The durability of concrete structures can effectively be enhanced by using stainless steel rather than ordinary reinforcements under harsh service conditions. Because the basic mechanical properties and stress-strain relationship obviously differ from those reinforcements, current design codes for reinforced are not appropriate steel-reinforced concrete. On basis research works reported in past...

The aim of this study was to analyze the factorial invariance and latent means differences of the Spanish version of the School Refusal Assessment Scale-Revised for Children (SRAS-R-C) in a sample of 1,078 students (50.8% boys) aged 8-11 years (M = 9.63, SD = 1.12). The results revealed that the proposed model in this study, with a structure of 18 items divided into four factors (Negative Affec...

Translocations have become an increasingly valuable tool for conservation in recent years, but assessing the successfulness of translocations and identifying factors that contribute to their success continue to challenge biologists. As a unique class of translocation, population reinforcements have received relatively little attention despite representing a substantial portion of translocation ...

In this study, a numerical model was presented to simulate the experimental behavior obtained for a reinforced concrete chimney section. The purpose of the previous experimental investigation conducted for the chimney section was to evaluate the effect of large openings on the cyclic response in order to reveal the performance of such structures under seismic loads. A detailed finite element mo...

The remarkable mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes, such as high elastic modulus and tensile strength, make them the most ideal and promising reinforcements in substantially enhancing the mechanical properties of resulting polymer/carbon nanotube composites. It is acknowledged that the mechanical properties of the composites are significantly influenced by interfacial interactions between...

Titanium alloys exhibit mechanical and physical properties that fit structural applications demanding light-weight, corrosion resistance and biocompatibility. Ceramic reinforcements can further improve some of these mechanical properties, such as wear resistance, specific stiffness and specific strength. In comparison to continuous reinforced titanium alloys, the particle reinforced alloys (PRT...

Reinforcements in metal composites are usually dispersed at grain boundaries. We here show that the rapid solidification during laser additive manufacturing enables spontaneous engulfment of reinforcing particles inside aluminum grains, which helps to decouple stress concentration induced by boundaries and reinforcements. The additively manufactured TiB2-Al composite possesses 30% increase tens...

Among the leading consequences of corrosion in reinforced concrete structures (RCS) cross section reduction steel bars should be mentioned, coupled to a decay their mechanical material properties. This paper recalls main literature findings on topic and describes wide collected database experimental tensile tests performed naturally corroded reinforcements. The principal predictive degradation ...