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The history of fiber-reinforced polymer composite laminate fatigue

Investigations of the fatigue performance of composite materials have accompanied their introduction in several engineering domains since the 1950s. An abundance of publications have emerged dealing with the experimental investigation of the fatigue perfor ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

Numerical Analysis of the Influence of Surface Roughness on Shear Strength of Cracked Concrete

Guillaume Anciaux, Mohit Pundir

Aggregate interlock is the mechanism via which normal and shear stresses are transferred across the lips of cracks in concrete . The fractal property of cracking surfaces in concrete plays a significant role in shear transfer across surfaces. Because of th ...

2019

Production and characterization of low-energy Portland composite cement from post-industrial waste

The utilization of post-industrial waste materials is often challenging due to environmental regulations. Additionally, the scarcity of raw materials for producing cement is generating the demand for alternate sources of materials. The current study explor ...

2019

Computational tools for the fatigue life modeling and prediction of composite materials and structures

Anastasios Vassilopoulos

Structural testing is probably the best and only way to reveal the actual performance of composite laminates, structural components, and complete composite structures under fatigue loading. Nevertheless, the high cost, and the multitude of loading cases a ...

Elsevier2019

MOF/polymer composite synthesized using a double solvent method offers enhanced water and CO2 adsorption properties

Wendy Lee Queen, Daniel Teav Sun, Shuliang Yang, Li Peng, Mehrdad Asgari

A double solvent method is for the first time used to synthesize a polymer composite that is constructed by a Ni-pyrazolate MOF and polydopamine (PDA). The resulting composite shows significantly enhanced water and CO2 adsorption properties compared to the ...

2018

Design of a Fiberglass Skateboard

Nowadays, composites materials are frequently used in many domains. For example, their use has permit great progress in the field of aerospace, by reducing the weight and increasing the resistance of many components. If this is an example of highly technol ...

2018

Influence of calcium and magnesium carbonates on hydration kinetics, hydrate assemblage and microstructural development of metakaolin containing composite cements

Mohsen Ben Haha, Pawel Tadeusz Durdzinski

The hydration of metakaolin composite cements containing quartz, natural limestone and dolomite rock is studied using a multi-method approach and modelling. The study demonstrates that the calcite present in limestone and dolomite rock is very reactive. Co ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2018

Shape memory alloys in fibre-reinforced polymer composites

Véronique Michaud, Amaël Maximilien Cohades

This article reviews the current state-of-the-art in the applications of shape memory alloy (SMA) wires into high performance fibre reinforced polymer composite materials (FRPs). SMAs have been investigated to date to address four main areas of properties ...

2018

Application of pre-stressed un-bonded CFRP for strenghthening of metallic structures

Ardalan Hosseini, Elyas Ghafoori

Application of carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites for retrofitting reinforced concrete structures has been extensively investigated and used in practice. Many studies demonstrated the beneficial influence of such composite materials for the ...

2018

Recent development in the multiphysical analysis and design of energy piles

Lyesse Laloui, Alessandro Francesco Rotta Loria

This study proposes an analysis of the multiphysical phenomena governing the thermo-mechanical behaviour of energy piles. The analysis is based on the results of a series of full-scale in-situ tests, laboratory experiments and numerical analyses. First, th ...

2017

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