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Flow Boiling of Carbon Dioxide at Different Channel Orientations for the Thermal Management of Future Detector Technologies at the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider at CERN

David Schmid

The global warming potential (GWP) of working fluids in thermodynamic cycles and their environmental impact have been gaining considerable attention within the recent years. The global objectives on climate protection are becoming increasingly ambitious, w ...

EPFL2022

Contact.engineering-Create, analyze and publish digital surface twins from topography measurements across many scales

Till Junge

The optimization of surface finish to improve performance, such as adhesion, friction, wear, fatigue life, or interfacial transport, occurs largely through trial and error, despite significant advancements in the relevant science. There are three central c ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Optimization of composition and structure of cemented carbide cutting tools

Samy Adjam

WC-Co cemented carbides are composites, which combine a hard phase consisting of WC grains and a metallic ductile phase as a binder. Their excellent mechanical properties, combining high hardness, toughness and refractory properties, make them excellent ma ...

EPFL2021

Experimental investigation of sequential narrow impingement channels for turbine cooling

Peter Ott, Michele Gaffuri

Sequentially stacked impingement channels allow for a more effective use of the cooling fluid and can limit the heat transfer reduction due to the crossflow when the number of jets increases. In this paper, sequential impingement channels are experimentall ...

2021

Dielectric Metasurfaces Enabling Advanced Optical Biosensors

Hatice Altug, Aleksandrs Leitis, Ming-Lun Tseng

Dielectric metasurfaces have emerged as a powerful platform for novel optical biosensors. Due to their low optical loss and strong light-matter interaction, they demonstrate several exotic optical properties, including sharp resonances, strong nearfield en ...

2021

Development of a novel mechanical micro-engraving method for the high-aspect-ratio microstructures of an advanced window system

Josef Andreas Schuler, André Gabriel Kostro, Jing Gong

A transparent polymer film with embedded micro mirrors is developed, and it can be attached to a window glass pane for daylighting, improving visual comfort and reducing cooling load in buildings by redirecting sunlight. Despite existing cutting-edge techn ...

2018

Impact of Lanthanide Nanomaterials on Photonic Devices and Smart Applications

Jean-Claude Bünzli

Half a century after its initial emergence, lanthanide photonics is facing a profound remodeling induced by the upsurge of nanomaterials. Lanthanide-doped nanomaterials hold promise for bioapplications and photonic devices because they ally the unmatched a ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2018

Miniaturized tube fixed plug drawing: determination of the friction coefficients and drawing limit of 316 LVM stainless steel

Stefano Mischler, Jean-Marie Drezet, Nicolas Paul Henry Chobaut, Vance Nguyen

Tube drawing with a ﬁxed plug is investigated experimentally and numerically in order to optimise an industrial pass sequence. Tube drawings are performed on a laboratory drawing bench equipped with force, displacement and temperature sensors. The drawing ...

2018

Leveraging mobile eye-trackers to capture joint visual attention in co-located collaborative learning groups

Pierre Dillenbourg, Kshitij Sharma, Guillaume Zufferey, Sébastien Cuendet, Bertrand Roland Schneider

This paper describes a promising methodology for studying co-located groups: mobile eye-trackers. We provide a comprehensive description of our data collection and analysis processes so that other researchers can take advantage of this cutting-edge technol ...

SPRINGER2018

Hardware Architecture and Cutting-Edge Assembly Process of a Tiny Curved Compound Eye

Dario Floreano, Ramon Pericet Camara, Géraud L'Eplattenier

The demand for bendable sensors increases constantly in the challenging field of soft and micro-scale robotics. We present here, in more detail, the flexible, functional, insect-inspired curved artificial compound eye (CurvACE) that was previously introduc ...

Mdpi Ag2014

Insights into the thermo-mechanics of orthogonal nanometric machining

Jean-François Molinari, Guillaume Anciaux, Pedro Romero

The fabrication of high precision miniaturized components in micro- and nano-technologies requires a deep understanding of the physical mechanisms governing the nanomachining process. To aid with this need, the current article employs molecular dynamics to ...

Elsevier2013

Part Programming to Realize Chatter Free and Efficient High Speed Milling

Saurabh Aggarwal

High speed milling (HSM) is the most known machining process due to its application in various industries. In milling, a rotating cutting tool removes a large amount of material along a predefined toolpath to manufacture the final part with a desired shape ...

EPFL2012

Cutting torque and tangential cutting force coefficient identification from spindle motor current

Paul Xirouchakis, Saurabh Aggarwal

This article presents an enhanced methodology for cutting torque prediction from the spindle motor current, readily available in modern machine tool controllers. This methodology includes the development of the spindle power model which takes into account ...

Springer-Verlag2012

Cutting Force Modelling for Drilling of Fiber-Reinforced Composites

Mihai-Bogdan Lazar

Although used in a very large variety of applications, drilling is one of the most complex and least understood manufacturing processes. Most of the research on drilling was done in the field of metal cutting for mechanical parts since, in this case, high ...

EPFL2012

High Speed Pocket Milling Optimisation

Paul Xirouchakis, Saurabh Aggarwal, Sandeep Dhanik

The invention relates to a method of toolpath generation and cutting parameters optimization for high speed milling of a convex pocket, wherein said method comprises a first sub-method of generating a toolpath and a second sub-method of generating optimize ...

2012

Modeling and Simulation of Energy Efficient Milling Process Plans for Prismatic Parts

The milling process has been continuously optimized from many aspects: forces, velocities, stability, quality. Numerous papers have been published that report results in the domain of toolpath optimization with criteria such as raising the quality of the m ...

EPFL2012

A multi-criteria decision method for sustainability assessment of the use phase of machine tool systems

Paul Xirouchakis, Ian Anthony Stroud, Ioan Oliver Avram

In recent years, going green has become a strategic priority in manufacturing which has evolved from the growing awareness of the need for environmentally friendly processes and products. Recent trends in developing new machining strategies able to support ...

Springer-Verlag2011

Machine Tool Use Phase : Modeling and Analysis with Environmental Considerations

Ioan Oliver Avram

This thesis is motivated from the fundamental decision problem in today's manufacturing industry which could be summarized as one simple question: how is it possible to achieve economic growth by taking advantage of the latest technologies while protecting ...

EPFL2010

NC tool path evaluator and generator for high speed milling

Sandeep Dhanik

Milling is a most common type of material removal process by rotating tools to create a variety of features on a part. The material is removed in a controlled way by sweeping a rotating cylindrical tool along the specific trajectory known as milling tool p ...

EPFL2009

Design methodology and numerical optimization of ultrasonic transducers for spinal surgery

Nowadays, the general trend towards to minimally invasive interventions is present in all the medical domains. For the surgical intervertebral spinal disc cutting or removal domain, it is particularly a necessity because the manual methods currently employ ...

EPFL2009