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    Influence of Polyethylene and Stainless Steel Fibres on Compressive and Tensile Behaviour of High-Performance Fibre-Reinforced Cementitious Composites

    High-Performance Fibre-Reinforced Cementitious Composites (HPFRCC) is a class of materials studied extensively for applications in structural rehabilitation of existing structures and in design of new structur...

    J. A. A. Salvador Filho, D. Lavorato, A. V. Bergami, J. R. Azeredo, C. Nuti in GCEC 2017 (2019)

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    RC Column Repaired with HPFRCC and Confined with CFRP: Numerical Analyses to Evaluate the Column Section Capacity

    This paper presents a numerical study to evaluate the behavior of reinforced concrete (RC) columns with circular section repaired and retrofitted by high-performance fiber-reinforced cement composites (HPFRCC)...

    D. Lavorato, J. Azeredo, A. V. Bergami, J. A. A. Salvador Filho, C. Nuti in GCEC 2017 (2019)

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    Experimental Investigation on Magneto-Rheological Elastomers

    The paper describes an experimental investigation conducted on Magneto-Rheological Elastomers (MRE); these materials, consisting of an elastomeric matrix containing ferromagnetic particles, are considered smar...

    R. Brancati, G. Di Massa, M. Di Vaio, S. Pagano in Advances in Italian Mechanism Science (2019)

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    A magneto-rheological elastomer vibration isolator for lightweight structures

    Magneto-rheological elastomers (MRE), consisting of elastomeric matrix containing ferromagnetic particles, are a kind of smart material, whose mechanical properties are controllable via applied magnetic fields...

    R. Brancati, G. Di Massa, S. Pagano, S. Santini in Meccanica (2019)

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    Influence of Materials Knowledge Level on the Assessment of the Characteristic Value of the Shear Strength of Existing RC Beams

    This study deals with the assessment of the shear strength characteristic value (V rck ) limited by the concrete strut crushing for existing reinforced concrete (RC) beams on th...

    D. Lavorato, A. V. Bergami, A. Forte in Proceedings of Italian Concrete Days 2016 (2018)

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    Experimental and numerical verification of bifurcations and chaos in cam-follower impacting systems

    In this paper, we present the design, modelling and experimental validation of a novel experimental cam-follower rig for the analysis of bifurcations and chaos in piecewise-smooth dynamical systems with impact...

    R. Alzate, M. di Bernardo, U. Montanaro, S. Santini in Nonlinear Dynamics (2007)