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This paper reports on a structural concept for engineering structures composed of FRP components to provide system ductility that compensates for the lack of material ductility inherent to FRP materials. The concept includes the use of redundant structural ...
This paper describes the quasi-static and fatigue performance of hybrid bridge girders composed of cellular FRP bridge decks and steel girders. The FRP bridge deck is connected adhesively to the steel girders and acts as the top chord of the hybrid section ...
This paper presents a fabrication of polymer microchips with homogeneous material technique due to surface treatment by plasma before sealing. UV laser photoablation was used for fast prototyping of microstructures, and oxygen plasma was used as a surface ...
Protrusion, the first step of cell migration, is driven by actin polymerization coupled to adhesion at the cell's leading edge. Polymerization and adhesive forces have been estimated, but the net protrusion force has not been measured accurately. We arrest ...
This paper describes the behavior of hybrid girders consisting of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) bridge decks adhesively connected to steel main girders. Two large-scale girders were experimentally investigated at the serviceability and ultimate limit stat ...
A low temperature method of bonding two polymer sheets (2, 3) without adhesive, at least one of said polymer sheets comprising a microstructure (1) or a network of microstructures, comprises the steps of treating at least a portion of one surface of one of ...
The present work analyses silicon oxide coated polyester films, with attention paid to the effect of substrate process additives on the coating defect population, and on the coated film mechanical properties. The defect population is characterized by means ...
Unsaturated Polyester (UP) resins are extensively used as a matrix for the production of composites due to their low cost and versatility. Their significant polymerization shrinkage has however a negative impact on the dimensional stability of the molded p ...
In this thesis, an original law of adhesion is developed and then coupled to the classical law of unilateral contact with threshold friction, in order to study the phenomenon of fibre/matrix debonding in composite materials. This tribological law is develo ...
Dendritic hyperbranched polymers have been shown to be able to double the interlaminar fracture resistance of epoxy-based composites and to reduce the internal stress level by as much as 80% with only 10 phr of modifier. These property improvements were ob ...