The dynamic spatial general equilibrium model RHOMOLO with endogenous firm location incorporates multiple sources of agglomeration and dispersion. Agglomeration is driven mainly by increasing returns to scale and localised externalities; dispersion by costly trade and imperfect competition. In...

The Nanobiosciences Unit of the Joint Research Centre's Institute for Health and Consumer Protection and Eurocolour, the association of European pigments, dyes and fillers industry, have carried out a program of work to evaluate a number of instrumental methods of measuring particle size...

Photogrammetry was used to monitor the bottom part of the northern in-filled wall of the SERFIN model. This optical measurement technique is at the developing stage for its application on large structures and the SERFIN project was a testing bench for it. This report gives the first results on...

The present work completes the implementation of adaptivity routines by extending them to CEA's fluid finite elements both in 2D (TRIA and CAR1) and in 3D (TETR and CUBE). The CAR1 is treated like other 2D quadrilaterals (Q41L, FL24) as far as geometrical issues are concerned. In addition to the...

The report contains the first part of the Proceedings of the 35th Annual Symposium of ESARDA, the European Safeguars Research and Development Association. The proceedings are published on-line on www.esarda.eu as on-line electronic version only, allowing interactive searches. For purpose of JRC...

This report covers the book of abstracts of the 2nd International Workshop on Physics Based Modelling of Material Properties and Experimental Observations, with special focus on Fracture and Damage Mechanics. The workshop is organized in the context of European Commission's Enlargement and...

The High Flux Reactor (HFR) at Petten is managed by the Institute for Energy and Transport (IET) of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) and operated by the Nuclear Research and consultancy Group (NRG) which is also the licence holder and responsible for its commercial...

In the framework of the SAFECAST Project, a full-scale three-storey precast building was subjected to a series of pseudodynamic (PsD) tests in the European Laboratory for Structural Assessment (ELSA) at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. The mock-up was constructed in such a...