Young Researcher Best Paper Award certificate for Syed Yasir Alam at FraMCoS-8. Young Researcher Best Paper Award Presented to: Syed Yasir Alam ‘for your paper titled, “Study of evolution of fracture process zone in concrete by simultaneous application of digital image correlation and acoustic emission” presented at the Eight International Conference on Fracture Mechanics of
Young Researcher Best Paper Award certificate for David Gregoire at FraMCoS-8. Young Researcher Best Paper Award Presented to: David Grégoire ‘for your paper titled, “A new interaction-based non local model to predict damage and failure in quasi-brittle materials” presented at the Eight International Conference on Fracture Mechanics of Concrete and Concrete Structures, FraMCoS-8’ March 14,
List of attendees for FraMCoS-8, Toledo, Spain. FraMCoS‐8 Participants (Toledo, Spain; 2013) First Name Last Name Email Organization Country Tahreer Abdalqader fayyadt@gmail.com University of Cambridge United Kingdom Lucas Adelaide lucas.adelaide@ifsttar.fr IFSTTAR France Ayda Safak Agar Ozbek aydasafakagar@gmail.com Delft University of Technology Netherlands Waleed Ahmed Waleed_fd@yahoo.com University of Castilla‐La Mancha Spain Maria Antonietta Aiello antonietta.aiello@unisalento.it University of Salento Italy Amin Akhnoukh akakhnoukh@ualr.edu University of Castilla‐La Mancha United States Syed Yasir Alam syedyasiralam@gmail.com National University of Computer and Pakistan EmergingSciences Maria Alcalde Rico malcalde@us.es Universidad de Sevilla Spain Jorge
Board and General Assembly minutes from FraMCoS-8, Toledo, Spain. MINUTES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE IA-FRAMCOS HELD IN TOLEDO. MARCH 10, 2013 Venue: Paraninfo de Envases de Cartón, UCLM Campus at Toledo, Spain Date and Time: Thursday March 14, 2013 – 12.45-13.45h Draft April 2, 2013. Revised and approved April 23, 2013 The General
Acoustic emission (AE) monitoring studies have been carried out under controlled laboratory conditions on plain concrete beams and reinforced concrete (RC) beams. The results of AE statistics have revealed interesting features of the various stages of stress induced micro- fracturing and growth leading to the failure of plain concrete beams and RC beams. The experimental
In the present work, a new model of the FRP-concrete or masonry interface, which accounts for the coupling occurring between the degradation of the cohesive material and the FRP- body interface, is presented. A nonlocal damage and plasticity model is developed for the quasi- brittle material; a model which accounts for damage, unilateral contact and
Engineered cementitious composite (ECC) is an ultra ductile cement-based material reinforced with fibers. It is characterized by high tensile ductility and tight crack width control. Thanks to the excellent performance, ECC is emerging in broad applications to enhance the loading capacity and the durability of structures. However, ECC also faces a limitation on dimensional stability
The study of the effect of early shrinkage is important to prevent aesthetic defects and, especially, to avoid the reduction of durability of concrete elements due to surface cracking. This paper presents the application of a new digital imaging methodology to quantify the effects of polypropylene macrofibres, microfibres and glycolether shrinkage reducing admixture (SRA) on
The assessment of dynamic response and residual capacity of reinforced concrete (RC) columns to blast load is decisive for protection of buildings, especially regarding progressive collapse risk. In the case of explosive devices placed next to a critical structural element, complex and extreme loading is applied on the nearby system and the material response is
A three dimensional analysis of a drying test on a concrete-like material is presented. The analysis combines different tools, namely, X-ray microtomography of an ex situ experiment, image acquisition and processing, volume correlation to measure three dimensional displacement fields. It allowsinparticularmesoscopicstrainanalysestobeperformed. Bystudyingthecorrelationresiduals, it is also possible to study the damage mechanisms.