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Jiaqi Hu, Yin Gu, Jinhuang Yan, Ying Sun and Xinyi Huang
With the convenient and fast requirements for construction in bridge engineering, prefabricated assembly technology is widely applied in engineering construction. Typically, prefabricated bridge decks are connected through cast-in-place wet joints. Wet j...
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Hongzhang Pan, Yongmei Zhu and Mingjiang Fang
Maraging steel is the material of deep sea pressure equipment. The characteristics of corrosion fatigue crack initiation in 18Ni (250) were investigated by performing a tensile fatigue test under different loading conditions. The mechanism of corrosion f...
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?iga Unuk and Milan Kuhta
A nonlinear semi-numeric and finite element analysis of three-point bending tests of notched polymer fiber-reinforced concrete prisms was performed. The computational and experimental results were compared in terms of the load-displacement behavior. The ...
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Xiaojun Zhang, Zhuo Li, Zheng Wei and Wenxue Gao
Blasting technology is widely applied in various engineering applications due to its cost-effectiveness and high efficiency, such as in mining, transport infrastructure construction, and building demolition. However, the occurrence of cracking in the rea...
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Tao Wang, Weiwei Ye, Liyuan Liu, Aiguo Li, Naisheng Jiang, Le Zhang and Sitao Zhu
To investigate the impact of crack inclination angle on the tensile strength and characteristics of splitting failure in rock, split tests were conducted on fine-grained sandstone with pre-existing cracks under different crack inclination angle condition...
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Wenwen Liang, Lingye Leng, Hao Tian, Xiao Tian and Caihong Zhang
Clarifying the origins of fractures and adopting acceptable repair plans are crucial for the design, maintenance, and safe operation of concrete gravity dams. In this research, numerical simulation is largely utilized to investigate the reasons for fract...
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Michael Frenzel, Enrico Baumgärtel, Steffen Marx and Manfred Curbach
This article presents the cracking and load-bearing behaviour of carbon-reinforced prismatic concrete tensile specimens. Grids with different geometries and impregnations were used as carbon reinforcement. In addition, the roving surfaces were partially ...
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Ho Choi, Chunri Quan and Kiwoong Jin
This study focused on the in-plane rocking behavior of unreinforced masonry (URM) walls. Three URM wall specimens were designed and fabricated based on a typical masonry house in Korea. The experimental parameters were the layout of openings (its presenc...
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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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Xiaoqing Lu and Guanxi Yan
Most semi-circular bend (SCB) tests on concrete have been conducted with a pre-crack with a straight-through tip, thereby undermining the determination of the tensile fracture toughness (KIc). Therefore, the present study involved mixed-mode (tensile?she...
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