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Enhancement of the punching shear verification of slabs with openings

Júlia Borges Dos Santos, Aurelio Muttoni

Openings in flat slabs near to columns are often needed to supply the building with utilities. The presence of these openings can lead to a decrease of the punching resistance which is related to (i) the reduction of the control perimeter, (ii) the stress ...

ERNST & SOHN2023

Efficient Lung Nodule Detection via 3D Deep Learning with Shifted Convolutions

Jiancheng Yang

The high computational costs of deep convolutional neural networks hinder their deployment in real-world applications, including pulmonary nodule detection from CT scans where large 3D image sizes amplify the issue. This paper presents a novel 3D method to ...

IEEE2023

Toward higher-performance bionic limbs for wider clinical use

Silvestro Micera

Most prosthetic limbs can autonomously move with dexterity, yet they are not perceived by the user as belonging to their own body. Robotic limbs can convey information about the environment with higher precision than biological limbs, but their actual perf ...

NATURE RESEARCH2023

Wasserstein-Based Graph Alignment

Pascal Frossard, Mireille El Gheche, Hermina Petric Maretic

A novel method for comparing non-aligned graphs of various sizes is proposed, based on the Wasserstein distance between graph signal distributions induced by the respective graph Laplacian matrices. Specifically, a new formulation for the one-to-many graph ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Topology Optimization of an Electromagnet Manipulator for 3D Uniform Magnetic Field

Yves Perriard, Adrien Jean-Michel Thabuis, Xiaotao Ren

Magnetic manipulation is a method used for biomedical applications to remotely control micro-robots in a contactless manner. The electromagnet manipulator should control a magnetic field with 3 degrees of freedom inside a region of interest. In various cas ...

IEEE2022

Mechanistic modelling of solar disinfection (SODIS) kinetics of Escherichia coli, enhanced with H2O2 - part 1: The dark side of peroxide

César Pulgarin, Stefanos Giannakis

The present bi-partite work describes the development and validation of a mechanistic kinetic model of SODIS E. coli inactivation, enhanced with H2O2. In this first part, the mechanism of the baseline dark phenomena is modelled. A mechanistic model involvi ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

Spike-Based Sensing and Communication for Highly Energy-Efficient Sensor Edge Nodes

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Teodor Rosca

Highly energy-efficient wireless sensor nodes are a prerequisite for a sustainable operation of the Internet of things. Therefore, classical approaches for system design based on digital signal processing are not a viable solution, but system design has to ...

IEEE2022

Structural response of fire-exposed laminated glass beams under sustained loads; exploratory experiments and FE-Simulations

Alain Nussbaumer, Pieter Christian Louter

This paper investigates the structural response of laminated glass beams under combined fire-exposure and sustained in-plane loading. This is done by means of experimental testing and Finite Element (FE) numerical modelling. Firstly, small-scale (1 m long) ...

2021

Towards strong-coupling regime in singular site-controlled InGaAs quantum dots-nanocavities

Elyahou Kapon, Alok Rudra, Benjamin Dwir, Alessio Massimiliano Davide Miranda

We demonstrate the cavity quantum electrodynamics towards strong- coupling regime mediated by cavity loss and exciton pure dephasing in singular site-controlled quantum dotnanocavity system, studied by micro-photoluminescence (mu-PL) and time- resolved PL ...

IEEE2021

The effect of microstructure on vacuum surface flashover

Guang-Yu Sun

The vacuum discharge along the dielectric surface, also called surface flashover, brings significant damages to the vacuum-solid insulation system. Here we implement shape-flexible, complex surface groove microstructures on the dielectric to mitigate the i ...

IEEE2021

Invariability of EEG error-related potentials during continuous feedback protocols elicited by erroneous actions at predicted or unpredicted states

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Inaki Asier Iturrate Gil, Fumiaki Iwane

Objective. When humans perceive an erroneous action, an EEG error-related potential (ErrP) is elicited as a neural response. ErrPs have been largely investigated in discrete feedback protocols, where actions are executed at discrete steps, to enable seamle ...

2021

Energy, indoor air quality, occupant behavior, self-reported symptoms and satisfaction in energy-efficient dwellings in Switzerland

Dusan Licina, Shen Yang

We performed the first large-scale investigation of indoor air quality (IAQ), energy and occupant behavior and satisfaction, in 650 energy-efficient dwellings in western Switzerland. The investigation included comparative assessment of 217 green-certified ...

2020

Height And Weight Estimation From Unconstrained Images

Radhakrishna Achanta, Ntorina Thanou

We address the difficult problem of estimating the attributes of weight and height of individuals from pictures taken in completely unconstrained settings. We present a deep learning scheme that relies on simultaneous prediction of human silhouettes and sk ...

IEEE2020

Three-Dimensional Model and Evaluation of an Insulin Injection Pen for Precise Dose Capacitive Measurement

Catherine Dehollain, Maria-Alexandra Paun, Jean-Baptiste Robert Orhan

A fully parameterized three-dimensional model with specific dimensions has been developed in ANSYS for an insulin injection pen used by diabetic persons. The insulin injection pen has a smart pen cap which hosts four electrodes used for the smart pen cap e ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Accelerated and adaptive modifier-adaptation schemes for the real-time optimization of uncertain systems

Dominique Bonvin, Predrag Milosavljevic, René Uwe Schneider

The steady-state performance of a parametrically or structurally uncertain system can be optimized using iterative real-time optimization methods such as modifier adaptation. Here, we extend a recently proposed second-order modifier-adaptation scheme in tw ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2019

Corncob Biorefinery for Platform Chemicals and Lignin Coproduction: Metal Chlorides as Catalysts

Wu Lan

A facile approach to a corncob biorefinery, focusing on both carbohydrate valorization and lignin stabilization, was proposed to coproduce platform chemicals (glucose, xylose, arabinose, and furfural) and lignin. Different metal chloride prehydrolyses of c ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Characterizations of Two Channel Orderings: Input-Degradedness and the Shannon Ordering

Rajai Nasser

The ordering of communication channels was first introduced by Shannon. In this paper, we aim to find characterizations of two orderings: input-degradedness and the Shannon ordering. A channel W is said to be input-degraded from another channel W' if W can ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2018

Near-Optimal Noisy Group Testing via Separate Decoding of Items

Volkan Cevher, Jonathan Mark Scarlett

The group testing problem consists of determining a small set of defective items from a larger set of items based on a number of tests, and is relevant in applications such as medical testing, communication protocols, pattern matching, and more. In this pa ...

2018

Cfd-Based Correlation For Forced Convection Heat Transfer In Circular Ducts Of Internally Heated Molten Salts

Carlo Fiorina

Heat transfer phenomena involving internally heated fluid flows are of particular interest in several industrial applications, in chemical plants as in the nuclear field. This topic is relevant for the development of the Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) since i ...

AMER SOC MECHANICAL ENGINEERS2018

Perceptual Dynamics of Daylight in Architecture

Siobhan Francois Rockcastle

In our experience of daylit architecture, our visual perception is greatly impacted by the ephemeral and inherently dynamic conditions of the surrounding environment. Driven by changes in sky type, time-of-day, and time-of-year, these variable conditions c ...

EPFL2017