1. Exploratory study on the applicability of the capacity spectrum method on bridge pile groups 

   Alber, Simone; Sakellariadis, Lampros; Fehr, Manuela; et al. (2024)

   Japanese Geotechnical Society Special Publication

   The paper presents a feasibility study on the Capacity Spectrum Method (CSM) (widely used in structural design), applied on Soil-Structure Interaction (SSI) systems. A bridge pier founded on two distinct Reinforced Concrete (RC) pile groups, is employed as an illustrative example. Finite Element (FE) models are used to perform (monotonic and cyclic) static pushover and nonlinear time-history analyses. The CSM method predicts the seismic ...

   Conference Paper

2. Missed Opportunities in Building Energy Performance Assessment 

   Agarwal, Minu; Cameron-Rastogi, Parag; Peronato, Giuseppe; et al. (2024)

   Journal of Sustainable Real Estate

   Buildings continue to be important contributors to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, despite the continued increase in stringency of energy and emissions codes and standards worldwide to address energy use in buildings. The stringency is limited by the available technology and design, and achieving even better performance may require fundamental changes in how the design and operation of buildings is regulated. In this paper we present ...

   Journal Article

3. Closing the Gap or Giving (More) Power to the Powerful: How and When AI Empowers Employees 

   Uysal, Ertugrul; Fischer, Peter Mathias (2024)

   Conference Paper

4. Potential and Systematisation of Video-based Analysis of Bicycle Conflicts 

   Zeier, Silvan; Zani, David; Uhr, Andrea; et al. (2024)

   Road accidents involving bicycles are becoming increasingly common in urban areas. To improve accident prevention, proactive road safety instruments (i.e., conflict analysis) are a promising supplement to the existing reactive road safety instruments. However, current research does not sufficiently account for the particularities (underestimated injury severity based on weight, speed, and collision angle) of road conflicts involving ...

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5. Therapists’ Force-Profile Teach-and-Mimic Approach for Upper-Limb Rehabilitation Exoskeletons 

   Luciani, Beatrice; Sommerhalder, Michael; Gandolla, Marta; et al. (2024)

   IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics

   In this work, we propose a framework enabling upper-limb rehabilitation exoskeletons to mimic the personalised haptic guidance of therapists. Current exoskeletons face acceptability issues as they limit physical interaction between clinicians and patients and offer only predefined levels of support that cannot be tuned during the movements, when needed. To increase acceptance, we first developed a method to estimate the therapist’s force ...

   Journal Article

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