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Lijun Ma, Meng Sun and Yunlong Zhang
In order to facilitate waste glass recycling and enable the monitoring of concrete structures, this study prepares a new type of self-sensing engineered cementitious composite (ECC) via the use of glass sand instead of silica sand. The health monitoring ...
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Maged Abdullah Esmail
The demand for network capacity has increased due to the introduction of new digital applications and services, which rely heavily on optical communication networks. While fiber networks serve as the optical networks? backbone, deploying fiber in certain...
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Akongnwi Nfor Ngwa, Birendra Chaudhary, Helio Matos and Arun Shukla
Experiments were conducted to investigate the dynamic buckling behavior of underwater hybrid composite tubes. The study focused on roll-wrapped hybrid layered glass-carbon fiber epoxy composite shells with a six-layer quasi-isotropic layup configuration....
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Omnia R. AbouEl-Hamd, Amr M. I. Sweedan, Bilal El-Ariss and Khaled M. El-Sawy
The strengthening of steel beams using hybrid fiber-reinforced polymers (HFRPs) has gained enormous attention over the last decades. Few researchers have investigated the effectiveness of the fastening techniques without a bonding agent to overcome the u...
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Kamyar B. Shahrbijari, Joaquim A. O. Barros and Isabel B. Valente
This article explores the application of the global resistance methods (GRMs) on the design of hybrid glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) and steel fiber-reinforced concrete (SFRC) beams. Addressing challenges posed by GFRP-reinforced beams, this study...
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Tzu-Hsun Lin and Ray-Yeng Yang
Floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) are one of the innovative solutions to achieve net-zero emissions. Given that Taiwan has abundant wind power resources in its western waters and wind farms are evaluated as potential sites, a strategic emphasis on ...
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Kai Qin, Renjun Yan, Wei Shen and Siyuan Gui
This paper studies the compressive failure behavior of pw-GFRP (plain-woven glass fiber reinforced polymer) sandwich composite L-joints for ships. Six L-joint specimens were subjected to ultimate compressive tests, which show that damage and stiffness de...
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Zhao Yang, Jiankun Li, Yilan Zhong and Xiaolong Qi
Although shape memory alloy/Polyvinyl alcohol (SMA/PVA) hybrid fiber reinforced cementitious composites, (SMA/PVA-ECC) exhibit excellent crack closure and deformation recovery capabilities, however, the research on their fundamental mechanical properties...
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Rulang Zhao, Yonghong Wang, Xiaofang Yu, Wanmao Liu, Daling Ma, Hongyan Li, Bo Ming, Wenjie Zhang, Qiming Cai, Julin Gao and Shaokun Li
Dehydration of maize grains in the field can reduce costs associated with drying after harvest. A delayed harvest approach after physiological maturity, in which plants stand in the field to allow the stems to dry, has been widely adopted in maize produc...
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Nima Khodadadi, Ehsan Harati, Francisco De Caso and Antonio Nanni
This article highlights the absence of published paradigms hybridized by The Cuckoo Search (CS) and Stochastic Paint Optimizer (SPO) for optimizing truss structures using composite materials under natural frequency constraints. The article proposes a nov...
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