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The construction sector is the largest consumer of non-renewable resources and the most significant contributor to CO2 emissions. Reusing entire components or reclaiming their constituent parts, instead of recycling structural elements at the material leve ...

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Filiform Variable Stiffness Technologies for Medical Robotics

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In recent years, soft robotics has surged in applications like wearables, drones, smart fabrics, and medical instruments. Due to their compliance, these devices excel in tasks demanding dexterity and adaptability, such as manipulation, locomotion, crash re ...

EPFL2024

Punching tests on edge slab-column connections with refined measurements

Aurelio Muttoni, Andri Setiawan

Due to the significant shear forces developing around columns and the potential brittle failure associated, the punching capacity of flat slabs is the main concern at ultimate limit state. An effective way to understand the behaviour of slab-column connect ...

2023

Modernising a monument: The challenges of strengthening and widening a structurally deficient road bridge under live traffic

Eugen Brühwiler

The historic Port Weir Bridge over the Nidau-Buren Canal in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland, was inaugurated in 1938. This multi-purpose structure serves as an important road bridge, a mechanised weir, a lock for canal boats, as well as a hydroelectric pow ...

Ernst & Sohn Verlag Architektur & Technische Wissenschaften Gmbh & Co Kg2023

TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODE-II DELAMINATION GROWTH IN COMPOSITE LAMINATES

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2023

Room-temperature strength of the interfacial bond between silica inclusions and iron

Andreas Mortensen, Alejandra Inés Slagter, David Hernandez Escobar

The strength of the interface between iron (Fe) and individual spherical silica (SiO2) inclusions of 5 +/- 1 mu m diameter is measured by means of in-situ micro-cantilever bending tests conducted under displacement control within a scanning electron micros ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2023

Auto-tuning ensemble models for estimating shear resistance of headed studs in concrete

Xianlin Wang

The shear resistance of headed studs is of paramount importance for the design of steel-concrete composite structures and an accurate predictive model is highly needed. Ensemble learning is expected to be a powerful solution while it relies on laborious se ...

2022

Proposed Panel Zone Model for Seismic Design of Steel Moment-Resisting Frames

Dimitrios Lignos, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Elkady, Andronikos Skiadopoulos

This paper proposes a new mechanics-based model for the seismic design of beam-to-column panel zone joints in steel moment-resisting frames. The model is based on realistic shear stress distributions retrieved from continuum finite element (CFE) analyses o ...

ASCE-AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS2021

Static behavior of Reinforced UHPFRC beams with thin cover depth

Eugen Brühwiler, Bartlomiej Wojciech Sawicki

Because of its high tensile strength and deformation capacity, UHPFRC (Ultra High Performance Fiber Reinforced Cementitious composite) can theoretically be used without any reinforcement bars or prestressing. However, for more economical design and for rea ...

2019

Can timber lower the environmental impact of tall buildings?

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Catherine Elvire L. De Wolf

The building sector is responsible for 30% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (UNEP, 2009). Recent energy efficiency measures have helped reduce the operational carbon related to the use phase of the building, but a lack of industry attention ...

Taylor & Francis Group2019

Effect of service temperature on the flexural creep of vacuum infused GFRP laminates used in sandwich floor panels

Thomas Keller

This paper presents an experimental and analytical study about the effect of temperature on the flexural creep of GFRP laminates produced by vacuum infusion. Such laminates are considered for use in the faces of sandwich panels for building floor applicati ...

Elsevier2016