Guaranteeing the use of Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) in mitigation of extreme load effects requires a deep study of the SMA behavior according to the specific requirements of the application. In particular, for a storm is necessary more than one million of working cycles. It is applied to two realistic cables in ELSA (JRC-Ispra, Italy) and in IFSTTAR (old LCPC in Nantes, France). The measurements ...

Seven-wire strands are commonly used in civil-engineering structures such a cable-stayed bridges, pre-stressed concrete bridges or retaining walls structures. These civil engineering structures suffer from ageing and degradation due to corrosion and fatigue of structural steel members. Guided ultrasonic waves are potentially attractive tools for non destructive assessment of their integrity. Th...

In anticipation of the introduction of high modulus materials in the Swiss standards, a research project has been carried out for the evaluation of these bituminous mixtures. These mixtures make possible to reduce rut in base courses. With a temperature of 50°C, three test sections (two with high modulus and one with a reference material for base layer), were built in a building for ALT and wer...

با توجه به عدم­‌قطعیت‌های حاکم بر پروژه‌های عمرانی و تفاوت بارز آن‌ها صنایع خدماتی تولیدی از منظر محدوده زمان‌بندی کار، عوامل محیطی چالش‌های اجرایی، پیمانکاران کارفرمایان همواره اختلافات دعاوی قراردادی مواجه هستند. در چنین شرایطی، پژوهشی موضوع ضروری است. هدف این پژوهش، شناسایی مرتبط فرآیندهای طرح ادعا رویه مواجهه چالش‌ها راستا، لوایح ادعایی ارزیابی شدند. روش پژوهش به‌صورت کمّی ـ کیفی مشتمل بررسی...

The multiplication of heavy vehicle axles and road overloads are phenomena that becoming increasingly important on the network WAEMU community. These phenomena, although framed by standards, have an impact durability pavements. In this manuscript it is a question evaluating life under effect traffic these multi-axle vehicles different tolerances observed network. To achieve this, modeling bitum...