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Chapter and Conference Paper
Concrete Beam Screening Through DIC Images
Digital Image Correlation (DIC) is a contactless non-destructive technique based on the acquisition and treatment of pictures that allows displacement and strains fields to be measured as well as other relevan...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Model Code Approach to the SLS Design of FRP Reinforced Concrete Elements
Though research on FRP reinforcement has led to the development of several design recommendations over the past 25 years, recent efforts have focused on the development of unified design procedures and models ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Bond Behaviour of NSM Strengthening Systems on Concrete Elements Under Sustained Load and High Ambient Temperature
The study of the bond behaviour of FRP strengthening systems under service conditions has become increasingly important during the last years. Previous works have shown that sustained loading jointly with chan...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Damage Identification in NSM FRP Strengthened RC Beams Using Linear Mixed Effects Models
The use of fibre reinforced polymers (FRP) in civil construction applications with near-surface mounted (NSM) method has gained considerable popularity worldwide and can produce confident strengthening and rep...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Measurement and Analysis of Cracking Behaviour of RC Beams Strengthened with NSM CFRP Strips Using Digital Image Correlation
Near-Surface Mounted (NSM) Fibre Reinforced Polymer (FRP) technique has been proved to be an effective method to strengthen Reinforced Concrete (RC) flexural elements. At present there is a lack of provisions ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Flexural Performance of NSM CFRP Strengthened Concrete Beams Under Temperature
In the past two decades, the use of Near-Surface Mounted (NSM) Fibre...
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Chapter
Shake Table Tests on Deficient RC Buildings Strengthened Using Post-Tensioned Metal Straps
The European research project BANDIT investigated the effectiveness of a novel Post-Tensioned Metal Strap** (PTMS) strengthening technique at improving the seismic performance of deficient RC buildings using...
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Article
Long-term deflections of reinforced concrete elements: accuracy analysis of predictions by different methods
Long-term deflection response of reinforced concrete flexural members is influenced by the interaction of complex physical phenomena, such as concrete creep, shrinkage and cracking, which makes their predictio...
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Article
Whole-genome analysis with SNPs from BOPA1 shows clearly defined grou**s of Western Mediterranean, Ethiopian, and Fertile Crescent barleys
The discovery of Hordeum spontaneum C. Koch, a wild ancestor of cultivated barley, in Morocco in 1978 led to the proposal of a multicentric origin for this crop, as an alternative to the widely ac...
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Article
Migration pattern suggested by terrestrial proximity as possible origin of wild annual Helianthus populations in central Argentina
There is a high interest to understand and recreate the invasive process of successful non-native plant invaders. The genetic tools provide scanty information when the invasion is recent and there is gene flow...
