TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilde,W.P.de
AU  - Brebbia,C.A.
AU  - Hernández,S.
ED  - International Conference on High Performance Structures and Materials
ED  - Wessex Institute of Technology.
ED  - Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
ED  - Universidade da Coruña.
TI  - High performance structure and materials VI
T2  - WIT transactions on the built environment
SN  - 9781845645960
SN  - 17464498 
U1  - 691 22
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Southampton
PB  - WIT Press
KW  - Building materials
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Composite materials
N1  - 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
ER  -