Study on Plastic Coated Overburnt Brick Aggregate as an Alternative Material for Bituminous Road Construction by Dipankar Sarkar, Manish Pal, Ashoke K. Sarkar

“…Thus plastic coated OBBA is found suitable in construction of bituminous concrete road.…”
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Development and Application of Structural Health Monitoring System Based on Piezoelectric Sensors by Shi Yan, Jianxin Wu, Wei Sun, Haoyan Ma, Han Yan

“…In order to meet the needs of engineering applications, a portable piezoelectric concrete SHM system which uses the virtual instrument technology is proposed and produced in this paper. …”
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Sustainable coastal living spaces using shipping containers by Savaniu Ioan Mihail, Tonciu Oana, Francu Catalin

“…The comparative study between building a house using classical building solutions, reinforced concrete structure and brick masonry, and building the same house using maritime containers attempts to highlight the need to use these containers as coastal living space. …”
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Experimental Investigation of Impact Response of RC Slabs with a Sandy Soil Cushion Layer by Jianli Wu, Guotao Ma, Zhenhua Zhou, Xuefeng Mei, Xiewen Hu

“…The impact response of reinforced-concrete (RC) slabs covered with a sandy soil cushion layer was investigated using an outdoor rockfall impact test platform. …”
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Effect of Wrapping on Post-Tensioned Beams Strengthened with Natural Sisal and Jute FRP Using Finite Element Analysis by D. P. Archana, H. N. Jagannatha Reddy, R. Prabhakar, M. U. Aswath, Basavaraju Paruti

“…To assess the FRP retrofit, structural responses for strengthened and control post tensioned concrete (PTC) beams are compared, with strengthening using various wrapping methods. …”
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Experimental Study of Dowel Bar Alternatives Based on Similarity Model Test by Chichun Hu, Jiexian Ma, Jianying Zhao, Zhen Leng, Denis Jelagin

“…The load transfer efficiency, differential deflection, and dowel-concrete bearing stress for each case were calculated from these measurements. …”
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Insight into the Effect of Adhesive Interface on the Ultimate Capacity of the Double-Superposed Shear Wall by Wenying Zhang, Lianping Yang, Shaole Yu, Xinxi Chen, Xuewei Zhang

“…As a result of the different intensity grades between cast-in-situ concrete wythe and precast concrete wythe, the double-superposed shear wall with precast boundary elements (wall configuration W3) yields a higher ultimate bearing capacity than that with cast-in-place boundary elements (wall configuration W2), when the axial compression ratio exceeds 0.2, which is contrary to the results under 0.1 axial compression ratio. …”
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Synthesis and Properties of a Reinforcing Dust-Cementing Material for Thin Spray-On Liners in Mine Roadways by Gang Zhou, Shuailong Li, Yunlong Ma, Jianfei Ding, Mingguang Zhang

“…The sprayed concrete in mine roadways suffers from a prolonged exposure to the harsh environment in the underground mine, leading to its detachment which may compromise its supporting strength. …”
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CFD and Statistical Analysis of the Impact of Surface Physical Parameters on the Thermal Resistance of Layered Partitions in ETICS Systems by Arkadiusz Urzędowski, Andrzej Sachajdak, Arkadiusz Syta, Jacek Zaburko

“…The studies have shown that increasing the gap thickness between concrete and thermal insulation results in a thermal resistance increase. …”
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Comprehensive Rehabilitation of the Punta del Este Shopping Center After Fire Damage by Álvaro Leez, María Noel Pereyra, Patricia Vila

“…In total, over 150 concrete samples were collected for analysis, and the foundations were studied using indirect methods. …”
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Fatigue Crack Propagation Behavior of RC Beams Strengthened with CFRP under High Temperature and High Humidity Environment by Dongyang Li, Peiyan Huang, Guang Qin, Xiaohong Zheng, Xinyan Guo

“…In finite element model, simulation of CFL-concrete interface was based on the bilinear cohesive zone model under hot-wet environment and indoor atmosphere. …”
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Experimental studies to evaluate tensile and bond strength of Stainless-Steel Wire Mesh (SSWM) by P. V. Patel, D. D. Joshi, R. V. Makawana

“…Structural strengthening is vital to improve the load-carrying capacity of partially or severely damaged Reinforced Concrete (RC) elements. Fiber Reinforced Polymers (FRPs) are widely used for strengthening purposes. …”
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Impact of Radial Electrode Coverage on the Performance of Liquid-Deployed PMUTs: A Dynamic and Kinematic Study by Stephen Sammut, Edward Gatt, Ruben Paul Borg

“…PMUTs designed for integration into the pore solution of reinforced concrete structures need to operate effectively with liquid coupling fluids to ensure optimal sonic energy transfer into the structure. …”
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A Combined Modal Correlation Criterion for Structural Damage Identification with Noisy Modal Data by Manolis Georgioudakis, Vagelis Plevris

“…The performance and robustness of the proposed approach are evaluated with two numerical examples: a simply supported concrete beam and a concrete frame under several damage scenarios. …”
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Comment mobiliser les jeunes adhérents dans la gouvernance des coopératives agricoles ? by Hichem Amichi, Marie-Christine Henninger, Céline Peltier

“…This article presents a concrete implementation of an approach aimed to develop the mobilization of members and employees in this cooperative. …”
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Dynamic Response Analysis of an Asymmetric Coupled Vehicle-Track System Generated by Voided Elastic Two-Block Sleeper by Zhenxing He, Xinwen Yang

“…For the track system, the rails and the concrete two-block sleepers are the main vibration components. …”
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Shaking Table Model Test and Seismic Performance Analysis of a High-Rise RC Shear Wall Structure by Shujin Li, Cai Wu, Fan Kong

“…The building is a reinforced concrete structure, featuring with a nonregular T-type plane and a height 179.6 m, which is out of the restrictions specified by the China Technical Specification for Concrete Structures of Tall Building (JGJ3-2010). …”
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Electrochemical Mechanical Properties of Beam-Column Joints of Building Steel Structures under Impact Loads by Liu Qian

“…It is concluded that the bolt-type and external diaphragm-type steel tube column concrete and steel-beam concrete composite joints have better seismic resistance than the other five joints. …”
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Time-Dependent Reliability Analysis of RC Deep Beams considering Linear/Nonlinear Creep and Shrinkage Using ANFIS Network and MCS by Seyed Bahram Beheshti Aval, Mohsen Ghabdian

“…This paper comprehensively studies the effects of linear and nonlinear creep and shrinkage on shear strength and deformation of reinforced concrete (RC) deep beams through a time-dependent reliability analysis framework. …”
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SCIENTIFIC-METHODICAL PREREQUISITES FOR DEVELOPMENT OF THE STEEL COMPOSITIONS FOR INCREASE OF RESISTANCE OF HIGH-LOADED STAMPS OF COLD DEFORMATION by V. N. Fedulov

“…The basis of perfecting of the known steels composition with the purpose of using for solving of concrete production problem, in particular increase of instrument resistance, are examined in the article.…”
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