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RUM: Reconfigurable Umbrella Mesh
Mark Pauly, Florin Isvoranu, Uday Kusupati, Seiichi Eduardo Suzuki Erazo
We propose Reconfigurable Umbrella Meshes (RUMs), a new class of preassembled deployable structures. A RUM has a compact rest state that can be easily altered to deploy into different bending-active 3D target shapes. RUMs consist of elastic beams and rigid ...
De Gruyter2023Advancing spacecraft demisability through a novel composite bolt joint system: a step toward sustainable and safe space environments
Véronique Michaud, Alexandre Achille Looten, Muriel Richard, Antonio Caiazzo
From the recent awareness of the booming number of space debris and their derived worldwide re-entry event threat originating from the use of high survivability components, complementary mitigation measures must be taken for future orbital elements. In thi ...
2023A semantic-driven tradespace framework to accelerate aircraft manufacturing system design
During the design phase of an aircraft manufacturing system, different industrial scenarios need to be evaluated according to key performance indicators to achieve the optimal system performance. It is a highly complex process involving multidisciplinary s ...
SPRINGER2022Femtosecond laser-shockwave induced densification in fused silica
Yves Bellouard, Pieter Vlugter, Arunkrishnan Radhakrishnan, Julien Gilles Edgar Gateau
A tightly focused femtosecond laser-beam in the non-ablative regime can induce a shockwave sufficiently intense to reach local pressures in the giga-Pascal range or more. In a single beam configuration, the location of the highest-pressure zone is nested w ...
2022Effect of femtosecond laser-induced high pressure on fused silica polymorphism
High-pressure studies in silica are of great interest to earth and planetary sciences. Highpressure phases are rarely found in nature as a result of shock events like meteorite impacts orvolcanic events in nature. Recreating these phases remains a challeng ...
EPFL2022Review of hybrid composites fatigue
Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Dharun Vadugappatty Srinivasan
Hybrid composites become popular and are today used in a large number of contemporary structural applications. When compared to non-hybrid composites, hybridization offers additional benefits since the mixing of cheaper, low-quality fibers, with more expen ...
2021Modeling of Stream Metabolism from Reach-scale to the Scale of Entire River Networks
Streams are key components of the global carbon (C) cycle. The river network conceptualization moved from the
EPFL2021pipelineâ idea, in which C is solely transported, to the active ecosystemâ concept, in which both terrestrial derived and autochthonous C ...Modeling and experimentation of conductive and radiative transfer through heterogeneous insulators in high-flux environments
Heterogeneous materials are used in a wide range of applications involving high heat flux environments such as concentrated solar reactors, high-temperature furnaces, or thermal protection systems of space vehicles. The thermal response of heterogeneous ma ...
EPFL2019Analysis of the value of demand forecasting within vehicle sharing systems
Vehicle sharing systems (VSSs) are becoming increasingly popular, primarily due to their financial and environmental advantages. However, VSSs face many operational challenges, including inventory management of vehicles and parking spots, vehicle load bala ...
2019Tribocorrosion under fluid lubrication
Wear is still the key problem causing the failure and limiting the lifetime of artificial hip joints, especially for the polymer acetabular cup in the metal-on-polymer and ceramic-on-polymer articulations. To reduce the wear, metal-on-metal articulation ha ...
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