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Local structural effects in fiber-reinforced polymer web-core sandwich structures

Glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) pultruded decks and sandwich panels currently represent two of the most extensive applications of FRP materials for load-bearing structural components in the bridge and building domains. Based on the state of the art, ...

EPFL2017

Influence of Lap Splices on the Deformation Capacity of RC Walls. I: Database Assembly, Recent Experimental Data, and Findings for Model Development

Katrin Beyer, João Saraiva Esteves Pacheco de Almeida, Danilo Tarquini, Ovidiu Prodan

Recent postearthquake missions have shown that reinforced concrete (RC) wall buildings can experience critical damage owing to lap splices, which led to a recent surge in experimental tests of walls with such constructional details. Most of the 16 wall tes ...

Asce-Amer Soc Civil Engineers2017

Stress fields for the interaction of in-plane and out-of-plane forces in reinforced concrete shell elements

Marie-Rose Backes

Plane reinforced concrete (RC) elements are used in a large variety of structures. Their principal function is to carry forces that act in the plane of the element, but external actions and connections to other structural elements generally introduce addit ...

EPFL2017

The Critical Shear Crack Theory for punching design: from a mechanical model to closed-form design expressions

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz

The Critical Shear Crack Theory (CSCT) is a consistent approach used for shear design of one- and two-way slabs failing in shear and punching shear respectively. The theory is based on a mechanical model allowing to determine the amount of shear force that ...

2016

Seismic behaviour and analysis of U-shaped RC walls

Raluca-Tereza Constantin

In many countries of moderate to high seismicity, reinforced concrete (RC) core walls are used as lateral bracing systems in mid- to high-rise buildings where they typically accommodate lift shafts or stair cases. Unlike planar walls which provide horizont ...

EPFL2016

Characterization of rotational behavior of web-flange junctions of pultruded GFRP bridge decks

Thomas Keller, Julia De Castro San Roman Fest, Sonia Yanes Armas

The rotational behavior of the web-flange junctions (WFJs) of a pultruded GFRP bridge deck system was investigated. The rotational response of three WFJ types was characterized. An experimental procedure based on three-point bending and cantilever experime ...

2016

Electro-mechanical sensing in freestanding monolayered gold nanoparticle membranes

Jürgen Brugger

The electro-mechanical sensing properties of freestanding monolayered membranes of dodecanethiol coated 7 nm gold nanoparticles (NPs) are investigated using AFM force spectroscopy and conductive AFM simultaneously. The electrical resistance of the NP membr ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016

Shear failures in reinforced concrete members without transverse reinforcement: An analysis of the critical shear crack development on the basis of test results

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Francesco Cavagnis

Shear in concrete members without transverse reinforcement can be carried by various potential sheartransfer actions, whose activation depends much on the actual cracking pattern and kinematics at failure. Failures can occur in a progressive manner (at the ...

Engineering structures2015

Probing the Strength and Fracture Toughness of Hard Second Phases at the Micron Scale

Andreas Mortensen, Marco Cantoni, Goran Zagar, Andreas Rossoll, Martin Guillermo Mueller, Václav Pejchal, Marta Fornabaio, Lionel Michelet

It is known that the mechanical properties of composite materials and alloys are influenced by the intrinsic mechanical properties of their reinforcements or second phases. It is however challenging to determine such local properties, given their small siz ...

2015

Limit states of modern unreinforced clay brick masonry walls subjected to in-plane loading

Katrin Beyer, Sarah Petry

Recent research showed that the in-plane horizontal displacement capacity of unreinforced masonry (URM) walls depends on numerous factors that are not yet captured by current empirical drift capacity models; e.g., axial stress, shear span, geometry of the ...

Springer Verlag2015

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