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Fabrication, Characterization, and Simulation of Glass Devices with AlN Thin-Film Transducers for Excitation of Ultrasound Resonances
Paul Muralt, Ramin Matloub Aghdam
We present the fabrication of 570-mu m-thick millimeter-sized soda-lime-silicate float-glass blocks with a 1-mu m-thick AlN thin-film piezoelectric transducer sandwiched between thin metallic electrodes and deposited on the top surface. The electromechanic ...
AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021Ug-value and edge heat loss of triple glazed insulating glass units:A comparison between measured and declared values
Andreas Schueler, Anna Krammer
Triple glazed low-e coated insulating glass units with argon filling of five different suppliers on the European market with a declared thermal transmittance in the undisturbed centre of glass (Ug-value) of 0.6 W/m(2)K have been purchased from resellers an ...
ELSEVIER2021Combined Shear-Flexural Verification Of In Plane Loaded Reinforced And Unreinforced Masonry Walls
The safety verification of in-plane loaded masonry panels requires the evaluation of at least three different collapse conditions connected with overturning, shear sliding, and shear - compression failure at the panels' toe. In reinforced panels, the resis ...
INT CENTER NUMERICAL METHODS ENGINEERING2021Numerical Simulation of Unreinforced Masonry Buildings with Timber Diaphragms
Katrin Beyer, Francesco Vanin, Igor Tomic, Ivana Bozulic
Though flexible diaphragms play a role in the seismic behaviour of unreinforced masonry buildings, the effect of the connections between floors and walls is rarely discussed or explicitly modelled when simulating the response of such buildings. These flexi ...
2021Post-tensioning of glass beams: Analytical determination of the allowable pre-load
Alain Nussbaumer, Pieter Christian Louter, Jagoda Cupac
The effectiveness of post-tensioning in enhancing the fracture resistance of glass beams depends on the level of compressive pre-stress introduced at the glass edge surface that will in service be exposed to tensile stresses induced by bending. Maximum pre ...
SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2021The ratio of shear to elastic modulus of in-plane loaded masonry
Katrin Beyer, Bastian Valentin Wilding, Michele Godio
When designing unreinforced masonry buildings, the wall stiffness and, consequently, the masonry elastic and shear modulus E and G are essential parameters. Current codes provide empirical estimates of the masonry elastic modulus and a ratio between the sh ...
2020Blind predictions of shake table testing of aggregate masonry buildings
Katrin Beyer, Igor Tomic, Andrea Penna
In many historical centers in Europe, stone masonry is part of building aggregates, which developed when the layout of the city or village was densified. The analysis of such building aggregates is very challenging and modelling guidelines missing. Advance ...
2020Shake table testing of aggregate masonry buildings
Katrin Beyer, Igor Tomic, Andrea Penna
Masonry building aggregates can be found throughout historical city centers of Europe. Adjacent buildings have often developed during the long densification process, without consistent planning or engineering. It is common for neighboring units to share a ...
2020Strain glass transition of cobalt phase in a cemented carbide
Cemented carbides are hard materials used for the fabrication of cutting tools. They consist of hard micron or sub-micron carbide grains held together in a matrix of a tough metallic binder such as cobalt. The understanding and control of cobalt characteri ...
ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020A three-dimensional macroelement for modelling the in-plane and out-of-plane response of masonry walls
Katrin Beyer, Francesco Vanin, Andrea Penna
The seismic performance of unreinforced masonry buildings is commonly assessed using equivalent frame modelling. Its computational efficiency allows for a large number of analyses to be conducted, which are often required to account for epistemic and aleat ...
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