Sandwich structures with thin, strong skin layers on both sides of a thick, compliant and light core combine low weight, high bending stiffness, high strength and high buckling resistance. These structures find use in many applications such as aircraft, marine applications and wind turbine blades. When used for wind turbine blades the sandwich structures are mainly made from FRP laminate skins ...

TSL materials for ground support were initially intended to be used as an alternative to mesh or shotcrete. The first trials on TSL technology were initiated in Canada in the late 1980s (Archibald et al., 1992). Early research led to the development of a polyurethane based product. In the 1990s, numerous advantages in terms of speed of application and minimizing transportation of materials were...

A common lateral force resisting system for cold-formed steel (CFS) buildings consists of shear walls sheathed with oriented strand board (OSB). Previous experimental and computational research on CFS shear walls, as well as those with other framing materials, has demonstrated that the complex interaction of the fasteners with the sheathing is an important factor in the nonlinear behavior of th...

This paper presents the results of a laboratory investigation to determine the geotechnical properties of fresh municipal solid waste (MSW) collected from the working phase of Orchard Hills Landfill located in Davis Junction (Illinois, USA). Laboratory testing was conducted on shredded MSW to determine the compaction, hydraulic conductivity, compressibility, and shear strength properties at in-...

The design of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) landfills requires the selection of representative MSW material properties. The profession’s understanding of the mechanical response of MSW has evolved significantly in recent years, but many aspects of the response of MSW remain uncertain. A research project involving five organizations was conducted to systematically evaluate the factors that affect ...