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Énergie potentielle élastique

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Variational phase-field continuum model uncovers adhesive wear mechanisms in asperity junctions

Jean-François Molinari, Sylvain Collet

Wear is well known for causing material loss in a sliding interface. Available macroscopic approaches are bound to empirical fitting parameters, which range several orders of magnitude. Major advances in tribology have recently been achieved via Molecular ...

2020

Flexure Pivot Oscillators for Mechanical Watches

Etienne Frédéric Gabriel Thalmann

It appears that the concerted efforts of the watchmaking industry are leading towards a limit in mechanical watch accuracy. The general consensus in horology is that the time base's quality factor, a dimensionless number that characterizes the oscillator d ...

EPFL2020

Hydraulic Transport Through Calcite Bearing Faults With Customized Roughness: Effects of Normal and Shear Loading

Marie Estelle Solange Violay, Mateo Alejandro Acosta

Understanding fluid flow in rough fractures is of high importance to large scale geologic processes and to most anthropogenic geo‐energy activities. Here we conducted fluid transport experiments on Carrara marble fractures with a novel customized surface t ...

2020

Pressure-Induced Enlargement and Ionic Current Rectification in Symmetric Nanopores

Aleksandra Radenovic, Michal Daniel Macha, Sanjin Marion, Andrey Chernev, Sebastian James Davis

Nanopores in solid state membranes are a tool able to probe nanofluidic phenomena or can act as a single molecular sensor. They also have diverse applications in filtration, desalination, or osmotic power generation. Many of these applications involve chem ...

2020

Mechanics and co-evolution of allosteric materials and proteins

Riccardo Ravasio

The regulation of several processes inside and outside the cell depends on the action of a particular class of enzymes, called allosteric. In allosteric macromolecules, binding a ligand at one site affects the binding activity at a distal functional site, ...

EPFL2020

Shear to elastic modulus ratio in unreinforced masonry

Katrin Beyer, Bastian Valentin Wilding, Michele Godio

In the seismic design of unreinforced masonry walls, the elastic modulus E and shear modulus G are essential parameters for the calculation of the in-plane wall stiffness. Current codes provide empirical estimates of the elastic modulus and furthermore a r ...

2019