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Evaluation of failure criteria for rock under various stress states

The failure mode and strength of rock are often evaluated using failure criteria that (i) neglect the intermediate principal stress or (ii) examine conditions over a limited range ofmean stress. Review of the literature, however, shows that tests involving ...

2020

A state of the art of flat-slab frame tests for gravity and lateral loading

Aurelio Muttoni, António Manuel Pinho Ramos

This paper presents a critical review of the state of the art of experimental research concerning the seismic response of reinforced concrete flat slab frames. After a summary of tests on connections, the paper examines tests carried out on frames with gra ...

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Stability of flexible thin-film metallization stimulation electrodes: analysis of explants after first-in-human study and improvement ofin vivoperformance

Silvestro Micera, Stanisa Raspopovic, Francesco Maria Petrini

Objective.Micro-fabricated neural interfaces based on polyimide (PI) are achieving increasing importance in translational research. The ability to produce well-defined micro-structures with properties that include chemical inertness, mechanical flexibility ...

2020

Statistical Fatigue Investigation and Failure Prediction of a Healable Composite System

Véronique Michaud, Amaël Maximilien Cohades

Fiber reinforced polymers are massively used as an alternative to metals in structural applications. The brittle nature of their matrix, however, makes them more susceptible to crack formation and propagation resulting in costly repair operations and incre ...

2020

Influence of cracking and rough surface properties on the transfer of forces in cracked concrete

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Max Tirassa

Aggregate interlocking is acknowledged as one of the most significant actions transferring shear forces in cracked concrete structures and has been investigated for several decades. Despite the many experimental programmes and previous efforts to develop m ...

2020

Can automotive MEMS be reliably used in space applications? An assessment method under sequential bi-parameter testing

Volker Gass, Olha Sereda, Maxime Auchlin

Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) automotive inertial measurement units were subjected to severe accumulative stress conditions: thermal shocks (high temperature gradients), temperature cycling (low gradients) and mechanical vibration are combined in an A-th ...

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Resistance and ductility of FRP composite hybrid joints

Thomas Keller, Lulu Liu, Xin Wang

An experimental investigation of the load-bearing behavior and ductility of FRP hybrid double-lap joints composed of both adhesively-bonded and bolted connection parts was conducted. Amongst other things, the effects of the adherends’ fiber architecture (u ...

2020

Variational phase-ﬁeld study of adhesive wear: elastic and elastic-plastic models

Sylvain Collet

Wear is well known for causing material loss in a sliding interface. Available macroscopic approaches are bound to empirical ﬁtting parameters. We propose a study of the physical processes that lead to wear at the scale of the surface roughness, where adhe ...

2020

Micromechanical modeling of snow failure

Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume, Jürg Schweizer, Grégoire Bobillier, Alec van Herwijnen

Dry-snow slab avalanches start with the formation of a local failure in a highly porous weak layer underlying a cohesive snow slab. If followed by rapid crack propagation within the weak layer and finally a tensile fracture through the slab, a slab avalanc ...

2020

Stick-Slip in Peeling of Soft Adhesives: a Finite Element Model Using Reversible Cohesive Elements

Evelyne Pélagie Ringoot

Soft adhesive pads attached to a rigid substrate show stick-slip behavior upon loading: they detach and reattach in a different location. This is accompanied by the lifting of the adhesive, the mechanical wave carrying this motion being known as a Schallam ...

2020

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