Abstract: A three-story apartment building on the University of Miami campus in Florida, built in 1947 and scheduled for demolition in the spring of 2011, was used as a research test bed. Two identical strips of the one-way reinforced ...

Abstract: This paper investigates the performance of flax textile–reinforced mortars (FTRM) as a retrofitting solution for unreinforced masonry. Six medium-scale walls were subjected to in-plane cyclic shear tests. Four of the ...

Abstract: The development of techniques capable of evaluating the deterioration of reinforced concrete structures is instrumental to the advancement of structural health monitoring (SHM) techniques and service life estimate methodologies ...

Abstract: The main cause of degradation for reinforced concrete (RC) structures is the corrosion of the steel reinforcement. Laboratory tests aimed at studying durability are typically accelerated to provide usable results within a ...

Abstract: The behavior of shear critical fiber-reinforced-polymer (FRP) RC elements is characterized by the development of comparatively large strains and crack widths, which can be strongly influenced by their relative geometrical ...

Abstract: Owing to the unique mechanical characteristics and lack of plasticity of fiber-reinforced polymers (FRPs), relatively large strains can develop in FRP reinforced concrete (RC) elements at ultimate limit states and this can ...