Abstract: To overcome some inferior physical and mechanical properties of recycled aggregate concrete (RAC), an enhancing technique is presented in this paper to improve the performance of RAC by adding a promising chemical admixture, ...

Abstract: An interface deformable piezoelectric bilayer beam model is proposed to study the electromechanical responses and interface stress distributions in an intelligent layered structure. Like most of current approaches in the ...

Abstract: This paper presents the results of an experimental study on fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) to timber bonded interfaces. A series of tests on 86 single shear FRP-to-timber joints is reported, of which the test parameters ...

Abstract: A combined analytical and experimental approach is presented to characterize mixed-mode fracture of hybrid material bonded interfaces under four-point bending load, and closed-form solutions of compliance and energy release ...

Abstract: Temperature change after formation commonly results in thermal residual stress in multilayered structures due to the different thermal and mechanical properties of each layer. In this paper, a three-dimensional (3D) elastic ...

Abstract: To understand the inelastic behavior of functionally graded materials (FGMs) containing aluminum particles in high-density polyethylene (HDPE), a micromechanics-based elastoplastic model was developed. It was assumed that ...

Abstract: Local delamination buckling formulas for laminated composite beams are derived based on the rigid, semirigid, and flexible joint models with respect to three bilayer beam (i.e., conventional composite, shear-deformable ...

Abstract: To understand the inelastic behavior of functionally graded materials (FGMs) containing aluminum particles in high-density polyethylene (HDPE), a micromechanics-based elastoplastic model was developed. It was assumed that ...