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Structuration of thin bridge and cantilever structures in thick-film technology using mineral sacrificial materials
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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 ...
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Structural engineers today are still educated mainly to design new structures. This ignores the fact that structures already exist and need to be maintained. Students are thus often ill-equipped to deal with maintenance and preservation of existing structu ...
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Borylated triazenes were synthesized by the dehydrocoupling of triazenes with 9-borabicyclo(3.3.1)nonane, by the condensation of triazenes with BEt3, or by the reaction of sodium triazenides with dialkyl- or diarylboron halides. The structures of the produ ...
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The first step in the construction of a regression model or a data-driven analysis, aiming to predict or elucidate the relationship between the atomic-scale structure of matter and its properties, involves transforming the Cartesian coordinates of the atom ...
AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021Study on Mechanical Performance of Prestressed UHPFRC U-Beam Bridges
The forms of U-shaped UHPFRC beams have not been investigated for the highway footbridge. Compared with the traditional section forms, the U-shaped UHPFRC beams can reduce the material consumption under the condition of providing the same bearing capacity. ...
2021Towards the use of UHPFRC in railway bridges: the rehabilitation of Buna Bridge
Eugen Brühwiler, Dragan Damjanovic
In the last decade, Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced cement-based Composites (UHPFRC) have been increasingly implemented for rehabilitation and strengthening purposes, rendering outstanding results. The ease of application, along with their superior ...
CRC PRESS-TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP2019Design and Control of Minimum Energy Adaptive Structures
The construction industry is the largest consumer of raw materials and most of the environmental impacts of structures are embodied into load-bearing systems [1]. Civil structures are usually designed to meet strength and deformation requirements to withst ...
2019X-Shell Pavilion: A Deployable Elastic Rod Structure
Mark Pauly, Florin Isvoranu, Francis Julian Panetta, Tian Chen, Etienne Bouleau
We present the X-Shell pavilion, a lightweight structure composed of elastic beam elements joined in a special layout that allows easy on-site deployment. The structure’s undeployed assembly configuration lies mostly flat and is easy to build, consisting o ...
Ingenta2019An Automatic, Data-Driven Definition of Atomic-Scale Structural Motifs
Structure-property relationships at the atomic scale are usually understood in terms of recurrent structural motifs formed by atoms and molecules, and how they transform and interact with each other.
We introduce with this thesis a novel analysis approach, ...
EPFL2018Fatigue Study of the Linthkanal-Brücke
As fatigue cracks were discovered under the bridge deck of the 48 years old railway bridge Linthkanal-Brücke, located near the Ziegelbrücke town in Switzerland, a few studies were conducted to understand the mechanism behind the cracks formation. However, ...
2018