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Type and Elementary Structure: The Anthropological Turn

As Vidler suggests, the Third Typology’s radical proposition was to identify the nature of architectural elements as neither scientific nor technical but essentially architectural. For Martí Arís, this ‘essence’ of architecture is rooted in form-making, th ...

2023

Systematic selection of field response measurements for excavation back analysis

Ian Smith, Numa Joy Bertola

In a geotechnical excavation, back analyses are routinely performed using the measured field responses to derive the material parameter values for the different soil layers present at the site. For the purpose of back analyses, the engineers will usually m ...

2021

Stabilization of cultural innovations depends on population density: Testing an epidemiological model of cultural evolution against a global dataset of rock art sites and climate-based estimates of ancient population densities

John Richard Walker, Taylor Howard Newton, Francesco Casalegno

Demographic models of human cultural evolution have high explanatory potential but weak empirical support. Here we use a global dataset of rock art sites and climate and genetics-based estimates of ancient population densities to test a new model based on ...

PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2021

Comparative study of the effects of three data-interpretation methodologies on the performance of geotechnical back analysis

Ian Smith

Back analysis can provide engineers with important information for better decision-making. Over the years, research on back analysis has focused mainly on optimisation techniques, while comparative studies of data-interpretation methodologies have seldom b ...

2020

An efficient inverse analysis procedure for braced excavations considering three-dimensional effects

Ian Smith

In the literature, the plane-strain assumption usually forms the basis of inverse analyses of excavations, mainly due to the high computational cost of 3D analyses. In this paper, a procedure that quantifies three-dimensional effects of excavation is propo ...

Elsevier2019

Occupant- detection strategy using footstep-induced floor vibrations

Ian Smith, Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland, Sai Ganesh Sarvotham Pai, Slah Drira

Identification of occupant presence and location inside buildings is essential to functional goals such as security, healthcare, and energy management. Floor-vibration measurements, induced by footstep impacts, provide a non-intrusive sensing method for oc ...

ACM2019

Occupant-detection strategy using footstep-induced floor vibrations

Ian Smith, Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland, Sai Ganesh Sarvotham Pai, Slah Drira

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Étude géotechnique des ouvrages souterrains de l'extension de la centrale hydroélectrique de Lavey

The run-of-river hydro power plant of Lavey, situated in the Western part of Switzerland, is an important source of renewable energy for the city of Lausanne. With its annual production of roughly 400 GWh it covers approximately a third of its consumptions ...

2018

Use of Bacteria To Stabilize Archaeological Iron

Julien Maillard

Iron artifacts are common among the findings of archaeological excavations. The corrosion layer formed on these objects requires stabilization after their recovery, without which the destruction of the item due to physicochemical damage is likely. Current ...

American Society for Microbiology2017

Selected Aspects Of Designing Deep Excavations

Rafal Filip Obrzud

This paper analyzes two approaches to serviceability limit state (SLS) verification for the deep excavation boundary value problem. The verification is carried out by means of the finite element (FE) method with the aid of the commercial program ZSoil v201 ...

Walter de Gruyter GmbH2016

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