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Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Julia De Castro San Roman Fest, Nikolaos Alexandros Theodorou

After 17 and 15years of use, respectively, a detailed inspection of a pedestrian bridge and a 5-story building structure composed of partly adhesively bonded pultruded glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) profiles was conducted accompanied by full-scale s ...

American Society of Civil Engineers2016

Evaluation of Young's modulus of MgB2 filaments in composite wires for the superconducting links for the high-luminosity LHC upgrade

Barbora Bártová

MgB2 wire is a promising superconductor for the superconducting links for the high-luminosity upgrade of the large Hadron collider at CERN. The mechanical properties of MgB2 must be fully quantified for the cable design, and in this study, we evaluate the ...

Institute of Physics2016

Direct growth of carbon nanotubes on carbon fibers: Effect of the CVD parameters on the degradation of mechanical properties of carbon fibers

László Forró, Arnaud Magrez, Jin Won Seo

Grafting carbon nanotubes (CNTs) directly on carbon fibers represents a promising approach in order to strengthen the weak interface between carbon fibers and polymer matrix in carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites (CFRCs). We have carried out direct ...

Elsevier Science Sa2015

A review of the fire behaviour of pultruded GFRP structural profiles for civil engineering applications

Thomas Keller, Yu Bai

Pultruded glass fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP) profiles are finding increasing applications in civil engineering structures, owing to the several advantages they offer over traditional materials. However, due to the combustible nature of their polymer mat ...

Elsevier2015

Simulating the effect of fiber bridging and asymmetry on the fracture behavior of adhesively-bonded composite joints

Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Moslem Shahverdi

The fracture behavior of adhesively-bonded pultruded double cantilever beam specimens is studied in this chapter. The crack propagates along paths away from the symmetry plane and is accompanied by fiber bridging. Finite element models are developed to qua ...

Elsevier2015

Mixed-mode fatigue and fracture behavior of adhesively-bonded composite joints

Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Moslem Shahverdi

The mixed-mode fatigue and fracture behaviors of adhesively-bonded pultruded glass fiber-reinforced polymer joints are presented in this chapter. These behaviors are based on experimental investigations using asymmetric mixed-mode bending specimens. In suc ...

Elsevier2015

GFRP-balsa sandwich bridge deck: Concept, design and experimental validation

Thomas Keller, Julia De Castro San Roman Fest, Michael Osei-Antwi

The concept, design and experimental validation of the new Avançon Bridge in Bex, Switzerland, are described. The lightweight glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) sandwich bridge deck adhesively bonded to steel girders reduced the traffic disruption perio ...

2014

GFRP-Balsa Sandwich Bridge Deck: Concept, Design, and Experimental Validation

Thomas Keller, Julia De Castro San Roman Fest, Michael Osei-Antwi

The concept, design, and experimental validation of the new Avancon Bridge in Bex, Switzerland, are described. The lightweight glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) sandwich bridge deck adhesively bonded to steel girders, reduced the traffic disruption per ...

American Society of Civil Engineers2014

Effect of glass on the frictional behavior of basalts at seismic slip rates

Marie Estelle Solange Violay

We performed 31 friction experiments on glassy basalts (GB) and glass-free basalts (GFB) at slip rates up to 6.5 m s-1 and normal stress up to 40 MPa (seismic conditions). Frictional weakening was associated to bulk frictional melting and lubrication. The ...

2014

Stochastic Virtual Tests for High-Temperature Ceramic Matrix Composites

Varun Parameswaran Rajan

We review the development of virtual tests for high-temperature ceramic matrix composites with textile reinforcement. Success hinges on understanding the relationship between the microstructure of continuous-fiber composites, including its stochastic varia ...

2014

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