High performance structure and materials VI /

High performance structure and materials VI / High performance structure and materials 6 High performance structure and materials six editors, W. P. de Wilde, C. A. Brebbia, S. Hernández. - Southampton : WIT Press, c2012. - 506 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - WIT transactions on the built environment ; v. 124 . - WIT transactions on the built environment ; v. 124. .

Section 1: Emerging structural applications

- An application of Taguchi's method to robust design of aircraft structures
- An analytical model for deformation analysis of wind turbine adaptive blades
- The application of actively tensioned membranes as form-work for complex curvatures in concrete structures
- Recent findings about combined size and rate effects on material properties
Etc.

Section 2: Material characterization

- Evaluation on mechanical properties of single trabecular in bovine femur
- Hole expansion of dual phase steels
- Effects of re-vibration on early age retarded concrete
- High-cycle fatigue characteristics of squeezed cast aluminium alloy smooth specimens cut from car wheels
Etc.

Section 3: Composite materials and structures

- Effective mechanical and transport properties of polysiloxane matrix based composites
- Shape optimal design of phases in composites: harmonic problem
- Experimental analysis of composite steel-concrete slabs
- Vibration of fiber reinforced anisotropic composite plates with nanofiber reinforced matrices
Etc.

Section 4: Content Mechanics

- Design of a vacuum based test rig for measuring micro adhesion and friction force
- Numerically and parallel scalable TFETI based algorithms for quasistatic contact problems of mechanics
- Parallel solution of contact shape optimization problems with coulomb friction based on domain decomposition

Section 5: High performance concretes

- High performance and serviceability of fiber reinforced concrete
- Fracture energy of hybrid polypropylene-steel fiber high strength concrete
- Tensile behaviors of highly flowable strain hardening fiber reinforced concrete
- Effect of silica fume and MIRHA on thermal conductivity of cement paste
Etc.

Section 6: Steel structures

- Damage mechanism for high strength steel part without diaphragm
- Elastically connected and offset members at Seville April Fair gateways
- Shear tests of hollow flange channel beams with stiffened web openings

Section 7: Natural fiber composites

- Mechanical performance of bacterial cellulose nanofiber-reinforced epoxy composites
- Effects of microfibrillated cellulose addition and water absorption on mechanical properties of jute/PLA composites
- Elastic and dynamic response characteristics of Kenaf/polypropylene composites
- Development of green composites using agricultural waste
Etc.

Section 8: Experiments and numerical analysis

- Proposal of sheet buckling design criteria for high strength steel under impact crushing
- Numerical analysis of the influence of deep energy level traps in SiC Schottky structures
- Bonded anchors in high performance concrete

Section 9: Transformable structures

- Transformable structures in architectural engineering
- Structural optimization of deployable scissor structures using new computational methods
- Four-dimensional design and analysis of modular footbridges in developing countries
Etc.



Includes bibliographical references : p.503-504
Index p. 505-506

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