d = 2, maximized if K is a triangle. Here we provide corresponding stability estimates. ...
This thesis investigates the growth of the natural cocycle introduced by Klingler for the Steinberg representation. When possible, we extend the framework of simple algebraic groups over a local field to arbitrary Euclidean buildings. In rank one, the grow ...
Conceived by Switzerland’s Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Clip-Air proposes a plane with a single flying wing encompassing the airframe, cockpit, and three engines, attached to a maximum of three interchangeable capsules a more flexible and effi ...
A diameter graph in is a graph whose set of vertices is a finite subset of and whose set of edges is formed by pairs of vertices that are at diameter apart. This paper is devoted to the study of different extremal properties of diameter graphs in and on a ...
Silicon and Silicon carbide particles have been investigated by the mean of infrared (IR) spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) to establish their surface states. The results of this research are based on the estimation of the area under ...
In the present paper, we address the problem of segmenting biological objects featuring corners. The main ingredients of our approach are automated feature-detection methods and mechanisms for introducing kinks in parametric spline snakes. We formulate a n ...
We propose to use non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) to estimate the unknown pairwise distances and reconstruct a distance matrix for microphone array position calibration. We develop new multiplicative update rules for NMF with incomplete input matri ...
Let T be a triangulated surface given by the list of vertex-triples of its triangles, called rooms. A room-partitioning for T is a subset R of the rooms such that each vertex of T is in exactly one room in R. Given a room-partitioning R for T, the exchange ...
