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After an earthquake, the residual stiffness and strength of structural elements are typically estimated based on a qualitative visual inspection of cracks that is prone to error. In this paper a new approach is proposed to automatically estimate the update ...

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Hydropower Design under Uncertainties

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The design of hydropower is determined by estimates and long-term forecasts. These forecasts and estimates are highly uncertain and make performance evaluation and design choices challenging. Performance evaluation of hydropower projects is affected by a n ...

EPFL2017

FRP sandwich structures in bridge and building construction

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Selected applications of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) sandwich structural elements in building and bridge construction are discussed. It is shown how in building construction this technology enables the integration of functions such as load-bearing capac ...

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Protection Strategy against IEMI for Wireless Communication Infrastructures

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Nicolas Mora Parra, Mirjana Stojilovic

In this paper, we present a methodology for estimating the protection levels of critical equipment against IEMI. We apply the method to a wireless communication infrastructure, but it can be applied to any critical infrastructure. The required protection l ...

Ieee2016

Development of a displacement-based design approach for modern mixed RC-URM wall structures

Katrin Beyer, Alessandro Paparo

The recent re-assessment of the seismic hazard in Europe led for many regions of low to moderate seismicity to an increase in the seismic demand. As a consequence, several modern unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings, constructed with reinforced concrete (R ...

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Assembling Self-Supporting Structures

Mark Pauly, Mario Moacir Deuss, Yang Liu

Self-supporting structures are prominent in historical and contemporary architecture due to advantageous structural properties and efficient use of material. Computer graphics research has recently contributed new design tools that allow creating and inter ...

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A minimally tuned composite Higgs model from an extra dimension

Duccio Pappadopulo, Riccardo Torre, Andrea Thamm

We construct and study the 5D realization of a composite Higgs model with minimal tuning. The Higgs is a (pseudo-)Goldstone boson from the spontaneous breaking of a global SO(5) symmetry to an SO(4) subgroup. The peculiarity of our construction lies in the ...

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Transition Slabs of Integral Abutment Bridges

Aurelio Muttoni, Olivier Burdet, Damien Dreier

Over the past decades, an increasing number of bridges with integral abutment have been built in Switzerland. This type of bridge offers various advantages over standard bridges with abutments, equipped with expansion joints and bearings that require regul ...

Structural Engineering International2011

Evaluation of bamboo for building elements satisfying housing criteria

David Javier Guzman Chavez

Bamboo – identified as a Non Timber Forest Product (NTFP) – offering optimal mechanical properties for construction purposes, and at the same time little studied among contemporary building materials, is paradoxically most used in precarious housing. The u ...

EPFL2008

Experimental study on the concept of liquid cooling for improving fire resistance of FRP structures for construction

Thomas Keller, Craig Tracy

This paper presents experimental studies on the fire behavior of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composite laminates and unloaded cellular FRP components with internal liquid cooling. The experiments were conducted to verify the objective of liquid cooling ...

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