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Engineering the Mechanics of Microstructured Hydrogels

Nature creates hydrogels--soft, water-rich materials--with stiffness and toughness spanning over six orders of magnitude. These materials fulfill diverse biological functions tailored to mechanical demands. Inspired by this versatility, synthetic hydrogels ...

EPFL2025

Methodology for Calibrating Fatigue Load Models for Composite Road Bridges

Thomas Keller, Lulu Liu

Current fatigue load models (FLMs) for road bridges are typically calibrated based on steel and reinforced-concrete bridges. These models are not likely applicable to fiber–polymer composite bridges, primarily because the damage rate—defined as the slope o ...

2025

Novel multi-crack damage approach for pultruded fiber-polymer web-flange junctions

Thomas Keller

This paper aims to propose a novel approach to assess the multi-crack behavior of layered fiber-polymer composites. The Compliance and R-curves generated from this novel approach were useful to understand the multiple delamination process, enabling to eval ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2023

Experimental investigation of two-dimensional Mode-II delamination in composite laminates

Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Congzhe Wang

The two-dimensional (2D) delamination growth in composite laminates under the Mode-II fracture condition was experimentally investigated using a novel set-up. Circular plate specimens with a centrally embedded pre-crack of two sizes were semi-clamped along ...

2023

Exploring the potential of the critical shear crack theory for reinforced and post-tensioned glass beams: Initial analysis and experiments

Alain Nussbaumer, Pieter Christian Louter, Jagoda Cupac

In the evolution of structural glass beam elements, the requirements for post-fracture load bearing capacity and safe failure behaviour have led to the development of reinforced and post-tensioned beams. Maximum bending capacity in the post-fracture state ...

2023

Simulation and experimental characterization of VC precipitation and recovery stress formation in an FeMnSi-based shape memory alloy

Christian Leinenbach

In this study, TC-PRISMA was employed to simulate the precipitation (number density and radius) of an FeMnSi-based shape memory alloy (FeMnSi-SMA), with a chemical composition of Fe-17Mn-5Si-10Cr-4Ni-1(V, C) (wt%), during one-step and two-step aging proces ...

2023

Prediction of crack nucleation and propagation in porous ceramics using the phase-field approach

Arata Nakajo

The relevance of the phase-field approach to simulate the fracture in porous ceramics has been investigated. For this purpose, the conditions for the crack initiation using the phase-field model have been compared to the theoretical predictions of the coup ...

ELSEVIER2022

Testing mechanical performance of adhesively bonded composite joints in engineering applications: an overview

Anastasios Vassilopoulos

The development of new adhesives has allowed to expand the application of bonding into the most diverse industrial fields. This review article presents the commonly used experimental methods for the investigation of mechanical performance of adhesively bon ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2022

A decohesion pathway for hydrogen embrittlement in nickel: Mechanism and quantitative prediction

William Curtin, Xiaoqing Zhou, Ali Tehranchi

Hydrogen embrittlement (HE) is a ubiquitous and catastrophic mode of fracture in metals. Here, embrittlement is considered as an intrinsic ductile-brittle transition at the crack tip, where H at the crack tip can reduce the stress intensity K-Ic for cleava ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Resistance and ductility of FRP composite hybrid joints

Thomas Keller, Lulu Liu

An experimental investigation of the load-bearing behavior and ductility of FRP hybrid double-lap joints composed of both adhesively-bonded and bolted connection parts was conducted. Amongst other things, the effects of the adherends’ fiber architecture (u ...

2020

Strengthening of metallic members under mixed mode fatigue loading using prestressed CFRP plates

Ardalan Hosseini

The strengthening of existing steel structures against high-cycle fatigue (HCF) loading has become one of the most important topics of interest in structural rehabilitation. Apart from the conventional strengthening techniques that incorporate bulky and he ...

EPFL2019

Enhancing Punching Strength and Deformation Capacity of Flat Slabs

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Raffaele Cantone

Punching reinforcement systems have significantly developed in recent years as they allow enhancing the punching resistance of slab-column connections as well as their deformation capacity. These systems, with varying geometry and layout, normally consist ...

2019

On the benefits of a stress criterion for the simulation of cup drawing process

Roland Logé

Experimental and numerical cup drawing process has been investigated on 0.65 mm zinc sheets. The cup exhibits anisotropic earrings due to the material microstructure. The material formability is studied through elliptical bulge tests in the rolling, diagon ...

Springer France2018

Recent improvements of the Critical Shear Crack Theory for punching shear design and its simplification for code provisions

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, João Tiago Ramos Bernardo de Santa Rita Simões

In 1960, Kinnunen and Nylander presented a mechanical approach for calculating the punching resistance of slab-column connections. That approach accounted for the response of a slab sector and considered failure to occur on the basis of the strains develop ...

2018

Shell Modelling Strategies for the Assessment of Punching Shear Resistance of Continuous Slabs

Aurelio Muttoni, Raffaele Cantone

The punching shear resistance formulation provided by Model Code 2010 is calibrated on the basis of experimental tests on isolated slabs supported on columns. According to Level of Approximation approach, several quantities are required for the design punc ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2018

Crack growth and fracture toughness of amorphous Li-Si anodes: Mechanisms and role of charging/discharging studied by atomistic simulations

William Curtin, Seyed Mostafa Khosrownejad

Fracture is the main cause of degradation and capacity fading in lithiated silicon during cycling. Experiments on the fracture of lithiated silicon show conflicting results, and so mechanistic models can help interpret experiments and guide component desig ...

Elsevier2017

Mixed mode fracture properties of GFRP-adhesive interfaces based on video gauge and acoustic emission measurements from specimens with adherend fibres normal to the interfaces

Thomas Keller, Wei Sun

Mixed-mode bending tests were performed on fifty-three GFRP-adhesive-GFRP specimens. In each specimen the pre-crack was located near the GFRP adherend with fibres normal to the GFRP-adhesive interface, so as to encourage crack propagation along this interf ...

Elsevier2017

Fatigue behaviour of CHS tubular bracings in steel bridges

Alain Nussbaumer, Cláudio Alexandre Pereira Baptista, Saad Kannuna

The structural solution for cross girder bracings or box girder diaphragms in steel bridges is often made with tubular elements, specially efficient if compression is required for structural behaviour. The connection between the tubular elements and the gi ...

Elsevier2017

The influence of through-thickness reinforcement geometry and pattern on delamination of fiber-reinforced composites: Part II - Modeling

Véronique Michaud, John Botsis, Georgios Pappas

This article reports modeling techniques and results based on experimental Mode I characterization of a layered woven GFRP material with tufting reinforcement. Standard tuft and loop-less geometries are investigated on three different areal patterns to eva ...

Elsevier2017

Studies on Traction Separation Relations in Fracture of Layered Composites : Experiments and Modeling

Georgios Pappas

Layered fiber reinforced composite materials are prone to fracture in planes parallel to the direction of fibers leading to extensive delamination or intralaminar fracture. This phenomenon of crack propagation is frequently accompanied by significant incre ...

EPFL2017