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Material and structural performance of fiber-reinforced polymer composites at elevated and high temperatures

Yu Bai

As the range of applications for fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite materials in civil engineering constantly increases, there is more and more concern with regard to their performance in critical environments. The fire behavior of composite material ...

EPFL2009

Experimental investigation on temperature-dependent thermo- physical and mechanical properties of pultruded GFRP composites

Thomas Keller, Yu Bai

The temperature-dependent thermo-physical and mechanical properties of a pultruded E-glass fiber-reinforced polyester (GFRP) composite are investigated in this paper. Fitting of theoretical models of the material properties to results of TGA, DSC, hot disk ...

2008

Thermal and mechanical performances of GFRP sandwich structures with integrated amorphous silicon photovoltaic cells

Thomas Keller, Yu Bai

Applications of photovoltaic (PV) cells in buildings are often excluded from locations with major mechanical strains because of their brittleness and possible damages at small mechanical strains. Combinations of glass fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP) compon ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Modeling of thermal responses for FRP composites under elevated and high temperatures

Thomas Keller, Till Vallée, Yu Bai

Based on temperature-dependent thermo-physical property models developed previously, a one-dimensional model was proposed to predict the thermal responses of FRP composites in time and space domain, up to high temperatures. An implicit finite differential ...

2008

Modeling of thermo-physical properties for FRP composites under elevated and high temperatures

Thomas Keller, Till Vallée, Yu Bai

A decomposition model for resin in glass fiber-reinforced polymer composites (GFRP) under elevated and high temperature was derived from chemical kinetics. Kinetic parameters were determined by four different methods using thermal gravimetric data at diffe ...

2007

Modeling of stiffness properties of FRP composites under elevated and high temperatures

Thomas Keller, Till Vallée, Yu Bai

When subjected to elevated and high temperatures, the mechanical properties of FRP composites, such as the E- modulus and viscosity, experience significant changes. At a certain temperature, a composite material can be considered a mixture of materials tha ...

2008

Stress mitigation for adhesively bonded photovoltaics with fibre reinforced polymer composites in load carrying applications

Thomas Keller, Yu Bai

Structural loads, especially in-plane compression, may cause local buckling and debonding of the photovoltaic (PV) cells that are mechanically integrated with structural members and this may lead to degradation in their electrical performance. This paper p ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2019

Fire protection systems for building floors made of pultruded GFRP profiles. Part 1: Experimental investigations

Thomas Keller, Yu Bai

This paper presents results of experimental investigations on the behaviour of GFRP pultruded profiles exposed to fire, in order to study the viability of their structural use in floors of buildings, taking into account the fulfilment of fire resistance re ...

Elsevier2010

Fire protection systems for building floors made of pultruded GFRP profiles. Part 2: Modeling of thermomechanical responses

Thomas Keller, Yu Bai

A recently developed thermomechanical model to predict the time-dependent thermal and mechanical responses of pultruded glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) profiles subjected to fire was extended to include the beneficial effects of passive fire protecti ...

Elsevier2010

Modeling of mechanical response of FRP composites in fire

Thomas Keller, Yu Bai

A thermomechanical model is presented for predicting the time-dependent deflections of cellular FRP slab elements subjected to mechanical loading and fire from one side. The model comprises temperature-dependent mechanical property sub-models for the Young ...

2009

Modal parameter identification for a GFRP pedestrian bridge

Thomas Keller, Yu Bai

Dynamic experiments were conducted on an all-FRP composite pedestrian bridge. The structure was excited by impact and human-induced vibrations. The peak-picking method and stochastic subspace identification method were used to extract structural dynamic ch ...

2008

Fire endurance performance of cellular GFRP columns with water-cooling system

Thomas Keller, Christian Ludwig, Yu Bai

Experimental results on the fire endurance of full-scale glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) composite columns are reported in this paper. The pultruded four-cell profiles were first loaded to axial compression (uniform serviceability stress of 5 MPa) an ...

DEStech Publications Inc.2010

Bonded sleeve connections for joining tubular GFRP beam to steel member: Numerical investigation with experimental validation

Zhujing Zhang, Yu Bai

This paper investigates an innovative bonded sleeve connection for joining tubular GFRP and steel members. Experimental results focused on mechanical responses of beam-to-column specimens using bonded sleeve connections and conventional steel angle connect ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2016

A review of the fire behaviour of pultruded GFRP structural profiles for civil engineering applications

Thomas Keller, Yu Bai

Pultruded glass fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP) profiles are finding increasing applications in civil engineering structures, owing to the several advantages they offer over traditional materials. However, due to the combustible nature of their polymer mat ...

Elsevier2015

Design and Simulation of a Wide-Bandwidth CMUTs Array with Dual-Mixed radii and Multi Operating Modes

Yu Bai, Yihe Zhao

A capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) array with dual-mixed radii is designed to improve bandwidth and realize multi-modes operating for immersed ultrasonic applications. The two-size (TS) CMUT array is composed of two sub-arrays with d ...

IEEE2021

Dye-sensitized solar cells with solvent-free ionic liquid electrolytes

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Peng Wang, Yu Bai, Yiming Cao

We systematically studied the temperature-dependent physicochemical properties, such as density, conductivity, and fluidity, of 1,3-dialkylimidazolium iodides. In combination with the amphiphilic Z907Na sensitizer, we have found that it is important to use ...

2008

Structural performance of FRP composites in fire

Thomas Keller, Yu Bai

This paper reviews the experimental and modeling work that has been carried out concerning the behavior of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites in fire since the 1980s. The first part focuses on the thermophysical properties and temperature responses, ...

Multi-Science Publishing2010

Delamination and kink-band failure of pultruded GFRP laminates under elevated temperatures and compression

Thomas Keller, Yu Bai

Compression experiments were conducted on slender glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) laminates at different temperatures in the elevated range. Experimental buckling loads, lateral second-order deformations, and shear strength decreased with increasing ...

Elsevier2011

FCC Physics Opportunities: Future Circular Collider Conceptual Design Report Volume 1

Jie Gao, Caroline Antonioli Pletscher, Emilie Jocelyne Marc Solange Collot, Mathias Béguin, Beat Mueller, Abdel Perez Hernandez, Dora Patricia Valente Salgueiro, Michael Andrew Theodore Fowler, Tobias Hurth, Yi Zhang, Jan Steggemann, Hua Zhang, Elena Graverini, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Pierluigi Bruzzone, Jean-Michel Sallese, Mingkui Wang, Luca Rossi, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Thomas Rizzo, Rui Ning Wang, Mathias Oleg Knecht, Doohyun Kim, Yu Bai, Simon Van Mulders, Tatiana Pieloni, Nathalie Sophie Adeline Serra, Shourya Dutta Gupta, Juan Federico Esteban Müller, Philippe Schwaller, Xabier Sarasola Martin, Andrea Wulzer, Florian Patrick Marie Daniel De la Barre De Nanteuil, Rahul Kumar Gupta, Xavier Buffat, Michele Cascella, Fabio Avino, Andrey Denisov, Nicolas Andreini, Michael Schenk, Benedikt Moser, Anatole von Lilienfeld, Lorena Gonçalves de Alcântara e Freitas Krikler, Alexej Grudiev, José Luis Abelleira Fernández, Rafael Amorim Leandro De Castro Amoedo, Mukesh Kumar Tripathi, Francesco Cerutti, Sondre Vik Furuseth, Roberto Franceschini, Marco Drewes, Dragos-Adrian Seredinschi, Giovanni Migliorati, Vincenzo D'Auria, Ting-Yu Lee, Leonid Kahle, Luca Vecchi, Javier Barranco Garcia, Shang-Jung Wu, Guang Li, Alban Sublet, Darius Constantin Merk, Roberto Contino, Claudia Tambasco, Delio Aleardo Vicini, Xingyu Wu, Pablo Marcelo Perez Garcia, Jairo Camilo Quijano Perez, Andrea Thamm, Georgi Gorine, Jun Gu, Candice Megan T Young, Wanderson Oliveira Da Silva, Bernhard Auchmann, Léon Van Riesen-Haupt, Marc-Olivier Sauvain, Leonid Rivkin, Alexandra Sarabando de Carvalho, Soumya Banerjee, Agnieszka Chmielinska, Kim-Manuel Klein, Amirhossein Saba Shirvan, Craig Nowell, Peter Michael Vogel, Eva Maria Rodriguez Franco, José Luis Rivera Gutiérrez, Florent Philippe Maurice Duval, Lotta Maria Mether, Özdemir Can Kara, Franco Moretti, Charlotte Lorin, Sandra Aumon, Karin Irmgard Löw, Lucia Jimenez Rojo, Arturo Rivetti, Maria Rosaria Antonelli, Maximilian Nikolaus Bauer

We review the physics opportunities of the Future Circular Collider, covering its e(+)e(-), pp, ep and heavy ion programmes. We describe the measurement capabilities of each FCC component, addressing the study of electroweak, Higgs and strong interactions, ...

2019

Pultruded GFRP tubes with liquid cooling system under combined temperature and compressive loading

Thomas Keller, Yu Bai

An active fire protection system, liquid-cooling, was applied to pultruded GFRP tubes subjected to combined thermal and mechanical loading in order to maintain material temperature below the critical glass transition temperature. The use of an appropriate ...

2009