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Adaptive Structures for Whole Life Energy Savings

Gennaro Senatore

The design methodology described in this paper takes a substantial shift from conventional methods. Traditionally sizing is based on the worst expected load scenario. By contrast to this conventional passive approach the method presented here replaces pass ...

2011

Design through an incremental approach: the Swiss experience

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz

In Switzerland, the current code for structural concrete published in 2003 privileged an incremental approach for design of new members or for assessment of existing structures with respect to a number of topics (shear, buckling, reinforcement detailing th ...

Joint IABSE-fib Conference2010

Timberfabric: Applying Textile Principles on a Building Scale

Yves Weinand, Markus Hudert

Practical and material orientated academic research has become increasingly important for architectural practice, due to several factors. First, it contributes to contemporary concepts in architecture and improves their implementation. Today’s architects a ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

Dynamic Ornament: The Design of Responsive Architectural Environments

Mark Meagher

This thesis study investigates the architectural potential of digital information, using case studies and prototypes to explore the integration of dynamic information in the architectural environment. Responsive architecture, a design field that has arisen ...

EPFL2010

Design and measurement considerations for implantable antennas for telemetry application

Anja Skrivervik, Francesco Merli

This work investigates the measurement of electrically small implantable antennas. Several radiators have been analyzed showing the importance of the feeding coaxial cable that is usually used for testing purposes. Simple solution to the problem is present ...

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Design and Measurement Considerations for Implantable Antennas for Telemetry Applications

Anja Skrivervik, Francesco Merli

Ieee Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, Nj 08855-1331 Usa2010

Osmose - User Manual version 2.0

Martin Gassner, Zoé Périn-Levasseur, Francesca Palazzi, Raffaele Bolliger

OSMOSE is a platform for the study and design of complex integrated energy systems. The software is developed in the Laboratory for Industrial Energy Systems (LENI) in the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. The project ...

Laboratoire d'Energétique Industrielle (LENI-EPFL)2010

ENAC Poster 2010: Active and deployable structures: a tensegrity pedestrian bridge

Landolf-Giosef-Anastasios Rhode-Barbarigos

Research concept: Imagine structures that could function like living systems changing their properties in response to changes in their environment… Research objective: Design a tensegrity pedestrian bridge that can change shape and properties using the sam ...

2010

Design for a Sustainable Future

Marilyne Andersen

Organized around a holistic design approach, this class examined the synthetic relationship between performance and design in addressing issues of sustainability in the built environment. The workshop introduced the theories behind a resource-efficient bui ...

Lulu.com2009

Short chosen-prefix collisions for MD5 and the creation of a rogue CA certificate

Arjen Lenstra, Dag Arne Osvik

We present a refined chosen-prefix collision construction for MD5 that allowed creation of a rogue Certification Authority (CA) certificate, based on a collision with a regular end-user website certificate provided by a commercial CA. Compared to the previ ...

Springer Verlag2009