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Cast-in-place thin layers of Ultra-High Performance Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Composites (UHPFRC) on the specific zones of existing reinforced concrete (RC) bridge decks has been demonstrated to be a technically efficient and economic rehabilitation an ...

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Probing the local strength and toughness of microscopic hard second phases in metals and composites

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Many engineering alloys and composites combine a ductile matrix with discrete microscopic reinforcing phases, e.g. silicon particles in aluminium alloys, carbides in steels or ceramic particles in metal matrix composites. It is well understood that the mec ...

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Probing the local strength and toughness of microscopic hard second phases in alloys and composites

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Many engineering alloys and composites combine a ductile matrix with discrete microscopic reinforcing phases. It is known that the mechanical properties of such alloys and composites are strongly influenced by those of those reinforcing phases; however, su ...

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The effect of mechanical strain on the binding energy of adsorbates to late transition metals is believed to be entirely controlled by electronic factors, with tensile stress inducing stronger binding. Here we show, via computation, that mechanical strain ...

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Failure of Ceramic Composites in Non-Uniform Stress Fields

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Continuous-fiber ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) are of interest as hot-section components in gas turbine engines due to their refractoriness and low density relative to metallic alloys. In service, CMCs will be subjected to spatially inhomogeneous temper ...

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Matrix cracking of fiber-reinforced ceramic composites in shear

Varun Parameswaran Rajan

The mechanics of cracking in fiber-reinforced ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) under general loadings remains incomplete. The present paper addresses one outstanding aspect of this problem: the development of matrix cracks in unidirectional plies under she ...

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We present a methodology for determining stress distributions ahead of blunt notches in plates of fiber-reinforced ceramic–matrix composites subject to uniaxial tensile loading, accounting for the effects of inelastic straining due to matrix cracking. The ...

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Effects of non-uniform strains on tensile fracture of fiber-reinforced ceramic composites

Varun Parameswaran Rajan

Effects of non-uniform strains on tensile fracture of fiber-reinforced ceramic–matrix composites have not been satisfactorily explained by existing mechanics-based models. In this paper, we use an exact model of fiber fragmentation under global load sharin ...

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