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Accurate and efficient interpretation of load-test data for asset-management

Increasing demand for new infrastructure and ageing of existing infrastructure has made management of infrastructure a key challenge of this century. Replacement of all ageing civil infrastructure is economically and environmentally unsustainable. Civil in ...

EPFL2019

Reactivity tests for supplementary cementitious materials: RILEM TC 267-TRM phase 1

Karen Scrivener, Mohsen Ben Haha, Xuerun Li, Ruben Anton Snellings, Mathieu Antoni

A primary aim of RILEM TC 267-TRM: Tests for Reactivity of Supplementary Cementitious Materials (SCMs) is to compare and evaluate the performance of conventional and novel SCM reactivity test methods across a wide range of SCMs. To this purpose, a round ro ...

SPRINGER2018

Design guidelines for concentrated photo-electrochemical water splitting devices based on energy and greenhouse gas yield ratios

Sophia Haussener, Mikaël Dumortier

Device and system design choices for solar energy conversion and storage approaches require holistic design guidelines which simultaneously respect and optimize technical, economic, sustainability, and operating time constraints. We developed a simulation ...

2015

Design and experimental verification of an innovative steel–concrete composite beam

Jean-Paul Lebet, Dimitrios Papastergiou

This paper deals with the design method and the experimental verification of a new type of steel–concrete composite beam under static and fatigue loading. The connection is an alternative solution for steel–concrete composite bridges suitable for prefabric ...

Elsevier2014

Remote Powering and Wireless Communication of a Smart Knee Prosthesis

Oguz Atasoy

With the advance in microelectronics and microsystems, better instruments in every domain are designed and built. For many years, scientists have tried to understand nature, and engineers to mimic the perfect design. One example of this is the human knee, ...

EPFL2013

Curing Kinetics and Mechanical Properties of a Composite Hydrogel for the Replacement of the Nucleus Pulposus

Jan-Anders Edvin Maansson, Dominique Pioletti, Pierre-Etienne Bourban, Ana Borges de Couraça

A polymer material system has been developed to propose an injectable, UV and in situ curable hydrogel with properties similar to the native nucleus pulposus of intervertebral disc. Neat hydrogels based on Tween® 20 trimethacrylates (T3) and N-vinyl-2-pyrr ...

Elsevier2010

ARCHES D14 - Recommendations for the use of UHPFRC in composite structural members – rehabilitation Log Čezsoški bridge

Emmanuel Denarié, Guillaume Habert

The increasing volume of European transport urgently requires an effective road and rail system in Central European and Eastern Countries (CEEC) with a major investment in building new and assessing and rehabilitating old structures. Following 5 successful ...

MCS/EU2009

Calcined clayey soils as a potential replacement for cement in developing countries

Concrete is the building material with the greatest potential for meeting the increasing housing demand in developing countries. Locally available materials should be considered as cement replacement in order to lower the costs and the environmental impact ...

EPFL2009

Implants delivering bisphosphonate locally increase periprosthetic bone density in an osteoporotic sheep model. A pilot study

Dominique Pioletti, Alexandre Terrier, Vincent Stadelmann

It is a clinical challenge to obtain a sufficient orthopedic implant fixation in weak osteoporotic bone. When the primary implant fixation is poor, micromotions occur at the bone-implant interface, activating osteoclasts, which leads to implant loosening. ...

2008

Analysis of gait and coordination for arthroplasty outcome evaluation using body-fixed sensors

Hooman Dejnabadi

The importance of evaluation of an orthopedic operation such as hip or knee arthroplasty has long been recognized. Many definitions of outcome and scoring questionnaires have been used in the past to assess the outcome of joint replacement. However, these ...

EPFL2006