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Morphological processes and potential for lacustrine delta restoration

Giovanni De Cesare, Stéphanie Joëlle André, Alexandre Philippe Louis Antoine Fourrier

Most lacustrine deltas are nowadays highly anthropized systems. River training works during past centuries considered rivers mainly as vectors of water and sediments from a point source to a sink. However, numerous problems have been identified by resident ...

2024

Prototype pavilion in Fribourg: towards an upgrade of argamassa armada through Textile Reinforced Concrete

Patricia Guaita

This article describes a partnership between architects and engineers researching in Switzerland and Brazil around innovative experiences on Textile Reinforced Concrete, which aim at the upgrade of the “argamassa armada” technology developed by brazilian a ...

2022

Les Cahiers de l'Ibois 3 / Ibois Notebook 3

Petras Vestartas, Sandra Vuilleumier

Before the twentieth century and concrete modernity, it was stone that embodied the “well built”. Could sustainable wood one day replace concrete as the archetypal material? Will it find a place on the scale of values that gives archi- tecture its referenc ...

EPFL PRESS2022

L'évaporation du trafic, opportunités et défis pour la mobilité d'aujourd'hui et demain

Pauline Geneviève Thérèse Hosotte

This research is the result of four years of practical and scientific investigation of the phenomenon of traffic evaporation, which was considered and then demonstrated to be the opposite of traffic induction. It has anchored, in practice and in time, an o ...

EPFL2022

Experimental techniques for suspended structures: the construction of Chauderon hanging building in Lausanne (R. Willomet, P. Dumartheray and J. Prouvé, 1970-1974)

Giuseppe Galbiati

The lecture, starting from a synoptic analysis of the European situation and Belgian realizations of suspended buildings in the years 1960 - 1980, will mainly deal with the construction history of the Administrative Buildings of the Place Chauderon in Laus ...

2021

Analyse du comportement d’une structure avec application des techniques de la réalité virtuelle

Lucas Ferrari

engineering has remained very traditional. The advances made in the fields of representation and visualisation, and in particular the progress made in virtual reality, lead us to wonder what added value this technology can bring to the world of constructio ...

2021

Component reuse in structural design: emerging practices and tools for the circular economy

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Pierluigi D'Acunto, Jonas Warmuth, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting

Structural engineers play an increasing role in ensuring the transition towards a more sustainable construction sector: a) they are responsible for the design of the most resource- and energy-intensive part of buildings and infrastructure, and b) they regu ...

fib2021

Where Electrophile Signaling and Covalent Ligand-Target Mining Converge

Yimon Aye

Interests in learning how to engineer most effective covalent ligands, identify novel functional targets, and define precise mechanism-of-action are rapidly growing in both academia and pharmaceutical industries. We here illuminate the establishment of a m ...

SWISS CHEMICAL SOC2020

Le compas dans l’oeil : La « mécanique géométrique » de Viviani au chevet de la coupole de Brunelleschi

Simon François Dumas Primbault

Être ingénieur à la cour des Médicis au XVIIe siècle requiert une discipline à la croisée de la mathématique, des arts picturaux et des arts mécaniques. Fondée sur l’héritage d’Alberti, Vinci et Vasari, l’Accademia del disegno – reposant sur les trois pili ...

2020

Teaching Transversal Skills in the Engineering Curriculum: the Need to Raise the Temperature

Roland John Tormey, Lucille Delisle, Helena Kovacs, Pascal Vuilliomenet, Mirjam Mekhaiel

Engineers and architects today are dealing with great social, technical and environmental complexities, and the demand for having broadly educated holistic engineers will only continue to grow in the future. Being able to manage and lead diverse teams, und ...

University of Twente2020

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