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Influence of model uncertainty and long term deformations in action effects calculation in reinforced concrete structures

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 ...

EPFL2024

The effect of Ni- and Mo-based materials on thermochemical sulfate reduction by glycerol under hydrothermal process conditions

Oliver Kröcher, Cheng Chang

Catalytic hydrothermal gasification (cHTG) is a sustainable and promising route to convert wet biomass into renewable methane, but the catalyst is deactivated by small amounts of soluble sulfate stemming from the biomass feedstock. Under hydrothermal condi ...

Elsevier2024

Tailoring the performance of nanocellulose-based multilayer-barrier paperboard using biodegradable-thermoplastics, pigments, and plasticizers

Tiffany Abitbol

In this work a multilayer barrier paperboard was produced in a roll-to-roll process by slot-die coating of nanocellulose (microfibrillated cellulose or carboxymethylated cellulose nanofibrils) followed by extrusion coating of biodegradable thermoplastics ( ...

SPRINGER2023

Bottlebrush Dielectric Elastomers with Improved Properties for Actuation

Yeerlan Adeli

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEA) are elastic capacitors composed of a pair of compliant electrodes and a soft dielectric elastomer film sandwiched in between. This kind of stretchable capacitors can be actuated when charged, can generate electricity fr ...

EPFL2023

Supramolecular Modifications of Semicrystalline Polymers

Michael Alan Giffin

Supramolecular interactions play an important role in defining the structure and the resulting mechanical properties of materials. For instance, interchain hydrogen-bonding in PAs gives them superior strength and stiffness in engineering materials, while t ...

EPFL2023

Stress ratio effect on tension-tension fatigue behavior of angle-ply GFRP laminates

Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos

The effect of the stress ratio (R = sigma(min)/sigma(max)) on the fatigue behavior of (+/- 45)(2s) angle-ply glass/epoxy composite laminates was investigated by comparing their mechanical, thermal, and optical properties under the stress ratio of 0.5 with ...

2019

Charge transport properties of spin-orbit coupled materials in different correlation regimes

Soudabeh Sheikholharam Mashhadi

From recent advances in solid state physics, a novel material classification scheme has evolved which is based on the concept of topology and provides an understanding of different phenomena ranging from quantum transport to unusual flavors of superconduct ...

EPFL2018

Design of Self-Healing Supramolecular Rubbers with a Tunable Number of Chemical Cross-Links

Véronique Michaud, Federica Sordo

Supramolecular rubbers incorporating a large number of physical cross-links through cooperative hydrogen bonds display high self-healing properties but limited solvent and creep resistance due to the lack of chemical cross-links. Increasing both chemical c ...

American Chemical Society2015

What Are the Best Materials To Separate a Xenon/Krypton Mixture?

Berend Smit

Accelerating progress in the discovery and deployment of advanced nanoporous materials relies on chemical insight and structure-property relationships for rational design. Because of the complexity of this problem, trial-and-error is heavily involved in th ...

American Chemical Society2015

Hardening induced by radiation damage and helium in structural materials

Christiane Vieh

Irradiation is known to lead to degradation of mechanical properties of materials. Structural materials for nuclear applications can be affected by helium produced by transmutations. The objectives of this work were: (a) to investigate the effects of He on ...

EPFL2015

Toward a Materials Genome Approach for Ionic Liquids: Synthesis Guided by Ab Initio Property Maps

Berend Smit

The Materials Genome Approach (MGA) aims to accelerate development of new materials by incorporating computational and data-driven approaches to reduce the cost of identification of optimal structures for a given application. Here, we use the MGA to guide ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

A proposal for fs-electron microscopy experiments on high-energy excitations in solids

Fabrizio Carbone, Luca Piazza

Recent advances in ultrafast technology enable both the study and the control of materials properties thanks to the ability to record high temporal resolution movies of their transformations, or the ability to generate new states of matter by selecting ad ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2014

Processing of Sustainable Cellular Biocomposites

Carole Boissard

Petroleum-based polymers and composites are commonly used in a wide variety of application fields. However ecological concerns, increasing oil prices and dwindling natural resources explain why nowadays industrial and public interest is more than ever focu ...

EPFL2012

Poroviscoelastic Characterization of Particle-Reinforced Gelatin Gels using Indentation and Homogenization

Joël Cugnoni, Matteo Galli, Elvis Fornasiere

Hydrogels are promising materials for bioengineering applications, and are good model materials for the study of hydrated biological tissues. As these materials often have a structural function, the measurement of their mechanical properties is of fundamen ...

Elsevier2011

Biomimetic materials in tissue engineering

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Jennifer Patterson

Biomaterial matrices are being developed that mimic the key characteristics of the extracellular matrix, including presenting adhesion sites and displaying growth factors in the context of a viscoelastic hydrogel. This review focuses on two classes of mate ...

Elsevier2010

Synthesis of Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids with the Weakly Coordinating [Al(ORF)4]- Anion (RF=C(H)(CF3)2) and the Determination of Their Principal Physical Properties

Paul Joseph Dyson, Gabor Laurenczy, Safak Bulut

A large series of ionic liqs. (ILs) based on the weakly coordinating alkoxyaluminate [Al(hfip)4]- (hfip: hexafluoroisopropoxy) with classical as well as functionalized cations were prepd., and their principal phys. properties detd. M.ps. are between 0 ([C4 ...

2010

Stiffness of Aligned Wood Fiber Composites: Effect of Microstructure and Phase Properties

Razvan Cristian Neagu

The effect of wood fiber anisotropy and their geometrical features on wood fiber composite stiffness is analyzed. An analytical model for an N-phase composite with orthotropic properties of constituents is developed and used. This model is a straightforwar ...

2008

High temperature superconductors for the ITER magnet system and beyond

Rainer Wesche

The use of high temperature superconductor (HTS) materials in future fusion machines could increase the efficiency drastically, but strong boundary conditions exist. To outline the prospects, challenges and problems, first the benefit of using HTS material ...

2005

Tensile fatigue performance of pultruded glass fiber reinforced polymer profiles

Thomas Keller

Axial tension-tension fatigue experiments were performed on pultruded glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) plates in a laboratory environment. Different full-scale specimen shapes were examined: plate strips as-delivered, plate strips with tabs and plates ...

2005