Publications related to Bending Response of a Book with Internal Friction

A novel fatigue life prediction methodology based on energy dissipation in viscoelastic materials, synergistic effects of stress level, stress ratio, and temperature

Thomas Keller, Abdolvahid Movahedirad, Lulu Liu

This work introduces a new methodology to predict the fatigue life of viscoelastic materials by considering the creep effect on fatigue behavior under the concurrent effects of stress level, stress ratio, and temperature. The model established based on the ...

2024

Damping of flexure blades based on bi-material additive manufacturing

Simon Nessim Henein, Florent Cosandier, Nicolas Blondiaux, Elias Sebastian Klauser, Loïc Benoît Tissot-Daguette, Nikola Kalentics, Lisa Salamin, Florent Alexandre Boudoire

Flexure-based mechanisms have become state-of-the-art solutions for the design of high-precision mechanisms, free from friction wear, backlash, and lubrication. These properties which are necessary for applications in ultraclean or harsh environments, neve ...

2023

Alternative PF Coil Winding Pack Design for the EU DEMO

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Roberto Guarino, Mithlesh Kumar

The EUROfusion DEMO machine is at its pre-conceptual stage. The design of the magnet system for this machine is being developed in collaboration with several European research centers. The Poloidal Field (PF) coils proposed by the Swiss Plasma Center (SPC) ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2021

Web buckling mechanism of pultruded GFRP bridge deck profiles subjected to concentrated load

Congzhe Wang, Yuqing Liu, Yun Sun

The web's local buckling is a major failure type of pultruded glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) bridge deck subjected to concentrated wheel loads. Three kinds of external actions-that is, in-plane shear force, local compressive force and bending moment ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC2021

Local structural effects in fiber-reinforced polymer web-core sandwich structures

Sonia Yanes Armas

Glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) pultruded decks and sandwich panels currently represent two of the most extensive applications of FRP materials for load-bearing structural components in the bridge and building domains. Based on the state of the art, ...

EPFL2017

Stress fields for the interaction of in-plane and out-of-plane forces in reinforced concrete shell elements

Marie-Rose Backes

Plane reinforced concrete (RC) elements are used in a large variety of structures. Their principal function is to carry forces that act in the plane of the element, but external actions and connections to other structural elements generally introduce addit ...

EPFL2017

Semi-Rigid Moment-Resisting Behavior of Multiple Tab-and-Slot Joint for Freeform Timber Plate Structures

Stéphane Nicolas Roche

Historically based on the transfer of ancestral know-how, the art of carpentry changed considerably at the beginning of the 21st century with the arrival on the market of engineered wood products (EWP) and computer numerically controlled machines (CNC). Th ...

EPFL2017

Shear in reinforced concrete without transverse reinforcement : from refined experimental measurements to mechanical models

Francesco Cavagnis

Since the first applications of structural concrete, the shear behaviour of one-way slabs without transverse reinforcement has been largely investigated. Nevertheless, currently in the scientific community there is no general agreement on the mechanisms of ...

EPFL2017

Punching strength of continuous flat slabs

Jürgen Einpaul

Reinforced concrete slabs with uniform thickness are common in residential and commercial buildings but can also be found in other types of structures. Such slabs are susceptible to punching shear failures, where a supporting column penetrates through the ...

EPFL2016

Interaction between in-plane shear forces and transverse bending moments in concrete bridge webs

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Marie-Rose Backes

This paper investigates a reliable design approach for reinforced concrete panels subjected to the combined action of in-plane shear and out-of-plane bending moments, which develop in webs of boxgirder bridges and similar structures. Neglecting this intera ...

Proc. of the 10th fib International PhD Symposium in Civil Engineering, Quebec2014

Resistance to LTB of steel bridge girders

Jean-Paul Lebet, Raphaël Thiébaud

Lateral torsional buckling (LTB), a complex phenomenon of instability, occurs when a beam is solicited by a bending force. In the area of steel and composite bridges girders which are characterised by slender plate girders, few experimental and theoretical ...

ECCS European Convention for Constructional Steelwork2014

Analytical modeling of local stresses at Balsa/timber core joints of FRP sandwich structures

Julia De Castro San Roman Fest, Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Michael Osei-Antwi

In order to optimize sandwich structures, core materials of different density and thus different stiffness and strength are often combined. The material discontinuities at joints of dissimilar core materials may lead to abrupt changes of the shear angles a ...

Elsevier2014

Shear Strength of Arch-Shaped Members without Transverse Reinforcement

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Stefano Campana

Arch-shaped members are used in many reinforced concrete structures such as tunnels, bridges, silos, or offshore constructions. They are generally designed to carry significant axial forces, and, in most cases, are not provided with transverse reinforcemen ...

ACI Structural Journal2014

Strength of arch-shaped members in bending and shear

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Stefano Campana

Arch-shaped members are widely used for construction of tunnels, bridges, silos and shells. These members are not typically provided with transverse reinforcement and may thus have a brittle behaviour at failure. When subjected to bending or shear, traditi ...

4th fib Congress, Mumbai2014

Modeling of axial and shear stresses in multilayer Sandwich beams with stiff core layers

Julia De Castro San Roman Fest, Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Michael Osei-Antwi

In order to optimize the load-bearing behavior of sandwich structures and adapt it to specific requirements, their core may be composed of layers of different materials with tailored properties. These layers may consist not only of soft foam or honeycomb m ...

Elsevier2014

Shear Thickening Fluid Impregnated Foam Composites for Vibration Control and Impact Protection

Mathieu Soutrenon

Highly concentrated suspensions of silica particles present shear thickening properties, shifting from a low to a high viscosity state, instantly and reversibly at a critical shear rate. Their viscosity increases by up to 3 orders of magnitude, changing fr ...

EPFL2013

Instability of Thin-Walled GFRP Webs in Cell-Core Sandwiches under Combined Bending and Shear Loads

Julia De Castro San Roman Fest, Thomas Keller, Behzad Dehghan Manshadi, Anastasios Vassilopoulos

An analytical investigation of the buckling/wrinkling behavior of GFRP webs in cell-core sandwiches subjected to combined in-plane shear and bending stresses is conducted. Web-core panels are modeled as long orthotropic plates stabilized by a relatively th ...

2012

Effect of load distribution and variable depth on shear resistance of slender beams without stirrups

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz

The shear resistance of elements without stirrups has mainly been investigated by test setups involving simply supported beams of constant thickness subjected to one- or two-point loading, and most of the formulas included in codes have been adjusted using ...

ACI Structural Journal2012

Fluid-Structure Coupling Effects on the Dynamic Response of Pump-Turbine Guide Vanes

Steven Roth

Hydraulic pump-turbines are subject to a high periodic excitation due to the Rotor-Stator Interaction, RSI. Basically, the RSI is caused by the impeller blade passage in the wake of the guide vanes in generating mode, or upstream from the guide vanes in pu ...

EPFL2012

Towards the Glass Transition in Vibrated Granular Matter

Alessandro Luigi Sellerio

Granular materials are large sets of macroscopic particles that interact solely via contact forces. The static behavior depends on the contact network and on the surface friction forces between grains; when they are set in motion (typically by vibrations) ...

EPFL2012