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Thermal variability of the internal friction in clay in a cylindrical thermo-mechanical problem

Variability of the internal friction angle with temperature is studied in a boundary value problem numerically simulating the impact of a cylindrical heat source on the stress and strain in soil mass in which it is emplaced. Even if the thermal increase of ...

International Center for Computational Engineering (IC2E)2011

Benchmark Of Fluid And Kinetic Simulations Of Type Iii Elming H-Mode On Tcv

Richard Pitts, Barbora Bruant Gulejová

Although the most complex currently available fluid-neutral Monte-Carlo plasma boundary code package, SOLPS, has been a major player in the ITER divertor design, it has not yet been systematically used for the study of kinetic phenomena such as ELM transie ...

2011

A theoretical study of disorder and decomposition in multinary nitrides hard coatings materials

The development of multinary nitrides materials has revolutionised the hard coatings industry over the last 20 years. Especially important materials systems in this matter have been TiAlN and CrAlN which shows higher hardness, better oxidation resistance a ...

EPFL2009

The Casimir force in the semi-classical regime : a microscopic theory

Pascal Buenzli

The present thesis is devoted to a detailed study of the Casimir force exerting between two parallel metallic plates whose conducting behaviour is described on the microscopic level. In the semi-classical regime, which corresponds to large separations and ...

EPFL2006

Supercritical reaction calorimetry: A novel route to supercritical fluid reaction monitoring

Thierry Meyer, Frédéric Lavanchy

Supercrit. fluids (SCFs) were intensively studied in the last decade as alternative, environment-friendly benign reaction solvents. A new anal. technique was derived from a combination of classical heat flow reaction calorimetry and the supercrit. fluid te ...

2005