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Bora Pulatsu, Rhea Wilson, Jose V. Lemos and Neboj?a Mojsilovic
Unreinforced masonry (URM) walls are common load-bearing structural elements in most existing buildings, consisting of masonry units (bricks) and mortar joints. They indicate a highly nonlinear and complex behaviour when subjected to combined compression...
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Panagiotis D. Kordas, George N. Lampeas and Konstantinos T. Fotopoulos
The main purpose of this study comprises the design and the development of a novel experimental configuration for carrying out tests on a full-scale stiffened panel manufactured of fiber-reinforced thermoplastic material. Two different test-bench design ...
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Mohamed Elsaka and C. Guedes Soares
In pursuit of more efficient load-bearing solutions for ship deck panels of Very Large Crude Carriers exposed to vertical hull girder bending forces, laser-welded web-core sandwich panels are considered as an alternative to conventional stiffened panels....
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Rongchao Jiang, Zongyang Gu, Tao Zhang, Dawei Liu, Haixia Sun, Zhenkuan Pan and Dengzhi Peng
Thin-walled tubes have gained wide applications in aerospace, automobile and other engineering fields due to their excellent energy absorption and lightweight properties. In this study, a novel method of entropy-weighted TOPSIS was adopted to study the e...
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Dina U. Abdullina, Elena A. Korznikova, Volodymyr I. Dubinko, Denis V. Laptev, Alexey A. Kudreyko, Elvira G. Soboleva, Sergey V. Dmitriev and Kun Zhou
Structure evolution and mechanical response of the carbon nanotube (CNT) bundle under lateral biaxial compression is investigated in plane strain conditions using the chain model. In this model, tensile and bending rigidity of CTN walls, and the van der ...
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Yannian Zhang and Moncef L. Nehdi
This study investigates the behavior of cast-in-situ masonry cavity walls subjected to in-plane quasi-static loading. Thirteen cast-in-situ masonry cavity walls and one solid wall were tested under combined axial and quasi-static lateral loads. Test para...
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Giovanni Crisci, Francesca Ceroni and Gian Piero Lignola
Strengthening strategies and structural rehabilitation of existing buildings with innovative materials and techniques are today one of the main activities in the field of structural engineering. Externally bonded Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Matrix (FRC...
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Tae Young Ko and Sean Seungwon Lee
Rock fractures in geological conditions are caused not only by applied stress, but also by stress corrosion. Stress corrosion is an environmentally activated chemical process, associated with the fluid-assisted crack growth. Crack growth due to stress co...
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Hai-Bang Ly, Lu Minh Le, Huan Thanh Duong, Thong Chung Nguyen, Tuan Anh Pham, Tien-Thinh Le, Vuong Minh Le, Long Nguyen-Ngoc and Binh Thai Pham
The main aim of this study is to develop different hybrid artificial intelligence (AI) approaches, such as an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) and two ANFISs optimized by metaheuristic techniques, namely simulated annealing (SA) and biogeogr...
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Yu Zhou, Wu-Gui Jiang, Duo-Sheng Li and Qing-Hua Qin
The mechanical behavior of nanocomposites consisting of highly ordered nanoporous nickel (HONN) and its carbon nanotube (CNT)-reinforced composites (CNHONNs) subjected to a high temperature of 900 K is investigated via molecular dynamics (MD) simulations...
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