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Data-driven control approaches for the minimization of energy consumption of buildings have the potential to significantly reduce deployment costs and increase the uptake of advanced control in this sector. A number of recent approaches based on the applic ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

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Christopher Marc Hunston

Supercritical water gasification (SCWG) is a promising technology to convert wet biomass to renewable natural gas. The present study sheds light on the chemical composition and the formation mechanism of coke deposits on a Ru/CNF catalyst during continuous ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2023

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Mikhail Kapralov

Graphs processing has become an important part of various areas of computing, including machine learning, medical applications, social network analysis, computational sciences, and others. A growing amount of the associated graph processing workloads are d ...

2023

Low-damage steel structures for enhanced life-cycle seismic performance

Dimitrios Lignos, Martina Paronesso

During an earthquake, steel frame buildings with bracings are prone to high absolute floor acceleration demands, thereby causing damage to acceleration-sensitive non-structural elements and building content. Inelastic deformations in steel bracings and/or ...

ERNST & SOHN2022

Deep transfer learning of additive manufacturing mechanisms across materials in metal-based laser powder bed fusion process

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The defective regimes in metal-based Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) processes can be minimized by deploying in-situ monitoring strategies comprising Machine learning (ML) algorithms and sensing techniques. So far, algorithms trained for monitoring a partic ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

Effect of Y2O3 dispersoids on microstructure and creep properties of Hastelloy X processed by laser powder-bed fusion

Christian Leinenbach

Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) was used to consolidate powders of a Ni-Cr-Fe-Mo alloy (Hastelloy X) blended with 1 wt% Y2O3 nanometric powders. The nearly-dense, crack-free specimens, with and without oxide dispersion strengthening (ODS), exhibit high-aspe ...

ELSEVIER2022

L'évaporation du trafic, opportunités et défis pour la mobilité d'aujourd'hui et demain

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This research is the result of four years of practical and scientific investigation of the phenomenon of traffic evaporation, which was considered and then demonstrated to be the opposite of traffic induction. It has anchored, in practice and in time, an o ...

EPFL2022

CFD simulations of a Y-junction for the implementation of hydraulic short-circuit operating mode

François Avellan, Cécile Münch-Alligné, Daniel Biner

In the framework of the XFLEX HYDRO H2020 European Project, one of the demonstrators focuses on the implementation of the hydraulic short-circuit on the pump storage power plant of Grand-Maison owned by Electricite De France (EDF). The Grand-Maison power p ...

IOP Publishing2021

What is the role of ethics in accreditation guidelines for engineering programmes in Europe?

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The Washington Accord emphasises the role of ethical and societal considerations in the practice of engineering. Increasingly, national accrediting bodies are also expecting to see evidence in the delivery and assessment of ethics throughout engineering pr ...

Technische Universität Berlin2021

Propagation-Loss Characterization for Livestock Implantables at (433,868,1400) MHz

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Automated systems based on wearable sensors for livestock monitoring are becoming increasingly popular. Specifically, wireless in-body sensors could yield relevant data, such as ruminal temperature. The collection of such data requires an accurate characte ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Flexible Support for Gas-Lubricated Bearing Bushings

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann

Herringbone-grooved journal bearings (HGJBs) for high-speed turbo-machinery are often supported on O-rings due to their favorable stiffness and damping characteristics for stability and alignment reasons. They yield limited lifetime at high temperatures, i ...

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Spectrally Filtered Imaging and Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Preheated Models in X2 (Sept, 10.2514/1.J056021, 2017)

Pénélope Leyland, Umar Sheikh

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Experimental Evaluation and Numerical Modeling of Wide-Flange Steel Columns Subjected to Constant and Variable Axial Load Coupled with Lateral Drift Demands

Dimitrios Lignos, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Elkady

This paper presents results from an experimental evaluation on the pre- and post-buckling behavior of 12 steel wide-flange cantilever columns under axial load and lateral drift demands. The influence of several loading and geometric parameters, including t ...

2020

Tribocorrosion of a CoCrMo alloy in sulfuric acid - Glycerol mixtures

Stefano Mischler, Shoufan Cao

This work reports on the tribocorrosion properties of a CoCrMo alloy sliding under imposed passive potential against alumina in sulfuric acid-glycerol mixtures exhibiting different viscosities and thus, in principle, lubrication properties. As expected, we ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2020

Better Patch Stitching for Parametric Surface Reconstruction

Zhantao Deng, Pascal Fua, Mathieu Salzmann, Jan Bednarík

Recently, parametric mappings have emerged as highly effective surface representations, yielding low reconstruction error. In particular, the latest works represent the target shape as an atlas of multiple mappings, which can closely encode object parts. A ...

IEEE2020

Training Channel Selection for Learning-based 1-bit Precoding in Massive MU-MIMO

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Sitian Li

Learning-based algorithms have gained great popularity in communications since they often outperform even carefully engineered solutions by learning from training samples. In this paper, we show that the selection of appropriate training examples can be im ...

IEEE2020

UHPFRC technology to enhance the performance of existing concrete bridges

Eugen Brühwiler

‘Structural UHPFRC’ stands for Ultra-High Performance Fibre Reinforced Cementitious Composite material, that is, complemented by reinforcing steel bars forming a R-UHPFRC layer with the goal to enhance the resistance and durability of structural elements i ...

2020

A Model for the Representation of the Extraversion-Introversion Personality Traits in the Communication Style of a Social Robot

Barbara Bruno

Personality is one of the most important factors in human interactions, which retains its importance in human robot interactions with social robots. This work focusses on the varied linguistic strategies which characterize the personality traits of extrave ...

IEEE2020

Enhancing solar disinfection of water in PET bottles by optimized in-situ formation of iron oxide films. From heterogeneous to homogeneous action modes with H2O2 vs. O-2 - Part 2: Direct use of (natural) iron oxides

César Pulgarin, Sami Rtimi, Stefanos Giannakis

Solar disinfection (SODIS) is a well-accepted intervention method, leading to an improvement in contaminated water sources. In this work, we attempted to further enhance the bacterial inactivation process during light exposure. By means of iron oxide addit ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Efficient stable graphene-based perovskite solar cells with high flexibility in device assembling via modular architecture design

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Hong Zhang, Chunyang Zhang

Carbon-based perovskite solar cells (C-PSCs) are emerging as low-cost stable photovoltaics. However, their power conversion efficiency (PCE) still lags behind that of devices based on Au or Ag as the current collector. Here, we introduced an innovative mod ...

2019