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Infrastructure critique

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Impact of substrate clogging on vertical connectivity

Giovanni De Cesare, Robin Schroff, Romain Maxime Dubuis

Connectivity between the hyporheic zone and the flow is essential for the development of benthos and the reproductive success of spawning fish. The infiltration of fine sediment leads to clogging of the riverbed, reducing porosity and vertical water exchan ...

2023

Designing a District Energy Infrastructure-a Case-Study in Lisbon

François Maréchal, Sébastien Cajot, Nils Christian Schüler

The paper describes a case study on the design of district energy infrastructure for the green-field project of the Vale de Santo Antonio (Lisbon, Portugal). The methodology is based on a novel framework built on the sequential integration of three softwar ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Impact hydrodynamique des vagues contre les bâtiments

Anton Schleiss, Michael Pfister, Davide Wüthrich

Les tsunamis, les vagues d'impulsion et les ruptures de barrages représentent des phénomènes extrêmes qui mettent en danger la vie des personnes et la fonctionnalité des infrastructures. Des événements récents dans l'Océan Indien (2004), au Japon (2011) et ...

2020

A risk-based multi-level stress test methodology: application to six critical non-nuclear infrastructures in Europe

Anton Schleiss, José Pedro Gamito de Saldanha Calado Matos

Recent natural disasters that seriously affected critical infrastructure (CI) with significant socio-economic losses and impact revealed the need for the development of reliable methodologies for vulnerability and risk assessment. In this paper, a risk-bas ...

2020

A model of urban scaling laws based on distance dependent interactions

João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda

Socio-economic related properties of a city grow faster than a linear relationship with the population, in a log–log plot, the so-called superlinear scaling. Conversely, the larger a city, the more efficient it is in the use of its infrastructure, leading ...

2017

How do Transport Infrastructure and Policies Affect House Prices and Rents? Evidence from Athens, Greece

Dimitrios Efthymiou

The interaction between land use and transportation infrastructure is a topic that has been extensively researched and continues to be of interest as new underlying economic, infrastructure and environmental conditions emerge. In this research, the direct ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2013

Gestion stratégique de la maintenance et de la capacité d'un réseau ferré

Yves Putallaz

The railway reforms introduced since the nineties tend to spread responsibilities among different actors involved in the management of the railway system. On the other side, the governmental organisations are forced to boost the productivity of their railw ...

EPFL2007

From ecological construction to sustainable urban development : the Ecoparc project in Neuchâtel (Switzerland)

Emmanuel Rey

The present logic of built environment dispersion appears incompatible with the concept of sustainable development. The peripheral expansion of cities is indeed leading to irrational use of ground, growing environmental impact and important infrastructure ...

EPFL2005