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Crushing and Flexural Strength of Slab-Column Joints

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Roberto Guidotti

In multi-storey buildings, columns are usually not continuous through the slabs to enhance ease of construction. Consequently, in slab–column joints, slabs have to carry column loads in addition to the shear and bending moments due to loads applied to the ...

Engineering structures2011

Building Integrability of Solar Thermal Systems - Present & Future

Christian Roecker, Maria Cristina Munari Probst

Solar thermal systems are becoming a mandatory part of the future “energy in buildings” landscape, as demonstrated by the numerous national promotion programs and new compulsory solar fractions regulations. Considering their size at the building envelope s ...

2011

Maximizing the net present value of a project under uncertainty

Daniel Kuhn, Wolfram Wiesemann

We address the maximization of a project’s expected net present value when the activity durations and cash flows are described by a discrete set of alternative scenarios with associated occurrence probabilities. In this setting, the choice of scenario-inde ...

Elsevier2010

Study on the definition of dTmin for heat recovery

Jean-Pascal Wenk

This project inserts itself in improving the understanding of the sensitivity of the dTmin against the parameters that influence it. It is also aimed at helping to improve OSMOSE, a platform designed for the study of energy conversions systems. Three econo ...

2010

Credit Supply and Corporate Policies

Erwan Morellec

This paper develops a model of corporate investment and financing decisions that differs from previous contributions by recognizing that firms may face uncertainty regarding their future access to credit markets. We show that accounting for credit supply u ...

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper Series2010

Introduction to the fatigue life prediction of composite materials and structures: past, present and future prospects

Anastasios Vassilopoulos

This chapter aims to provide an overview of the fatigue life prediction methods for composite materials and structures, recalling methods used in the past, discovering the present status and attempting to foresee future trends. ...

Woodhead Publishing2010

Exporting Contours to DICOM-RTSTRUCT

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Meritxell Bach Cuadra, Subrahmanyam Venkata Ravi Mohana Sai Gorthi

The “radiotherapy structure set” (RTSTRUCT) object of the DICOM standard is used for the transfer of patient structures and related data, between the devices found within and outside the radiotherapy department. It contains mainly the information for regio ...

2010

Expressiveness And Closure Properties For Quantitative Languages

Laurent Doyen

Weighted automata are nondeterministic automata with numerical weights on transitions. They can define quantitative languages L that assign to each word w a real number L(w). In the case of infinite words, the value of a run is naturally computed as the ma ...

2010

The relative contributions of private information sharing and public information releases to information aggregation

Semyon Malamud, Darrell Duffie

We calculate learning rates when agents are informed through public and private observation of other agents' actions. We characterize the evolution of the distribution of posterior beliefs. If the private learning channel is present, convergence of the dis ...

Elsevier2010

Supramolecular replication of peptide and DNA patterned arrays

Francesco Stellacci

Here we present a novel approach to the parallel fabrication of protein and protein/DNA features on surfaces. ...

2010

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