Abstract: Control and monitoring of reinforcement corrosion in concrete is of significant practical importance if premature failure of reinforced concrete structures is to be prevented. The detection of the initiation of reinforcement ...

Abstract: Although research in reinforcement corrosion in concrete has been intensive for the past three decades, studies of the most recently published literature reveal that the current state of research in corrosion propagation ...

Abstract: This paper deals with the surface effect and size dependence on the M-integral representing the energy release due to a nanodefect expansion in plane elasticity. Due to the high surface-to-volume ...

Abstract: A semi-permeable interface crack in dissimilar piezoelectric materials is studied in detail. Attention is focused on the influence induced from the permittivity of the medium inside the crack ...

Abstract: This paper revisits a classical problem in kinematics, specifically determination of the crank position corresponding to the maximum velocity of the slider in the centric slider-crank mechanism. ...

Abstract: This paper argues that different levels of mechanism topology should be considered in order to make the activity or tool of the computer comparison of mechanism topology more useful to support ...

Abstract: A multivariable version of the zero phase error tracking control algorithm is presented for sampled-data systems. The feedforward controller is based on the minimal-order inverse of a square ...

Abstract: This paper deals with the analysis of uncertain creep and shrinkage effects, and in particular the computation of the probability of serviceability failure for a reinforced concrete structure subjected to stochastic loadings. ...

Abstract: Stabilities of surface-tension-driven convection in an open cylinder are investigated numerically. The cylinder is heated laterally through its sidewall and is cooled at free surface by radiation. ...