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Notes on learning through building in the Open City: Body, Craft and Materiality

The presented research project was carried out through a series of international summer workshops with the vocation of being, at the same time, atelier, construction site, training instrument, and inhabited space. It thus at once presents: an alternative e ...

Park Books2021

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

Case-Study on the Creep Behavior of Interconnected Timber Elements using Wood-Wood Connections

Yves Weinand, Julien Gamerro, Martin Thomas Nakad, Jean-François Bocquet

With the increasing use of automation and computer-aided manufacturing in timber construction, a standardized timber construction system using digitally produced wood-wood connections has recently been developed for basic building components. Its structura ...

EPFL2021

Conceptual design of 1000 m scale steel-UHPFRC composite truss arch bridge

Xiujiang Shen, Ping Zhu

Excessive self-weight and difficulty in construction are the main issues confronted by super-long-span arch bridges. To address these issues, a conceptual design of steel-ultra-high performance fibre-reinforced concrete (UHPFRC) composite truss arch bridge ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2021

The mechanics of shear failures in RC slabs based on refined measurements

Raffaele Cantone

Reinforced concrete planar members, as slabs and shells, are structural elements commonly used in the construction technique, which are typically designed without the arrangement of shear reinforcement. Despite the fact that this solution allows for fast a ...

EPFL2021

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

The SONATA data format for efficient description of large-scale network models

Eilif Benjamin Muller, Werner Alfons Hilda Van Geit, Jean-Denis Georges Emile Courcol, Michael Emiel Gevaert, Adrien Michel Achille Devresse, Juan Bautista Hernando Vieites

Increasing availability of comprehensive experimental datasets and of high-performance computing resources are driving rapid growth in scale, complexity, and biological realism of computational models in neuroscience. To support construction and simulation ...

PLOS2020

Analysis and Visualisation of Decision Paths towards Reaching Environmental Impact Targets at Early-Design Stage

Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Émilie Nault

Environmental impact objectives are commonly found in building performance labels and rating schemes. Anticipating a building’s impact from the conceptual design stage and identifying decisions that do not compromise its chances of reaching these targets i ...

2020

Hydraulic soil failure due to artesian ground conditions during the construction of a hydro electrical power plant on Sakarya river

Katinka Meier

The presence of an artesian aquifer lying under the construction site of a hydro-electrical power plant had not been considered in the design project. The foreseen excavation works could not be carried out due to a high risk of hydraulic heave of the excav ...

2020

Development of Novel Standardized Structural Timber Elements Using Wood-Wood Connections

Julien Gamerro

Traditional wood-wood connections, widely used in the past, have been progressively replaced by steel fasteners and bonding processes in modern timber constructions. However, the emergence of digital fabrication and innovative engineered timber products ha ...

EPFL2020

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