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Design for demise applied to spacecraft structural panels and experiments for ClearSpace One platform

With growing awareness of the vulnerability of the near-Earth space region and the anticipated surge in satellite objects, efforts are underway to assess and implement various mitigation strategies. These aim to minimize the impact of space activities and ...

EPFL2024

Policy-based Exploration of Equilibrium Representations (PEER): A topology grammar for generative conceptual structural design

Ioannis Mirtsopoulos

Design exploration is a creative process that consists of the incremental generation of design candidates. Supported by digital means or not, the process handles the ill-structured nature of design and allows creativity to flourish through diversity of des ...

EPFL2022

How Florist Apprentices Explore Bouquet Designs: Supporting Design Space Exploration for Vocational Students

Pierre Dillenbourg, Kevin Gonyop Kim, Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach

Context: Exploring the design space is an important process in a design task. In this study, we considered design space exploration for the learners in vocational education and training (VET). The goal of the study was to investigate how they explore the d ...

2021

Performance and Micro-Vibrations in Magnetic Bearings for Space Actuators

Guzmán Borque Gallego

The development of new space missions with novel high-performance and very sensitive payloads for Earth observation or scientific missions has imposed considerably tougher requirements in terms of the satellite's pointing accuracy and stability, and thus o ...

EPFL2021

Direct FEM-Domain Decomposition Using Convex-to-Concave Spherical Ports for Space Applications

Juan Ramon Mosig, Javier Rubio

This letter proposes the application of a hybrid numerical technique to two cases of interest in the space business: the reallocation of radiators and scatters on satellite platforms; and the analysis of antennas for mobile communications. It is based on t ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Periodic cellular aluminum structures for space applications

Florian Thibaut Gallien

Mass is one of the crucial parameters for hardware that has to be placed in Earth orbit. Due to its harsh environment, a material with highest specific properties is desired to achieve space missions. The rise and development of new technologies, such as a ...

EPFL2018

High spectral resolution waveguide spectrometer with enhanced throughput for space and commercial applications

Mohammadreza Madi

This dissertation presents the results concerning the development of an innovative high spectral resolution waveguide spectrometer, from the concept to the prototype demonstration and the test results. The main innovative aspects of this instrument are the ...

EPFL2016

Non-diffusive suprathermal ion transport associated with blobs in TORPEX plasmas

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Fabio Avino, Kyle Gustafson, Alexandre Dominique Bovet

We present unprecedented space and time-resolved measurements of the transport of a suprathermal ion beam injected in the toroidal device TORPEX. Experiments are performed in turbulence dominated by an ideal-interchange mode using a Li6+ ion source and a s ...

2014

Reliability Aspects of Microelectromechanical Systems for Space Applications

Tobias Bandi

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are an essential ingredient in many technological innovations and a source of game-changing inventions in the automotive industry, space exploration, consumer electronics and medical applications due to its capability ...

EPFL2014

Public space in Beijing

Béatrice Ferrari

This is a short exploration of public space in Beijing (and elsewhere). But how do we define public space and does it exist as such in Beijing? In this short presentation, instead of simply focusing on physical spaces, I will try to capture some of the ele ...

2010

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