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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

Suitability of Excavated London Clay from Tunnelling Operations as a Supplementary Cementitious Material and Expanded Clay Aggregate

Karen Scrivener, Franco Alberto Zunino Sommariva

London Clay is a marine geological formation that is relatively abundant in the London Basin area in the United Kingdom. It primarily originates from reworked Jurassic shale, greensand and chalk and lateritic Eocene soils with a mineralogy consisting of ka ...

2025

Influence of the Horizontal-to-Vertical Compressive Strength of Hollow Clay Bricks on the In-Plane Drift Capacity of Unreinforced Masonry Walls

Katrin Beyer, Savvas Saloustros, Ernesto Andrés Inzunza Araya

The seismic damage of masonry walls is reflected in cracks that tend to start at the head and bed joints and subsequently propagates through the masonry units. In this regard, the horizontal-to-vertical compressive strength ratio of bricks might have the a ...

2025

Quantification of nano-crystalline C-S-H in hydrated tricalcium silicate, Portland cement and fly ash cement using PONKCS method

Karen Scrivener, Xuerun Li

X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) was used to characterize and quantify nano-crystalline C-S-H in hydrated tricalcium silicate (C3S), Portland cement, and siliceous fly ash blended cement using Rietveld analysis with partial or no known crystal structure (PON ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2025

Achieving strength-ductility synergy in AISI 904L superaustenitic alloy through severe plastic deformation and post-deformation annealing

Mohammad Mobasheri

The evolution of microstructure and mechanical properties of AISI 904L stainless steel subjected to high-pressure torsion (HPT) and post-deformation annealing was investigated. A nanocrystalline microstructure with an average grain size of 48 nm was obtain ...

2025

Defining myocardial fiber bundle architecture in atrial digital twins

Alfio Quarteroni

A key component in developing atrial digital twins (ADT) - virtual representations of patients’ atria — is the accurate prescription of myocardial fibers which are essential for the tissue characterization. Due to the difficulty of reconstructing atrial fi ...

2025

Precious Metals recovery using novel metal-organic framework (MOF)

Jocelyn Richard Roth

Gold plays a dominant role in our modern society. Initially used in coinage and jewelry, it has become an essential metal for the electronics industries. Today, more gold is consumed than mined from virgin ores. Therefore, gold recycling methods have becom ...

EPFL2025

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

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

Improved Material Formulations for Thick Adhesive Joints in Wind Turbine Blades

Jialiang Fan

Wind turbine rotor blades are usually fabricated using composite materials and epoxy adhesive to bond the elements together. Due to their large size, the thickness of the adhesive layer varies from 1 to up to 30 mm depending on the position. The failure of ...

EPFL2024

Early detection of structural damage in UHPFRC structures through the combination of acoustic emission and ultrasonic stress wave monitoring

Eugen Brühwiler, Numa Joy Bertola, Thomas Schumacher

Ultra-High-Performance Fiber-Reinforced Cementitious Composite (UHPFRC) offers several advantages compared to concrete, notably due to the strain hardening behavior under tensile actions. Structures made of this composite material are lightweight and highl ...

2024

Experimental and numerical investigation of an additively manufactured sandwich composite bridge deck utilizing gyroid building blocks

Anastasios Vassilopoulos

This work investigates the integration of Additive Manufacturing (AM) techniques with cellular metamaterials integrated into composite sandwich beam systems. The study proposes an approach that combines composite materials for the face sheets with cellular ...

2024

The rise of aerial additive manufacturing in construction: a review of material advancements

Mirko Kovac, Yusuf Furkan Kaya

The construction industry has recently increased the adoption of additive manufacturing (AM, also known as 3D-printing) technologies. This review paper presents the state of the art of ground-based AM systems in construction, focusing comprehensively on de ...

2024

Reuse of concrete elements in architecture: characterisations and design methods for sustainable structures

Célia Marine Küpfer

Because of established demolition routines and low construction-material production costs that neglect negative externalities, discarded concrete today is crushed and landfilled or downcycled as infill material or recycled aggregates, wasting its embodied ...

EPFL2024

Highly anisotropic carbon fiber electrodes for DEAs and their dynamic non-monotonic conductive properties

Yves Perriard, Stefania Maria Aliki Konstantinidi

A common method for creating compliant electrodes for dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) and soft sensors is to incorporate electrically conductive carbon particles into a polymer matrix. However, using unidirectional aligned carbon fibers instead not o ...

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)2024

Designing Waste-Negative Floor Systems Made of Reused Saw-Cut Reinforced-Concrete Slab Elements

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Célia Marine Küpfer

Building demolitions are often triggered by reasons independent of their structural conditions, causing the disposal of large quantities of reinforced concrete in good condition. Today, this concrete is, at best, crushed into aggregates, causing the loss o ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2024

Experimental investigation of dowel action in reinforcing bars using refined measurements

Aurelio Muttoni, Marko Pejatovic

In typical reinforced concrete design, reinforcement is designed to carry axial forces, but it can also resist transversal forces by dowel action. This is usually neglected for simplicity's sake in the design phase, but it can be accounted for either expli ...

Ernst & Sohn2024

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

Pultruded carbon fibre reinforced polymer strips produced with a novel bio-based thermoset polyester for structural strengthening

Mateus De Assunção Hofmann

This paper presents the development and industrial manufacturing of a pultruded high-performance carbon fibre (CF) reinforced polymer (CFRP) composite strip using a bio-based unsaturated polyester (UP) resin containing more than 50% of its weight derived f ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023