Definition of a Moisture Conversion Factor for the Durability Design of GFRP Materials for Civil Engineering Applications

2021 ◽  
pp. 2335-2346
Author(s):  
Mário Garrido ◽  
João Ramôa Correia ◽  
Md Toyob Shahid ◽  
Marina Machado
2010 ◽  
Vol 133-134 ◽  
pp. 917-922 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Sena-Cruz ◽  
Joaquim Barros ◽  
Mário Coelho

Recently, laminates of multi-directional carbon fiber reinforced polymers (MDL-CFRP) have been developed for Civil Engineering applications. A MDL-CFRP laminate has fibers in distinct directions that can be arranged in order to optimize stiffness and/or strength requisites. These laminates can be conceived in order to be fixed to structural elements with anchors, resulting high effective strengthening systems. To evaluate the strengthening potentialities of this type of laminates, pullout tests were carried out. The influence of the number of anchors, their geometric location and the applied pre-stress are analyzed. The present work describes the carried-out tests and presents and analyzes the most significant obtained results.


Author(s):  
Iulia-Adina Lehene

This paper is the second part of a work that aims to rethink the concept of beauty as close as possible to its essence and in a way that integrates the science of aesthetics with the field of construction. Within other theoretical and practical works, this study may be further used to physically reflect the definition of beauty in areas such as architecture, civil engineering or urban planning and support professionals in designing and building beautiful objects and constructions. However, it has to be added that the assumption that there must be a particular original aspect related to beauty that leads a human-made object to success, needs to be further identified. The approach to the concept of beauty is through a general philosophical perspective and partially through the areas mentioned above.The second part of the study includes the synthesised guidance provided by Monroe Beardsley through the theories on beauty from the nineteenth century until today. In addition, it comprises the scheme of concepts that characterised the beautiful in this time, including the lines that guided its study, previous ideas that support our later views on presented theory, and a brief exposition of Maslow's theory of human motivation followed by our theory on beauty and the conclusions.


2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 357-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sohel Rana ◽  
◽  
Subramani P ◽  
Raul Fangueiro ◽  
Antonio Gomes Correia

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