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Monitoring-Driven Seismic Assessment of Existing Masonry Buildings
(2019)ANCRiSST 2019 Procedia 14th International Workshop on Advanced Smart Materials and Smart Structures TechnologyConference Paper -
Vibration-based Damage Identification in the UHPFRC Strengthened Buna bridge
(2019)ANCRiSST 2019 Procedia 14th International Workshop on Advanced Smart Materials and Smart Structures TechnologyThe Buna Bridge in Croatia, a steel riveted bridge from 1893, was decommissioned in 2010. As part of a research investigation, the structure was rehabilitated and strengthened by means of a novel method, comprising a lightweight slab made of Ultra High Performance Fiber Reinforced Cementituos-composite (UHPFRC) atop the main girders, acting in composite action with them. An extensive experimental campaign was carried out in the laboratory, ...Conference Paper -
Experimental Study on the Geometrical and Dimensional Stability of Natural Stone Sorts for Precision Machinery
(2019)Procedia CIRPPrecision machinery employs a variety of materials for its structures: cast iron, welded steel, natural stone, mineral cast, ultra-high performance concrete. Granite and gabbro stone sorts are occasionally used in high-precision machine tools, and in the metrological industry due to their long-term stability as a result of low residual stresses in the material. For this work, experiments were set up to analyze and evaluate the influence ...Conference Paper -
Two-planar graphs are quasiplanar
(2017)Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) ~ 42nd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2017)It is shown that every 2-planar graph is quasiplanar, that is, if a simple graph admits a drawing in the plane such that every edge is crossed at most twice, then it also admits a drawing in which no three edges pairwise cross. We further show that quasiplanarity is witnessed by a simple topological drawing, that is, any two edges cross at most once and adjacent edges do not cross.Conference Paper -
An Automated Approach for Complementing Ad Blockers’ Blacklists
(2015)Graphene Spintronics and Nanostructures ~ Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2015Privacy in the Web has become a major concern resulting in the popular use of various tools for blocking tracking services. Most of these tools rely on manually maintained blacklists, which need to be kept up-to-date to protect Web users’ privacy efficiently. It is challenging to keep pace with today’s quickly evolving advertisement and analytics landscape. In order to support blacklist maintainers with this task, we identify a set of Web ...Conference Paper -
Resource Consumption Monitoring in Manufacturing Environments
(2015)Procedia CIRP ~ 12th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing – Emerging PotentialsResource consumption measurement, analysis, and improvement in the context of sustainability in manufacturing reveal extensive fields of research and have become important in order to fulfil multiple requirements in ecological, economic and legislative activities. Solutions for energy consumption measurement in manufacturing are known but rarely implemented due to several reasons such as high costs, implementation complexity or unknown ...Conference Paper -
Development of a Reliable Packaging for CMOS-based Microelectrode Arrays by Using an Automated Setup
(2014)Procedia Engineering ~ EUROSENSORS 2014, the 28th European Conference on Solid-State TransducersWe present a reliable and versatile microelectrode-array-device-packaging method for use in neurobiological research. The new packaging is simple, user-friendly, durable, and obviates any contamination of the sensitive electrodes (Figure 1). The packaging consists of a custom-designed injection-molded polycarbonate ring that is bonded to the surface of the CMOS chip with a specifically selected biocompatible adhesive. The utilization of ...Conference Paper -
Globally Distributed Engineering Processes: Making the Distinction between Engineer-to-order and Make-to-order
(2014)Procedia CIRP ~ Variety Management in Manufacturing: Proceedings of the 47th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing SystemsThis paper explores how the organizational and technological requirements of globally distributed engineering processes differ for make-to- order (MTO) and engineer-to-order (ETO) production and highlights potential research themes which might contribute to a better understanding of this field. The preliminary results presented in this paper are based on a literature review and an on-going exploratory case study with manufacturers from ...Conference Paper -
Design of a 100 MWh(th) packed-bed thermal energy storage
(2014)Energy Procedia ~ Proceedings of the SolarPACES 2013 International ConferenceA thermal energy storage (TES) system was designed based on a packed bed of rocks as storing material and air as heat transfer fluid. A pilot-scale 6.5 MWhth TES unit was built and tested. A dynamic numerical heat transfer and fluid flow model was developed and experimentally validated with measurements obtained from the pilot-scale TES unit. The simulation model is applied to design an industrial-scale 100 MWhth TES unit for a solar power ...Conference Paper -
Assessment of renewable energy integration for a village using the energy hub concept
(2014)Energy Procedia ~ 2013 ISES Solar World CongressThe built environment represents a major share of global energy consumption. To effectively reduce the energy consumption of urban conglomerations, concepts to sufficiently integrate and manage energy from renewables are necessary. In this paper the energy-hub concept will be applied, which describes the relation between input and output energy flows and can be used to optimize the energy consumption during planning and operation. The ...Conference Paper