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Damage Process of Composite Material with Randomly Oriented Fibers
A numerical procedure is formulated to make clear the damage process of composite materials with randomly oriented fibers. These composites often have complicated fiber oriented states,...

Fatigue Design and Reliability Analysis of CFRP Composites
The statistical fatigue properties of unidirectional (UD) T800/3631 carbon/epoxy composite laminates are investigated in this paper. Fatigue tests were conducted under rotating bending....

Structural Reliability of Wood Beam-Columns
A formulation for reliability-based design procedures of wood columns and beam columns is presented. The load carrying capacity of these structural members is obtained using a non-linear...

Reliability of Steel Columns Subjected to Buckling?Comparison of International Standard Codes of Design
Standard codes of design represent the phenomenon of buckling by means of a curve taking into account random structural imperfections. The author suggests a probabilistic method to evaluate...

Reliability Analysis of Axially Compressive Members
In the steel structure design code (TJ17-74) in China, a single curve was adopted for designing axially compressive members and the reliability of the column analyzed previously was based...

Reliability Synthesis of CFRP Laminated Plate
The paper presents a formulation of shift synthesis to improve the reliability of fiber reinforced plastic (FRP) laminated plates with uncertain elastic constants and lamina strength....

Reliability-Oriented Materials Design of Composite Materials
A basic formulation for evaluating safety index of unidirectional fiber reinforced laminate is presented. The proposed formulation is based on in-plane failure criteria of composite laminate...

Buried Structural Capacity of Insituform?
In July 1988, a test was conducted at Utah State University to determine the structural support that can be provided to a failing rigid pipe system through the use of the Insituform process....

Dynamics of Composite Tubes
A displacement-based stiffness method is used to study the characteristics of dispersive wave propagation in laminated composite cylindrical tubes. It is assumed that the tube is composed...

Design Considerations for a Ceramic Fabric Radiator
The design of an Advanced Ceramic Fabric (ACF) thermal management device for use in both interplanetary and near-earth space must consider several important aspects of the environment....

Structural FRP Composites
Fiber-reinforced plastics are only just being discovered by civil engineers. Long used in expensive military and aerospace applications, they are beginning to find their way into structures....

Structural Wood Products
This paper provides a description of available structural wood products. Traditional products such as lumber and plywood are being supplemented by new products that include composite lumber...

Damage Prediction in Laminated Composites with Continuum Damage Mechanics
A finite element model is developed for laminated composite plates experiencing fatigue load induced microstructural damage. Continuum damage mechanics based constitutive relationships,...

A Materials Study of Interleaved Bismaleimide Composites
One approach for improving damage tolerance in epoxy based composites involves interleafing of tough adhesive layers between plies of the composite prior to fabrication. Extension of this...

Resin Transfer Process Modelling: Computational & Experimental
In most cases, the resin transfer molding (RTM) researcher has a fundamental understanding of composites and possibly some mold design experience. The areas of resin flow dynamics and...

Combined Compression-Shear Experiments on Mortar-Aggregate Interfaces
Material interfaces between matrix and aggregate particles in cementitious composites such as concrete are considered to be a very important component of the material microstructure, which...

Structural Wood Composites in Bridge Construction
Wood composites, known collectively as Structural Composite Lumber (SCL), are a family of wood-based products that better utilize the available wood fiber of a tree. This paper describes...

Geocomposites Simplify Methane Barrier/Venting System Design
A case history describing the use of a geomembrane and geocomposite to simplify the design of a combined subsurface barrier and venting system is presented. The passive barrier and venting...

A Prestressed Kevlar/FRP Structural System
The strength/stiffness characteristics of a new lightweight composite structural system have been investigated in this study. The proposed system is constructed of FRP(E-glass/isophthalic...

An Extended Mixture Approach for Modeling of Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Materials
A rate-independent, anisotropic model for Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Materials (FRCMs) is presented. A continuum damage/plasticity model for the concrete and an effective fiber model...

 

 

 

 

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