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Deciphering tensile fatigue behavior of UHPFRC using magnetoscopy, DIC and acoustic emission

Eugen Brühwiler, Alain Nussbaumer, Jian Zhan

To explore the governing mechanism underlying the tensile fatigue behavior of Ultra-high Performance Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Composites (UHPFRC), this study tested eight specimens using four advanced non-destructive measurement techniques. First, mag ...

2025

Fluid Chemistry Effect on Localized and Ductile Deformation of a Porous Sandstone

Marie Estelle Solange Violay, Gabriel Gérard Dominique Meyer, Francesco Lazari

In geological reservoirs, pore fluid chemistry can affect rock strength by inducing mineral dissolution, precipitation, and alteration, among other processes. Increasing pressure and temperature can shift deformation from localized to ductile, decreasing p ...

2025

Tensile Properties of Ex-Situ Ti-TiC Metal Matrix Composites Manufactured by Laser Powder Bed Fusion

Roland Logé

Titanium-based Metal Matrix Composites (MMCs) manufactured by additive manufacturing offer tremendous lightweighting opportunities. However, processing the high reinforcement contents needed to substantially improve elastic modulus while conserving signifi ...

2024

Shear and steel-fibre reinforcement for the punching resistance of flat slabs at internal and edge columns

Diego Hernández Fraile

Reinforced concrete flat slabs consist of a continuous, thin concrete plate that rests on a grid of columns. The supporting surface of the columns is very small compared to the floor plan dimensions, leading to concentrations of shear forces near the colum ...

EPFL2024

Sequential CNN-based Enhancement of Ultrafast Ultrasound Imaging for Sparse Arrays

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Roser Vinals Terres

With the emergence of ultra-portable ultrasound systems, the need to reduce cost and complexity of ultrasound systems has intensified. Sparse arrays, employing fewer transducer elements to acquire images, offer a viable solution by effectively minimizing d ...

European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO2024

Uniaxial Cyclic and Tensile Tests on Structural Metallic Materials

Dimitrios Lignos, Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Selimcan Ozden

Experimental data is imperative to characterize the behavior of materials used in structural analysis models. The aim of this data paper is to establish a database of material-scale uniaxial experiments, primarily conducted at EPFL, to assist with simulati ...

ASCE-AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS2023

Polydimethylsiloxane microstructure-induced acoustic streaming for enhanced ultrasonic DNA fragmentation on a microfluidic chip

Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Thomas Lehnert

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is an essential technology for DNA identification in genomic research. DNA fragmentation is a critical step for NGS and doing this on-chip is of great interest for future integrated genomic solutions. Here we demonstrate fa ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Capillary flow in UHPFRC with synthetic fibers, under high tensile stresses

Emmanuel Denarié, Amir Hajiesmaeili

A novel Ultra High-Performance Fiber Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC) mix with synthetic fibers and a low clinker matrix, henceforth referred to as PE-UHPFRC, has been developed for structural applications. It exhibits a high tensile elastic limit above 7 MPa, ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2021

Towards aerospace grade thin-ply composites: Effect of ply thickness, fibre, matrix and interlayer toughening on strength and damage tolerance

John Botsis, Joël Cugnoni, Larissa Sorensen, Robin Amacher, Sébastien Kohler

Thin-ply composites represent a promising approach to further improve the performance of carbon fibre composite structures thanks to their ability to delay the onset of matrix cracking and delamination up to the point of fibre dominated failure. However, t ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2018

Efficiency Factors for Plastic Design in Concrete: Influence of Brittleness in Compression, High Tech Concrete: Where Technology and Engineering Meet

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Francesco Rafael Alberto Moccia

A large number of design approaches for structural concrete rely on the applicability of limit analysis. This is for instance the case of bending and shear design in members with transverse reinforcement, where it is assumed that plastic compression fields ...

2017

Development of physical and mechanical properties of a cold-curing structural adhesive in a dry bridge environment

Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Maria Savvilotidou

The effect of physical aging and continuation of curing on the physical and mechanical properties of a commercial cold-curing structural epoxy adhesive used in bridge construction has been investigated during the first year. Since adhesive bridge joints ar ...

2017

Intralaminar fracture of unidirectional carbon/epoxy composite: experimental results and numerical analysis

John Botsis, Georgios Pappas

Fracture of carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRPs) is dominated by large scale fiber bridging which acts as a very important toughening mechanism. The objective of this paper is to investigate the intralaminar Mode I fracture in a unidirectional CFRP com ...

Elsevier2016

In-situ repair of composite sandwich structures using cyanoacrylates

Véronique Michaud

A novel method for the in-situ repair of composite sandwich structures using microvascular networks and cyanoacrylate (CA) adhesive systems has been presented. Upon a damage event, the vascules become ruptured, providing a route for the introduction of adh ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2016

Process-induced strains in RTM processing of polyurethane/carbon composites

Véronique Michaud, Luis Pablo Canal Casado

The development of residual strains and stresses is critical to manufacture composite structures with the required dimensional stability and mechanical performance. This work uses Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors to monitor strain build-up in carbon fiber ...

Elsevier2015

Structural Behavior of R-UHPFRC - RC Composite Slabs

Maléna Bastien Masse

The application on existing Reinforced Concrete (RC) slabs of cast-on-site Ultra-High Performance Fiber Reinforced cement-based Composite (UHPFRC) layers is an efficient reinforcement technique, currently spreading. The thin layer of UHPFRC, with or withou ...

EPFL2015

Pozzolanic reactivity of low grade kaolinitic clays: Influence of calcination temperature and impact of calcination products on OPC hydration

Karen Scrivener

The influence of thermal activation temperature in the pozzolanic reactivity of low grade kaolinitic clay and the impact of calcination products in OPC hydration are assessed in this paper. The raw material, with approximately 40% kaolinite and 40% of 2:1 ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

On the Use of CFRP Sheets for the Seismic Retrofitting of Masonry Walls and the Influence of Mechanical Anchorage

Pierino Lestuzzi, Patrick Bischof

This work reports the outcomes of an extensive experimental campaign on the retrofitting of masonry walls by means of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) sheets, carried out at University of Applied Sciences (UAS) Fribourg. In the first stage, static-cy ...

Mdpi Ag2014

Discrete dislocation modeling of fracture in plastically anisotropic metals

William Curtin

The intrinsic lattice resistance to dislocation motion, or Peierls stress, depends on the core structure of the dislocation and is one essential feature controlling plastic anisotropy in materials such as HCP Zn, Mg, and Ti. Here, we implement an anisotrop ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2013