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A consistent safety format and design approach for brittle systems and application to textile reinforced concrete structures

Aurelio Muttoni, Qianhui Yu, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Patrick Lorenzo Valeri

Design and verification of structures in modern codes of practice account for a safety format, ensuring that the probability of failure does not exceed a given threshold. Although specific safety formats are proposed in some cases for special types of stru ...

2021

SIMPLE code: Optical properties with optimal basis functions

Nicola Marzari, Gianluca Prandini, Paolo Umari

We present SIMPLE, a code developed to calculate optical properties of metallic and insulating extended systems using the optimal basis method originally proposed by E.L. Shirley in 1996. Two different approaches for the evaluation of the complex dielectri ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Bound and Conquer: Improving Triangulation by Enforcing Consistency

Martin Vetterli, Adam James Scholefield, Alireza Ghasemi

We study the accuracy of triangulation in multi-camera systems with respect to the number of cameras. We show that, under certain conditions, the optimal achievable reconstruction error decays quadratically as more cameras are added to the system. Furtherm ...

2019

A Framework to Evaluate the Benefit of Seismic Upgrading

Pierino Lestuzzi, Clotaire Michel

The framework to evaluate the benefit of seismic upgrading of Galanis et al. (2018) is compared to that present in the Swiss seismic code for existing buildings since 2004, updated in 2017. To illustrate the comparison, the example building of Galanis et a ...

2019

FRP-to-concrete debonding - global and local bond behaviour

Ardalan Hosseini

FRP (fiber reinforced polymer) strips are used to flexurally strengthen reinforced concrete (RC) beams. The global bond strength namely the maximum transferable bond stress due to the increase of FRP tensile stress in a cracked concrete element (subsequent ...

2018

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

Code and its image: the functions of text and visualisation in a code-based design studio

Jeffrey Huang, Mark Meagher, Guillaume Labelle, Nathaniel Zuelzke, Trevor Patt

Traditionally, design learning in the architecture studio has taken place through a combination of individual work and joint projects. The introduction of code-based design practices in the design studio has altered this balance, introducing new models of ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2015

Uncertainty Quantification and Representativity Analysis of the LWR-PROTEUS Phase II Experimental Campaign

Daniel Jerôme Siefman

The LWR-PROTEUS Phase II experimental program was conducted at the Proteus research reactor at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in the early 2000s. One of its purposes was to gain more insight into the reactivity changes caused by fuel burnup and to devel ...

2015

Stretched-exponential a-Si:H/c-Si interface recombination decay

Christophe Ballif, Stefaan De Wolf

The electronic properties of hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) relax following stretched exponentials. This phenomenon was explained in the past by dispersive hydrogen diffusion, or by retrapping included hydrogen motion. In this letter, the authors ...

2008

Shear strength of members without transverse reinforcement as function of critical shear crack width

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz

This paper investigates the shear strength of beams and one-way slabs without stirrups based on the opening of a critical shear crack. The shear-carrying mechanisms after the development of this crack are investigated. On this basis, a rational model is de ...

ACI Structural Journal2008

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