in this study the effect of using multi-walled carbon nanotube (mwcnt) on flexural and compressive strengths, ultimate displacement and energy absorption capability of standard cement mortar considering different weight percentages of nanotubes as well as different dispersion methods has been investigated. influential point in adding nanotubes to the composites is their proper dispersion, which...

When testing multi-story structures on a shaking table, most testing facilities require a reduced scale model. Producing scale test units at small scale is particularly challenging for unreinforced masonry structures. Previous work by other researchers showed that scaling of units and mortar joints is mandatory in order to obtain for the reduced scale masonry failure modes, which are similar to...

The balancing domain decomposition method for mixed nite elements by Cowsar, Mandel, and Wheeler is extended to the case of mortar mixed nite elements on non-matching multiblock grids. The algorithm involves an iterative solution of a mortar interface problem with one local Dirichlet solve and one local Neumann solve per subdomain on each iteration. A coarse solve is used to guarantee that the ...

One research field in Leipzig deals with the design of high strength lightweight-aggregate concretes (HSLWAC). Due to the huge waveband of this concretes with all possible combinations of lightweight-aggregates and mortar matrix the formulation of general rules is difficult. Therefore both components lightweight-aggregates and mortar matrix will be investigated in detail in order to achieve a d...

In this paper, the influence of aggregate size and volume fraction on shrinkage induced micro-cracking and permeability of concrete and mortar was investigated. Nonlinear finite element analyses of model concrete and mortar specimens were performed. The aggregate diameter was varied between 2 and 16 mm. Furthermore, a range of volume fractions between 0.1 and 0.5 was studied. The nonlinear anal...

Talisadya churna was prepared by pounding the individual ingredients in mortar and pestle and mixie. The Curna prepared by pounding the ingredients in mortar and pestle showed higher exhaustive extraction in hexane and solubility in alcohol. The Curna prepared by grinding the ingredients in mixie showed less acid insoluble content, high volatile matter, water soluble matter, and exhaustive extr...

This paper proposes a mortar finite element method for solving the two-dimensional second-order elliptic problem with jumps in coefficients across the interface between two subregions. Non-matching finite element grids are allowed on the interface, so independent triangulations can be used in different subregions. Explicitly realizable mortar conditions are introduced to couple the individual d...

The stability and convergence of nonconforming hp finite-element methods, in particular, the mortar finite-element method and its variants, are established based on a new stability measure for these methods. Using a generalized eigenvalue analysis, estimates for this measure are computed numerically. Our numerical results demonstrate that these nonconforming methods prove to be good candidates ...

In this paper, a general framework for the analysis of multigrid methods for mortar finite elements is considered. The numerical realization is based on the algebraic saddle point formulation arising from the discretization of second order elliptic equations on nonmatching grids. Suitable discrete Lagrange multipliers on the interface guarantee weak continuity and an optimal discretization sche...

abstract the mosaic art as a decorative element in buildings enjoys several thousand years of age in egypt, mesopotamia, greece, rome and byzantium and is widely usedbut technically speaking, the earliest mosaic forms have poorly made. they were made by insertion of fruit cores or broken pottery pieces in the wet mud mortar of walls. later, the art evolved rapidly and extensively used for archi...