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A Microstructure-Based Model to Characterize Micromechanical Parameters Controlling Compressive and Tensile Failure in Crystallized Rock

A discrete element model is proposed to examine rock strength and failure. The model is implemented by UDEC which is developed for this purpose. The material is represented as a collection of irregular-sized deformable particles interacting at their cohesi ...

Springer Verlag2014

On the efficiency of flat slabs strengthening against punching using externally bonded fibre reinforced polymers

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Jürgen Einpaul, António Manuel Pinho Ramos, Duarte Miguel Viúla Faria

One possibility for strengthening existing flat slabs consists on gluing fibre reinforced polymers (FRPs) at the concrete surface. When applied on top of slab–column connections, this technique allows increasing the flexural stiffness and strength of the s ...

Construction and Building Materials2014

Dynamic mechanical properties of epoxy/flax fibre composites

Pierre-Etienne Bourban, Fabien Duc

The mechanical and damping properties were measured for unidirectional, 0/90 and twill 2/2 flax fibre (FF) composites containing 40 vol% of fibres in an epoxy matrix. All composites were processed by resin transfer moulding. The influence of the impregnati ...

Sage Publications Ltd2014

Scaling unreinforced masonry structures with hollow-core clay bricks for laboratory testing

Katrin Beyer, Sarah Petry

For a shake table test on a four-storey structure with both unreinforced hollow-core brick masonry (URM) walls and reinforced concrete (RC) walls, the test unit had to be constructed at half-scale. While past experience showed that testing RC structural el ...

2013

Concrete, from archeology to invention 1700-1769

Roberto Gargiani

The reemergence in the early eighteenth century of the technology and use of concrete provide the starting point for this first volume of the Treatise on Concrete. In this book are described and analyzed, for the first time, the various contributions that ...

EPFL Press2013

Effect of available entrainable material on a viscous gravity current including run-out characteristics and internal flow properties.

Christophe Ancey, Belinda Margaret Bates

It has long been accepted that entrainment of loose material by geophysical gravity flows such as dense snow avalanches and debris flows may change their behaviour significantly. Run-out distances and bulk-flow velocities are notable examples of susceptibl ...

2013

Fatigue behaviour of bridge deck slab elements strengthened with reinforced UHPFRC

Eugen Brühwiler, Tohru Makita

With the occurrence of higher and more frequent axle loads on roads, in particular bridge deck slabs are more severely solicitated by fatigue loading. To avoid heavy interventions for strengthening of bridge deck slabs, an improved building material is use ...

CRC Press/Balkema2012

Fabrication of membranes and microchannels in low-temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) substrate using novel water-based sacrificial carbon pastes

Thomas Maeder, Caroline Jacq

In this work, 3D structuration of LTCC (low-temperature co-fired ceramic) for microfluidics was studied, using two novel sacrificial carbon paste compositions. These pastes are based on graphite with a water-soluble vehicle consisting of polyvinylpyrrolido ...

Elsevier2012

Composite material comprising a precious metal, manufacturing process and use of such a material

Andreas Mortensen, Ludger Weber, Reza Tavangar Hamzehkolaei, Senad Hasanovic

Composite material combining: - a precious metal or an alloy containing a precious metal, - and a boron-based ceramic having a melting point above that of said precious metal and a density at most equal to 4 g/cm3. ...

2012

Freeze granulation: Powder processing for transparent alumina applications

Paul Bowen, Michael Stuer, Zhe Zhao

Use of freeze granulated powders is successfully used as an industrially viable alternative to loose powder sintering for transparent polycrystalline alumina (PCA). Freeze granulation with narrow granule size distribution was realized after suspension cond ...

2012

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