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Thermo-mechanical performance of energy pile groups

Alessandro Francesco Rotta Loria

Employing geostructures as structural supports and geomaterials as reservoirs for the extraction and storage of heat represent effective means to meet human activity needs since ancient times. This doctoral thesis focuses on the thermo-mechanical behaviour ...

EPFL2018

Reuse in Architecture & Structural Design

Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting

Introduction The construction industry has an extensive impact on the global environment and will be facing three big challenges in the next decades: reducing its resource consumption, decreasing its energy use, and limiting its waste production. This is e ...

2018

Structural Design with Reclaimed Materials: an Elastic Gridshell out of Skis

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Endrit Hoxha, Sofia Colabella

This paper presents the design and construction of a 36m2 gridshell, the rigidity of which is achieved through the bending of an initially flat grid of 210 reclaimed skis. The generated waste for its production is near zero as it is mostly built from disca ...

2017

Although simplified methods have been proposed to allow for group effect and soil-pile-raft interaction, most of them are concentrated on one type of loading rendering the applicability of these methods rather limited to cases under such loads. In the case ...

National Research Council Canada2016

Towards biomimetic behavior of an active deployable tensegrity structure

Nicolas Willy Veuve

Tensegrity structures have non-conventional structural properties since they require self-stress in order to be stable. When a tensegrity structure integrates sensors, actuators, (structural members able to change their length) and a control system, deploy ...

EPFL2016

Over the past few decades we have been experiencing an explosion of information generated by large networks of sensors and other data sources. Much of this data is intrinsically structured, such as traffic evolution in a transportation network, temperature ...

EPFL2016

A Double-Layered Timber Plate Shell - Computational Methods for Assembly, Prefabrication, and Structural Design

Yves Weinand, Mark Pauly, Christopher Werner Matthias Robeller, Mina Konakovic Lukovic, Mira Dedijer

This paper presents a new lightweight construction system for doubly-curved shells, built from two interconnected layers of structural wood veneer plates. The system uses integral through-tenon joints for a fast, precise, and simple assembly, allowing for ...

vdf Hochschulverlag AG2016

Loading protocols for structures designed for different behaviour factors

Katrin Beyer, Panagiotis Mergos

All the existing loading protocols have been developed independently of the value of the behaviour factor q that the structure has been designed for. Conservatively, a single loading protocol is adopted, for all q values, based on the structural system wit ...

2015

This paper presents a geometric method to distort statically equilibrated structures into new ones where initial parallelism between bars is not maintained. Among other applications, the method helps increase the diversity of irregular self-stressed tridim ...

IASS2015

Equivalent-Design Crack Model for Structural Glass Elements

Pieter Christian Louter, Manuel Santarsiero

Analytical determination of safety in glass structures often uses oversimplified resistance criteria or fully probabilistic models which require special software to numerically solve the complex equations. Due to computation cost and remaining uncertainty ...

Asce-Amer Soc Civil Engineers2014