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Punching strength of continuous flat slabs

Reinforced concrete slabs with uniform thickness are common in residential and commercial buildings but can also be found in other types of structures. Such slabs are susceptible to punching shear failures, where a supporting column penetrates through the ...

EPFL2016

Q-holes

Andrey Shkerin

We consider localized soliton-like solutions in the presence of a stable scalar condensate background. By the analogy with classical mechanics, it can be shown that there may exist solutions of the nonlinear equations of motion that describe dips or rises ...

Springer2016

Transforming architectures inspired by origami

Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis

Paper folding is found across cultures for both aesthetic and functional purposes, with its most widely recognized exponent being the ancient art form of origami. More recently, there has been an upsurge of interest for translating origami designs into mat ...

2015

Influence of Fatigue Loading in Shear Failures of Reinforced Concrete Members without Transverse Reinforcement

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Francisco Manuel Maciel Natário, Juan Manuel Gallego Martín

Shear fatigue of reinforced concrete members without transverse reinforcement has been observed to be potentially governing for the strength of some structural members subjected to large live loads of repetitive nature (as traffic, wind or wave actions). A ...

Journal of Advanced Concrete Technology2015

Muscle Moment-Arms: A Key Element in Muscle-Force Estimation

Alexandre Terrier, Alain Farron, Philippe Müllhaupt, Christoph Anselm Engelhardt, David Ingram

A clear and rigorous definition of muscle moment-arms in the context of musculoskeletal systems modelling is presented, using classical mechanics and screw theory. The definition provides an alternative to the tendon excursion method, which can lead to inc ...

Taylor & Francis2015

Cell-mediated Fibre Recruitment Drives Extracellular Matrix Mechanosensing in Engineered Fibrillar Microenvironments

Mahmut Selman Sakar

To investigate how cells sense stiffness in settings structurally similar to native extracellular matrices, we designed a synthetic fibrous material with tunable mechanics and user-defined architecture. In contrast to flat hydrogel surfaces, these fibrous ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Delamination in cross-ply laminates: Identification of traction-separation relations and cohesive zone modeling

John Botsis, Joël Cugnoni, Ebrahim Farmand Ashtiani, David Enrique Alanis Rojas

Identification of traction separation relations is at the forefront of damage and fracture mechanics of composite laminates. Such relations are of particular interest in fracture of laminates consisting of layers of different fiber orientations. In this st ...

Elsevier2015

Turbulence in Rivers

Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca

The study of turbulence has always been a challenge for scientists working on geophysical flows. Turbulent flows are common in nature and have an important role in geophysical disciplines such as river morphology, landscape modeling, atmospheric dynamics a ...

Springer2015

The mechanical world of bacteria

Alexandre Louis André Persat

In the wild, bacteria are predominantly associated with surfaces as opposed to existing as free-swimming, isolated organisms. They are thus subject to surface-specific mechanics, including hydrodynamic forces, adhesive forces, the rheology of their surroun ...

2015

Computational Study of Saturated Flow Boiling Within a Microchannel in the Slug Flow Regime

John Richard Thome, Mirco Magnini

This paper presents a fundamental study of the flow dynamics and heat transfer induced by a slug flow under saturated flow boiling in a circular microchannel. Numerical simulations are carried out by utilizing the commercial CFD solver ANSYS FLUENT v. 14.5 ...

American Society of Mechanical Engineers2015

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