Acknowledgements I sincerely thank my promotor Prof. Etienne Kerre for leading me to the world of research and for his strong support and guidance all the time. I appreciate always his suggestions and comments. I also truly thank my co-promotor Prof. Da Ruan for his constant help and new ideas. Next, I would like to thank Bart Van Gasse for his co-authorship. I am grateful to him for his cooper...

Stéphane Avril(1), Fabien Schneider(2), Christian Boissier(3) (1) Center for Health Engineering Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne PECM CNRS UMR 5146 ; IFRESIS INSERM IFR 143 158 Cours Fauriel, 42023 SAINT-ÉTIENNE cedex 2, FRANCE (2) Radiologie Centrale hôpital nord CHU de Saint Etienne 42055 SAINT-ÉTIENNE cedex 2, FRANCE (3) Médecine Vasculaire hôpital nord CHU de Saint Etie...

Torsion of elastic and poroelastic circular shaft of radially inhomogeneous, cylindrically orthotropic materials is studied with emphasis on the end effects example for extruder. To examine the conjecture of Saint-Venant’s torsion, we consider torsion of circular shaft with one end fixed and the other end free on which tractions that results in a pure torque are prescribed arbitrarily over the fr...

In the context of a global competitive environment, industrial companies have to pursue continuous performance improvement, leading to the popularity of Lean Manufacturing throughout the world. Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is considered the relevant performance measurement tool, which is able to take into account a machine’s availability, performance and quality. Therefore, many firms ...

Université Denis Diderot–Paris 7, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Service de Pneumologie, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France; INSERM CIC 9504, Centre d’Investigations Cliniques, Paris, France; Université Denis Diderot–Paris 7, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Service d’Hématologie, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France; Université Denis Diderot–Paris 7, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de...

1 Neurocritical Care Unit, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sud Réunion, Saint-Pierre, France, 2 Department of Neurosurgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sud Réunion, Saint-Pierre, France, 3 INSERM, UMR 1188 Diabète athérothrombose Thérapies Réunion Océan Indien (DéTROI), plateforme CYROI, Sainte Clotilde, France, 4 Centre d’Études Périnatales de l’Océan Indien (CEPOI) – EA 7388, Centre Hos...

(1) Center for Health Engineering 5 Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne 6 PECM CNRS UMR 5146 ; IFRESIS INSERM IFR 143 7 158 Cours Fauriel, 42023 SAINT-ÉTIENNE cedex 2, FRANCE 8 (2) Radiologie Centrale Hôpital nord 9 CHU de Saint Etienne 10 42055 SAINT-ÉTIENNE cedex 2, FRANCE 11 (3) Médecine Vasculaire Hôpital nord 12 CHU de Saint Etienne 13 42055 SAINT-ÉTIENNE cedex 2, FRANCE ...

At the beginning of 1820s. Marc Seguin and his brothers started negotiations with French government for the construction of a railway line from the Saint-Etienne coal field to the Rhone valley and the city of Lyon. This railway is the first French railway using locomotives. Because there are few papers and publications on the history of this important railway, the writers have studied about the...

Stanislav Aranovskiy, Alexey Bobtsov , Artem Kremlev, Nikolay Nikolaev, Olga Slita Department of Control Systems and Informatics, Saint-Petersburg State University of Information Technologies Mechanics and Optics, Kronverkski av. 49, 197101, Saint-Petersburg, Russia; Department of Mechatronics and Robotics, Baltic State Technical University, 1-st Krasnoarmeiskaya st. 1, 190008, Saint-Petersburg...