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Effect of a second layer on the time to failure of compressed riprap as mountain riverbank protection

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During continuous operation of energy systems, the performance of components will mostly, gradually deviate away from the reference conditions due to performance degradation, which may eventually lead to malfunctions or operation failure. The complex inter ...

2017

Time-dependent failure analysis of large block size riprap as bank protection in mountain rivers

Mona Jafarnejad Chaghooshi

Erodible river banks need to be safe against the possible scouring during flood events in mountain rivers. The consequences of the bank failure are probably lateral uncontrolled erosion and flooding with disastrous losses in residential areas or damage of ...

EPFL2016

The protection of riverbanks with blocks, called riprap, is the most used method in alpine rivers to avoid uncontrolled lateral erosion. For rivers with significant bed slopes large boulders have to be used in order to withstand high flow forces. Such larg ...

EPFL - LCH2016

Characterization of Grey Cast Iron-Steel Tribo-system under Starved Lubrication Conditions

Fatemeh Saeidi

Reducing friction and wear is essential for building efficient systems with low energy consumption and a long lifetime. Surface texturing is one of the methods to reduce friction and wear, especially in oil-lubricated systems. However, there is still a lac ...

EPFL2016

Experimental investigation of kink initiation and kink band formation in unidirectional glass fiber-reinforced polymer specimens

Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Wei Sun

The failure mechanism of non-slender glass fiber-reinforced epoxy prismatic specimens subjected to axial compression and different temperatures was investigated. Digital image correlation was used to map and derive the failure modes. The failure mode chang ...

Elsevier2015

Influence of boundary conditions and size effect on the drift capacity of URM walls

Katrin Beyer, Sarah Petry

In codes the drift capacity of unreinforced masonry (URM) walls is often estimated as a function of the failure mode and the aspect ratio. The empirical relationships are based on results from quasi-static cyclic tests on single URM walls, which were teste ...

Elsevier2014

Time Dependent Failure Analysis of Compressed Riprap as Riverbank Protection

Anton Schleiss, Michael Pfister, Mona Jafarnejad Chaghooshi

Riprap is a common measure for protecting river banks against lateral erosion and several methods exist to design them. However, they are generally limited to dumped medium size rocks. If large rock blocks are required for stability reasons, they cannot be ...

TUP2013

Failure risk analysis of riverbank ripraps with Monte Carlo simulation

Anton Schleiss, Michael Pfister, Mona Jafarnejad Chaghooshi

The potential failure evaluation of river embankment structures such as ripraps, resulting from erosion or over-flows during flood events, is the main issue of their stability and safety assessment. Moreover, a changed sediment transport in rivers as a pos ...

Taylor & Francis Group, CRC Press (2012

Failure Modes in Capillary Self-Assembly

Jürgen Brugger, Massimo Mastrangeli

Capillary self-assembly is rapidly emerging as an innovative technique to enhance, complement and eventually replace pick-and-place assembly for the integration of heterogeneous microsystems. Vast literature and experimental data support such claim. Yet, t ...

2012

Within the framework of the TIMODAZ project laboratory and in-situ experiments have been performed to study the failure processes around tunnels in laminated clay rich sedimentary rocks at reduced scale. The fracture patterns observed in the hollow cylinde ...

European Commission2012