Abstract: The slant shear test highlighted by British Standard 6319 No. 4 was used to evaluate the bond strength between selected repair materials and parent concrete. Seven resinous and six cementitious repair materials were used ...

Abstract: During Hurricane Katrina, overtopping water caused erosion and subsequent failure of several sections of I-type flood walls in New Orleans. Erosion stemmed from the kinetic energy of water falling from the top of the flood ...

Abstract: T-walls in New Orleans survived Hurricane Katrina whereas I-walls obviously failed in several sections. However, it is still unclear whether these T-walls truly survived the hurricane with a fair amount of safety margins ...

Abstract: Graphene nanoplatelets have unique mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties that render them ideal reinforcing materials. The attractive properties of graphene have led to intensive research on graphene-polymer ...

Abstract: There is a growing interest in relating nanostructures to the macro properties of engineering materials such as composites and cement materials. Better understanding of structure and elastic properties of nanoparticles in ...

Abstract: One-layer (0.15-mm-thick) and 15-layer (5.43-mm-thick) graphene composites have been fabricated through the impregnation of epoxy resin into porous graphene nanoplatelet (GnP) paper. Three different flake sizes of GnPs ...