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Design and Strand Tests of a Fusion Cable Composed of Coated Conductor Tapes

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Davide Uglietti, Rainer Wesche

The design of a flat cable suitable for future fusion reactors has been carried out. The cable consists of twisted round strands, which are composed of tapes stacked between copper profiles. According to calculations, the strand twist pitch and the cable t ...

2014

Unpleasant Design

Unpleasant Design book is a collection of different research approaches to contemporary urban phenomenon in which social control and is inherent in the design of objects and places. With many examples to be found across cities worldwide, Unpleasant Design ...

G.L.O.R.I.A.2013

Measuring the Usability and Effectiveness of CAAD Tools and Applications

Marilyne Andersen, Shady Galal Mohamed Attia

Computer Aided Architectural Design (CAAD) decisions and judgments have been at the heart of architectural design practice. Despite the increasing popularity of computer aided design applications, measuring the decision making of designers empirically rema ...

2013

Social Inclusion: A Multidisciplinary Design Approach

This article shows the design of an assistive product and a proposal of a business plan for persons with motor disability in lower-limbs, in accordance with the guidelines for social inclusion of the World Health Organization (2001). The design project wit ...

2012

From Labyrinth to Piano Key Weirs – A historical review

Anton Schleiss

Free crest spillways are hydraulically efficient and safe in operation. Since their discharge capacity is directly proportional to the crest length several types have been developed with the purpose to increase the length of the latter. Among these types t ...

CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group2011

Designing measurement systems for continuous monitoring of structures

Ian Smith, Nizar Bel Hadj Ali, Ngoc Thanh Trinh, Irwanda Laory

A good measurement system improves capability to identify the behavior of civil engineering structures. This paper presents a measurement-system design approach for continuous monitoring of structures. This approach performs two tasks: (1) determining the ...

2011

Predicting Usefulness of Measuring Structures during Load Tests

Ian Smith, James-Alexandre Goulet

This paper presents an approach for model identifiability that builds upon recent research into measurement data interpretation. The objective of this approach is to determine probabilistically to what degree the number of models able to explain a measured ...

2010

PMD: Designing a Portable Medicine Dispenser for Persons Suffering from Alzheimer's Disease

In this paper we present the user-centred design of a medicine dispenser for persons suffering from Alzheimer's disease. The prototype was evaluated in two phases with two caregivers and two Alzheimer's patients. Caregivers evaluated the device positively. ...

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2010

Experience in the Long-Term Monitoring of Bridges

Olivier Burdet

At the end of the 1980’s, a series of existing bridges in Switzerland were equipped with a network of hydrostatic leveling devices, with the aim of following their longterm behavior. Some of the bridges were known to exhibit a steady increase in their defo ...

3rd fib International Congress2010

3D-Spiral small antenna design and realization for biomedical telemetry in the MICS band

Juan Ramon Mosig, Anja Skrivervik, Jean-François Zürcher, Francesco Merli

This work presents the design and realization procedure of small implantable antenna for biotelemetry applications. The radiator occupies a volume smaller than 3 cm(3) (without its biocompatible insulation), is well matched within the Medical Implanted Com ...

2009