Cement concrete and concrete–polymer composites: Two merging worlds

JHDLBits: The Merging of Two Worlds

This paper introduces JHDLBits, the integration of two prominent FPGA design tools: JHDL and JBits. JHDLBits offers the low-level access and control provided by JBits with the high-level structural circuit design of JHDL. Furthermore, the JHDLBits flow provides greater control of resource manipulation, placement, and routing, and gives researchers a “sandbox” to explore advanced interactions wi...

Experimental Strengthening of the Two-way Reinforced Concrete Slabs with High Performance Fiber Reinforced Cement Composites Prefabricated Sheets

Reinforced concrete structures need to be strengthened and retrofitted for various reasons, including errors during design and/or construction, so in most cases strengthening of structural elements is much more economical than rebuilding the structure. Using HPFRCC with tensile stiffening behavior has been developed to strengthen the concrete structures over the recent few years. In this paper,...

Concrete Possible Worlds

in virtue of violating (C4): they are not fully determinate; it is neither true nor false of numbers, for example, that they are red, or weigh ten grams. But that is not how I see it. Indeed, the pure sets, or sui generis numbers, or Euclidean points have no intrinsic qualitative nature, but not because they are somehow abstractions from something else. Rather, they determinately fail to instan...

Multifunctional Cement Composites Strain and Damage Sensors Applied on Reinforced Concrete (RC) Structural Elements

In this research, strain-sensing and damage-sensing functional properties of cement composites have been studied on a conventional reinforced concrete (RC) beam. Carbon nanofiber (CNFCC) and fiber (CFCC) cement composites were used as sensors on a 4 m long RC beam. Different casting conditions (in situ or attached), service location (under tension or compression) and electrical contacts (embedd...

Mixed Reality : Merging Real and Virtual Worlds