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Acoustic emission techniques for the detection of simulated failures in historical vehicles engines

Stefano Mischler, Alejandro Roda Buch

Technical and industrial heritage artefacts are characterized by the presence of mechanisms. The possibility to activate, or reactivate, these mechanisms is an integral part of the cultural values of this kind of patrimony. The artefacts' functionality, ho ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2021

Adaptive HTAP through Elastic Resource Scheduling

Anastasia Ailamaki, Periklis Chrysogelos, Angelos Christos Anadiotis, Syed Mohammad Aunn Raza

Modern Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) systems use an integrated data processing engine that performs analytics on fresh data, which are ingested from a transactional engine. HTAP systems typically consider data freshness at design time, ...

2020

Adaptive HTAP through Elastic Resource Scheduling

Anastasia Ailamaki, Periklis Chrysogelos, Angelos Christos Anadiotis, Syed Mohammad Aunn Raza

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

A Product Engine for Energy-Efficient Execution of Binary Neural Networks Using Resistive Memories

David Atienza Alonso, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Marina Zapater Sancho, Xifan Tang, Yasir Mahmood Qureshi, Edouard Giacomin

The need for running complex Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), in edge devices, which are highly constrained in terms of computing power and energy, makes it important to execute such applications efficiently. ...

2019

Carbon Dioxide Capture From Internal Combustion Engine Exhaust Using Temperature Swing Adsorption

François Maréchal, Shivom Sharma

In order to reduce the CO2 emissions in the transportation sector, one can electrify the vehicle, switch to biofuel, or capture and store CO2 on board. In this study, integration of an on board CO2 capture and storage unit with an internal combustion engin ...

2019

Process integration as a tool for the improvement of cruise ships energy efficiency

François Maréchal, Francesco Baldi

The growing trend of the cruise ship industry, together with increasing concerns over its impact on the environment, makes these ships a much relevant target for efforts toward increasing ship energy efficiency, thus ultimately reducing fuel consumption an ...

2018

An Energy Efficient Power Converter for Zero Power Wearable Devices

Milad Ataei Ashtiani

Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's and epilepsy requires monitoring a subject's development of symptoms through electroencephalography (EEG) signals over long periods. Wearable devices enable convenient monitoring of biosignals, unlike complex and costly hospi ...

EPFL2018

Building Virtualization Engine: a Novel Approach Based on Discrete Event Simulation

Maher Kayal, Georgios Lilis, Olivier Valentin Henri Van Cutsem

This paper proposes and validates a Discrete Event Simulation (DES) engine for the Smart-Building (SB). It strives to virtualize the common elements found within it and integrates them transparently to an existing Building Management System (BMS), along wi ...

Ieee2016

A Scala Library for Testing Student Assignments on Concurrent Programming

Mikaël Mayer, Ravichandhran Kandhadai Madhavan

We present a lightweight library for testing concurrent Scala programs by systematically exploring multiple interleavings between user-specified operations on shared objects. Our library is targeted at beginners of concurrent programming in Scala, runs on ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

Improving Scalability of Symbolic Execution for Software with Complex Environment Interfaces

Stefan Bucur

Manual software testing is laborious and prone to human error. Yet, among practitioners, it is the most popular method for quality assurance. Automating the test case generation promises better effectiveness, especially for exposing corner-case bugs. Symbo ...

EPFL2015

Elastomer based tunable optofluidic devices

Demetri Psaltis, Wuzhou Song, Andreas Vasdekis

The synergetic integration of photonics and microfluidics has enabled a wide range of optofluidic devices that can be tuned based on various physical mechanisms. One such tuning mechanism can be realized based on the elasticity of polydimethylsiloxane (PDM ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2012

Microstructure of single crystal Ni-based superalloys during blade manufacturing process and creep deformation : a study using X-rays and neutrons

The aim of the thesis is to obtain more understanding about the influence of plastic deformation on the microstructural changes observed in single crystal (SX) Ni-based superalloys using diffraction techniques. This work was organised around two main probl ...

EPFL2012

Application of Photoluminescent Measurement Techniques for Quantitative Assessment of Turbine Film Cooling

Magnus Jonsson

Reduction of the specific fuel consumption of gas turbines can be achieved by maximizing the turbine inlet temperature. However, this requires a detailed understanding of the cooling performance in order to ensure safe and economical operation of the engin ...

EPFL2010

Experimental investigation of prechamber autoignition in a natural gas engine for cogeneration

Daniel Favrat, Stefan Heyne

A novel ignition concept based on autoignition in an unscavanged prechamber is currently being developed at the Laboratory for Industrial Energy Systems (LENI). On a single cylinder test engine a series of experimental runs (CR=8.5-14, =1-1.6, RPM=1150/150 ...

2009

New slip synthesis and theoretical approach of CVT slip control

Today's vehicle must be efficient in terms of gas (CO2, NOx) emissions and fuel consumption. Due to improvements in material and oil, the continuous variable transmission (CVT) is now making a breakthrough in the automotive market. The CVT decouples the en ...

EPFL2009

A Search Engine for QoS-enabled Discovery of Semantic Web Services

Karl Aberer, Manfred Hauswirth

Directory services are a genuine constituent of any distributed architecture which facilitate binding attributes to names and then querying this information, that is, announcing and discovering resources. In such contexts, especially in a business environm ...

2006