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Showing 1 to 20 of 641 for “"fiber-reinforced"”.
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Interlaminar fatigue of fiber-reinforced laminates.
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 1971
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Fiber reinforced polymer bridge deck panels
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2001.
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Structural retrofitting using fiber reinforced polymers
Over the past decades, fiber reinforced polymers (FRP) have been widely used in the aeronautical and naval industries. Being more costly than conventional Civil Engineering materials such as steel or concrete, they have not been used on a large scale yet. However progress in understanding their …
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Shear transfer in fiber reinforced concrete
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1991.
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Mechanics of fiber reinforced cementitious composites
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1989.
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The Study of Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete
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Polypropylene fiber reinforced concrete in railway crossties
… Inclusion of synthetic polypropylene macro fibers in concrete is known to improve crack resistance and is a feasible solution for prolonging the life of crossties. The present study investigated the performance of synthetic polypropylene macro fiber reinforced concrete and their application …
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Impact resistance of high strength fiber reinforced concrete
… increase in terrorist attacks on structures. Fiber reinforced concrete (FRC) is known to exhibit superior performance in its post-peak energy absorption capacity, (i.e., toughness) under flexural and tensile loading. However, the behavior of fiber reinforced concrete under compressive impact …
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Fatigue Behavior Of Continuous Fiber-Reinforced Composite Beams
… taken to evaluate the fatigue behavior of glass fiber-reinforced composite beams. Due to their highly anisotropic properties, composite beams have different failure modes at different stages of fatigue life. The results of the four-point bending fatigue tests show that the material follows …
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Sustainable bacteria-based self-healing fiber reinforced concrete
… the coupling effect between bacteria and steel fiber to enhance the mechanical and physical properties at different ages has been investigated. Bacillus Sphaericus (B. Sphaericus) was incorporated into the concrete at concentrations of 2 x 109 (CFU/ml), and different bacterial percentages …
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Creep behavior of natural fiber reinforced polymer composites
Creep behavior of natural fiber/polymer composites (NFPCs) was studied in response to the increasing application of this material as structural building products. Factors that influence creep behavior of the composites were investigated by analyzing creep curves of several different NFPC systems, …
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Thermal Conductivity of Fiber-Reinforced Lightweight Cement Composites
… the effective thermal conductivity (ETC) of fiber-reinforced lightweight cement composites. At various stages in the development of the model, the results are compared to experimental values and the model is calibrated when appropriate. Additionally at each stage the proposed model and its …
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A Novel Fiber-Reinforced Composite Bridge Structural System
An integral fiber reinforced plastic bridge structural system is proposed. The design concept is carefully engineered to incorporate new high performance structural materials. As a result, a number of special features evolved to produce an efficient bridge design. Along with structural system …
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Micromechanics-Based Analysis of Fiber-Reinforced Laminated Composites
… nonlinear material modelling of fiber-reinforced laminated composites is presented. The material modelling procedure has a two-level hierarchical structure. At the bottom level, constitutive information about the fiber and the matrix phases are synthesized using a micromechanical …
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Plastic Limit Strength of Unidirectional Fiber-Reinforced Composites
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T00:25:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7412096.pdf: 3964294 bytes, checksum: c5f33e8b13e6b61aa900c2bea126faf6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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Multiscale characterization of carbon fiber-reinforced epoxy composites
Transverse cracking is an early form of damage in fiber-reinforced composite materials that can nucleate delamination, fiber breakage, and ultimate failure. Although many variables influence transverse cracking, little work has been done to characterize local and complex microstructural features …
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Natural fiber reinforced aerated concrete : an experimental investigation
… existing research with aerated concrete and fiber reinforcement to original experiments completed investigating the benefits of adding natural fiber tensile reinforcement to aerated concrete. Concrete is a great composite material which can be created in various proportions and with various …
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Development of self-healing techniques for fiber reinforced composites
During the last decades, fiber reinforced composites (FRPs) are year by year replacing metals due to their high stiffness and high strength in combination with low specific weight and corrosion resistance. However, during their service life, these composites due to their laminated structure (no …
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