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Chair of Timber Construction
LaboratoryRelated publications (618)
Influence of model uncertainty and long term deformations in action effects calculation in reinforced concrete structures
Most codes of practice adopt a semi probabilistic design approach for the dimensioning and assessment of structures. Accordingly, structural safety is ensured by performing limit state verifications using design values determined with adequately calibrated ...
EPFL2024FLO:RE – A new floor system made of reused reinforced concrete and steel elements
Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Célia Marine Küpfer, Numa Joy Bertola
Carefully extracting reinforced concrete (RC) elements from soon-to-be demolished structures and reusing them as load-bearing components is an emerging circular low-carbon alternative to building new structures. As floor construction typically accounts for ...
IABSE2024Teaching Not To
Two design studios were successively taught in two schools of architecture: one at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and the other at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, based on "A Global Morato ...
Taylor & Francis Inc2024TTool: A Supervised Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Visual Pose Detector for Tool Heads in Augmented Reality Woodworking
Yves Weinand, Julien Gamerro, Andrea Settimi, Florian Aymanns, Naravich Chutisilp
We present TimberTool (TTool v2.1.1), a software designed for woodworking tasks assisted by augmented reality (AR), emphasizing its essential function of the real-time localization of a tool head’s poses within camera frames. The localization process, a fu ...
2024A global framework for data-informed bridge examination
Eugen Brühwiler, Numa Joy Bertola, Philippe Schiltz
Examining the performance of an existing bridge requires information on several aspects, such as design choices, material properties, and ongoing degradation processes. It often happens that some critical information is not available. The traditional appro ...
2024Rising from rubble - Leveraging existing construction tools for upcycling concrete waste into slender walls
Katrin Beyer, Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Stefana Parascho, Qianqing Wang, Maxence Grangeot
In this paper, we present a new method for upcycling concrete rubble waste into slender walls through the lightweight digital augmentation of mainstream construction machines. By using such method, the environmental impact of concrete construction and demo ...
Springer2024Semantic Shape Editing with Parametric Implicit Templates
We propose a semantic shape editing method to edit 3D triangle meshes using parametric implicit surface templates, benefiting from the many advantages offered by analytical implicit representations, such as infinite resolution and boolean or blending opera ...
2024Anonymous Architecture: Silent Heritage in continuous and irreversible transformation
An impressive number of buildings on our planet were not designed by architects, and therefore can neither be included within the categories of art history, nor found in treaties and construction manuals. Their permanent character is not traceable in their ...
2024Robotic Assembly of Integrally-Attached Timber Plate Structures: From Computational Design to Automated Construction
Nicolas Henry Pierre Louis Rogeau
The digitization of timber construction, the emergence of engineered wood products, and the urgent need to drastically reduce buildings' environmental impact have given a rebirth to wood as a construction material. On the one hand, increasing the use of ti ...
EPFL2023Exploring the potential of the critical shear crack theory for reinforced and post-tensioned glass beams: Initial analysis and experiments
Alain Nussbaumer, Pieter Christian Louter, Jagoda Cupac
In the evolution of structural glass beam elements, the requirements for post-fracture load bearing capacity and safe failure behaviour have led to the development of reinforced and post-tensioned beams. Maximum bending capacity in the post-fracture state ...
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