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Structural Design with Reclaimed Materials: an Elastic Gridshell out of Skis

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Endrit Hoxha, Sofia Colabella

This paper presents the design and construction of a 36m2 gridshell, the rigidity of which is achieved through the bending of an initially flat grid of 210 reclaimed skis. The generated waste for its production is near zero as it is mostly built from disca ...

2017

Combining Structural and Timing Errors in Overclocked Inexact Speculative Adders

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus, Mattia Cacciotti, Yu Jiang, Xun Jiao

Worst-case design is used in IoT devices and high performance data centers to ensure reliability, leading to a power efficiency loss. Recently, approximate computing has been proposed to trade off accuracy for efficiency. In this paper, we use Inexact Spec ...

Ieee2017

Characterization of Cold-Formed Steel Framed/Wood Sheathed Floor and Roof Diaphragm Structures

Dimitrios Lignos

The seismic in-plane response of cold-formed steel (CFS) framed diaphragm structures has not been the subject of extensive study. The information available specific to diaphragm design in the North American CFS design standard is based on limited experimen ...

International Association of Earthquake Engineering2017

Durability and fatigue performance of a typical cold-curing structural adhesive in bridge construction

Maria Savvilotidou

The science of adhesives and adhesion for structural connections has undergone significant development during the last few decades - and successfully so in a wide variety of industries. Recent applications of structural bonding are being adopted in the con ...

EPFL2017

Studies on Traction Separation Relations in Fracture of Layered Composites

Georgios Pappas

Layered fiber reinforced composite materials are prone to fracture in planes parallel to the direction of fibers leading to extensive delamination or intralaminar fracture. This phenomenon of crack propagation is frequently accompanied by significant incre ...

EPFL2017

Proposed methodology for earthquake-induced loss assessment of instrumented steel frame buildings: building-specific and city-scale approaches

Dimitrios Lignos, Seong-Hoon Hwang

The performance-based earthquake engineering framework utilizes probabilistic seismic demand models to obtain accurate estimates of building engineering demand parameters. These parameters are utilized to estimate earthquake-induced losses in terms of prob ...

2017

Earthquake-induced floor accelerations in base isolated structure

David Michael Volpe Ruggiero

In order to meet desired seismic performances, it is increasingly evident that engineers require reliable methods for the estimation of seismic demands on both structural and non-structural elements. To this end, current design codes incorporate simplified ...

2017

Stability Requirements of Deep Steel Wide-Flange Columns under Cyclic Loading

Dimitrios Lignos, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Elkady

Just recently, valuable experimental data that characterized the hysteretic behavior of deep wide-flange steel columns (i.e., column depth, d >16 inches) at full-scale became available. Such members are typically used in steel moment-resisting frames (MRFs ...

Structural Stability Research Council2017

Seismic Performance Evaluation and Retrofit of Existing School Buildings (CROCS-System) in Switzerland

Martina Paronesso

Existing school buildings in Switzerland that have been designed from the early 1970s typically utilized a modular architectural layout and structural system commonly known as CROCS (Centre de rationalization de d’organisation des constructions scolaires). ...

2017

Updates to the ASCE-41-13 Provisions for the Nonlinear Modeling of Steel Wide-Flange Columns for Performance-based Earthquake Engineering

Dimitrios Lignos, Alexander Riley Hartloper

Performance-based earthquake engineering requires numerical models that are able to reliably predict the expected component behavior of buildings under seismic excitations. The nonlinear modeling guidelines provided in ASCE-41-13 have historically been use ...

2017

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