Abstract: Understanding the chemomechanical behavior of shotcrete (sprayed concrete) is a prerequisite for better design or failure risk assessment of civil engineering structures. Macroscopic material laws for shotcrete are preferably ...

Abstract: Tissue engineering (TE) is the use of a combination of biological cells, engineering and materials methods, and of suitable biochemical and physicochemical factors, in order to improve or replace biological functions. It ...

Abstract: We recently found that mineralized tissues (mineralized tendons and bones), at an observation scale of some microns, are open isotropic hydroxyapatite crystal foams which are reinforced unidirectionally by (organic) collagen ...

Abstract: Understanding of ultrasonic wave propagation in bones is essential for further development of related techniques in clinical practice. As any other saturated porous medium, bone is characterized by different forms of ...

Abstract: We here extend the theory of microporomechanics by Dormieux et al. to multiple pore spaces. As an application, we reveal, on the basis of a recently validated multiscale elastic model for bone tissues by Fritsch and Hellmich, ...

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has evidenced that reliable model-based epidemiological predictions have remained an open challenge, and this concerns in particular the identification of model parameters that may change throughout ...

Abstract: Creep of cementitious materials results from the viscoelastic behavior of the reaction products of cement and water, called hydrates. In the present paper, a single isochoric creep function characterizing well-saturated ...

Abstract: Increasing rockfall activity in the European Alps has raised the need for designing protection systems for Alpine infrastructure. This paper is concerned with protection of steel pipelines by a gravel overburden of height

Abstract: When driving tunnels according to the New Austrian Tunneling Method. (NATM), shotcrete is applied onto the newly excavated areas of the tunnel surface. Large deformations occurring when driving tunnels under squeezing rock ...