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Nature has the ability to cope with extreme pH, temperature and pressure, in addition to bestowing a wide array of functionalities to (bio)macromolecules. These specialized skills have attracted the interest of vast scientific communities especially in vie ...

EPFL2018

Composition and Interface Engineering of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Perovskites to Improve Photovoltaic Performance and Stability

Kyung Taek Cho

Faced with the growing demands for energy in modern society, organic-inorganic metal halide perovskite materials have recently fascinated the photovoltaics (PV) research community due to a combination of their high quality optoelectronic properties and the ...

EPFL2018

The accomplishments of lithium target and test facility validation activities in the IFMIF/EVEDA phase

Nadine Baluc

As part of the engineering validation and engineering design activities (EVEDA) phase for the international fusion materials irradiation facility IFMIF, major elements of a lithium target facility and the test facility were designed, prototyped and validat ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2018

Behaviour of a scour protection overlay with randomly distributed concrete prisms in plunge pools downstream of mobile barrages for exceptional operation conditions

Anton Schleiss, Giovanni De Cesare, Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Sabine Chamoun, Davide Wüthrich

Uncontrolled scour is affecting multiple mobile dams. The plunge pool of the Chancy-Pougny barrage, located on the Rhone River bordering France and Switzerland, has recently been reported to develop in a potentially unfavourable direction after almost 100 ...

2018

Annual report 2016, School of Engineering (STI) Services and Collections

Béatrice Marselli Fuerer, Pascale Claudine Giraud Bouton

This report proposes an overview of the activities and services provided by the Library to the School of engineering (STI) in 2016, as well as the STI collection accessible at the Library. It also presents the main projects that will be continued or initia ...

Bibliothèque de l'EPFL2017

A Practical Engineering Approach to Interpreting Measurement Data in Uncertain Contexts

Ian Smith, Sai Ganesh Sarvotham Pai

Measurement data interpretation has the potential to improve asset management through quantification of reserve capacity and execution of well-engineered interventions. Many recent proposals for data interpretation that include uncertainty are not appropri ...

ASCE2017

Analytical model for the out-of-plane response of vertically spanning unreinforced masonry walls

Katrin Beyer, Michele Godio

An analytical model describing the flexural response of vertically spanning out-of-plane loaded unreinforced masonry walls is presented in this paper. The model is based on the second-order Euler-Bernoulli beam theory and captures important characteristics ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Turbulent planar wakes under pressure gradient conditions

Fernando Porté Agel, Sina Shamsoddin

Accurate prediction of the spatial evolution of turbulent wake flows under pressure gradient conditions is required in some engineering applications such as the design of high-lift devices and wind farms over topography. In this paper, we aim to develop an ...

Cambridge University Press2017

Kinetics, Mechanics and Micro-structure of Bio-cemented Soils

Dimitrios Terzis

The quest for novel, performant materials and methods in the engineering practice is driven nowadays by the need to offer solutions to complex problems by coupling technical innovation with environmental responsibility. Such problems emerge in the geo-tech ...

EPFL2017

Machine Learning Techniques to address classification issues in Reverse Engineering

Jonathan Dekhtiar

This paper aims to provide a road map for future works related to reverse engineering field of expertise. Reverse Engineering, in a mechanical context, relates to any process working in a bottom-up fashion, namely that it goes from a lower level concept or ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2017

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