Accepting the challenge of the future in the field of civil engineering smart structure applications, the province of Manitoba is undertaking the responsibility of constructing the first bridge in Canada totally prestressed and reinforced for shear by cru:bon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) reinforcement. Portion of the concrete deck slab is also reinforced exclusively by FRP reinforcements. Th...

Selecting appropriate bonding technique is crucial for strengthening and repairing concrete structures as different bonding techniques have different performances. A state-of–the-art review of different bonding techniques that is epoxy bonding technique, prestressed strengthening technique, unbonded anchored technique/mechanically fastened technique using CFRP is dealt and the corresponding adv...

Nowadays, carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP) composites is widely used in the aerospace industry due to its excellent mechanical properties. In laser cutting process, high powers are used to cut materials then material melts and burns leaving edges with a high quality finish. To fulfill the high demand of cutting quality, a set of laser cutting parameters of CFRP material are studied. The ...

We present a tool which supports CT specialists in exploring the parameter and result space of volume segmentation pipelines. In a preprocessing step, the user samples the parameter space of a number of pipelines to be analysed. Our sampling tool supports arbitrary pipeliness that can be parametrized via the command line. The user can then explore the space of possible results of the sampled pi...

The measurement of the internal deformations occurring in real-life composite components is a very challenging task, especially for those components that are rather difficult to access. Optical fiber sensors can overcome such a problem, since they can be embedded in the composite materials and serve as in situ sensors. In this article, embedded optical fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors are used...