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Wenbin Zhang, Yan Feng, Xiangqiang Zeng, Ming Xu, Liang Gong and Lijun Rui
A new type of assembled integral multi-ribbed composite floor system with novel wet joint and steel sleeve connections, which exhibits satisfactory strength and stiffness, was proposed in the previous study. To further study the flexural performances of ...
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Bin Ma, Yunfan Chu, Xiaolin Huang and Bai Yang
The performance indicators of concrete are mainly determined by the interface characteristics between cement hydration slurry and aggregates. In this study, molecular dynamics technology was used to evaluate the effect of the interfacial water content on...
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Bin Guan, Yunchun Dai, Tianyi Zhang, Peng Wu and Jiandong Zhang
In this study, an analytical approach is introduced for predicting the bending behavior of a timber?concrete composite (TCC) beam subjected to a mechanical load and a non-uniform temperature field, in which the orthotropy of timber as well as interfacial...
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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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Rasoul Najafi Koopas, Natalie Rauter and Rolf Lammering
Methodologies are developed for analyzing failure initiation and crack propagation in highly heterogeneous concrete mesostructures. Efficient algorithms are proposed in Python to generate and pack geometric features into a continuous phase. The continuou...
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Wutong Yan, Liangjiang Chen, Bing Han, Huibing Xie and Yue Sun
Interfacial slip effects and the unbonded phenomenon of external tendons are the key mechanical features of the externally prestressed steel-concrete composite beams (EPCBs). In this paper, an 8-node fiber beam element is built for the nonlinear analysis...
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David Z. Yankelevsky, Yuri S. Karinski and Vladimir R. Feldgun
Crack width is a major performance criterion in reinforced-concrete structures, in general, and is of utmost importance in ensuring bridge performance, in particular. A reliable theory-based method is required to assess crack widths and gain insight into...
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Xianqiang Zhao, Zhaoran Xiao and Qingshan Wang
This study aims to clarify the relationship between surface hardness and the peak interfacial frictional coefficient under different particle sizes. The relationship between particle size and the peak interfacial frictional coefficient with different sur...
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Jifeng Yuan, Jin Wu, Tian Su and Dadi Lin
Airport runway pavements often undergo the direct impact of aircraft landings. For the purposes of designing the structure, it is of great importance to know about the dynamic response of the pavement and its behavior under impact loading. However, the d...
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Amged El Hassan, Waleed Ahmed and Essam Zaneldin
In this study, a finite element model was developed, and a detailed analysis was carried out to investigate the impact of inclusions on the mechanical characteristics of a 3D-printed composite sandwich beam that could initiate when printing the layers, e...
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